Subj : Re: woood working
To   : n2qfd
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Aug 16 2024 09:48:36



>   All FB on the journey Ed! My dad knew a guy in the Air Force who was a
> Ground Power maintainer like him at Kadina AB and when a general had them at
> inspection and was complaining about some issue this guy stepped up and said,
> "I can fix it." It was way outside his particular job assignment, but that
> bit of courage and the aptitude built from other things he had done earned
> him a field promotion and a stripe that day. Mr. Bartlett survived his
> Vietnam experience as did my father and came home to work in technical and
> engineering rolls. 
>   Now, as for me, no not so much in the wood shop anymore. I was always more
> of a mechanic than a carpenter and an electrical and plumbing more than
> framing. I love my skill saw, and my bench vice but the lions share of tools
> here are wrenches of various sorts used to keep our cars running, and
> stopping! I'm just getting to a point where I'm comfortable enough to say,
> I'm paying someone else this time, but there was a solid 20 years of oil
> changes and brake jobs and head gaskets and wheel bearings and all the odd
> stuff that popped up in-be-tween... I had a VW Vanagon for a while and it
> left me with the impressions that perhaps the Germans were not defeated after
> the war after all..but it was a god little truck for me and did a lot of work
> for the fee of pushing it out of the woods and pop starting it. I had to do a
> starter job and there was a lot of clean up but that was a good deal. My
> wifes uncle who was a DoD worker abandoned it as too much work on the
> property. Well it smelled of mouse pretty badly but after I made it road
> worthy I drove to the dump and unbolted the bench seats (it was a transporter
> not the camper) and shoved them out the back. Much lighter and less smelly I
> went back over the scales, paid my fee and collected the title from Walter.
> Years later the situation reversed and I was in the other part of the state
> and had no way to take care of the VW and someone solicited him for it and he
> went and sold it out from under me, mailing be a silver dollar and asking
> that I send the title on to address X. It was a good lesson in letting things
> come into my life and letting them go from it. 
>   Fun theater story! I worked as a stage hand part time here for a few
> seasons. Electrician was my title but we got asked to do other stuff as you
> did once it's known you're good for it. Worked some shows as a dresser, and
> everyone is a lumper when the show come in and after last curtain. Elmira is
> a little town but we get off Broadway touring shows and have a yellow card
> from the union that lets us employ non union labor as needed for productions.
> It's good in theory but it means someone walks over to the buss stop and
> waves around some cash and you get what you'd expect from that! 

>   I figured South Paw was probably left handed. My mom set the table
> backwards according to my dad, but she was quick to say she was in her right
> mind at least. 

>   Have a great weekend, 

>   Mal

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Howdy Mal,
Like You, I do a little stuff at home; electrical, plumbing etc.
I haven't done my own Oil Change on the car fer long time.
Latest car is too low ( at least that is my excuse).

In Junior High School a friend was a Stagehand and showed me how to operate the
Sound System and how to move the Curtain.
When I got in High School I didn't like setting in the seat in the Auditorium
during pep assemblies, so I stood by the Stage Door after assembly waiting for
the Principal so I could ask if he needed anyone to be there during assemblies
and He showed me the Sound System and how to operate the Lights etc., I liked
it better than sitting in the Auditorium.

When people say to Me "Have a nice weekend." I say " It's on my shoulders, and
I carry it with Me all of the time.".
I call it "Ed's Head" (C) TM.

It's no wonder I see those folks shaking their head(s) as I walk away.
You too (probably now).
Ed
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