Library Rare Book Display Stand

[Artie]

Let me add one caveat to my prior post, No one here has ever foisted anything unwanted on me  (Kinda why I keep returning)

[FlGatorwood]

Aw, shucks, Artie.  You mean all the posts I've made don't give you anything unwanted?  I am going to have to try harder.  

[Artie]

Come to think about it, if anyone wants to foist a pound of twenties on me, that would be okay.  

[4DThinker]

As to what changed the DH's mind, I know they had an administrators meeting yesterday so I suspect the Dean settled the issue.  The email I got came right after their meeting ended. 

 

4D

[Gunny]

5 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

As to what changed the DH's mind, I know they had an administrators meeting yesterday so I suspect the Dean settled the issue. 

So you send a link to the picture I posted to the Dean.  

 

For your entertainment:

 

A copy of an email the new supervisor sent to the old one in Iraq.

 

Ken,

Thanks for the letter you left in the drawer. Helpful info to be sure. Things do runs smooth here, great crew you put together. Few things I wanted to inquire about though. Specifically where do you find Gunny and Don? These two are lunatics! They wear purple camouflage pants, pink shirts, Seriously? Gunny walks around with the John Wayne swagger and wears armor all day in the heat? He has 9 clips on his gun belt. What kind of action do we get here? The way that hand hovers over his pistol it's like he expects a gunfight at dawn. I was informed by the office staff that they call these two the “Purple Brothers”. According to them it's best to leave them be. The big guy will turn you into a pretzel and the little runt will shoot you. Afterward they will smoke cigars. Okay???

 

My first foreman's meeting and we ran into a language issue with one of the Bosnians. So I try to speak slowly and Gunny steps in and speaks Russian? Not in his file I could find. Then he waves his hands in the air and says the Bosnians understand now. So I ask how many languages do you speak? He says three, English, Russian and pictures.

 

After the meeting I asked him for a word, he tells me $50, $75 if it is a word sexual in nature? Okay so I get it he and this Don guy are the class clowns. I ask him for a tour and we walked all over this AO, okay he knows his stuff so I see why you kept him here. Kinda odd you have so many different duties assigned to him but hey it has it under control. He then asks me how close to the action I like to be, told him as far away as possible. So he shows me a bunker, 27 I think, and says this one is mine. Maybe don't use it I tend to draw fire at times. I had no words for this.

 

Off to the Tire shop I meet up with, Don, or Tire 1. Guys are changing tires and I watched for a few minutes all seemed okay. I ask where Don is and they say Gunny's office. Walk all the way back to find Don and Gunny making a sign, laughing. Temptation Tim's Topless Tavern it says. Looking around these two have Hi Mom signs, gone fishing, something in Russian I assume, Future Home of Walmart, YOU MISSED???

 

 

 

So back to my office to get morning paperwork done and suddenly over the radio I hear Gunny quoting a bible verse. Then Don gives one and mentions Moses took a left at the Trailer shop last week. Looked up callsigns, no Moses. Got up and went out to find Safety Department making their rounds through the AO so was tied up for an hour. Finally get back to see Gunny and inquire what is with the bible verses. Says it came to him in a vision. Just like that, straight faced. Asked the Shop Foreman Frank when that started and he says oh when they spot Safety Guys they start that stuff, no big deal. Gunny is tied into their radio channel he knows when they are coming.

 

Interesting lot so far. Lastly I have a question. How did Gunny get the callsign, “Death's Hand”? Office staff was not so helpful on this one, all Tijuana said was he earned it and if the crap hits the fan he will be in the middle of it and not to worry? What does he do?

 

Anything else I should know about?

[4DThinker]

7 minutes ago, Gunny said:

So you send a link to the picture I posted to the Dean.  

No.   The book stand has been delivered and installed since before the college was closed for the pandemic, and was featured in a newsletter sent out to the college and alumni.  Everyone in the college knew about the stand, but only I and the DH and the college accountant knew the DH didn't want me to be paid for it.  To get paid my DH needed to sign a form, and he refused to.  It is pretty likely though that the DH saw this thread and knew my stance, and so either he brought it up or the accountant did.  It is also possible that he just gave up and told the accountant to go ahead and pay me while both were at the meeting.  As they've already bragged about the stand I'm sure me taking it back and the reason why wouldn't have looked so good. 

[Gunny]

31 minutes ago, 4DThinker said:

As they've already bragged about the stand I'm sure me taking it back and the reason why wouldn't have looked so good. 

While working in Iraq this was the case on many occasions.  Supervisors or Site Management would WANT badly to fire me for some perceived wrong but could not because the military gave me a commendation.  Had I been terminated and returned home I would be free to tell my side of the story.  That would have been some serious egg in the face for the company.  Unlike many who only have a story, I have pictures and very detailed documentation.  Hard to get past that.  

[4DThinker]

Old tale, but in following up the librarian who order the book stand has retired, and her replacement hasn't bothered putting any work on the stand as since then the pandemic has severely limited the number of visitors to this library.   

 

As for CNC jobs I do, I'm also retiring at the end of this school year.  I'll be the last of 3 furniture design professors who all worked together over the last 40ish years.  The new folks are, well, a different generation.  I suspect the 3 Probotix CNCs I oversee will eventually join the (amazing) forgotten tech our college has had but abandoned when the professor who acquired and oversaw it retired or otherwise moved on.  We had a scale wind tunnel for testing architectural models , a heliodon dome, a virtual reality half-dome with 180 degree projector, sand casting, glass fabrication, and much more.  An industrial sized multicam CNC still remains, and is used almost constantly doing all sorts of doing flat 2D and 3D work.  When the new teachers requested a fancy Panto-Router for those challenging jobs I pointed out that all they could imagine needing one for was already possible with how I'd jigged up the small CNCs.  No one has taken me up on offers to show them how though. 

 

4D 

[Artie]

Hopefully not retiring from the forum activities?

[4DThinker]

23 minutes ago, Artie said:

Hopefully not retiring from the forum activities?

Not likely.   I have two CNCs, and and am currently looking around for a small house with a big shop space.  That or a large shop with a small apartment.   I'll admit I have an addiction to making furniture I've designed, and maybe I'll start a YouTube channel. 

4D

[Grandpadave52]

8 minutes ago, 4DThinker said:

Not likely.   I have two CNCs, and and am currently looking around for a small house with a big shop space.  That or a large shop with a small apartment.   I'll admit I have an addiction to making furniture I've designed, and maybe I'll start a YouTube channel. 

4D

Hope everything works out. Once you retire you'll soon wonder how you ever had time to work. Doesn't pay as well but expenses go way down too b/c you don't need clocks or calendars. Plus you can spend more time here.

 

Go for the YouTube channel too. I suspect there's plenty of demand for your knowledge and skill sets.

[Cal]

11 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

Not likely.   I have two CNCs, and and am currently looking around for a small house with a big shop space.  That or a large shop with a small apartment.   I'll admit I have an addiction to making furniture I've designed, and maybe I'll start a YouTube channel. 

4D

 

I am looking forward to your increased presence on here!  I've certainly enjoyed my retirement, I highly recommend it

[Artie]

YouTube channel? Hell Yeah!

 

[4DThinker]

6 minutes ago, Artie said:

YouTube channel? Hell Yeah!

 

Taking inventory of all my crap, I realize I have a decent (perhaps obscene) collection of photo/video cameras and photo/video lights.  I used to record performances by music classes taught by my sister who taught music at the local middle schools.  I come from a family of hams, so although I don't much care for my own voice or video presence, I can easily put some woodworking entertainment on the web.   I don't need any extra income so feel no pressure to make it a profitable effort. Just something more to keep my retired mind busy. 

4D 

[Grandpadave52]

3 hours ago, 4DThinker said:

Taking inventory of all my crap,

We'll have none of that harsh language here. I'm sure you meant to say "...all of my accumulated, under utilized, hoarded 'oops, collection of tools and equipment which I will finally be able to use like I had planned during the last 40 years..." yeah, that's what you meant...

[4DThinker]

You misunderstood me.  "Crap" is short for "Collection of Relatively Applicable Products".  

It does actually surprise me how much gear/toys/tools/etc., I've accumulated over the last 40 years or so. I need an easy way to abandon most of it.  Dragging it all to my next residence can't happen. 

There is a "truth" out there that any horizontal surface will eventually become covered.

It follows that any empty house will eventually become full.  Both have clearly happened to me. 

I remember a point when my grandparents went through the house grandpa had designed and built and they lived in for 50+ years, and took most things, a carload at a time, down to their local thrift store/granny's trunk to donate. They downsized to a small apartment, taking just a fraction of things when they sold their home. 

4D

[Grandpadave52]

1 hour ago, 4DThinker said:

You misunderstood me.  "Crap" is short for "Collection of Relatively Applicable Products"

[Al B]

On 6/18/2020 at 6:48 AM, Artie said:

Come to think about it, if anyone wants to foist a pound of twenties on me, that would be okay.  

Hey Artie, I hear the twenties were a wild time time.