Jeff

I've realized recently that I have been pissing & moaning a lot and just not being positive in some of my posting, Ive been complaining about, gas prices, the goverment, illegal immergrants etc.. One of m workers the other day said to me man you just been negative lately, I do some of the same pissing & maoning about stuff that I have on this BB lately, that made me think. I have a great life lots of goods things happening and my biz is going well, I get stressed and I dont like a lot of things that are happening in the country, but I wont fix them by complaining. So I apologize for being negative recently and Im going to change my attitude on this board and in everyday life. Life is good, sometime you just have to remember that Everyone have a GREAT day!!!!!:lgbounces JL

Hear we go again gas prices are going up & up. What a PITA, call or email your elected officials and tell them youu want lower prices, if enough people complain to our elected officials, the prices usually come down. Tell them you'll vote this upcoming election. Its all a game. I just saw that the head of Exxon is retiring this month or year and his retirment package is $ 450,000,000 Thats right 450 Million and he made $52 million last year. Tell me they arent taking advantage of us. capitalism is fine but this is ridiculous. Call your congressman & reps and tell them their jobs are on the line www.senate.gov or www.house.gov you can find your reps & congressmen and email or call them JL

Thanks guys Im going back to pissing & Moaning WHY? I just had 4 new tires put on 2 weeks ago and as my guys were driving to the next job today, they saw one of my tires pass the on a main road, yup the whole damn tire fell off, while pulling trailer. The shop didnt tighten lugs, the service guys from one of their other shops came and put lugs on and got it to shop, smashed up rear 1/4 and ground down the drum, no one was hurt. I'll be pissing & moaning at the tire center, they said the tech is no longer with them and insurance will take care of it I got a friend lending me his truck to tow my trailer Cool Just another day. MY DAMN TIRE JUST FELL OFF can you believe it Everyone have a good one JL

It was my beautiful wifes & mine 4th wedding anniversary yesterday and we went to get ultrasound, well its going to be a baby GIRL. I'm going to have a baby girl, time to buy some guns. My wife thought I was disappointed that it was going to be a girl, I was hoping for another boy, only because Im afraid of raising a girl. Well I went out today to the Baby GAP and bought a bunch of pink baby clothes and gave to my wife, of course she cried for 5 minutes WOW A GIRL as long as she's healthy Im happy. But God help me and my new daughter to be. Her brother Joshua will be starting Karate this year and I'll probably be starting Zanax in a few years PINK clothes. I hope she looks like her mother JL

Carlos & Rod, I know many different nationalities come here illegally, but the biggest group that I see every day is latin american, south american etc and these are the people I see taking lower paying jobs which are bringing the wages down for many. I know Im sounding racist and Im sorry, but ive seen this happening & growing for years , not just recently from the news accounts. I just brought it up because of the boycott and whats been going on in congress. I have no problem with Mexicans or others who come here legally. we just have to many, to fast coming here, theres reasons we just dont say anyone can come here whenever they want. Hell we'd have a 1/4 of the people on this planet or more come here. We cant have it that way

Ive read & heard of many businesses & people being threatened If they went to work or open their businesses, businesses run by Americans or Mexican Americans. Now is this the element we want in our country. We have illegals threatening legal americans or even illegals that just dont want to start something I just want to know who they think they are to come here illegally and threaten us. Close the borders now!!! or we will keep paying in many ways My Brother has lived in the Orlando/St Cloud area for over 22 years and always loved the area, I was never a big fan of the area just because its to hot for me. But my brother has raised his kids there and loved it. He now says its just not the same anymore and is thinking and is going to move out of the area for 2 reasons overcrowded and to many mexicans, he feels its brought the quality of life down. He's always been an Exec Chef and worked with all races well, but now its just different he says an he's uncmfortable in his own country or that part of the country

You know the rally's went off yesterday, did it help the illegals or hurt their cause I personally dont like that we have a million or more illegals walking in protest and nothing is being done about it by our goverment. I know they couldnt sweep in and start arresting them, there would of been a riot. But like one sign I saw said" Im illegal so what". I think these rally's are just going to bring a bigger wave of illegals into the country, what do they have to fear? not much and I'm once again blaming our goverment. We are doing nothing. Why? We have a goverment that supports illegal activity I think many Americans are just sitting back watching and many dont like the fact that the illegals are here and may vote that way. I think the illegals should shut up and be happy they are getting away with it Why dont they protest in their own country for better living & working conditions. Their goverment is supporting them coming to America, soon there will be no real border and more illegals, drugs & crime will just flow into our country whats to stop it. Yes there are many hard working mexicans , but there is a lot of crime & corruption in Mexico and its just going to keep coming our way with out secure borders and dont dought that many terrorist have come here and possibly are hear now and they came over from mexico. We need to secure our borders, get a handle on stopping the flow of illegals, drugs, crime & terrorism and then once the borders are secure we an start to process immigrants quicker Im voting for the 1st candidate that states he's for closing the flow of illegals, makes it a felony to hire them and wants the ilegals deported in mass, Republican or Dem they would get my vote Boycott in your own country and stay there. Whatever our opinion is let it be known www.sanate.gov www.house.gov

I feel that everybody should become legal! But it should be before they ever come here. There are many immigrants from South America that are very hard working people should they have to wait 8, 10, 12 years for papers or to become a citizen probably not. 1, 2, or 3 years or a little more to be allowed to come work legally yes and then another few years to see if they are worthy to become a citizen and then after they pay their dues and stay within the laws & rules of our country they should be allowed to stay. I just think & fear that we as a country cant sustain 1/2 to a million illegals every year or so coming here. Ive seen wages go down in my area in construction and hotels because of so much cheap labor from the illegals and my area is in a building boom and wages shouldnt be going down. I also think you should learn the language & customs of the county you want to call your new home. Many years ago 1980 I lived in Santa Barbara CA and I worked in a computer clean room it was me and one other american guy and about 8 mexcan women. I used to come in and the radio was on a mexican sttion and I would turn it to an american station so I could understand it. After a few months working there a couple of the mexican women started complaining to me, they spoke broken english. They didnt like me turning the station, nicely I told them I dont know spanish and that why I would turn the station( plus i cant stand the sound of the music ). Well there was many complaints about me turning the station to our boss and he said why dont you listen t the mexican music for half the the shift and my music half. It became a big thing ad I said its ammerica and we shouldnt have to listen to Mexican music that i dont understand at all. Well it went all the way to the top brass and at the time it was decided and I think it was the rule of the area or company that everyone was to speak english. so they said the same about the radio and it no longer played mexican music. I had some mad mexicans but i also had a few say they didnt blame me Come to our country legally and prove your self and and learn or rules & customs, immigrants from all ver the world have for decades. Our country wasnt designed to take in immigrants and set up a bunch of little mexicos it was designed to bring in immigrants and make them a part of America making America stronger not to divide it into little ethic groups and Im not saying they have to give up their culture, but they sure should learn ours and make it a major part of their everyday life, my ancestors did and so didnt every other group of foreigners for over a century or 2 We cant keep up the pace of illegals coming into this country with out it adversely effecting the country. We pay a lot out of our pockets every day to give them free services etc. Let them work and contribute just like all of us do God Bless American and dont change the Anthem JL

No way Mel, thats unreal. My wife would die

Doug you can use Rowletts, sunbrite , dawn , cascade many kinds of cleaners and 12% and if you want wax also. Vinyl is the easiest to clean. If its mold & mildew use 12%. Me and one of my guys did 4 vinyl houses and a small vinyl fence today. He got 2 sides and I got 2 sides and with 50 minutes travel moving to different neighborhoods we were done in 4 hours, houses were all about 1900-2600 sq ft 1 or 1 1/2 stories. We Xjetted 12% & Dawn, came out great and vinyl is such easy money As for tips for downstreaming I know PW Kid makes up some that shot real well. Mike Williamson I think may use the same type tips too. Im not sure Try the M5 Xjet if you dont like it I'll buy it off you. Buy it from Watercannon in Orlando, they sell it for $119-$129. I can do many 3 story stilt homes with my 5.6 gpm & Xjet and never get on a ladder Good luck JL

We both like that, but because of Jessica Simpson we thought there might be a lot of Jessica's as our baby grows up

It looks like I may get some 4 & 3 story condo buildings "new construction" its a referal Im doing a bunch of buildings at same property that wee built in the past 18 months My question a lot of these buildings have finger prints and marks on them from the construction, I meen a lot of prints. post construction clean up will it require I get all these prints and marks off. I'll be brushing forever and what about the caulking smears. If it was house one thing but a 4 story building where at some ares I cant even get a lift. Some of these buildings are a mess What should I tell them I can do and cant do, whats the norm on buildings this size Thanks JL

We cleaned several of these buildings for the HOA and this is the same complex with the new buildings they asked me to give a price on them for post constuction. I havent heard from them, they said they werent happy with the PW'er that was doing them. I guess they were less happy with my price OH well no great loss the buildings had marks & prints all over them and some were 4 stories high. No big deal, I clean them annually for the HOA and we do some of the 3 level walkways in between due to the construction dust The CREW My bro in law on the left & Derek on the right, these 2 guys are GREAT workers and take pride in their work, I'm lucky to have them. Ive fired 2 guys already this year, they were just ueless

Im looking at pricing an entire neighborhhod for house washing. There's 243 homes, its a high priced area, but not large homes. Its a weird setup HOA, the front lawn and little white picket fences( Approx 10 - 18 ft long) in the front of each house are maintained by the HOA its in their HOA dues, I just did 16 of the fences because some trees got diseased and we had to clean them. The PM & HOA asked for a price to clean all the fences. The 16 I cleaned I threw out a price of $50 each, well each fence took 10- 15 minutes it was great money,. I think I will be getting all of them I told them $30 each When talking to them I mentioned why dont you let me do all the houses too. The Board prez thought it was a good idea and he said they'd have to put it in the bylaws and have a general meeting & vote. This probably wont all be done this season, but it would be a great thing for us next year. If they homeowners go for it The houses range from 1760 sq ft to 2017 sq ft models all are mostly vinyl with some with partial brick or stucco fronts. They take 1 - 1 1/4 hours to do each 1 man and I now charge $130 - $150 per house What kind of discount should I offer. Im thinking all 243 homes $110 - $115 each. What do you think. One 2 man crew can do 10+ homes a day We'll see if they go for it JL

Heres some pics in that neighborhood we are trying to get. The white picket fence are the ones Im talking about, thats a big fence because its a corner lot most are half that size. We did a few of these columns also at the entrances. They came out pretty good a little citra clean, 12% and a little brushing. I use Citra clean on stucco/dryvit usually it just seems to clean dryvit good

Thanks everyone!!!!! dont worry plenty of pictures to come. I have so much fun with my son I cant wait for my baby girl Heres Josh the big brother a couple weeks ago at his 3rd birthday party. The cake lady always does a great job JL

When mines in college, I'll be about 64, am I crazy or what. Buying lots & lots of guns, so when these young whipper snappers come around and Im old and frail, I'll just pull out a 9mm and explain the facts of life to them according to me Cant wait hope she's born on my B-Day that would be cool, cant wait to meet her Thanks everyone we are excited JL

Arghhhh, oh no !!!! more line for line responses. You better get that locking gas cap, I may be going to Florida to visit my brother, Im going to need some gas all along the way LOL JL

I hear you, Im just nervous about a baby girl. Until my son was born Id never touched a baby I figured Id break them now a delicate baby girl I cant wait to have a Daddies girl. Going to Toys R Us today, what the heck do I buy? Now we are trying to pick out a name that starts with a J JL

Carpel tunnel, in 96 I crushed my wrist, destroyed it they built me a new one out of hip bone, but my median nerve was crushed also, couldnt use the hand for a year and fingers were numb for a few years. Now only a few fingers go numb sometimes, weird feeling, it doesnt hurt except in real cold weather. A brace used to help a lot now it just doesnt bother me

Ya $300 a person and that really helped the deficit too. What ever happened to fiscal Conservative Republicans??? That $100 gas rebate is only to people who paid taxes at the end of the year so the poor wont get it and the guy who rides a train from the rich suburbs to the city will get the rebate,well at least he uses the train. I'll get the rebate its good for a day & a 1/2 worth of fuel for me. We live in the greatest country in the world, but things just seem so screwy to me. Is it just me? I got to go its midnight time to go siphon some gas from the rich neighborhoods. I know an ex oil exec up the road I always get a lot of gas out of his Escalade LOL JL

If your happy downstreaming and get great range you might want to stay with it. Xjet you can get higher concentration of chem. The M5 Xjet has an adjustable fan, which is very helpful and I can pump alot of chem & water out of it. The major draw back of Xjet is you have to carry chem with you in a 5 or on a 2 wheeler with a 15 gallon drum, you get used to it. I love the Xjet it make me a lot of money

Hey what about that stupid bill that Bill Frist and Friends are talking about. Give a $100 rebate to every one who pays federal taxes. A gas rebate. And we pay these fools to represent us. Really what is this $100 going to do other than increase the deficit by billions. Are they that stupid and do they think if they give us $100 we'll vote for them Im just amazed at this one, at least it looks like it wont go anywhere. FOOLS JL

Ya I'm not a big fan of detailed work, I'm more of a production kind of guy. Get in there gangbang it, get it done and get out. But there is a ton of awnings around here so instead of trying to pass this kind of work up, I want to learn how to do it. The ones I mentioned have quite a build up of mold streaking down them The mix how much bleach 12% andhow much palmolive to a 5 I also was told Rowletts citra clean & a little bleach will work Thanks JL