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Old July 3rd, 2008, 04:55 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Work?. ..When you own your own business you work every day.....just not as hard!?!
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Old July 3rd, 2008, 05:02 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Work?. ..When you own your own business you work every day.....just not as hard!?!

Yeah, if I "took the day off" I'd be cutting the deep grass in intense humidity.
Handling a smaller bunch of phone calls is pretty easy by comparison.
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Old July 3rd, 2008, 05:21 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Retired at 56? Day-umm, congrats. I'll be "working" until I'm 80 ... or die first.

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Thanks, Mud. I'd been planning for this for a while. If I had a family, for sure I'd have hung in for years to come, but my life didn't work out like that. To each his own, eh? Everyone has a story to tell...

BTW: The 56? My ancestors are from Finland, and the average retirement age for males there is around 57. Hah, I had to beat that, heck, we love fishing too much. lol

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I went to the grocery store, rushed home before the downpour started and then did some picking... gotta start dinner soon. Yeah, tough day.
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Old July 3rd, 2008, 06:00 PM   #45 (permalink)
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I'm in it up to my eyeballs. There's no holidays in TV. Or grammer checking.
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Old July 3rd, 2008, 06:06 PM   #46 (permalink)
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My Dad used to call painting mistakes "holidays" ... you just made a holiday.

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Old July 3rd, 2008, 11:50 PM   #47 (permalink)
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I brought my children to my office today. I had a conference call in the morning and then I took the children to an aquarium/amusement park. We had a great day and I even got home with enough time to still play guitar and go jogging. I guess you can call that work if you want.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 12:12 AM   #48 (permalink)
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Faked it all day. Pretended to do stuff-held the phone to my ear like I was holding, sent off emails to who knows who. Just didn't care.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 12:36 AM   #49 (permalink)
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I built an exterior hot water heater enclosure, painted a bedroom, installed two light fixtures, and hard wired a door bell into a house...they make wireless doorbells, but these people like the tone of a real one, so I crawled through their attic fishing wires in the afternoon heat, literally sweating through my clothes, cough and itching from the insulation so that their doorbell will sound just perfect.
Also went to the home inspection for the house I'm in the process of buying. Could have gone better, but nothing scary enough to make me back out of the deal.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 01:02 AM   #50 (permalink)
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I've been smokin' pork butts all day!

Gettin' ready for my annual 4th of July BBQ and Jam!!

By the way everyone here is invited, if your anywhere near Sandy Valley, NV, stop by.
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...they make wireless doorbells, but these people like the tone of a real one, so I crawled through their attic fishing wires in the afternoon heat, literally sweating through my clothes, cough and itching from the insulation so that their doorbell will sound just perfect.
WHAT?!? You almost sound bitter.

I feel your pain, man - done that, though not for a living. Just once, when we had our house in Cat City. Probably had something to do with ants. Not quite my idea of fun.

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I've been smokin' pork butts all day!
That's gonna give you the most bizarre emphysema ever.
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+1 I'm working now. At least there's no management here today . The show must go on Etc, Etc .....
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I'm self-employed, so, yes.

And I'm working tomorrow, too (but just a little bit).
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July 4 is just another day outside the USA. Well, nearly - I'm doing an "Independence Day" gig (i.e. any excuse for a booze-up) tomorrow night at a place well known to be rougher than a badger's butt.
Well I had no idea anyone would want to party down to commemorate our independence from England IN ENGLAND!
You'd be amazed (or maybe not) at the propensity here to get comprehensively bladdered for the slimmest reason, or indeed none at all.

Besides, the gig's at a London Irish venue, to which the above applies double!
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I had the option of taking either today or tomorrow off, I opted for today. I rarely get holidays off and usually work Saturdays anyway. It's no big deal, I'll only have to work about three hours tomorrow.
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I'm on here (again)......VA hospital...Your tax dollars at work ( who am I kidding )...Double Time X 12 hours..Plus 5 hours of OT...Sweet....Cheers...
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