hmm,good little movie

I myself am not normally into conspericy theorys but I was visiting a blog that I normally watch and he had a video link posted so I figured what the hell...(link here, it is about a half of a gig so ya had better have high speed) it took about 5 mintes to load the whole thing with BEX (thank god), it is a hour and 20 minutes or so long and points out alot of stuff that most people might miss, check it out

trash night

12 midnight,... final call for garbage bags going out for the night, I stopped counting at 30 bags, a loveseat, bookcase, and a bunch of old mattresses, Corey came over after he was done at my shop and helped out for a few hours, it is amazing what can be done when there is"nothing to do"

here is a before and after shot:

after
yay, a new couch, chair and a coffee table!

oh well, the dog just puked all over the floor again so I will have to finish this later

keeping busy this week end

well I donned a respirator saturday evening and went to town in the basement... last spring the sump pump took a shit and the basement ended up with about 2 inches of water in the laundry area and it was never truely cleaned the way it should have been and of course stuff piled up down there because... well it is a basement... the perfect place to stuff shit that you dont have space for, lol

I was mostly bored saturday evening and said f-it, I dove in head first to a pizza and then did 11 loads of laundry & baged 7-55 gallon sacks of trash, Next Stop.... the most anti-union place out there; Wal-Mart, ended up getting 2 cases of purox laundry detergent(they had the dye and scent free 36 load bottles 5 for $10) and 3 cases of contractor cleanup bags, they are the same ones that we use for the hauling business and they work well and hold alot and are about as thick as a plastic tarp

tonite me and Jeremy did 8 more loads of laundry and took out 15 of those jumbo bags packed full of shit(there is still 10-15 full sacks down there plus a couch and maybe a dozen boxes to take out to the ever increasing pile along the road.

(and Rob, dont look in the mirror and smile and think that you got me to do this because you didnt, jeremy and I have had this planned sence the first of the year but we have had no free time to do it)

500 flyers down.....

and 4500 to go

worn out boots

I am sitting here looking at my pair of Hi-Tec leather boots and I cant believe that they are beyond wore out in less then 6 months (bought them a day before the anversery party last fall) the one seam came completely undone on the one boot and the sole has peeled off of the other about half of the way on the other not to mention that all the tread is gone... smoothed off! comeon I would think a $135 pair of boots from a company whom I have never had a problem with before would go atleast a year, I had a pair of wolverines last 11 months before I wore the tread off... and a pair of hunting boots from meiers ($10 on clearance) go for 2 years!! I think I am going to fire off a email and bitch and see if they have good customer service or tell me to pound sand

busy weekend

wow a busy weekend, litterally..... cleaned out the interior of the aqua-hog and discovered that it needs a new floor... big deal... me and DC are going to do it next weekend, the pour in place foam will be the only big cost to it.


oh well thats next weeks project....

tonite I am finishing up the flyers for the landscaping business, the good old HP Laserjet 4100 is getting its yearly workout....
After 3 toner cartridges and $70 in paper;
that is stack one of four, 4,000 flyers total on 65# cardstock and 1000 on 24# paper. hopefully I will add on some extra work this spring. the guy at office depot was a queef and kept trying to convince me to use just 24# paper, sorry jack I used to do full color printing and specialty flyers for people with my Xerox Phaser 7300 I know what works and what dosen't!! 65# cardstock isint much more expensive and it holds up better and if I have extras I can fold them in half and then send them out in the mail to select targeted homes or the 26¢ postcard rate. well me and jeremy will be in stone oak tomorrow for a while, LOL... atleast they have mail boxes out at the road and they are all designed the same with a paper slot in the bottom, there is 1000 homes in that sub division so I figure I can do it in 2-3 hours of putting around

poeple amaze me

People amaze me at what they will pay for a piece of nostalgia

some pics I found

so much for the snow

oh well not enough to plow but people wanted salt so mom went out and salted this morning I wont sneeze at another $300 in mad money, stay put for a funny steve based post

YAY SNOW COMING

I am actually happy to see the forcast calling for 1-3" of snow mostly because everything is ready to go, the new plow, new salter, a ton of salt, new blowers, exc. the last storm was a total nightmare that resulted in me loosing 2 customers that storm made me want to get out of the snow plowing buness but looking at the checks that rolled in 2 weeks later make me a little happier. what other industry is there that you make between $250 and $300 a hour while sitting in a truck playing a big video game but in all reality loosing one of my larger customes was a bit unnerving considering I have a 99.5% retention rate and have serviced the same 12 customers ever sence they gave me a chance in 2002 when I jerry rigged a 8' plow on my 78 ford bronco, I remember that year vivdly..... it was november and a guy on www.plowsite.com asked if anyone in toledo could accept a random account that he couldnt do anymore and I said I would look at it and I did and I signed the deal for brent industriies 2.45 acres of parking lot and 9 looading docks $400 each plow but what was I going to use to do it.....the bronco! so I scavanged through Estels junkyard and found a plow pump and mounting bracket and bought it for $25 then I had a local landscape company give me a blade because they didnt have any trucks that it would fit because it was 10' wide, hey a freebie is a freebie right so I took it to a friend at performance machine and Kurt cut it down to 8' for me.
at the same time as I was doing all of this a mutual friend of me and brian hayes just bought himself a plow because he landed all the taco bells in toledo for snowplowing so me and Andy got together and used our combined newbie knoledge to get things rolling, that year we had a whopping 57" of snow and I plowed 18 times. we had a snowplowers dream 9 storms spaced out over 3 weeks each dropping only 2-3 inches but I still made $1000 each time I went out whether it was 2" or 8", about half way into that spree of clipper systems I was basically burnt out and hired a friend from Toledo 4 wheelers to plow for me in the bronco for $20 an hour, we would basically tag team everything. The bronco had a mini love seat and brown shag carpeting so one of us would take a powernap while the other plowed an vice-versa. that winter I made so much money that the summer was a big fuckoff session and I junked the bornco and bought a jeep cherokee and traded the 8' plow for a new 6½' plow. the jeep ended up being a total piece of shit and the crappy 2.8 blew the headgasket and I sold it minus the plow for $10 more then I paid for it,... good riddence to bad rubbish, I swear to god I will never own a jeep again. the headgasket went mid season so after some barganing I threw the 6½' meyers on the durango and then the madness began, we started taking on more accounts after andy lost the taco bells and I had a reliable vehicle to use

I will finish this hen I get back from wallmart, gotta pick up some random stuff

another TPD visit

Brian from across the street stopped by about an hour ago to borrow my paint spraygun beause his was messed up, noting new... we borrow tools from each other and help each other with projects and assorted shit like that, anyways we get talking about paint and how the EPA is trying to ban Base/Clear paint spraying in the private sector and only allow single stage paint when we decide to go in the backyard and look at the botched clearcoat on the aqua-hog.... so I flipped on the floodlights in the back yard and got deeper into the conversation on paint, about 15 minutes pass by and we decide to head over to his house and set the gun up to spray. I let the dog back in and walk across the road, as I am walking a TPD cruizer glides down Nela Pky at about 10mph,... nothing new they usually drive by once in the evening and 99% of the tim it is my buddy Jim who is patrolling our sector, tonite it was him as usual but it turned out that Steve had called them on me and brian for talking loudly and painting a boat at midnight, Jim just laughed and asked that I turn off the floodlghts to help keep the vein on steves forehead from exploding. Jim chuckled about this call as he usually does, the last time he was called out I was "Shooting off fireworks at Steves house"... yea,... um.... NO I was using a cutting torch to trim Brians bumper down to size. Apparently steve dosent know that you need a airline to run a spray gun and that welding isint shooting fireworks, oh well it is good for a laugh

more pics of the project

went and took some daytime pics of both boats I have and I will start with the project first


I have a slab of 12" wide oak that I am going to have ripped down to ½" and then it is going to be the gauge trim piece

I got the majority of the interior gutted this evening, once I get a tag for it I am going to take it down to the u-do-it carwash and give it a dousche. this next weekend is looking like it will be nice so I will probably take it to walbridge park and put it in the water for a hour or so to find any leaks,if there isint any then I will go to stage two and pull it in the garage and sand the top of the hull and reshoot the clearcoat with blue and gold glitter instead of the red and silver and then install the steering and motor controls. I am kinda pissed for giving away the set of evinrude simplex controls I had last year that I need now but hindsight is 20-20 nad I will do the seating aswell. hopefully I can have this boat done in 2-3 weeks and be ready to put in the river for some walleye fishing :hopefully:
heres a pic of the lund speedboat, the motors are in the garage right now, I have a 85 hp Johnson motor for it, last year on the last trip out with the 60 evinrues I burned up a piston so they have been on the back burner til now

new outboard

well Brian was hard up for money so I bought a 35 hp long shaft outboard motor off of him this evening for $100, not that bad of a deal considering there is one on ebay in the same condition here in Ohio that is selling for over $500 I think I am going to use ths motor on the aqua-hog project. I would rather use this over a starflite beause it has through the prop underwater exhaust whereas a v-4 starflite has open headers, this boat will mostly be used for putting around and occasional fishing so having alot of power is not a big deal. from what I am told this motor will plane a 2000# boat at about 22-24 mph..... that works for me. the next step is to aquire some teak to make a retro swim platform for the rear of the boat.

total cost to date is $186 (boat,motor,trailer,tires,lights,titlework)

the next project... the aqua-hog

the next $25 project, a Spirit 14' boat built by the Tomahawk Marine Group and at the time was owned by Harley Davidson, Jeremy drug it home on 2 flat tires. apparently you can drive from McCord & Door st to my place before the steel rim wears off the hub, LOL. Upon coming home as usual Stevie next door threw open the curtains and stood there and glared at us... I wish this joker would get a life and a job, his previous excuse was the fact that he was being a stay at home dad but now his kid goes with his wife michelle every day and he just sits in his living room watching cartoons all day.
Anyways back to the boat.

it is going to get one of my special built 60HP Starflite Evinrudes and a totally new interior with black naugahide seat cushons. it should be a fun and relatively easy project considering the floor is verry solid and so is the transom so there wont be any major structural work, mostly cosmetic, the total cost for restoration will be in the $250-$300 range and I will probably get around $1200-$1500 for it after it is completed

HI STEVE!

I guess he didnt like seeing me outside picking up dogshit. after he started glaring at me I grabbed the small digicam I carry around and took a pic... Id say it is pretty good evidence that I am not insane and that he does constantly watch us.

This is for you Steve!

(deleted because I am going to get on with life)