to far for me I know that.

French Lick Indiana to be exact.

Yep, French Lick once again.

I had a client call and we did a project for them back in 2014 when I worked for a company that had their own printer. I did all the printing and it was a challenge.

The ultimate client wants a 60x90 print, laminated and mounted, and he wants it cut in half left to right and top and bottom. It ends up as 4 - 30x45s that align perfectly right in the middle to make one big ol print. But they can take it off the wall in the four pieces and transport in in the squad car. Take it to another department, tape it to the wall, use dry erase markers on it, wipe off the markers, and bring it back easily.

A 60x90 print is impossible to move unless you have a panel truck handy. With 4 pieces it is a simple. Trying to get the company that does our printing to so just what I need is the hard part. I had to do a lot of extra Photoshop work adding crop marks on each part that will ultimately be cut off and trashed just to give them a easy way to do it.

biggest thing I ever printed was 36"x120". Some fool electrical engineer drew a one line diagram in model space and just kept going. I did the print just to prove I could and how stupid he was.

I hope you were trying to prove to someone other than the EE since he probably wouldn't understand the why.

Back in the "good ol days" when Chesapeake Energy was growing and expanding, they would have us fly their campus. Then they would order 5 foot wide 12 foot tall prints. Usually 10 of them. Dang I wish we had that type of orders now. We had to clear out room in the back of the office and push 4 - 4'x8' tables together just to trim the silly things off of the roll of paper. It was the only jobs I ever printed that I used more than one entire roll of 60 inch x 100 foot roll of paper in one day.

The prints were just silly huge. They ended up putting them on the wall sideways. In a vertical orientation, with north up, it required a tall ladder to see the northern part of the campus, and you had to sit on the floor to see the south end. Sideways made it easier to view but your neck would get sore from trying to read the text.

The best part was that we always did the work as one of Aubry McClendon's personal projects, so we got paid in a week.

yeah it was a client created drawing. We broke it up into sheets that could be used and showed his boss how its should have been done in the first place.

David, dealing with clients like that can be really frustrating.

Yesterday we missed the rain, but we had two days of half inch of rain, so I was happy to miss it. If we can go another day I will get to mow again. One area in Oklahoma received 13.7 inches of rain in 4 hours. That will cause localized flooding just about anywhere but parts of Maui that get that every day.

Morning all. yeah that is to much water in one place at one time. Yep clients like that are a real pain to bad there are so many of them.

We had one client that was very annoying personality wise, and always whined about the price and wanted the cheapest way to get his print. I put up with him because actually landed on Normandy beach, and fought in the battle of the bulge. He said the bodies were stacked like cord-wood, frozen solid almost no supplies and warm clothes were just a dream. Of his entire platoon he was the only one left alive, and he had some severe wounds. I had so much respect for his service I just put up with his personality. He was a very old man and lunch buddy to the owner of the company and he did pay his bills and that helped pay my salary.

That I could tolerate but in my case I had been doing CAD longer than he had been out of college.

The humidity outside right now is 100%. Kinda moist. I will get my 911 on the lift, and start an oil change, than mow then yard when the dew evaporates some. It ain't gonna go away at 100% humidity. It is 76 degrees, and the heat index is 80 and the sun is not out, just overcast. Gonna be a sweaty mow day. I will also increase the torture and fertilize just to have more job security. The mean boss is gonna make me mow his yard all summer.

It is a good to have AC in the garage.

Morning all. Yep that is to hot and humid for me. I'll stay here.

It's been a stressful and full past few days for me, so I'm a little late in sharing this life experience. But this past weekend, I took my daughter to a party. It was a Bat Mitzvah celebration, held at the grandparents' house.

I've never been to Hidden Hills. Apparently it's where the Kardashians/Kanye live, amongst other uber-rich. Cheapo homes are in the $3-5 mil range. I see places on Zillow and Redfin with asking prices in the 8-digits. Now I can see why. It was the most incredibly beautiful neighborhood I have ever seen. It's a gated community, so you can't just drive through. But you know those freebie real estate magazines that you can pick up from those old-fashioned newspaper dispenser thingies on the sidewalk? There's always some gorgeous cover home. Each house in Hidden Hills looks like it could be a cover home. The streets are wide, the estates expansive (but not ostentatious), there are horse stables and corrals and rings and whatnot. Wow.

Might be nice for a bit but the up keep would drive me nuts. Bad enough right now I have to work and babysit all at the same time.

There is a place just one mile from my house that is the most incredible place we have seen. We got in on a garden tour and got through the gates. It is on 160 acres, and the place looks like a nature park. Once inside the gates it has a private road that is 1/4 of a mile or so. It has a bridge that looks better than most state highway bridges going over the creek, and past the 25 acre koi pond. Back when we first moved here he had a helipad, but he has shut that down not that he is retired. The road takes you up to the main house and you park next to the pool area. The pool is huge, and has a waterfall and a grotto behind the waterfall that is a full bar with TVs and looks like something from the Playboy mansion in the boom days.

We did not go in the house as it was a garden tour and the main gardens look like the gardens at the Biltmore estate. The house is just a large two story house and likely 10,000 square feet.

Just the budget for the yard care would be more than a house payment for most people.

Wow, the humidity is insane. It is down to 77% now. I just finished fertilizing, and then went to use my leaf blower to blow the fertilizer off the sidewalk and back into the grass. The fertilizer was dissolving on the dry concrete just from all the humidity. I will start the sprinkler now.

Finally got out of the 90s here.

My dream place would be on 40+ acres of wooded area and a modest 2500/3000 foot home with a 6 car garage and a workshop on the end of the garage.

Today will be the first time this year we have been in the 90s.

I made the long haul over to the city hazardous disposal facility. The city figured out that if citizens can drop off the bad pookie chemicals and detritus that build up at houses for free, (well, no money at the time) they will not dump them in the storm drains or sewers. Of course the cost of the facility is paid for with a "fee" on our water bill. I am fine with that. I just bring my water bill from the city, and they are happy to accept the crap.

So I dropped off 16 four foot long florescent bulbs now that they are all replaced with LEDs. 5 gallons of motor oil, two cans of brake fluid that was the old stuff from the cars. Two gallons of old antifreeze, one mercury vapor UV light we use on the koi pond to kill off alga so the pond stays clear. And one old battery from one of the uninterrupted battery backup for my computer. All gone off to be recycled properly. They accept pesticides, paint, or any household chemical that is not needed anyone longer.

I usually just take my motor oil to the local FLAPS and they are happy to take it. With all the other crap I had, I figured it was OK to get rid of the oil with the same place. It is a 15 mile journey each way almost all interstate.

Boy, you're doing a great job of selling us on moving to Oklahoma with its wonderful climate, Glen.