I suppose you could roll the compressor onto a roll-a-way, push it through
the wall and say "Whoops". been there with that kind of deal. All my
sympathy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Mark J Bradakis'" <mjb@autox.team.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Cc: <pugs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: Mirror, mirror, on the flip side of the wall
> 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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