cutting steel and squishing pennies

i'm not keeping up my end of the bargain here...not that it matters but, well, here's the latest.
it's strange going from zero to sixty. so quickly. i have been enjoying (?) this time off cutting lawns, handymaning, doing the odd day call on a movie or show, etc...and really, having a lot of free time but, for the last couple of weeks it's been mayhem. which i'm fine with, but a quick switch to be sure.
firstly there's the headquarter/ricardo stuff which has slowed down to a crawl and i should really call him because i'm ready to install that crap in richmond...this week also saw me doing my best - and in the end getting it done - to make shauna a new desk thingy for her new place so that she can set-up shop at home. but it nevers goes exactly as planned but in the end, she has a nice desk and her computer has somewhere to live. nice. i've also been puting in some days on a show at vancouver studios...i'm kinda being the whatever needs doing guy, which included cutting many, many pieces of steel on a bandsaw all day, for a couple of days - thank steve jobs for the ipod i say...i was also cleaning up a hydraulic pump of all its nastiness - old oil, etc...that was a good time. but it's good to hang out with the boys, shoot the shit and make a little cake. i'll be back there tomorrow cutting or painting something. and with all that action, i have also been mr. pickle and trying not to run that business into the ground. i have one more pickle shift today and that's that - the kids come home monday afternoon and will be taking over the reins.
oh, and i've been cutting lawns as well...i have been, the last couple of days, getting up early, cutting a couple/few lawns and then afterwards heading to the pickle to open up...and actually last night, cut a lawn after working at the pickle as well...i am getting shit done...what has suffered, however, is my place...it's a fucking pigsty. i'm trying to get it together but i am not having much success...today. i'll clean it up today...
yesterday don bull made another appearance at the old pickle and while there met the lovely jenine from seattle. well, we actually both met her yesterday. jenine came in and right away made quite an impression. asking questions, telling us how 'fat' she was - she's not, how her rings don;t fit her, what can she do about this...then, after showing her the penny 'he who can not be named on the blog' had rolled out on the rolling mill - flattened like no other, she wanted to do this too....so she did. in the ned jenine hung around the shop from quite a while chatting with don and me, and then later on corie after he arrived. she had come up from seattle, on her birthday weekend, to go to the raincity grill - she thinks it's the best place ot eat in vancouver - hang out, and then go home. nice birthday weekend....
some kids had seen her flattening the penny and at the end of the day they came by and asked if they could do some pennies...sure, why not...? so they, with my help, rolled pennies, thier parents took pictures and it was all good until the rolling mill handle slipped out of one of the young girl's hand and clocked her in the head...oops. penny rolling was over for the day...she was fine...but i smelled a lawsuit so...
last night ang and i made our way over to the topanga as ang has been hankering for a prawn and chicke taco salad for a while now. it was nice...i haven't just sat and talked with ang for a while...we had a few drinks, ate some good food, had a few laughs...and i check off one more menu item on my list...good times.
ok...i need to go cut some lawns and then head to the pickle for my final shift...

i love you.

g. xo

jenine works the roling mill.


don helps with the final finishing of the flattened penny.

i've been doing a little cleaning at the pickle..

hey look....i cut some steel.

with this...

um..a bad picture of the new desk thingy i made for shauna...it wasn't suppose to have legs but we had to improvise..