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907customs

907customs

New Member
1. Work week on/ week off in the oilfield.
2. Work my weeks off in the sign biz.
3. Growing home based biz so i can retire somday (soon)
4. Pay a shit ton of child support ($2300 a month) for a few more years..
5. Always trying to grow the business while gaining some great write off's
6. Enjoy snowboarding on my weeks off.
7. Thought I'd be a professional snowboarder when I was younger.
8. Girlfriend is passed out right now on the couch beside me:) lol.
9. I'd rather be printing nothing than be hanging out in the house:(
10. I like Vodka and DIET cran.
11. I drink more than I should.
12. My favorite movie is "Land of the Lost".
13. I hate photoshop because I suck at it.
14. I know I should take the time to learn photohshop...but I don't want to.:)
15. I like sign warehouse:)
16. I also drink alot:)
17. I love Alaska, and think it has alot to offer.
18. I like cats, but not when they cost me alot of money.
19. I am trying to watch my weight, but just finished a jiant jug of cheese balls:(...not all from tonight:)
20. I like to travel.
21. Have noticed that most of my posts start with "I"....but not on purpose;)
22. Forgot how many items I'm supposed to list.....
 
Marlene

Marlene

New Member
1. I love animals
2. I have always lived in Vermont
3. I can't swim
4. I hate Brush Script
5. I've been married twice
6. I have one child
7. I was the tallest kid in class up to the six grade
8. I am a natural blond
9. I am both left and right handed
10. I am a Guiness World Book Of Records holder
11. My favorite holiday is Halloween
12. I was married in the winter outside on a bridge
13. I'm terrible with money
14. I feed feral cats in my neighborhood
15. I had a near death/outter body experience when I was 3
16. I hate sports execpt hockey and curling
17. black is my favorite color
18. I used to have pet frogs given to me by Nuns who worked in a lab
19. I had a pet skunk
20. I used to belly dance
21. I fear high places
22. I love Maine
23. I married a Canadian
24. I can drive a stick shift
25. I wanted to be a writer when I was a kid
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here's mine from way back then and it still is the same except #4 as I now can Comic Sans, Old English all upper case and copperplate to that one

lets tag a new person...Edna, tag you are it
 
Dennis422

Dennis422

New Member
1. Firstborn to my parents
2. Was supposed to be named "Demis" (Greek Singer)
3. Grew up in Yugoslavia, Croatia, Serbia (That order, names changed a lot)
4. Mom died before I turned 5
5. Came to States in 2000
6. Studied to became Architect back in Old country
7. Got Graphic Design degree in States instead
8. Beer is my only alcoholic drink (OK, a lot of beer)
9. Love Soccer
10. Used to play Basketball (I'm 6'6")
11. Chronically tired right now
12. Love Macs, hate PC's
13. German shepherd is my favorite breed of dogs
14. I hate small dogs (I call them "battery operated dogs")
15. Have two adorable boys and a great wife
16. Love music (Metal, rock, grunge......)
17. It took awhile to start watching Football, I like it now
18. Still can not get my mind around Baseball (Just plain boring to me)
19. Working in the same company for last 12 years (And have side business for last 6)
20. Hate people that drive 60 in the left lane (Highway)
21. Spoke Serbian, Italian and German when I was 4
22. My favorite movie is Braveheart
23. Hate "two-faced" people
24. Started smoking when I was 13. Quitted 3 years ago (used patch for 2 weeks, thought it would be tougher to quit)
25. Started side business with doing graphic/web design. First added embroidery, then screen printing and few months ago Vinyl.


Now I need some :Sleeping: I mentioned that I'm chronically tired
 
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SIGNTIME

SIGNTIME

New Member
1. I am the youngest of 4

2. I am 6'2" and 200lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal... actually 265 and a little overwieght.

3. I am really into car/trucks/motorcycles/snomobiles/... anything that has a motor and can be driven really.

4. I like tv and movies family guy is one of my favorites and i wish they would bring back Charlie Sheen to 2.5 men.

5. I like Budweiser alot and regretably got a bud tattoo on my arm when I was 18.

6. I like the yankees, jets, and knicks.

7. I am a big nascar fan my favorite drivers are/were rusty wallace, dale jr, kyle bucsh.

8. My cousin is on kyle bucsh's pit crew.

9. I never got good grades in school and didn't go to college

10. I am not married and do not plan on getting married anytime soon although i have a beautiful girlfriend who I love.

11. I have been in the biz for 2.5 yrs now with my brother/ biz partner and plan on hiring our first employee this coming spring.

12. I like fishing but didn't do very good this year ... I think I have less patience these days.

13. I like to play golf but I am awful at it.

14. I really like bowling in fact I'm in a drinking league and bowl tonight my average is 191 and at the end of the season we all go on a casino trip for a weekend.

15. I like dogs not a big fan of cats someday soon I will get a german rotti or go to the shelter and bring home my favorite.

16. I want to go the vegas sign show but always seem to realize its going the wednesday before it is happening.

17. this is harder than I thought.

18. I like most foods and am always willing to try something new... once ate the eyeball at a pig roast (damn mudslides).

19. I hate bees.

20. I love snow and christmas

21. if im not drink bud then ill have a stolli and club

22. my spelling and grammer are not the best.

23. I love to sleep when its cold outside and my pillows and blanket are cold.

24. Signs101 has been really helpful in getting us where we are today.

25. when life gives you lemons ... say **** the lemons
 
Speedsterbeast

Speedsterbeast

New Member
1- Living in the second house I've ever lived in. Only 4km away from the one I grew up in (38 years old)
2- Enjoy sailing as much as sex- although there are a lot of factors which can make one better than the other in some instances
3- Total neat freak
4- Green has been my favourite colour since I can remember
5- in 2007 I paddled around Lake Superior with a freind. 2 months and a 2,000 km trip
6- I am allergic to more things than anyone I have heard of
7- I love Reggae music
8- I play a lot of guitar- but don't play much reggae
9- Dream car is a cobalt blue 1965 GTO
10- I have a pet rabbit who I love more than anyone I know
11- My great grandmother had tickets for the Titanic's maiden voyage but she was pregnant with my grandmother and took her doctors advice to stay in Scotland a couple weeks longer
12- Planning a kayaking trip around Lake Bailkal in Russia in the next five years
13- Starting to learn to speak Russian this winter (see above)
14- Absolutely hate greed and corruption
15- Favourite food- Saurkraut Perogies
16- Tequila can be mixed with anything to make a wonderful drink
17- Just sold my VW Ice Race car yesterday, after 8 years of racing
18- Think Regina Spektor's new album will be winning a Grammy or two
19- Can't beleive that people don't realize that buying stuff offers such short term saristisfaction that they keep on doing it over and over
20- I think twenty things is plenty to list
21- Have horrible handwritting
22- Just ended an 11 year realtionship in June
23- Don't have cable, in fact just got a TV in my living room last month for watching concerts
24- Think pride should be saved for personal accomplishments and not for what country you live in
25- I was 6'-4" until I broke the L-2 Vertabra in my back when I was 18, now I'm 6'-3.5"
 
SignManiac

SignManiac

New Member
1- Left home at sixteen to strike out on my own, didn't like rules or taking orders from anyone.
2- At eighteen I became a pro golfer having never played the game before.I won a $1,000.00 in a long driving contest.
3- At eighteen I hitched hiked cross country and back in eight days.In eighteen years I made 2,000 skydives, one a Guiness word record.
4- I surfed for eighteen years and then quit.I golfed for eighteen years and then quit. I played 2,000 rounds of golf in an eight year period.
5- My first marriage lasted eighteen years and then I quit. My second marriage lasted eighteen months and then I quit.
6- Eighteen is my lucky number and so is 666 which when multiplied by 3 = 18.
7- I've been hit by lightening twice. They say three strikes and you're out. I came closest to death twice by drowning while wind surfing in an ocean storm.
8- I was run over by a tractor trailer while riding my motorcycle and lived although my left leg was crushed and mangled from the trailer wheel running it over, I limp when my leg starts to hurt from the cold.
9- I got to do a backwards summersault 40' high up on the trapeeze at Wringling Brothers. They turned me down because I was too big.
10- I caught a giant blue fin tuna, 536 lbs. and don't care if I ever fish again. I hate fishing,football,baseball,basketball,soccer,hockey...
11- I taught myself to paint signs at eighteen, there's that number again, and have been in the business now for 38 years full time.
12- I almost made it to Woodstock but they shut the New York thruway down and I had to turn back.
13- I have two grown children, one 40, the other 42, and a 20 year old grandson. I only date now but I'm into really young girls in their 40's!
14- I like snakes but have a cat which drives me nuts. She won't shut up when I'm around. Whine, whine, whine.
15- My favorite music is techno these days. I really enjoyed going to raves a few years back and dancing all night long.
16- My number one passion in the sign business is design, followed by technology.
17- I have fullfilled everything on my bucket list with the exception of base jumping from Angel Falls in South America.
18- I have no friends my age, everyone is twenty years my junior. I don't really like old people. I can't relate to them.
19- My closet friends are my two business partners along with one other who is also in the sign business.
20- I grew up in Florida until 12, was somewhat kidnapped and taken to New York, where I lived for exactly 25 years to the day before moving back to Florida.
21- I'm on my forth shop in all these years and think I'm happy with this one finally. I'll die first before I move again.
22- I like photograpy and traveling outside the U.S.
23- I'm a devout atheist but try to live like a Christian, just common sense stuff about treating people right. I avoid a-holes at all cost.
24- I'm a big kid at heart and refuse to ever grow up.
25- Like Speedsterbeast, I was 6'-4" until I broke my T-12 Vertabra in my back when I was flying in an outdoor wind tunnel, now I'm 6'-3.5"
 
Edna

Edna

New Member
1) I have severel children
3) I live an hour from the neerest Wal-Mart :(
4) I like to shoot things
5) I used to have a girlfriend
6) bean married severel times
7) good embroitery
9) Live in Mizzou now, neer the interstate 29 Rock Port exit
10) bean two Australian, have friends in Melborne
11) livied in Portland Oregon for a long time
13) Knew people with a metical marwana card once
14) did beed-work at festivals for several years
15) alergict two cats
16) get hay fever in the fall from all the dust from the farmers
17) won a "powder puff" race last summer
19) I die my hair at leest once a month
20) like to go jeeping in the Loes Hills
21) Lake of the Ozarks Party cove is one of my fav places
22) scared of hites
24) likes fireworks, and the fact you can by them all year in Mizzou
25) reely enjoy this site and all the new friends I have made on hear.
You peele our all very speically two me.
 
gabagoo

gabagoo

New Member
SignManiac said:
1- Left home at sixteen to strike out on my own, didn't like rules or taking orders from anyone.
2- At eighteen I became a pro golfer having never played the game before.I won a $1,000.00 in a long driving contest.
3- At eighteen I hitched hiked cross country and back in eight days.In eighteen years I made 2,000 skydives, one a Guiness word record.
4- I surfed for eighteen years and then quit.I golfed for eighteen years and then quit. I played 2,000 rounds of golf in an eight year period.
5- My first marriage lasted eighteen years and then I quit. My second marriage lasted eighteen months and then I quit.
6- Eighteen is my lucky number and so is 666 which when multiplied by 3 = 18.
7- I've been hit by lightening twice. They say three strikes and you're out. I came closest to death twice by drowning while wind surfing in an ocean storm.
8- I was run over by a tractor trailer while riding my motorcycle and lived although my left leg was crushed and mangled from the trailer wheel running it over, I limp when my leg starts to hurt from the cold.
9- I got to do a backwards summersault 40' high up on the trapeeze at Wringling Brothers. They turned me down because I was too big.
10- I caught a giant blue fin tuna, 536 lbs. and don't care if I ever fish again. I hate fishing,football,baseball,basketball,soccer,hockey...
11- I taught myself to paint signs at eighteen, there's that number again, and have been in the business now for 38 years full time.
12- I almost made it to Woodstock but they shut the New York thruway down and I had to turn back.
13- I have two grown children, one 40, the other 42, and a 20 year old grandson. I only date now but I'm into really young girls in their 40's!
14- I like snakes but have a cat which drives me nuts. She won't shut up when I'm around. Whine, whine, whine.
15- My favorite music is techno these days. I really enjoyed going to raves a few years back and dancing all night long.
16- My number one passion in the sign business is design, followed by technology.
17- I have fullfilled everything on my bucket list with the exception of base jumping from Angel Falls in South America.
18- I have no friends my age, everyone is twenty years my junior. I don't really like old people. I can't relate to them.
19- My closet friends are my two business partners along with one other who is also in the sign business.
20- I grew up in Florida until 12, was somewhat kidnapped and taken to New York, where I lived for exactly 25 years to the day before moving back to Florida.
21- I'm on my forth shop in all these years and think I'm happy with this one finally. I'll die first before I move again.
22- I like photograpy and traveling outside the U.S.
23- I'm a devout atheist but try to live like a Christian, just common sense stuff about treating people right. I avoid a-holes at all cost.
24- I'm a big kid at heart and refuse to ever grow up.
25- Like Speedsterbeast, I was 6'-4" until I broke my T-12 Vertabra in my back when I was flying in an outdoor wind tunnel, now I'm 6'-3.5"
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you must be a great guy to hang out with...no dull moments...
 
StarSign

StarSign

New Member
1. First son of a first son and my first was my son
2. From Camp Pendelton CA
3. Hate the snow in SLC
4. Love 80's Metal
5. Toured with Def Leppard the summer of 88
6. Not Mormon, but my wife is
7. Broke my arm at 4yrs old falling off a see saw
8. I forgot what 8 was
9. I don't remember a lot from 87-92
10. Best friend lives in Prague
11. Have friends in low places
12. Never thought I would be ion the sign biz
13. sorry it's quitting time
 
petepaz

petepaz

New Member
1 oldest of 3 kids. 1 brother and 1 sister
2 born in Brooklyn and parents moved to the country so i wouldn't get hit by a car crossing the street
3 married 17 yrs this month
4 been playing organized basketball since i was in 7th grade
5 until this year when the dr. retired me because of a herniated disc and 2 bulging discs (i said discs don't get the bulges mixed up)
6 coached girls softball and basketball for 15 yrs
7 won 3 championships with the teams I coached (2 basketball and 1 softball)
8 smoke cigars occasionally
9 my wife is 10 yrs older than me (I figured she would die first and I would still have a few years to enjoy the insurance money)
10 worked at the same job for 22 yrs
11 work 2 and 3 jobs until about 5 yrs ago
12 bartended at the same restaurant for 18 yrs
13 used to break dance (could still do it if my back wasn’t screwed up)
14 play golf (well I go out on the course and hit the ball while I drink beer and smoke cigars)
15 enjoy a nice 18yr old…scotch that is
16 I have 3 step daughters but I call them mine because I have been taking care of them for the past 19yrs
17 also have 2 grandkids (I have tons of fun with them)
18 studied karate for 15 years
19 social drinker and I am very social
20 used to own a gym
21 gym went out of business and I claimed bankruptcy (the American dream)
22 have an injured back (see #5) did it 2 and half yrs ago and it is hampering my active lifestyle
(actually it’s hampering my everyday lifestyle)
23 lost 20lbs since I hurt my back
24 I take yoga
25 my name is Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht
 
W

Wraps ink

New Member
my 25

1. 30 years old but still get carded.
2. grew up in the sign business my dad had a shop for 30 years
3. use to make signs at age 12 with a gerber 4b changing out cartridges for different fonts always thinking the machine was gonna shock me.
4. learned how to hand letter before I was allowed to use computers
5. my dad use to wake me up on school nights at midnight so we could go screen print by hand coroplast signs..oh the smell of laquer thinner.
6. thought I would be a rockstar and grew up saying I never want to own a shop..ha ha
7. been singing and playing drums in bands since I was 18
8. played the Vans Warped tour in 2003
9.opened up for my favorite band the Deftones 3 years ago
10.been married for 7 years to a beautiful wife
11. we are expecting our first child in may
12. my dad sold his sign company in 2001 and I regret not being mature enough at the time to take it over.
13. I still swear to this day to buy it back one day
14. working in sign shops is the only job I've ever had
15. moved to the beach in 2006 to manage a wrap company it closed in 3 months after that.
16. gathered all my knowledge and money (very little) to open up Wraps Ink. (still going strong...still at the beach)
17. love the smell of solvent ink printing
18. I have a chihuahua that comes to work with me every day and yaps at all my customers
19. love my business and everything about it even when I'm broke
20. I'm addicted to monster energy drinks..(the blue ones) and diet coke
21. hate quickbooks with a passion
22. when my employee is designing something I cant help but stand over him wanting to change things ..lol control freak I am
23. channel letters scare me ( I know nothing about them but still price them out lol.
24. Nascar made a diecast nationwide race car from a design I did and a car I wrapped to sell at the tracks
25. I now am the worship leader at my church and love music
one to grow on....26. my dad had a stroke a few years ago and I would give anything to be able to work along side him like I use to he taught me everything I know about this business.
16.
 
bob

bob

It's better to have two hands than one glove.
skyhigh said:
Sounds good Pat.
I'll tag Signage, Colorado & Bob from Earth
just to get things started.
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Does this mean that I'm under some obligation to respond? I vaguely recall doing so a few years back and I'm not sure If I'm sufficiently interesting as to be able to cite an additional 25 things. But here goes...

1. I had my left knee replaced 6 weeks ago. I'm just now starting to think that maybe it wasn't a bad idea after all. Previous to now, not so much.
2. I was stolen from the hospital where I was born by gypsies, actually I'm a prince.
3. If I never ate another vegetable again I wouldn't be missing anything.
4. Some don't suffer fools gladly; I don't suffer fools at all.
5. I would never apologize to an a$$hole for pointing out its condition to it.
6. There are two ways to do things; correctly and all others.
7. I dislike traveling.
8. I'm in the sign business far more to pay my entry fees at team penning and ranch sorting events than to set the world on fire.
9. I regret never having learned to fly.
10. I have no use for religion in any form.
11. I used to think that because I played polocrosse I was a member of some master race. Now I think so for other reasons.
12. My personal Noah's Ark is at an all time low what with only one dog, one cat, two horses, and two hair sheep.
13. I'm not particularly fond of smelly cheese.
14. Neither would I ever eat anything that smells like low tide...sushi.
15. The only thing more boring that opera is ballet. Or is it the other way around?
16. I dislike the desert.It's a fractal and thus uninteresting. It's the same in any direction and no matter how much you enlarge or reduce it.
17. I live in the high desert. But I have abundant irrigation water.
18. Life has no meaning other than that which you might rationalize.
19. Life will prove to be prolific throughout the universe. Unfortunately if it's not life as we know it, how will we know it's alive?
20. The probability of wining the lottery is pretty much the same whether you buy a ticket or not.
21. I dislike boats and islands. I'm not the least bit nautical, I want an entire continent under my feet.
22. Most wine, with the notable exception of Medoc, tastes like salad dressing.
23. Porfidio is the only tequila worth drinking. All others are various types of paint remover.
24. If I were granted one wish it would be for good luck.
25. I never cease to be amazed that I have lasted this long.
 
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