Jon
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Who let the cat out of the bag?
You guys are to much. now can a working man get some sleep before heading out to do a job?
hm, to late for my nap so guess I might as well watch the news.
FLASH, NEWS BREAK,
We just found out that Jon is really 63 now but denies it and says there was an error on his Birth Certificate.
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Ev it was not that type of SERVICE!
You guys are super, sounds like Beth had a secret round table with you fellows.
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Just getting a rererral is not enough.
You need to know what brand and axle weight GVW the trailer is.
What brand skid, size water tanks, PSI/GPM of skid, pump brand and much much more.
Now another option is to buy someone that is selling their rig and getting out for whatever reason, usually you can buy at less then half price and always insist on them taking it to a shop of your chosing for a check over at your expense before buying.
Trailer should have electric brakes, better then surge brakes.
Is it a home made trailer or brand name?
I could go on and on but I have seen you around before so will assume you know the drill.
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Sheesh guys n gals what can I say?
THANKS friends.
Wife took me out to a nice old fashioned country restaurant and was the food and service good too!
To me good service means keeping my fresh made ice tea glass full :)
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Tony I don't see any weakness here, just being honest and to me that speaks loudly of a person.
That also had a lot to do with you landing this account.
I have been in those shoes on a couple jobs, even bid to low the first time and made it clear I did and would re-bid next time hoping they accept it.
If not I learned, if so I gained just like you gained a new account and I bet he gives your name to others.
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Tony do I read you to say you have not done awnings before so the reason you told them it will take a day or so is to do a quick study to know what you are up against?
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Look at it from another point of view, what if these people owned a chain of restaurants and were testing you to see how honest you were?
Had you lied and said it is dirty or it is clean but I will take your money and clean it anyway they would have looked at you as a crook and you would have failed their test.
I would be honest and tell them there is nothing I can do to make it cleaner but my suggestion would be after your son's party call me and I will clean up the whatever they spill on the patio and driveway.
Henry out here they run contractor traps all the time, they take a house and rig it with all sort of things that might need fixing, might not then call all contractors and handy man from the newspapers etc.
They do that to arrest those that do not have contractors licenses, over charge, sell services not needed and rip off people.
To my knowledge it has never been done to gardners, carpet cleaners and pressure washers.
Alan call those people and follow up as to how it looks now that the party is over, it might need cleaning at this point.
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Super job Tony, and considering how badly they looked too.
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Don go to the blackboard and write 100 times James I a nice techie, James is a nice techie.
Then you shall be forgiven.
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Nothing you said so relax, I don't recall ever seeing pictures of before and after awnings.
Do a search under awning on the board and see what comes up.
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Ryan you should live in an Homeowners Association, I love to call our board of directors the Board of Dictators and they know I know more of what goes on here then they do.
My wife does not want me to even go to the meetings but someone has to keep them as straight as possible.
I would love to run but in truth it would be unfair to all, heck I can talk but not hear one word said in the club house when they have meetings.
They think I am reading their lips. LOL I cannot read lips.
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I have said for years if you can show me an honest politician I will show you his or he grave.Remember most are lawyers and they tend to say things in such a way a lie sounds like the truth.
So one never goes overseas and the other cries MOMMY I scratched my hand!
To bad a real honest person never has a chance to run for any office in any level of government.
The one speach that gulls me the most is from his running mate who said there are two classes of people, the wealthy who are privalaged and the working class who are not.
Strange since both are in the WEALTHY class, bloody rich in fact so just what do they plan to do give each of us a million bucks from their hidden offshore accounts?
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Time to go do some physical work boys and girls.
The games will be here waiting for your tired bodies to try and beat some other tired body at winning.
GEEKS, now Beth they are not all GEEKS, just 99% of them.
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Carlos I am enjoying the good life!
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Slow nothing, I have been cleaning a pigment company.
Let me say one thing, I don't care how clean you and your equipment are when you start working when done for the day you and your equipment will all be one color, reddish/rust color and it does not wash off very easily.
In fact you will physically use soap and towels for a few hours to clean your equipment.
As for cleaning yourself, about 30 minutes of soap, rinse, soap rinse gets most off you.
I will post a pictures in a couple days.
As for working in 100+ heat I am not used to it, used to night work so I got heat stroke, salt tablets and water and I was drinking water one bottle after the other.
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If they all block gmail then that is called DISCRIMINATION.
And it sounds like this company says we will not work with any of the big boys so if you want to use us kick them off.
I'll stick with Eartlink as my main ISP and mail and Yahoo for secondary backup mail.
Who wants to store forever all your old email, sounds silly to me.
I save the ones that have interest to me and delete all others.
So other then that what is so special about gmail?
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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a
full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend
an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Maine is! the only state whose name is just one syllable.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
"lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
fuel it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube
and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence the brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they
are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in
”dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
otherwise it will digest itself.
Now you know everything
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Now if that ain't a cute little gig.
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Cujo I will contact you in a couple days, will be back to normal after working in the 100% temp with the sun beating down on me all day tomorrow.
I did get the kit that makes removing and installing the filter from vertical to horizontal but it is in the back of the engine which is hard to get to.
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ok little boys and girls there will be no bartering here.
If there are to be bets send cash to me for safe keeping and be comfy in knowing I will spend it on a good cause, DINNER with my lovely wife.:)
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Grade One teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students.
The teacher asked, "Harry, what's your problem?"
Harry answered, "I'm too smart for grade one.
My sister is in the grade three and I'm smarter than she is!
I think I should be in the grade 3 too!"
Ms. Brooks had had enough... She took Harry to the principal's office.
While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was.
The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test.
If he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to grade one and behave. She agreed.
Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to
him and he agreed to take the test.
Principal: "What is 3 x 3?"
Harry: "9".
Principal: "What is 6 x 6?"
Harry: "36".
And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know. The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, "I think Harry can go to the grade three."
Ms. Brooks says to the principal, "Let me ask him some more questions."
The principal and Harry both agreed.
Ms. Brooks asks, "What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?"
Harry, after a moment: "Legs."
Ms. Brooks: "What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?"
The principal wondered, why would she ask such a question!
Harry replied: "Pockets."
Ms. Brooks: "What does a dog do that a man steps into?"
Harry: "Pants"
Ms. Brooks: What's starts with a C, ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin, whitish liquid?
Harry: Coconut.
The principal sat forward with his mouth hanging open.
Ms. Brooks: What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft and sticky?
The principal's eyes opened really wide and before he could stop the answer.
Harry: Bubble gum
Ms. Brooks: What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting down and a dog do on three legs?"
Harry: "Shake hands."
The principal was trembling.
Ms. Brooks: What word starts with an 'F' and ends in 'K'
that means a lot of heat and excitement?
Harry: "Firetruck"
The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the
teacher, "Put Harry in the grade five, I got the last seven questions wrong."
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A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the
bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees 3 men sitting at a
corner table.
He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks at the
biggest, meanest one in the face and says, "I went by your grandma's house
today and I saw her in the hallway buck naked. Man, she is a fine looking
woman!"
The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His
buddies are confused, because he is one bad biker, and would fight at the
drop of a hat.
The drunk leans on the table again and says, "I got it on with your
grandma and she's good, the best I ever had!"
The biker's buddies are starting to get really mad,
but the biker still says nothing.
The drunk leans on the table one more time and says,
"I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!"
At t! his point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by
the shoulders and says,
Grandpa, you're drunk....... Go home!"
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A man, while playing on the front nine of a complicated golf
course, became confused as to where he was on the course.
Looking around, he saw a lady playing ahead of him. He walked
up to her, explained his confusion and asked her if she knew
what hole he was playing. She replied, "I'm on the 7th hole,
and you are a hole behind me, so you must be on the 6th hole."
He thanked her and went back to his golf. On the back nine the
same thing happened; and he approached her again with the same
request. She said, "I'm on the 14th hole, you are a hole
behind me, so you must be on the 13th hole." Once again he
thanked her and returned to his play.
He finished his round and went to the clubhouse where he saw
the same lady sitting at the end of the bar. He asked the
bartender if he knew the lady. The bartender said that she
was a sales lady and played the course often.
He approached her and said, "Let me buy you a drink in
appreciation for your help. I understand that you are in the
sales profession. I'm in sales, also. What do you sell?"
She replied, "If I tell you, you'll laugh."
"No, I won't."
"Well, if you must know," she answered, "I work for Tampax."
With that, he laughed so hard he almost lost his breath. She
said, "See I knew you would laugh."
"That's not what I'm laughing at," he replied. "I'm a salesman
for Preparation H, so I'm still a hole behind you!"
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Tony got it right, work next to him and learn, what I do with the shop, I tell them I want to learn how to take care of my equipment so I will be watching what you do and I might ask a question or two.
I had to have my pump rebuilt, was going to do it but some reason just did not feel comfortable doing something I have never done. Shop did it, explained what he was doing and now I feel I can do it next time around.
I do change oils ,filters, and all minor stuff and am getting more into the heavy stuff too.
Now if only I could find a oil filter relocator for my engine to bring it around to the side or front.
Kohler does not make one that I know of, anyone here know of any aftermarket one?
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It is not that no one wants to help you so much as your asking the same question many others asked over the years.
Do two things, at the top click SEARCH, in the little window that opens type
House washing and it will take you to tons of Q & A.
Then do it again under House cleaning.
Then if you still feel you have not found your answers come back here and hope someone has replied to your post.
Not trying to discourage you but help you by using the SEARCH engine built into most BBS.
Vacu-Boom Question
in Tools, Equipment & Basic Maintenance
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Why can you not let it go to the gutter then pick up the water?
Don't tell me they are over restrictive on that too? if so you need to get involved and explain that we do pick it all up but at the low point and it is IMPOSSIBLE to clean the curb if you cannot pick it up in the street.
Main thing is you do pick it up.
I have a vacuboom and just trashed the vacuum part, just not good enough, you have to move it every 25 feet as it does not have enough suction.
I just bought a Nikro and installed the sump pump out of the vacuboom.
http://www.nikro.com/products/moreinfo.asp?i=298
Call and ask for Randy, tell him I sent you. The vacuum your seeing on that page, the 55 gallon one is much more powerful then vacubooms vacuum.
Remember they do not make the vacuum but add a sump pump to it and put their name on it.
As for the tubes, they are next to go once I figure a better way to pick up the water.
Nikro at this time does not install submersable sump pumps but they are thinking of it.
Here is my experiences with Vacuboom, tubes wear out in about a year and half and each cost $250, they admit they don't last long so one down there.
Motors are small and run hot, I had mine for 2 years and worked it hard, two weeks ago one hour to go on big job one motor burned up, cost to replace $244. Could get discount for just under $200, so still close to $500 total, add a few bucks more plus shipping and buy the Nikro.
Jon