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I signed up at savebig.com, a surplus auction site. I got 20 free bids for registering. Today I won a 32gb I-Pod for $24 using half the bids. It retails for $275 at amazon. Ya might want to check it out. It's brand new merchandise. I saw someone won a 37" Samsung LCD tv earlier for $29.00.

I am concurrently applying for unemployment and SS Disability. My surgeon is providing me a letter for unemployment people which exempts me from job search requirements because I have an actively draining fistula. The fistula automatically qualifies me for disability as well. I just sent a 20...

The title about sums it up. After 4 years as a designer at biggest electric sign shop in town I was told this morning they can no longer afford to pay two artists. So they let me go and kept the 400 pound guy who comes in two hours late every day and is gonna drop dead of a coronary sometime...

This is to let everyone know you put us over the top on getting expenses caught up and we don't need anymore donations. I owe a debt of gratitude to my Signs101 family for your generosity on my family's behalf. Those of you who commented about all I've been through with a six month hospital stay...

I went with my brother in law yesterday to help him arrange for my sister's memorial service. I was overwhelmed by what it costs to bury someone nowadays. He dropped over 11 grand for their "medium range" funeral. Fortunately, he had adequate insurance to pay for it. I long ago decided to be...

We spent most of last night keeping a vigil at my only baby sister's hospital bedside. She needed surgery to replace a nearly non functioning heart valve, an outcome of congestive heart failure. First though, they had to take her gall bladder out. The first attempt ended with them having to...

My worried wife's nerves are finally settled as she will soon get to sit down at the computer and get many expenses caught up in full due to the generosity of Signs101. First off, I owe Colin a debt of gratitude for suggesting it. That was amazing to me since he is the only member here I've ever...

I'm at the end of my rope. Twice now this draining fistula beside my belly button has dried up long enough for me to go on a liquid diet. After a week on liquids, I could begin a soft diet for a week and then I'd be home free to eat whatever I want. Problem is, each time around third day of...

During my recent 6 month hospitalization, I was given an approximately 10 year old Dell laptop that had essentially never been used. When I got home, I installed XP over Win2000 and immediately turned the machine into a slow clunker. It only has 256 megs of RAM. I just obtained a never...

Hi all... I'm back home after five months in a little hell hole hospital they referred to as a rehab facility. My surgery took place at the big new hospital next door, but as soon as it was evident the surgery had created a chronic problem I was shipped next door.The short, palatable version is...

Murphy's Law prevails...Since all the good news from yesterday, Arlo has not necessarily taken a turn for the worse, but certainly not for the better. He has begun "leaking" so to speak into his abdomen, which means the repair job to his intestine did not hold, just as the surgeon was concerned...

Hello all, this is Arlo's wife. He wanted me to post an update on him since having his surgery on Wed., July 14. He is, what his family has come to call him, our Murphy's Law patient. What can go wrong for him usually does. The day of surgery went well and the surgeon was pleased with what...

Being prepped today for surgery finally tomorrow - I go in at 6am. I've been through this 14 times before but am still a quivering mass of nervous energy right now. I KNOW how much pain I will be in this time tomorrow. And their insistence on you getting up off the bed and walking with a fresh...

A couple weeks back I got a call from an employee at a customer of 20+ years about lettering 3 new trucks - a big cargo box and two vans. I told the guy I was only interested in painting signs now and would be happy to quote it. He asked if I could recommend somebody else to "get it done like...

The first place I look when signing in is the upper right hand corner to see if I have any PM's. I'm having quite a severe drought in that regard. I miss the excitement and anticipation of seeing what someone is contacting me off the boards about. I guess nobody is seeking my sage advice these...

I am giving you an awesome gift. This is a link to a performance by a group called Straight No Chaser. They formed at my Alma Mater Indiana University, They got back together ten years later and released a cd of awesome acapella music. I saw them on local PBS channel last night. I kept rewinding...

During my last heyday of sign painting in the early 80's I used to spend time on Saturday cleaning out my sign kit from the previous weeks work... oiling brushes, etc.. This is a kit I got at an estate sale a few years back. The painter who owned it died in the early 70's. I picked this up for...

Awhile back I posted a layout for this sign. It is now finished and installed. This is a night time pic of it lit up. Since installing it we've sold one other job in this center and are working on layouts for two more.

Awhile back somebody posted a method for doing this and I can't find the thread. What it pertains to is something I have to do numerous times each week. I get a dig pic of a building front from sales I have to scale to create layouts of electrical signs on. Usually, I am given a reference...

I just came across this excellent little documentary. It reminds me a lot of my early years in sign painting and the guys I worked with. I was especially struck by a comment in it about how many years it would take to attain the ability to do this... something we routinely see newbies in here...