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Re: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall

To: Kas Kastner <kaskas@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall
From: bob bownes <bownes@web9.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:20:52 -0700
Use the lathe. Much more inertia ... I have the bruises on my trailer to 
prove that one! But for a free 13" South Bend, I wasn't going to argue!

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Kas Kastner wrote:

> I suppose you could roll the compressor onto a roll-a-way, push it through
> the wall and say "Whoops".  been there with that kind of deal.  All my
> sympathy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
> To: "'Mark J Bradakis'" <mjb@autox.team.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
> Cc: <pugs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 9:41 AM
> Subject: RE: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall
> 
> 
> 
>>Wow. Most places are happy to have tenants these days. If you were here in
>>Oregon or in the Silicon valley you could move into one of the former
>>high-tech office buildings.
>>
>>By the way, lat time I checked sheetrock doesn't "pop" off the frame.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark J Bradakis [mailto:mjb@autox.team.net]
>>Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:19 AM
>>To: fot@autox.team.net
>>Cc: pugs@autox.team.net
>>Subject: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall
>>
>>
>>So a couple of weeks ago I head down to the shop towhack on whatever, most
>>likely the TR7 project.  Taped to all the doors of the complex is a sheet
>>of paper.  It basically says "We're raising your rent by an amazingly
>>greedy percentage (Okay, a mere 68%) on October 1st.  But if you move to
>>one of the shops on the south side, we'll only raise it by 16%."  I guess
>>they want to keep all us low life automotive type guys in one area where
>>they can keep an eye on us.
>>
>>So finally today I get to talk to the resident manager, and we make plans
>>to move me from Unit 22 to Unit 59.  And I have this odd feeling as I
>>leave his office that there's something special about Unit 59.  I zip
>>around to the other side of the building and realize that Unit 59 shares
>>the back wall with Unit 22.  It was the shop that had that two chord
>>garage band in it for a while that drove me nuts on a regular basis.
>>
>>I'm planning to talk to the real managers, see if I can get permission to
>>pop out some of the sheetrock in the back wall for the move.  It would be
>>much nicer if things like the lathe, the full size fridge and the 80
>>gallon compressor only had to move a few feet instead of a few hundred.
>>But I have visions of spending a hot, miserable afternoon moving the lathe
>>to end up in a spot only two feet further south from where it sits now.
>>
>>Gee, I can see Bob Allred busily checking race schedules so he'll happen
>>to be out of town the next half dozen weekends or so, and Pugs lining up
>>some meetings back at the home office - they won't be able to assist in
>>heaving, grunting, pushing and prodding the contents of the current shop
>>to the new location.  Guys, I promise to provide food and beverage for the
>>work weekends. And as you might imagine, it won't be beef-flavored,
>>food-product patties on the grill, it will be more like hickory smoked
>>turkey breast, or Jamaican style jerked chicken wings, or a big ol' pork
>>shoulder, or a Pugs' style brisket or even some mesquite grilled ribeye
>>steaks.
>>
>>Enough prattling.  I'm amused that I'm going to be putting so much effort
>>into moving stuff only *that* far.  So it goes.
>>
>>mjb.

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