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I'm snowed under - got 224 cell numbers to paint at the county jail, a large gold-leaf window downtown, a boat wrap, and assorted other signs and projects, most with deadlines by first week of August. So why am I going to Minneapolis to paint free murals?
HELP.........
-------------------- Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 2103 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Funny how we need adventure and brushes with the dangerous. Since we no longer live in small groups that hunt, we have replaced that need with sports and risky business and creating other performance pressures.
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 5366 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yer just a mean hog,Sonny. That's why you can shoot monkeys outchurbutt with ease. GIT-R-DONE........
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Roseville,CA 95747 916-782-9649 Posts: 1975 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Hey Sonny, do they have a cell #13 in the state pen? Or do they skip it like they do in Hotels? Just curious....I guess it probably wouldn't matter, as the hotel guests already have *bad luck*.....LOL
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This will be my first experience doing jail signs - I went over yesterday to check on the very oppressive job site and was told I have to wear a hard hat, safety glasses and steel-toed boots. I asked about steel-toed flip-flops, but these people have absolutely no sense of humor.
David, why is it that right before a Letterhead meet, every job you've bid on for the last 6 months comes in with a killer deadline? Who cares, I'm going walldoggin' - see y'all in MN.
-------------------- Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 2103 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Hey Sonny, Been there done that! Not a fun job at all! I went and painted numbers at the new Bakersfield Jail a few years ago. We had to keep hiding from the "Union Man" or he would kick us out after only 8 hours of work! We wanted to get this job done and over with. (5 hour from home)After 3- 12 hour days, I was so sick of numbers! Have a helper go in front of you and pounce everything so you don't have to think. You get real quick at lettering numbers, but your mind goes crazy! Still crazy. . . . . . .John
-------------------- John Arnott El Cajon CA 619 444-SIGN signgraphics1@aol.com http://www.signgraphics1.com Posts: 896 | From: El Cajon CA usa | Registered: Dec 1998
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Did every pillar four sides in a large four story car park once with A1 to A56, B1 to B56, etc etc 9" letters. We didn't use pounce patterns, just cut a set of numbers outa thin acrylic and ran a pencil around them. Quick enough. Would have used spray and stencils but they were round pillars and not very smooth concrete.
There for days!
Jon, it is well know fact: If yer short on work, plan some time off ... the phone then never stops until you are on your way out the door! I switch my cell phone to answer service when I'm away! Have fun anyway.
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About 1981, we painted the cell numbers at the Dallas County jail. Although my sign painter had worked with Chester Cunningham, he was subjected to approximately a dozen pages of instructions from the architect on how to paint the letters. He did the job to everyone's satisfaction in spite of the instructions, certainly not because of them.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 3160 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Take me back with you. I am available for work.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design St. Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 5578 | From: St. Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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If there is anything I can help with from here I'd be glad to. I can't come down to help with the jail, boat or window, butmaybe with the "other stuff" I leave july 31 for a mission trip in Africa. Right now we have nothing going on. Just let me know
Sonny, I charge cheap for housesitting services in your absense. Pay my way to get there and I'm all yours! Such a deal! I'll throw in a 5 for 1 deal on watering your plants too, will walk Spot and bring in your mail, and have some lucious home baked/cooked Georgian fare ready upon your return!
You're right, my pathetic attempt to get to Georgia somehow, someway... one day! Enjoy the cell painting. That's one place I'd suggest to downplay your pretty-ness...
-------------------- Donna Williams Graphic Impact Yarrow, BC Canada graphicimpact@shaw.ca
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Dang, I was originally coming to this meet but had all my finances sucked up in a property deal. I would happily have come back with you to clear the backlog! Have fun painting murals!!
-------------------- Anne McDonald 17 Karnak Crescent Russley Christchurch 8042 New Zealand
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