Dead as hell on here. Is nothing goiing on?

Where is the banter? Where are all of the contributors? Where is all the bragging and complaining? Hasn't anyone's employees done something incredibly stupid? Where is our pride? Cone on guys!

Here is something I fell in love with I just found. It's right up your alley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_x0V2uQ1Es

Vickie: Nice. Not at all what I was expecting.

Here's one for the stupid category: We had two modular homes(mobile homes) lined up this fall. First one: Guys are tearing it off with my Dad. I called him to ask if we need anything. He tells me we stepped through the ceiling. Dang. I mention to him that I think our newest installer needed a raise and I couldn't think of a reason not to give him one. He agreed after a slight hesitation. I get there and he is the one who stepped through.

Two weeks later on the next modular home: The new laborer stepped on a weak piece of plywood carrying a bundle of shingles. Boom, foot through the ceiling.

It hadn't happened for a while before this. I don't know of anybody getting a raise 15 minutes after stepping through one in our history.

I'm super busy and I haven't seen anybody that needs my expert advice lately.

John, I guess everyone is too busy to post. I know that's the case with me. October is the month that people remember that they wanted to do the roof before winter and I run my ass off trying to fill up on jobs. Looks like a lot of lurkers but few posts. I posted a couple of weeks ago asking how everyone's year was going, hoping to get some responses but only got a few. Over 300 hits on the post so it's obvious things are read but no one has anything to say. I've been lax in posting because I've taken 8 weeks of vacation this year and don't feel like posting when I'm relaxing. I figure I've earned the right to a lot of vacation time. Let the crew deal with things. Sales suffer a little but we're always busy.

I know that boys dad, and that was taken about 5 years ago. He is intense, and a very good slater. We are busy, but comfortable. I have enough to keep me busy for the rest of the year, and after that I don't care. I am planning on going to the Caribbean this winter which will be different and nice when it is cold. You don't make any money working in the winter anyway.

When I log on, I used to start to type my email, a box would drop down with my email, I would click it and it would also fill in my password. A little while ago, it quit doing that, now I have to manually type in the email and password.

Every time I get on here if I have something to say, I ask myself if it's worth the hassle of logging on. Turns out most of the time it isn't.

But it's nice to see that dog at least every few days.

He looks quite thoughtful, even if he can't illuminate the thoughts for us.

We're still booked to the end of the year. We're not lake effect, not like Michigan, and by the time Jan 1 gets here we'll probably be booked til spring. That is if El Nino doesn't shut us down for awhile. The only thing I wish is that California had about twenty million fewer people living here.

Just read a short article from Texas that stated if every soul on the planet were crowded into Texas and there was no space allocated for roads, reservoirs, landing strips, warehouses, sporting arenas, pasture, fields, stores, malls, movie theaters, parking lots, military bases, courthouses, jails, prisons, administrative offices, sewage treatment plants, manufacturing, or any other public or private purposes of any kind whatsoever, each person would get a piece of land thirty feet by thirty feet. Best-guess is that to support our current standard of living we each need about twenty-four acres. That gave me a strange and familiar feeling. How many squares would that be? I know I've installed mine and I'm not even retired yet.

Egg, that would be about 10,000 squares. I am sure I have personally done that about 5 times over in my lifetime. Hey, that would be interesting to find out. Let's start a thread to tell how many squares of shingles we have personally installed over the years. I used to really put them down.

wywoody Said: When I log on, I used to start to type my email, a box would drop down with my email, I would click it and it would also fill in my password. A little while ago, it quit doing that, now I have to manually type in the email and password.

Every time I get on here if I have something to say, I ask myself if its worth the hassle of logging on. Turns out most of the time it isnt.

Ain't that so funny. We'll think nothing of spending minutes typing nothing, but filling in those two drop boxes is such a monumental hassle.

But we're all like that, ain't we? LOL

Hate clicking to get in too! :laugh: :laugh:

Been moving the shop to the country, selling off items to pay for the move, staying out there for days without internet, so haven't been on much. When I'm in town, and not at VA, I'll log into FB and check RCS there and even post some. (Vickie even shared one of my recent RCS posts over there, btw.) :) Told landlord I'd be out of shop by Dec 1, and I've got somebody that's supposed to be moving in while I'm moving out. Crazy busy with that! Still don't have a house out there, but I can camp and rough it if I have too. :)

Tinner, is it a nudist colony? That would be cold as hell in the winter. I am glad that you are able to work and do something. It must be hard to sit and watch things happen. Last year when I wasn't feeling well was pure Hell on me. Get better fast. John Crookston

Old School Said: Tinner, is it a nudist colony? That would be cold as hell in the winter. I am glad that you are able to work and do something. It must be hard to sit and watch things happen. Last year when I wasnt feeling well was pure Hell on me. Get better fast. John Crookston

No, but it's warm there with indoor heated pools, sauna, game and exercise rooms, etc. All the amenities of any other resort without the hassle of getting dressed, even at the church for services.

We have a converted, heated schoolroom for living in the bush. Not cold inside, but can be rough outside if we couldn't dress for it. LOL

I love it. I doubt if it would work for me, but then, that is the way we came into this world! Too damn cold up on the roofs in the spring and the fall.

I first posted this in October and her it is January and it is still dead on here. We finished a big stone coated steel shingle job and I will have to post those pictures to give us something to talk about.

I just started a church roof and i need some old bucks. Continued in I will continue in another topic