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A little nod to Steely Dan, could,nt help it.
Hope you all have a good time.
The sherrifs away, lets play .....
Scott " who's in charge ? " Milne
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Hope you all have a good time.
The sherrifs away, lets play .....
Scott " who's in charge ? " Milne
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UH oh
No adult supervision?
Who's still here?
Noel0 -
Behave I am watching
all of you and want everyone to behave as you normally do.
Wait a minute my dog "Fluffy" who has stood guard in the past is sitting next to me and has something to say,
"Woof,Woof, Scott behave or I will bite"
I guess that covers it, everything is under control.
I just can not find the Munchkin Men!!!0 -
tap, tap, tap
Hello , is this thing on. Can ya hear me back there ?
Here fluffy, heres a biscuit, good dog lie down.
Ah ya just gotta know how to talk to em.
Hey lets do that hot air thing again. Err, come to think of it that did'nt work right the last time.
Hey Noel, you did'nt go ?
Scott
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I'm here!
I'm still here!0 -
I can hear you
loud and clear, Scott, Timmie, Noel and Fluffy.
How's things in your area? Business is slow for us over here; I've got very little on the books and not bidding much; we do mostly remodeling and new contruction.
It's times like this where we switch gears; I've been keeping a list of customers who want new boilers or other equipment upgrades and that will keep us busy for a while.
It also gives us a chance to clean up our shop, fabricate some boiler boards and organize our materials better.
I think all this talk of war is scaring a lot of people; they aren't spending much. People are complaining about billing and hourly rates.
Reminds me, I went to a job yesterday where another mechanical contractor re-worked some boiler piping: capped an old, rusty X-tank in the attic, installed a new diaphragm tank, relief valve and fill valve at the boiler and charged the owner $3,500!!! There was no labor or materials breakdown on the invoice!!! And these guys get away with it.
Anyway, happy Friday.
Alan
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Hello Bill and Alan
Alan, I have been in the business for about 22 years now ( just a pup next to Timmie ). I allways remember my old boss telling me know was a good time to go sking or take some time off.
We really hav,nt felt it in the past three or four years, but this is allways the slow period for us.
I give it a couple of reason.
All the winter projects are over and everybody wants to wait for the weather to warm up alittle before they rip open that wall for the addition.
Its tax season, nuff said. Lets wait and see what we've got.
Most of the heating problems have been taken care of. Let the old boiler limp along for a few more weeks and then we'll change it.
We are REALLY lucky where I live, there still seems to be some nice projects coming up. Wait untill you see the pictures I post in few weeks. This house is truly a one of a kind with some old steam and piping.
Scott
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Steely Dan...and a Friday Joke
One of my favorites is the album "Aja" and especially the title track...excellent percussion.
Couldn't make Wetstock due to the annual wrestling league tournament...both boys involved and I help coach.
As far as the season timing, I'm going to do improvements on my system when the weather (finally) gets warm. I'm going to try something that hasn't been done to my knowledge. If I can get a camera, maybe I'll take pictures...my system's no beauty queen but this may interest some Wallies.
This was sent by management (the wife), and she's blonde! Have a great weekend! PJO
Degrees of being blonde......
FIRST DEGREE
A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning.
The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment
and said, "How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up.
The husband said, "Who was that?" The wife said, "I don't know, some
woman wanting to know if the coast is clear."
SECOND DEGREE
Two blondes are walking down the street. One notices a compact on the
sidewalk and leans down to pick it up. She opens it, looks in the mirror
and says, "Hmm, this person looks familiar." The second blonde says,
"Here, let me see!" So the first blonde hands her the compact. The
second one looks in the mirror and says, "You dummy, it's me!"
THIRD DEGREE
A blonde suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so she goes out and
buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens
door she finds him in the arms of a redhead. Well, the blonde is really
angry. She opens her purse to take out the gun, and as she does so, she's
overcome with grief. She takes the gun and puts it to her head. The boy-
friend yells, "No, honey, don't do it!!!" She replies, "Shut up, you're next!"
FOURTH DEGREE
A blonde was bragging about her knowledge of state capitols. She proudly
says, "Go ahead, ask me, I know all of them."A friend says, "OK, what's
the capital of Wisconsin?" The blonde replies, "Oh, that's easy: W."
FIFTH DEGREE
What did the blonde ask her doctor when he told her she was pregnant?
"Is it mine?"
SIXTH DEGREE
Bambi, a blonde in her fourth year as a UCLA freshman, sat in her US
government class. The professor asked Bambi if she knew what Roe vs.
Wade was about. Bambi pondered the question then finally said, "That was
the decision George Washington had to make before he crossed the
Delaware."
SEVENTH DEGREE
Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house
ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and
reported the crime. The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the
radio, and a K-9 unit, patrolling nearby was the first to respond. As
the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde
ran out on the porch, shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog,
then sat down on the steps. Putting her face in her hands, she moaned,
"I come home to find all my possessions stolen. I call the police for
help, and what do they do? They send me a BLIND policeman."0 -
AJA
Thats Steve Gadd on Drums ... outstanding work.
How about the blind guy who walks into a resturaunt and swings his seeing eye dog around his head.
Owner says "Hey can I help you "
" No thanks, I am just looking around "
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One take...
An old co-worker (who was a drummer himself) said that Steve did that in one take...pretty amazing.
"Still I remain tied to the mast....could it be that I have found my home at last?" They don't write 'em like that anymore...0 -
Great music
Deacon Blues...Hey, Nineteen...The Girls don't seen to care (FM)...Mr. Fagan & co were amazing, especially when Stevie Ray Vaughn sat in on some sessions. That era had some good stuff including the Eagles, Dire Straits, Grateful Dead and so on...0 -
Steve Ray Vaugh ?
I thought I new my Steely Dan, I never knew he played on any recordings.
Which One ?
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Stevie Ray, or...
was it Jeff "Skunk" Baxter...that boy could play, too.
A lot of great musicians in and out of those recording studios...PJO0 -
And Denny Diaz
" bad sneakers and a pina coloda my Friend,"
They were and are the "coolest" band.
"Poor kid, he overdid, embraced a spreading haze.
and while he sighed his body died in fifteen ways "
Scott
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Any body heard of
Guy Lombardo???0 -
Not quite that far back
I like just about any good music, slowly becoming a jazz head in my old age... also love the stuff from the 20's & 30's though...Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Les Brown, Carmicheal, Satchmo, The Dorseys. Amazingly, the kids in their early 20's today love the old swing era music, witness the popularity of "Big Bad VooDoo Daddy"! You can't tell their stuff from the "old timers".0 -
not sure
It was mentioned in his obit after he died.0 -
My 21 year old son
has a picture of Billy Holliday on his desk.......so right you are Bill!
Glenn Stanton0 -
I KNOW!!!
> A little nod to Steely Dan, could,nt help
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> Hope you all have a good time.
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> sherrifs away, lets play .....
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> in charge ? " Milne
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Alan:
I was like that last month, but on the south shore of lake Erie they know spring is coming. Some thoughts of maybe I will need this done war/no-war/let's not have a war/ I need my A/C.
Hang tough
Next year I'll budgett February as go hunting with Frank Blue time.
Warm regards,
Mark
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Timmie:
I stood in line all night for Jimmie Hedrex tickets all night, and still sat behind a post.
They have re-issued Nina Simone, "live at towne hall' on CD
Email me or send a cataloge.
Mark.
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I knew a guy that knew:
Bessie Smith.
I am putting your stuff in the SLO city hall.
Mark
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Out here in Palm Springs...
It is sunny and 85. Speaking of music trivia, the ACCA contractors have their version of "Jeopardy" and the topic was songs with the word "heat" in them. The answer was "Recorded by Asia in the '80s." I was dying in the audience, because I wanted to give the answer to our Michigan contractors, but nobody got it.
Arrrgh -- "Heat of the Monment."0 -
Nina Simone...does that mean
someone here is at least as old as I am???
Those were the days my freind. Right about the same time as "I got you babe".
Riding my pony Lemon, "outbye or homeward" 1,300ft underground, at the Rising Sun Colliery in Northumberland, England, singing "Lay Lady Lay" and "I got you Babe".
Black of face, my first job, worn out, tired, life couldn't have been better. My Dad was playing drums with Eric Burdon (as well as being the #1 piping/instrument fitter at Swan-Hunter, the #1 shipyard in the world). I made $11.00 a week for 37 1/2 hrs, learning to be an electrician (my Mom, Edith-Nana Wood, God-bless her happily still-living soul, told me it would be more dignified than being a barber) (electricity and hair will always be around) Jewish mother fiscal logic.
What's the point? Work makes folk appreciate music, especially blues, balads & melodies (and in my case.. Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony").
My choice for desert island music? All of "Dire Straits" and "Mark Knopffler's" incredible Stratocaster and Dobro stuff.
Did I ramble....oh well, it's one of those nights. It's my Grandson's 3rd birthday today, he's in New Zealand with my beautiful daughter Marieke Celeste, and I've never met him. I called him this morning, he said I love you, and thank-you Ganda Brian for the presents and Mardi-Gras beads and photo's and "Builder-Bob" dungarees, and the Big-Boy watch.
What a life, enjoy it, right now.
Have a great weekend fella's.
Brian in Swampland.
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I am a Do Wopper
from the 50's. In the Still of the Night, I Only Have Eyes for You, AH nostalgia, now all I have is angina.
Earth Angel, Blueberry hill, Hound Dog, is anybody that old!!!0 -
Just got back home from the pre Wetstock gathering...
ad more importantly, The fabulous tour of the Weil-McLain Foundry. I'm simply dumbfounded and awed(sp?) by what I saw today. Amazing and awesome stuff. Moulten metal, cast iron boiler sections cast before our eyes. The assembly process icluding the separate assembly building for the new Ultra units. It was a great day.
By the way, Timmie, the Munchkin guys are in the windy city for Wetstock II, so I'm no sure if they will be answering. I'm sure we will talk about the Munchies, especially since I noticed the WM Ultra units are using the same gas valve as the Munchy, but there testing had the unit running at 3", and even as low as 1" inlet pressure.0 -
Glenn, I was on the phone
today with Weil McLain here locally about that valve as I knew it was the same valve used on the Ultra as on the Munchkin. They are going to talk to thier engineers as to pressures.
Interesting because my experience with negative pressure valves is that they are very forgiving of poor pressures as long as there is a properly sized or oversized manifold.0 -
Not a new product
Thats what gets me about a product, when the rep tells you
" Oh they been making these in Europe for years".
I watched them cast brass ingots down in Mexico, at American Standard plant. Now thats a foundry to see
. They've got a converyor belt with molds, thats about 12 feet long. Its in shed outback. The guys was throwing in the blend of metals by hand.
I have seen a number of foundrys before. My favorite was the old Salem MA foundry. It had a dirt floor and the smelting pot was at one end with a track to ride on. I was there as high schooler on a field trip. They did sand castings with dental tools. Real old world stuff.
They would seal the bottom of the pot with a clay plug while there where making the pours. The plug fell out while we where there and poured moulton iron on the dirt floor. We were all hiding behind machines as the place fill with black smoke and sparks.
By the way, Timmie, thanks for the morning laugh. That was great. My Parents watched Guy Lombardo on TV. My love of music comes from my parents. Thanks to them I love big band. Jazz came by itself. I am no expert, but I love what I hear.
My father would ask me, after listening to a song I told him was great, can you whistle it down the street ? Do you know the melody of the song. Thats what makes a great song.
A song like " Will you still love me , tomorrow " or Cole Porters "Night and Day". They've got it. And many of Steely Dans songs have that melody. Thats why I like them.
And I have brought the post full cirlce.
Scott
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We had a table of the guys in charge of several departments,
including engineering, sales, marketing, and the WM president talking AND listening to us, and that was the answer we got from the top. So it sounds like according to Weil McLain, it is very forgiving, as far as they are concerned.
As far as the Munchies go, Jeff Cook and another Munchkin man are supposed to be here at Wetstock II so hopefully we will get some more detailed answers, especially when we start telling him what WM said.0 -
almost as old
and remember Hank, Cash, Monroe, Willie, Chet and so many more.0
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