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So yesterday I helped my brother and his wife move into thier new house. I can still move my body today, so I guess we did well. Started at 8 am,with a crew of 9 people, had the U-Haul loaded by 11, headed 30 minutes up to the new place, unloaded with a crew of 12 people. Bros wife is VERY organized. she had all boxes and items labled with letters that matched big signs on all the rooms. so all we had to do was carry them to the right place.
Excellent. then a crew of 4 of us went to go pick up a player piano (holy crud those are heavy) and pick up /drop off a few other larger furniture pieces. All in all we were done by about 3 pm. Then I stopped back at the old apartment to pick up his TR6 and drive it home (cause I gotta take it to work and get it inspected)
Well, his now ex-landlady, who was really like a second mom to those guys while they lived there, gave me (for free) a whole box of British Standard wrenches and sockets!!!!! They were her late husbands from when he lived in South Africa, and she knew I workd on old british cars, so she wanted them to go to someone who could use them.
That was pretty good pay for my day of work!!!!
SCORE!
 
Nice.

How's the new job going btw? Still better than swinging wrenches on Toyos?
 
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Alan. It's both challanging and rewarding. I'm working on older, rustier cars, of all makes. It's quite a curve going from knowing what your working on quite well, to having to learn several manufacturers different ways of doing things. But I do believe that I made a good decision. I'm enjoying it there. The community is very unique around the collage town of Ithaca (Cornell and Ithaca Collage). It's definatly one of the most diverse collections of people to be had in our little region. At the same time the local populace is tried and true red-necks. so I go from working on Mercedes Benzes to nasty dairy farm Ford dump trucks. But it definatly keeps things intresting.
Also that area has a large collection of what would have been known in the 60s as "hippies". now Eco- minded activists/ small business owners that sell things like Organic produce and plants for "green roofs" to All vegatarian meat substitutes. So we see a fair amount of the Veggie-cars (fryer grease powered diesels). that's kinda neat too.
 
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