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A Pig of a Week
What a pig of a week.
Monday morning brought the onset of a cold, which has made my life a misery all week.
Wednesday evening I was too ill to attend the presentation of a cheque to the local air ambulance which, along with my fellow club members. we had put a lot of effort into.
Wednesday also gave us the lightning strike that killed my phone system and broadband line, and, I suspect, router. Because the router assigns IP addresses it also killed our network.
This morning our printer started making graunching noises and had to be switched off in a hurry.
Add to that lot a workload that we were struggling to cope with in the first place, and screaming customers at every turn and you will see that I have had a less than perfect week.
The situation now is that BT got my phone system working at 5.00pm, AIT talked me through a fix for the printer and I am feeling a bit better. We still have no broadband (this is coming to you via a dismally slow dial-up on my laptop) and until my broadband line is repaired I still can’t check whether my router is fried. New computers to replace the dead ones are being delivered tomorrow, so that is my weekend taken care of, unpacking and setting them up. Not to mention the aggravation of an insurance claim on Monday.
Never mind. It’s Friday night and I am going to have a little more to drink than is good for me, and worry about it all tomorrow.
Thank you for listening. 🙂
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I’m listening mate, sounds like my usual week 😮 :lol1:
nothing worse when it happens at the beginning the knock on effect is a nightmare.
ive had an OK week. had a meeting midweek that went well but i drank too much. 😕 my usual… i never chill enough so when i get the chance i go hell for leather :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:i notice you mentioned printer, i am sure i have seen this more and more in your posts. does this mean the John Child’s i know has went against the grain and bought himself a printer? 😮 now where are those old posts from you condemning me :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
just joking mate… which did you go for?
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that sounds like one helluva week John!
Pour another glass of red wine and relax …………. it’s friday! 😀 -
sorry to hear you had a rotten week john…a wee liquid treat works wonders eh 😉
i too have had the busiest weeks on record…….ed had to drag me out of the work tonight …maybe for the best or i still would have been there 😕
nik
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John sorry for your troubles if you need any help just shout 😀
Lynn
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quote Robert Lambie:i notice you mentioned printer, i am sure i have seen this more and more in your posts. does this mean the John Child’s i know has went against the grain and bought himself a printer? 😮 now where are those old posts from you condemning me :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:just joking mate… which did you go for?
Yeah, I said in that piece you talked me into writing for Signextra that I thought the time might be right for me to buy one. Well, by the time it was published I had placed my order. I took advice and ended up with a Mimaki JV3 and matching cutter, together with a Seal laminator.
If you recall, my reluctance to buy was because I didn’t want to have to go out and compete on price in a saturated market. Well, one of our larger customers, you remember Linde, changed their livery to almost totally print and at the same time we gained a new client who needed a lot more. Those two made it viable to buy own our own machine so the decision was more or less made for us. As a bonus, we now print a lot that we used to cut before.
I made the purchase back in January and I’m surprised you didn’t know..
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hi john
it was one of those things, i kept seeing you mention your own prints but thought, "hes buying in". then some replies i thought… "nope, he has a machine". 😀
when we fitted some of that stuff for you in the past i was (back then surprised you subbed it out)
on a different note, ide like to add that the way you supplied your graphics was much more officiant than many i have received…
good to see some understand the needs of well explained presented vinyl graphics. -
Thanks for your concern ladies.
Marcella, the wine is a fond memory and I’ve graduated to Lamb’s rum now.
Nik, I’m sure being dragged away from work was a good thing. We are all susceptible to geting bogged down today when tomorrow is good enough.
Lynn, thanks for the offer of help but a couple of the boys are coming in tomorrow so we should be alright. It’s nice to know that there is someone I can call on though.
Where’s that bottle? 😀
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I hope you are feeling better John.
At least most colds only last a week.
Mine started Sunday, but it’s on the way out.I have been trying to get a lot of work done.
Waited till Justis got off the schoolbus to go and install a sign because I needed his help.
I noticed a few firetrucks flying down the road just before we loaded up.
When we approached the sign site, traffic was at a standstill.
There was a wreck exactly AT the sign.I pulled into the next parking lot down the street and asked for permission to park there whiole we installed the sign.
After a tight squeeze trying to wrestle a full-sized Chevy into a VW Bug size space, we got out the drill and sign.Immediately a man approached. "What are you doing?" he asked.
I replied that I was installing the sign and gestured towards the waiting posts.
"You’re not going onto MY property!" he shouted, and began a tirade of this & that and how the sign owners owed him money etc etc.
I know if I were a man he would have left me alone.
I also knew he was full of crap because that sign has been there 20 years and I had merely repainted it.
And the owner is the nicest little old lady you ever saw, completely on the up & up.So I said "excuse me sir, I will not touch your property, I was just trying to do my job" and I man-handled the sign into my truck and left.
I went around the back road to the little old lady and told her what was going on.
She was so kind, after his horrible rudeness.
Then I went to the intersection and pulled off to the side of the road.
I hurried up and screwed the sign into the posts and Jus and I got the hell outta Dodge.
Then man was approaching as we pulled out.But your whole week was worse than my day!
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quote Jill Marie Welsh:Mine started Sunday
Jill,
You’re not that girl I met in the bar on Sunday night are you???? 😀
I’m glad you got your sign up.
Robert,
As you know, I reckon that today’s technology will be obsolete in two years, that is that new machines and inks will allow others to be more competitive on price. Therefore it is obvious, to me anyway, that any printer must pay for itself in that period.
I know, from quotes I received, that there are people out there happy to print, laminate and contour cut for £40.00 per square metre, some people substantially less. I can’t see the viability of that and would not want to go competing against them in the market place.
The old style livery, which you fitted, only had the one print and we bought them in such quantities that screen was the obvious way to. When the livery was changed to involve a lot more print we got a quote for three hundred van kits (one years supply) and it came to eighteen thousand pounds. That, coincidentally, was exactly the same as the printer package. My reasoning was that if we were going to part with that sort of money we might as well buy the printer and make our own. Fair enough, the cost per kit was higher, but not by much, and we didn’t have to find the space to store a yearsworth of kits.
As a bonus we could make them to our own agenda rather than a supplier’s and, best of all, we could use it for other jobs as well. Then we got the new customer requiring all print on their vans and it became a licence to print money.
I would still advise extreme caution about buying to anybody who doesn’t already have an outlet for the product. Sub it out until you reach critical mass.
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John, I don’t know what to say mate… reading about your week, and Jills day… makes me feel a whole lot better 😛
Thought only my life was like that.
Glad your over it tho.
Take care….
I’m, working 12 days straight till really late each night, just so I can get away for a 2 week holiday at the end of the month. About now, I’m wondering if it is worth all the effort.
😕
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John,
Sorry to hear you’ve had such a bad week, glad to hear your successfully dealing with it though – and as Lynn said if we can help at all just shout.
Phil
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Just had a word with the BT man working out in the street.
He reckons the cable is fried underground and that they are going to have to get the road gang out next week to dig it up. He wouldn’t even like to guess when we might be back up and running.
That’s no tea and biscuits for him then. 🙁
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