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   davidmeiland | Nov 21, 2003 06:25am | #1

   Hey, when is that? I'm not too far from there.

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   caseyr | Nov 21, 2003 06:39am | #2

   December 4-6, Oregon Convention Center.  I think that's the one downtown not out in the tulies.

   http://www.jlclive.com/portland.asp

   I'll be there to look over the exhibits, but it isn't much fun to sit through the demos when you can't hear anything - sorta like watching television with the sound turned off...

   Jim -

   Didn't see you at the Woodworking show at the Portland Expo Center a couple of weeks ago.  It was surprisingly crowded, about ten times more people than the last time I went.  Couldn't even walk down some of the aisles.  Unfortunately, the light rail system isn't running out there but the construction elimated all of the free parking spaces I used to use, so it cost me $7 bucks to park in addition to paying to get in...

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   jimblodgett | Nov 21, 2003 07:08am | #3

   I was wondering if that was the same CaseyR.  You move out to...was it Beaverton?...yet?

   They moved the Seattle area show to the Tacoma Dome this year Casey, so I went there instead of Portland - sparsely attended, but I did go on Friday to avoid the mob.

   I want to spend a little time at Michael Byrnes exhibit this year, but what I really want to do is look at the product exhibits and heckle Mike Guertin and Gary Katz.

   What day you going?  I'm thinking Friday. 

   Dave - are you out in Grays Harbor?  Ocean Shores?  Can't really remember what you said.  Do I have you mixed up with someone else? 

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   caseyr | Nov 21, 2003 07:50am | #4

   I'm thinking of going on Friday to the JLC thingie. 

   My move from downtown Portland will be to the small community of Rowena, between The Dalles and Hood River and opposite in direction (and congestion) from Beaverton.  However, I have to get my plans approved first and that is proving to be a challenge. 

   At the Porland WW Show, I thought I would get there just after noon on Friday so that any line would be gone.  Ha, there must have been 75 people in each line and when I got inside just before 1pm, the place was packed.   I was really surprised. 

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   davidmeiland | Nov 21, 2003 11:02am | #5

   Friday Harbor. It's a couple of hours down to Seattle from here.

   The show sounds good. I'd be inclined to go on a weekday, and if I can get away I'll come down.

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   jimblodgett | Nov 30, 2003 04:25am | #6

   So Dave, Casey, you guys still game?  I'm gonna go Friday.  Want to meet up for lunch maybe?

   Anybody else going?

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   davidmeiland | Nov 30, 2003 06:25pm | #7

   Jim,

   I can't make it. With the lost time from the holidays, a few days of work-stopping rain, a mandatory thing out of town Dec. 12-14.... blah blah blah excuses excuses. Been before and would like to go again ASAP, but not this time.

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   caseyr | Dec 10, 2003 01:26am | #8

   Jim -

   Didn't see you there on Friday and had to go hungry since you weren't there to buy me a sandwich...  At least there was free popcorn so I didn't have to spring for $2.50 a bag for some at the concessionnaire. 

   There was definitely a price difference between signing up in advance for the "expo" part and buying at the door.  Free on-line, $25 at the door.  I just plain forgot to do it on-line, so by-buy $25.  I had a good talk with the Hardi-panel guys and they have some stuff that I can use for siding my welding shop, which was worth at least as much as the price of admission. 

   On Friday, at least, the show was not nearly as crowded as the woodworking show was a few weeks earlier at the Portland Expo Center. 

   Did you find anything worthwhile. 

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   jimblodgett | Dec 10, 2003 03:58am | #9

   I ended up not going, Casey.  Sorry to miss it and could have squeezed it in, but that's exactly what it would have been.  I stayed home and wrapped up a few loose ends instead.

   So this week I'm reaping the rewards - started laying up the block for my new pumphouse yesterday and hope to finish that up tomorrow.  Meanwhile that danged phone just keeps ringing, I keep looking at work, trying to complete jobs already in progress,  and the beat goes on.  One of these days the light is gonna go on and I'm gonna figure out how to manage a business and a life at the same time.

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   ProDek | Dec 10, 2003 04:30am | #10

   "I'm gonna figure out how to manage a business and a life at the same time."View Image

   When you get a handle on that let me know how you did it.View Image"Rather be a hammer than a nail"

   Bob

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   caseyr | Dec 10, 2003 04:40am | #11

   I keep looking at work

   Just think how busy you would be if you were actually doing any of it...:-)

   I guess that is the price of fame and fortune for all those by-lines in FHB.  What do you have slated for your next article.  When's the book coming out...

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   jimblodgett | Dec 10, 2003 06:32am | #12

   I don't have much control over the "when" of it, Casey, but I'm not expecting anything to see print anytime soon.

   "Book"?  A  couple years ago I had the chance to write a book, asked for advice from several people in the business and decided not to pursue it until I had more time to give it.  The book editor I was talking with said they wanted a few thousand words per week, and I write much, much slower than that - I would have had to devote at least 1/2 day every day to it for a few months, and I wasn't ready to make that type of commitment to it - too many things I still want to build - that's my first love and I don't have that many years left that I can waste them sitting in front of a computer on a regular basis.  Maybe when I retire, but I kind of doubt it.

   Right now I'm struggling to find the proper ballance of income producing work and equity building work.  It's a lot easier to juggle now that all the kids are gone, but it would be easier still if every job I looked at didn't get my blood pumping.  Not supposed to enjoy something this much after 25 years, are you? (You think I could find a 12 step group?)