Well, I can re-appear just as quick as I can disappear! As some of you know, I seem to put all of focus into one and only one thing at a time... hence my "ins and outs" on the site I love! So, today seemed as good as any day to say hello to you folks. It was a strange day, really. I started off the day by noticing not one, but two snake skins hanging out of the insulation / ceiling of my shop. Now, I'm not much of a snake person. I don't mind one if I see it first and preferably its outside more then a foot away from me. maybe a few feet... as a general snake rule. But, part of that snake rule is that no snake shall drop on my head during the middle of a table saw cut, or at any other time, ideally. Now every time I've been in the shop today I've been thinking about carrying an umbrella! I didn't use to mind them too much (snakes, not umbrellas), but then I had a flying snake issue. ... literally.... kind of . I was pulling a big peice of scrap metal out of the back of my property, one where you had to put your whole body weight into it if you had any hope of making it decide to part with the earth. So, I got the piece of metal out, and apparently managed to flip a snake off that piece of metal into the air.... and it scared the crap out of me! I wish I had a video of my self, I ran the whole way back to the house like some crazy person- which I am, of course :) So, that's the snake situation, that I'm sure everyone was waiting to hear about! The day got stranger, because when I went to the store, a man tried to convince me that my town didn't exist. He kept asking me where he was, I kept telling him Nellysford, and he kept insisting I was wrong. Why, you ask? Because he kept typing into his computer thing and it kept coming up with "town does not exist." I said, "Look, I don't know what that thing is telling you but I know where I live, and this is where you are!!!" What a wierd day. Then, it took a turn for the worse..... The short version (well, 'bird short') is that a guy contacted me on ebay about shipping to canada and was there a way to get in touch off ebay. So, I emailed him. He emailed back wanting pictures about a plane, a type 11 7c stanley. He wanted pictures to see if there were any patent dates on the plane. Well,.... its a type 11...that means there's pat three dates,which you would know... if you're a plane person. ect. I guess he emailed me again around 2, I checked my email at six. This guy asked me what took so long and where were his pictures. , I wrote back and said, "I'm sorry, but I don't think this will work out. I'm not able to work within your time frame. Best of luck. " I guess all of that was the wrong thing to say because he emailed me to cuss me out.... twice.... then emailed again to tell me he was going to report my f" ass to ebay for trying to make a deal outside of ebay. That's all fine, I apologized for ruining his day. THEN, the guy just wrote me back and asked what my best price would be on the plane!!!! Well, what do you say to that? No, really , what are you supposed to say? So, I told him that I would follow all ebay policies and that I had to be honest, "you scare me a little bit." Who knows what will happen in the next two hours before I get rid of this day! I hope that everyone is doing well. My tool chest is keeping me company, but I haven't had time to find anything out about him recently. I'm slowly taking pictures of the stuff that was inside of it so that I can get help from you all.
cheers
bird
