From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 7/5/2025 5:54 AM, ABLE1 wrote:   
   > On 7/4/2025 2:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >> I grew up in the desert 60 miles from town working in a country   
   >> grocery store.  We only closed 3 days a year and the 4th of July was   
   >> not one of them.   
   >>   
   >> I promised myself when I started my own business I'd celebrate all the   
   >> holidays, and take real vacations.   
   >>   
   >> Here I am in the shop finishing second operations of a stack of molds   
   >> so I can get them shipped.  Gravity cast lead molds, but one   
   >> interesting soft plastic mold I can't show anybody.   
   >>   
   >> Yesterday I got a call from a sinker maker (not one of his molds   
   >> above), who is a technically a quadriplegic.  No use of his legs.   
   >> Partial use of one arm and very limited use of the other.   He asked   
   >> me to make a couple custom molds for him, because making castings is   
   >> his day job every day.  He casts a few tons of lead a month and wanted   
   >> to expand his offerings for his customers.  I refused to put his order   
   >> ahead of people who paid first, but I am inspired to get those ahead   
   >> of him done quicker so I can get to his.  I've had a friend or two   
   >> tell me I am the most driven person they have ever met (not so much   
   >> anymore), but his refusal to be literally held down by his limitations   
   >> is inspiring.   
   >>   
   >> Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans, and happy treason day to my   
   >> British friends and associates.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Gee Whiz Bob,   
   > What a question!!   
   >   
   > I can safely say that there is not enough typing space here to   
   > enter ALL!!  For ME (now) "every day" is a Saturday and every Saturday   
   > I have two(2) Saturdays!!   
   >   
   > So my list of work is greatly varied with STUFF!! Too Much STUFF!!   
   >   
   > I will stop now because my STUFF LIST is dangling and needs adjusted!!   
   >   
   > Have a great Holiday Weekend!!  Even though July 4th is behind US, there   
   > are (for me) two(2) Saturdays and a Sunday for the weekend STUFF than is   
   > pending!!     ;-)   
   >   
   > Les   
      
      
   Les, I am glad to hear you are still alive.  You are one of the   
   exceptions.  So many people retire and die in a couple years.   
      
   I'm probably never going to retire.  I'm always reaching for the brass   
   ring.  From deaths door I stab at thee.   
      
   Maybe one day I'll spend days planning a trip to chase the best view of   
   an eclipse.   
      
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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