Alarick, yesterday was probably not the best day to paint your fence. Wood was probably still moist from the rain on Friday and today won't help. :) Ya might be paining the fence again really soon. :D

Hope it was fun the first time.:D

Rick just think of today as a good reference point for the opposite of a good day. It is like ugly people as a point or reference to what is pretty.

I'll just view it as done and over with. :)

Rick, why would my Corolla suddenly decide to pull to the left? I haven't hit anything or found any deep potholes.

I has become a democrat Toyota.

Brake dragging, axle binding, voting too liberal?

What do your tire pressures look like? My corolla would have a low left front tire if it is pulling hard....

I forgot about that. I was going to check them.

Evening gents......chilling at the cigar lounge....its all about the little things...life is good.

You might as well buy into the place... Sounds like you are there as much as the employees....

Employee......
as long as things go as im planning financially this year, I intense to buy his partners out around this time next year. The shop is starting to perform decently and his partners are really limiting things because they're idiots. There's a lot of potential. It'll be ~55k to buy em out....the most I've ever spent in one shot by a huge margin......

Just don't burn up all the profits.

That is a lot of money that is from ashes.

Has the shop started performing decently since YOU started hanging out there?

Yes, but not because of me. It has re-established a strong core of regulars....

YIKES! A day from hell. I hate taking off to. Then again I don't work a full week and get left loads of crap to finish or fix when I come back in.

As in don't get high on your own supply?

I see it being like the advice our mechanic gave a local bar owner. There needs to be one sober guy in every bar, it's best if that's the owner.

The current owner and partners reopened the shop after the first owner closed up due to health reasons....
the first owner was grossing about 600k/yr.....netting around 200.....and that was paying two employees...
Things aren't quite back to that.....being closed nearly a year between owners hurt....
if we can get things back to there, reasonably looking at 120k/yr each....probably take several years to get back to that, but should be a sound long term investment.