""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3485 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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I missed your input too, Big Guy. Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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-------------------- Desire Rusovsky SDG Signs rue du Lac 24 1342 Le Pont Switzerland desire@sdgsigns.com http://www.sdgsigns.com Posts: 218 | From: Le Pont / Switzerland | Registered: Mar 2002
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HUZZAH! BTW, you did an awfully nice job on the trilogy cds! Whey cool!(cheese maker's term!)
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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It is so good to see you back! I've been worried about you. Sitting on my monitor are the Illustrator notes from the impromptu workshop you gave me last January. Maybe one of these days we'll get to finish that lesson when I don't have a plane to catch.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6714 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I'm living in a 28 foot x 6'6" travel trailor in one of the many FEMA "villages" throughout the state. Ducking when I come in the door is mandatory...as is ducking when I stand up here at all. It's not horrible. It's a 2005 fleetwood travel trailor. (graphics are from one of the companies I used to work for...ironic).It will be nice to sleep in a bed that fits again, though. Flush toilet will be nice, as a closet to put my clothes. But bitching isn't appropriate, I'm not living in a shelter, so it could be much worse. They're still finding 100 homeless people a day here, or were as of the article in the paper last month. Families living in their cars, and in uninhabitable homes (as I was, the first 8 weeks after the storm)
Hint to everybody who rents...get renter's insurance. I threw out about 3/4 of my belongings from water and mold damage, which is about average here. Anybody who lost roofing during the storm had to throw out all or most of their furniture. No insurance except for car insurance. All my car damage was cosmetic, so I've been living on the insurance check instead of fixing the car. Other than scratches and dents on every panel, the only mechanical damage, if you can call it that, was the side mirror was broken off and hanging. I picked up a two part epoxy and glued it back on. Works for what it was intended, even if it isn't pretty.
I'm doing some freelance work for a print shop about ten miles down the road. Internet should help on freelance until I can get back on my feet. They've been giving me about 3-5 hours of work a week and driving back and forth to pick up and deliver was a pain in the butt.
I'd like to relocate somewhere still on the coast. (Not much if any reason to live in FL if ya can't be near the water.) Trouble is moving expenses once I find something...u-haul, first last and deposit for an apt, utilities hook up, plus waiting two pay periods for a first check. When I moved to florida in the first place, I got moving reimbursement and $1000 sign on bonus, or I wouldn't have been able to swing it. BTW, I'm not askin for help on that, just trying to explain why I would seem to be stubborn in staying here for now. I'm not crazy, just poor.
As far as in general, I'm trying to keep my chin up and convince myself this is temporary. That tidal wave mess makes these problems seem pretty insignificant.
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Hey Don... It IS good to see you back! And you're right. Comparing the Tsunami tragedy does dwarf alot of what our country's suffered come lately. Keep up the good attitude! Hey, maybe when the time comes for you to be moving some of us can help out...Don't be shy askin'- We're "family".
-------------------- Nancie W. Phillips White Dove Painting Studio 74 Dacula Road, Dacula, GA 30019 678-887-3339
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Poor Don . . .he cain't have no ceilin' fan in a trailer cause it will beat his brains out . . .bap-bap-bap-bap . . .
Bear in mind sign people, when hirin' a new hand, look for these tall guys . . .because they ARE scaffolding and ladders included...
I was SO priviledged to get to meet Don in Gainesville. Having been torn away for some time from his brushes by that hurricaine did not slow him down a bit when he got brush-in-hand, he just took off with it!!
Glad to see you back in Letterville Don!!
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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-------------------- Judy Pate Signs By Judy Albany, Georgia USA 229-435-6824
Live simply...Love generously...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Leave the rest to God. Posts: 2621 | From: Albany,GA,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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At last !!! Progress !!! Maybe cost of phone will come down now....still can't imagine card costs you alluded to, damn...
Glad you're online again, we'll chat some night. Now, go get a job, boy, think you're a surf bum or something?
Thanks for call earlier, HNY to you...got portrait framed, thank you...
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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"Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasies. But most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be." - Rush Posts: 1192 | From: Washington, NJ | Registered: Feb 1999
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In the interest of your swift repatriation, I hereby relinquish all debt - you no longer owe me a bottle shop. Sigh... there goes my retirement.
David
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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It's good to see you back. My best wishes for putting your life back together again. I can only imagine how tough it must be.
By the way, I was going through some old photos a few days ago and came across the one where you had switched our heads in the photo from Orlando. It still looks scary.
Also, you were right about the Wacom - it's a great tool. Takes a little while to get used to, but very useful after that.
-------------------- Chapman Sign Studio Temple, Texas chapmanstudio@sbcglobal.net Posts: 6306 | From: Temple, Texas, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Best wishes in recovery. I couldn't take a hit like you and the Floridians have last year. My priorities have changed, a nest egg needs to be started. (I'm still looking for my golden goose though!)I can take a slow month, but not no shop or equipment! Good luck, the right door will open soon.
-------------------- Michael A Latham Tee's Me Shirt & Sign 16462 Jefferson Davis Highway Colonial Heights Va. 804-835-3299 signdogopie@aol.com Posts: 379 | From: Colonial Heights, Virginia | Registered: Feb 2004
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