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fast14riot said:
Morning men, and sasquatches. Gonna be a hectic day at work today, had a big shipment yesterday get delayed to today and am receiving a big shipment today already. Going to be packed in my warehouse, and busy as can be! Good thing I have my favorite (unofficial, and off the record) employee working with me this morning, its nice when I don't have to worry about her job or anything oher than what I need to do. Wish I had more employees like her.


-Xander
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I hope it all goes well! It is always good to have a self starter for help.

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I can be to a beach in less time, but this place is so much nicer and not much further time wise
. I've been told that the Altamont hills look like many different places before, but in March these hills are bright green and everything is in bloom, it is just spectacular to see! I haven't seen many places that can compare to this when in bloom, but for the other 10 months of the year they are brown and kinda dreary looking, unless you look real close.

Geologically it is a very interesting place and many fault lines run under these hills, tectonic subduction gave birth to these hills and its peak on Mt. Diablo, just north of the pictures location. Lot of red clay covering the tops of the hills, but there are a few outcroppings of rock and some slides that revealed some cool stuff.


-Xander
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My wife is from CA and she says many areas here look a lot like back home. Our terrain is very diverse here, unlike anywhere I have been. As mentioned we have desert just south and actual artic tundra just north. 5 miles south it reminds me of home, big skies and rolling lush hills. I grew up in an ancient river bottom area so it was like a jungle at my parents place in TX. 6" wide grapevines!

Artic tundra... sounds crazy huh! It is, I must get footage if I get out there this year. I'm sure there is still 6 feet of snow on the ground up there now.

Xander I may see if I can find any cool sites near your area, you may be amazed by the cool stuff you can find. I started off with guides that had directions to the rocks but now I know the geology I can locate cool stuff just by cruising around. Great fun for kids. Here it is mostly public land so we can go just about anywhere, in some places it is very tough because of land divisions.

I went looking for limestone fossils once near Crawford, TX when Bush was in office, I wound up getting followed by secret service. Later I found the dry creek I was considering walking down went to his ranch, lol . When I saw the dudes with earpieces I just went home, not worth the trouble, lol! They have tons of mammoth fossils out there too, as a kid I went on a dig with a local University.

I don't keep any fossils or artifacts, I once left a huge "war club" on the ground. Pottery shards nearby... (corn/bone crusher for marrow actually but most people think they are a war club... swinging it would be total overkill!) lol I get off subject easily...

bigcountry1315 said:
Morning men! Cool pics Xander looks like a fun place to be.Way too many people for a hermit like me!
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Yes looks like lots of fun but I agree, too many people on the beach! I was laughing because in TX we had people in sight of us and it bothered me. It is funny, I have been to many deserted remote beaches with no one for miles around... if someone shows up they will usually almost crowd your area, funny stuff! I know of one beach in St.Thomas with a full on deserted fort, it is just insane! 2 foot thick rock walls, pillars with decaying roofs around it. No one knows about it and you have to drive through some rastas yard to get to it!
 
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Daniel I love all of the remote lakes up here.You can take your family and not have another person around for all day.We also like finding remote areas along Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Now Lake superior is way too cold to swim in very long. The water temperature is like 55 degrees year round. I just love the solitude of it.A couple of years ago I followed a Moose cow and calf tracks for 2 miles because a large black bear was following their tracks. Hence why I always carry a gun every where we go.
 
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Check this, I used to skimboard here every day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magens_Bay

Everyone asks me, how did you afford to live in the Caribbean? I jumped ship with $20 and got a job that day! I told my boss I wasn't a bum but I might live on the beach for a week, lol! Luckily I jumped ship with my wife (we had just met) and I was able to stay with her and her brother. If you can read and write you can get a good job fast! If the locals weren't so nuts I'd still live there.
 
bigcountry1315 said:
Daniel FYI I sent you a couple of e-mails a few days ago.Nothing real important.
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I sent you one earlier, let me know if you don't get it... I have been having email problems. I'm officially a few days behind as well.

My wife and I were amazed by that ransacked Toyota, wow!
 
xander- we have those beach shovels.. sand is gud...

I used to skimboard in Arizona... yes AZ... they would flood the school fields (fields were surrounded with 6in berms or so, and .. well, not clean! but fun as hell :) )

ANNNND, you call that busy, not crowded? HOLY GOAT CHEESE THAT IS PACKED... I avoid busy beaches.. need my space! looks like kiddo had fun though, and that is all that matters often times..
 
sloth357 said:
xander- we have those beach shovels.. sand is gud...

I used to skimboard in Arizona... yes AZ... they would flood the school fields (fields were surrounded with 6in berms or so, and .. well, not clean! but fun as hell :) )

ANNNND, you call that busy, not crowded? HOLY GOAT CHEESE THAT IS PACKED... I avoid busy beaches.. need my space! looks like kiddo had fun though, and that is all that matters often times..
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Awesome! I have considered making some sort of slip and slide for skimboarding, it is too fun.

Yes, always good to make sure the kids are having a good time!
 
Haha, yeah that beach was pretty crowde, but that's not the one we were at. We were on the far siide of the pier which was much more sane! Maybe only 50 people in a half mile of beach. There are tons of secluded beaches around there,but when you have a busy body 2.5 year old you look for places with things to do. That pic was pretty much just the postcard shot of "we were here" for the kids scrap book. It was a holiday weekend, too, afterall.

Skimboarding! Love it! I used to skim board ocean beach in SF all the time when I lived there. I've been wanting to build another skim board actually, been way too long.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Haha, yeah that beach was pretty crowde, but that's not the one we were at. We were on the far siide of the pier which was much more sane! Maybe only 50 people in a half mile of beach. There are tons of secluded beaches around there,but when you have a busy body 2.5 year old you look for places with things to do. That pic was pretty much just the postcard shot of "we were here" for the kids scrap book. It was a holiday weekend, too, afterall.

Skimboarding! Love it! I used to skim board ocean beach in SF all the time when I lived there. I've been wanting to build another skim board actually, been way too long.


-Xander
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Making skimboards would be cool, I always used the plywood ones... that would be a fun weekend project. I almost started a snowboard company before, anything made with epoxy fascinates me.

My friends made shirts and landed a contract to make tie dyed top sheets for snowboards, how cool!
 
I just got too crazy with my 1/2 ton press and cracked the antique ivory micarta! It especially sucks because I only have mismatched scales left... expensive scales. This does give me a good idea though, no big deal!
 
Ugh, the ugly part of management, I have to do a write up for a new employee today. She has been late almost every shift by more than just a couple minutes, taking 45-50 minute lunches when she only gets 30, today she calls 15 minutes after her shift starts to tell me that she will be in within the next hour. Poor kid, its her first job too. I just hate to see somene get off to such a poor start in their working life! Hopefully this is the end of it, its tough to get a job these days.


-Xander
 
Xander do not feel bad. Life is full of choices!I had an officer who grew up in this town.The prison was his ideal job to keep until he retired.Well as a probationary employee you are only allowed to be late 3 times in a year. He was late and never called in 3 times for more than a half hour.When I terminated him he was balling and I felt bad because he use to wrestle with my son. Long story short I had no choice but to terminate him. Was a tough thing for me to do because the kid is a good kid. I just had no choice. I have seen him since and he said he understood that I had no choice.
 
fast14riot said:
Ugh, the ugly part of management, I have to do a write up for a new employee today. She has been late almost every shift by more than just a couple minutes, taking 45-50 minute lunches when she only gets 30, today she calls 15 minutes after her shift starts to tell me that she will be in within the next hour. Poor kid, its her first job too. I just hate to see somene get off to such a poor start in their working life! Hopefully this is the end of it, its tough to get a job these days.
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bigcountry1315 said:
Xander do not feel bad. Life is full of choices!I had an officer who grew up in this town.The prison was his ideal job to keep until he retired.Well as a probationary employee you are only allowed to be late 3 times in a year. He was late and never called in 3 times for more than a half hour.When I terminated him he was balling and I felt bad because he use to wrestle with my son. Long story short I had no choice but to terminate him. Was a tough thing for me to do because the kid is a good kid. I just had no choice. I have seen him since and he said he understood that I had no choice.
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Both of you did what needed to be done, and in the long run the best thing for the other person. If that sort of disciplinary action happens early enough in someone's career, it often sets them on the right path for the rest of their career.
 
You gentlemen have a great evening! I am off to bed I have to take momma to a DR appt in Marquette early in the morning.Sucks because Marquette is 2 hours away. Like I said you all have a great night!
 
lol...

I have fresh ferric chloride in as well as secret etching ingredients. That was locally bought then I got in a bunch of G10 and belts! Black coarse textures peel ply g10, the coolest stuff ever! $300 of belts...
 
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