Heh, how ironic, i was bored so I decided to check things out here, and lo and behold i had been summoned! Whatcha need, Ted??? I do have a few things i could post but i'm on my phone right now and don't have the pics handy. I built myself a nice heavy welding table back in September, found a perfectly good 16 gal. contractor's air compressor at the scrap that I fixed up for a second unit for my shop, and just a couple days ago one of my bosses gave me a little 4x6" metal cutting bandsaw that one of his tenants left behind and he has no use for.
Lawrence, I don't check my Shaw email account much anymore because I get a lot of spam on it now, and my gmail account is linked with my phone so it's just a lot easier to use. But i just went searching back thru my shaw account and i can't find anything from you since i was down to visit in May... not sure what's happened??? But in any event you can email me from now on at bradbobmorgan at gmail.com. Sorry to hear you're having a rough time right now, if you wanna talk sometime feel free to drop me a line.
Back in mid-August I got a job at Canadian Tire here working in the automotive shop. Just a couple weeks ago i got my apprenticeship papers from them, so once those are sent off i'll officially be on my way to being a licensed mechanic. Not making near what i was at the mill, but if I can tough it out for a couple years, i'll get there again - the licensed guys can make $32/hr at the top end, and if I moved on to another company I could make more than that. And hopefully it'll be a more stable field of work. There will always be cars to fix and tires to change, whether the mills or mines are running or not. Not sure I like the work itself quite as much as industrial maintenance/millwrighting, in that i don't find it all quite as interesting, but on the other hand I'm not going to be out working in 30-below-zero winds and two feet of snow this winter either. And it's a good company to work for, as far as big retailers go. Benefits and profit-sharing, for example.
