One year

It has been a year since my last post and it is time to get it going again, maybe. Many things have happened in that time frame.
Lost a job.
Drew unemployment.
Finalized the divorce.
Got a new job.
Still stressed by it all.
However, the new job is great. Business is slow, but things will pick up, I hope.
I now work at Georgetown Mill Supplies and that is the same place I worked 14 years ago. I had some success then. I am hoping for a repeat. It is nice to work for a smaller, more efficient company. I will be posting more info as time progresses on things we sell. So, stay tuned.

Quotes

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

I found a great little website of quotes. It may not have every quote in the world there, but it does have enough to keep you entertained. I like quotes. I found the one above by Winston Churchill and laughed.


Have fun reading at your leisure.


Quote Website

Politicians

The season for politics is here. This post is not about who to vote for, but how I have seen politicians act. Recently at a meeting for one of the organizations that I belong to, a local politician was to speak. The board had scheduled the politician to speak several months in advance. They confirmed the speaker a month in a advance. Everything was fine and on schedule. The organization also confirmed it a week and a few days before the politician was to speak. Everything was good to go, so to speak. Then the day of the engagement something came up and it turns out that there was a conflict that prevented him from talking to the group. In reality, there was something political that was a hot topic that he knew he would have to address. The best thing for him to do was to have a staffer return a fourth attempt of a phone call stating he would not make it. The point of this is, that most politicians avoid anything that may be controversial and only deal with good things they can say they did. The only times that I find politicians talking about negative things is when they are pointing out someone else's deficiencies. I really have a dislike and a distrust of most politicians because of instances such as stated above. They seem to talk about responsibility and action but do neither, except to make their own jobs more secure.

I try not to be a politician in action or deed. I want to be how I am and appreciated that way. When in business, don't you want employees, customers and vendors to see you the as someone that can be trusted? Politicians do not have that fear because they know that no one will remember what they did in a few years or even a few months, unless it directly affected an individual and that person or small group will remember. In business, a customer may remember a deed done by someone else in your organization and harbor that resentment for years. In the real world of business, people are more forgiving if you deal with them honestly.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Perceptions

Your own perceptions.

How do you perceive things? I talked once about how you are viewed and how do you want to be viewed. I have recently thought more on the subject. I thought about how I handled different situations through out my life. When things would go bad and I perceived them as bad, I would feel the same as I projected on myself, which was bad. It was not a natural thing for me to do but sometimes you get a bad deal on something in life. The old saying states "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". It really is true. I know people that are angry about everything no matter what happens and they try to see things as bad. I do not need to try to change who they are, I can only change myself and my views. Even when something good is happening the angry people look at it as bad. I do not want to have rose colored glasses on and I do want to be a realist. However, I choose to see how it, whatever the situation is, can be enjoyed by me. I know somethings will be good and some bad, but it is just like life and everything it entails. I like life and I like living. I do not feel that I should waste precious moments of my life on being angry at or about anything. I can feel passionate about something. I can have strong opinions. I just choose to see how it can be better or to quote some other saying, "to make the best out of a bad situation". My opinion on this is not restricted to just bad things but good ones too. Why not enjoy all that is offered in this thing call life or living.

Epoxy floors

I was tasked today by a customer to find a grinding wheel that would take off epoxy from a floor. I found this little gem of an article about epoxy coated floors. The article goes into depth about the the problems that can happen with epoxy coated floors. They say that 70% of all problems with epoxy floor coating is preparation. At the bottom of the page is another link for Epoxy 101. It is a useful read. There are too many little links on the page to list all. But, if you are wanting to have a little knowledge about epoxy floors, have fun reading through all the pages.

For Men

I usually don't add much trivial stuff to my blog. Well, maybe the boat on occasion. But I read a little thing today. It was The 75 Skills Every Man Must Master. It had things I agreed with and some I didn't. I know most of the skills but not all. Maybe they are the unimportant ones. It is good advice all in all though. So, take the time and read it, you may actually like it too.

More on the boat

I thought I would throw a little update on the boat building. I now have part of the front deck on. The loose planking you see in the picture is what will top the deck. It is on there loosely now. Eventually it will be screwed and epoxied down to the plywood that is underneath it.

You can see that I have flotation in part of the boat in the above picture. This picture is prior to placing the plywood substrate for the plank deck. I do not know if it will really work, but if someone is on the boat with me and asks if I added flotation, I can say yes. It will only give them comfort out of ignorance because I have no intention of adding water to the boat to test the buoyancy of the flotation that I have added. You can also see the tools that are carelessly left in the boat while I work on it. I mentioned in a previous post about if you are not good at fiberglassing then you need to be good at sanding. Well, I think I need fiberglassing classes or more practice because being good at sanding is not as much fun as you may think.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the update.