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I remember all too well many years ago tryna get a Roland PNC950 plotter to work with my Gerber Omega software. The venerated elder of Signs101, Old Paint, patiently walked me through the steps and got me up and running. In the process he made a believer out of me in friction fed plotters which...

Finally browsing through old posts after nearly a year of not visiting 101. An update would be (along with thanks for the concern:) I underwent a 10 hour surgery to fuse my spine from the top of the lumbar with the rods anchored in my hip bones, 9 level of spine locked together. Every time I...

Yes. We were in a very serious wreck on an Illinois freeway that wasn't our fault and was witnessed by a state trooper. I've had a fusion of vertebrae in my neck and half my spine now has titanium rods and screws in it. The case is headed to court because I didn't feel the settlement amount was...

While it's been years since I was a regular, daily participant here I occasionally find myself checking in to keep abreast of things going on in my former career I've been happily retired from for over 8 years now. My last posts concerned a retirement pursuit that made it possible for me to once...

It's been my observation that many "sign business" owners haven't been very adept at the "business" end of their endeavors. If they were, they'd be running a continuously profitable enough enterprise that balance in the rest of their life would be a no brainer. How many times has the old saying...

No matter what technology springs on me, I have little fear a soccer mom working at her kitchen table will ever make anything I do obsolete. Back during the years I was a daily participant on this forum it was widely known I was one of the dinosaurs like Old Paint. One of the most fulfilling...

I received my hospital bill for 7 days following a horrendous spinal fusion as a result of a car wreck that was other guys fault. Two different fusion surgeries as a result. Bill was $280,000! Surgery bill was $72,000. Took 9 hours. That equals eight grand an hour, and people think signs cost...

I'm about at the point where I fondly remember the good old days of three networks and around a maximum of half dozen shows that occupied my interest. There is such an avalanche of content available now. I'm assuming a career as a scriptwriter is very lucrative these days. A few months back I...

I lettered a restored wood speed boat with gold leaf for the grandson of Hallmark cards founder. He was an old guy then in the 80”s. Very talkative. He said he was worth 80 million the day he was born. He tipped me fifty bucks which would be like 150 now. Twenty years later I got a job for a car...

I too am facing this very soon Tony. I've been involved in a long discussion about them on a guitar forum I belong to. Apparently, they present a problem for people who play musical instruments. Lots of musicians said they get a warbling sound over the guitar sound for instance. I've been told...

I’m gonna have a hard time celebrating this year. I’m two weeks out from an excruciatingly painful back surgery involving fusion of entire lumbar spine with rod implants. I have to be fully trussed up in an entire torso back brace before I can even attempt the painful getting out of bed. No...

.I play my guitar out in the shop every day. I write songs out there that are getting attention from Nashville heavyweights. Here's latest. https://www.facebook.com/david.kellems.7

Yeah I'm having a blast out in my shop I built on my rural property. Feels like it did in my 20's when quitting time always came way too soon because I was in the zone. I used to go home, have dinner, and go back to the shop where I worked to keep lettering on my own time. Only complaint now is...

It happened again this past weekend. Set up at a large craft fair with my line of small hand lettered interior decor signs. After awhile I walked through two gymnasiums and hallways in the school checking out the other vendors. There were three booths with people selling their identical looking...

Early in my apprenticeship as a signpainter, around 1979, I was asked by another shop to come and cut out the masking for a huge electric sign face. This was obviously back when clear faces were painted from behind. It was a replacement for one side of a huge electric sign that was for a...

Nobody has responded about my formerly foul and perverse presence. Gino hasn’t accepted a sincere apology. I’m following the advice of a few fine people here who urged me to carry on with no further concerns about this. I only wanted to make amends for any perceived previous misdeeds. I wouldn’t...

Thanks for asking about my wife. She has a very painful cracked tailbone and rib. Gnarly seatbelt bruises as well. She got banged up pretty bad after we were pushed into an oncoming car while I was frantically trying to steer out of the way of a tour bus barreling down on us. Would’ve squared...

We arrived an hour too late for fav uncle’s memorial due to time change. Rental was a Durango. Rode like a buckboard compared to the Explorer. New ride is a top of the line Denali. Gonna be easily affordable after at fault drivers insurance has to pay out. Can’t wait for road trip in two weeks...

I was already in treatment for 3 back fractures and a dislocated disc in my neck. He hit the wrong guy. Powerful attorney with excellent record of settlements from State Farm handling my case.

I got the car for $21,500. Look it up on blue book. It was the at fault drivers insurance who paid it off. I hoped that was clear. I had nothing to dispute. They also gave me 3 grand for an old guitar that was given me that got crushed. If you wanna talk comps, the highest price I could find for...