cringe

I don't have to tell you to cringe. You just will.

Arm wrestle

UPS got da bawls

This is one of my production signs as delivered to a customer in SF. She called me distressed - she described receiving something that looked like it was run over by a truck...after a game of warehouse box-soccer. I filed a claim, and it was returned.

The thing I don't understand, and haven't understood the other four or five times this has happened, is why does the UPS driver even bother to deliver the package? If it looks like this, you can guess that anything inside is mangled. Just return it to the sender with a note that says, "Whoops!"

The post office, on the other hand, has never destroyed any of my shipments through them. They have, however, simply 'lost' them. Four so far.


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Want bad dreams? This pic works for me. This was up on a friend's farm I visited this weekend. Thing was about twice the size of my head. (And I have a big head.)
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What do you call this object? It's called a "large cancelled order."

I built a particularly nice sign for a local woman a few weeks ago. She was thrilled. She came back and asked me to build three planters, each five feet long, by three tall, by two deep, for her vacation place on Hood Canal. So I bought the iron ($525), and yesterday built the first planter. It went really well. Long, long welds. Got a couple of good cuts from the raw edges of steel. But my work is coming along. I brought this planter home last night to begin the rusting patina process.

This morning she called to say her landscape architect felt they'd be far too heavy for the foundation. Something one might have consulted with the L.A. before committing to an order like this.

So... do you know anyone who needs a burial vault?
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