ever have a week when the simplest project turns into a major undertaking?
Start out to repair 2 broken pieces in a door panel and break 3 more in the process? And cut yourself twice? And that's just today, before noon.
Yesterday was worse.
There's gotta be an easier way to make a living.
Robbin' banks is easier, I hear, but the time on the job isn't as long....unless your really, really good. Street sweeper, but ya gotta pass a drug test and a physical, nope not happenin' let you guess why.... Hmmm, it takes some thought to what I would rather do if I didn't do this.... and if it were easy, everybody would do it, or think they could, case in point, oh never mind, don't want to get that started.
undertaking?
Nah. There's some Canadian asshole with a legion of basement bandits that's ruined that market.
As George Dubya said, "It's hawrd work".
Hey, you could be sooo busy packing and shipping kilns all over the US and send boat loads of glass to unknown destinations in Scandinavialand.
undertaking?
That's true. I could spend my time writing books and producing DVD's, too.
By the way, did any of you ever get Brady's book that he claimed was at the publisher back in January, 2002? I've been checking Amazon every week and it never has appeared on the best-seller list.
Anybody remember this post where he was blabbering about turbo-soldering?:
From: "Dennis Brady" Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Local: Thurs, Jan 17 2002 8:37 am Subject: Re: Soldering speed
It's not at all as difficut as many here seem to think. Use a big iron at full heat (temperature controllers are for beginners) and move quick.
I've just completed a book of professional tricks, tips, and shortcuts. "A Lazy Man's Guide to Stained Glass".
Working on a DVD with film clips of lots of such demos. No doubt even then there'll be a few that insist the film was edited or accelerated.
Dennis Brady
Could be worse. You could be unemployed. Then, as soon as you wake up, you're on the job.
Jack
Nah, the good ones still fetch a fine price.
Jack
He's a plagarist, too?
I never broke one piece by mistake, or cut myself..... until I hit 50.
There are those weeks where everything goes so well, you think you should be buying lottery tickets. When it gets bad, I just swing into Taco Bell and look at the people working there - at the worst I'm making more money then they are bending tacos and I don't have to look cheerful all the time.
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