Wow. Most places are happy to have tenants these days. If you were here in
Oregon or in the Silicon valley you could move into one of the former
high-tech office buildings.
By the way, lat time I checked sheetrock doesn't "pop" off the frame.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J Bradakis [mailto:mjb@autox.team.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 12:19 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Cc: pugs@autox.team.net
Subject: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall
So a couple of weeks ago I head down to the shop towhack on whatever, most
likely the TR7 project. Taped to all the doors of the complex is a sheet
of paper. It basically says "We're raising your rent by an amazingly
greedy percentage (Okay, a mere 68%) on October 1st. But if you move to
one of the shops on the south side, we'll only raise it by 16%." I guess
they want to keep all us low life automotive type guys in one area where
they can keep an eye on us.
So finally today I get to talk to the resident manager, and we make plans
to move me from Unit 22 to Unit 59. And I have this odd feeling as I
leave his office that there's something special about Unit 59. I zip
around to the other side of the building and realize that Unit 59 shares
the back wall with Unit 22. It was the shop that had that two chord
garage band in it for a while that drove me nuts on a regular basis.
I'm planning to talk to the real managers, see if I can get permission to
pop out some of the sheetrock in the back wall for the move. It would be
much nicer if things like the lathe, the full size fridge and the 80
gallon compressor only had to move a few feet instead of a few hundred.
But I have visions of spending a hot, miserable afternoon moving the lathe
to end up in a spot only two feet further south from where it sits now.
Gee, I can see Bob Allred busily checking race schedules so he'll happen
to be out of town the next half dozen weekends or so, and Pugs lining up
some meetings back at the home office - they won't be able to assist in
heaving, grunting, pushing and prodding the contents of the current shop
to the new location. Guys, I promise to provide food and beverage for the
work weekends. And as you might imagine, it won't be beef-flavored,
food-product patties on the grill, it will be more like hickory smoked
turkey breast, or Jamaican style jerked chicken wings, or a big ol' pork
shoulder, or a Pugs' style brisket or even some mesquite grilled ribeye
steaks.
Enough prattling. I'm amused that I'm going to be putting so much effort
into moving stuff only *that* far. So it goes.
mjb.
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