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Date: 22 Aug 2006 13:19:19
From: bernie digman
Subject: 'pologies to Danny....
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More like sitting in a parking lot than a field. I'm the opener these days in an effort to keep
closer to the business. Rolling out at 5am and getting to the shop at around 5:45am is not something
I relish, but it has it's upside. This morning happened to be my b-day which was to be of not much
notice by me. I was on the schedule as usual and thought nothing of it. My night had passed way too
quickly and without much, if any, sleep to speak of. We've been having unusually strong storms here
in the SW and lots of flooding around. The lightening and thunder are a challange to my beagle who
spent most of the night chasing around the house barking and howling. Not much I did helped. I was
restless anyway from a bad outcome as first on scene to an industrial accident yesterday. A man had
been working underneath a car when the jacks failed. Those of us who have taken that extra step to
grab some tool underneath a jacked up car or have worked around heavy machinery know how easy and
quick and deadly those things can be. It looked like he had been working safe so who knows what went
wrong in an instant. So those incidents take me a few days and nights to get back my bearings. Life
is fragile.
As I rolled into the parking lot this morning the extra cars caught my attention immediatly. At
first I thought the danged students were staking out parking spots since the university is back in
session this week. But I recognized the cars in the lightening sky. Whaaa? The lights to the store
were on and all the chairs outside. And as I parked and started across the lot I could see my staff
glancing out the windows watching. Jeeze. It's just past 5:30 in the friggin' morning and most of
the staff are here. I walked in and these sweet young folks greeted me and wished me a happy
birthday. Graciously, they had only put one candle on the cupcake. A table was layed out with fresh
baked goodies and fruits. They had put on a vacuum pot of soooo great Kona from Cea and Bob. The
card was made from sacks, coffee filters and markers from the shop and signed by all the staff and a
lot of customers. It was really nice and came at such an opportune time. So. That's my story. Be at
peace and be well.
Bernie
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 19:05:57
From: Ken Fox
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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Great story, and congrats on surviving yet another year!
Sounds like the staff have gotten over being mistreated, the genital
electrodes and all that:-)
Best and many more happy ones lie in your future . . . . so saeth your next
fortune cookie.
ken
"bernie digman" <bdigman@zianet.com > wrote in message
news:44eb58ba@nntp.zianet.com...
> More like sitting in a parking lot than a field. I'm the opener these
> days in an effort to keep closer to the business. Rolling out at 5am and
> getting to the shop at around 5:45am is not something I relish, but it has
> it's upside. This morning happened to be my b-day which was to be of not
> much notice by me. I was on the schedule as usual and thought nothing of
> it. My night had passed way too quickly and without much, if any, sleep to
> speak of. We've been having unusually strong storms here in the SW and
> lots of flooding around. The lightening and thunder are a challange to my
> beagle who spent most of the night chasing around the house barking and
> howling. Not much I did helped. I was restless anyway from a bad outcome
> as first on scene to an industrial accident yesterday. A man had been
> working underneath a car when the jacks failed. Those of us who have taken
> that extra step to grab some tool underneath a jacked up car or have
> worked around heavy machinery know how easy and quick and deadly those
> things can be. It looked like he had been working safe so who knows what
> went wrong in an instant. So those incidents take me a few days and nights
> to get back my bearings. Life is fragile.
> As I rolled into the parking lot this morning the extra cars caught my
> attention immediatly. At first I thought the danged students were staking
> out parking spots since the university is back in session this week. But I
> recognized the cars in the lightening sky. Whaaa? The lights to the store
> were on and all the chairs outside. And as I parked and started across the
> lot I could see my staff glancing out the windows watching. Jeeze. It's
> just past 5:30 in the friggin' morning and most of the staff are here. I
> walked in and these sweet young folks greeted me and wished me a happy
> birthday. Graciously, they had only put one candle on the cupcake. A table
> was layed out with fresh baked goodies and fruits. They had put on a
> vacuum pot of soooo great Kona from Cea and Bob. The card was made from
> sacks, coffee filters and markers from the shop and signed by all the
> staff and a lot of customers. It was really nice and came at such an
> opportune time. So. That's my story. Be at peace and be well.
> Bernie
>
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 14:43:14
From: Doug Cadmus
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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bernie digman wrote:
> It's just past 5:30 in the friggin' morning and most of the staff are here. I walked in and
> these sweet young folks greeted me and wished me a happy birthday.
I'm neither young, nor particularly sweet, but Happy b-Day, Bernie.
And many more...
-deCadmus
www.bloggle.com
made in vermont
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Date: 23 Aug 2006 09:38:52
From: Brent
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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Obvious proof that you underpay your staff, and don't look after them at all
Bernie!
Happy Birthday
Brent
> As I rolled into the parking lot this morning the extra cars caught my
> attention immediatly. At first I thought the danged students were staking
> out parking spots since the university is back in session this week. But I
> recognized the cars in the lightening sky. Whaaa? The lights to the store
> were on and all the chairs outside. And as I parked and started across the
> lot I could see my staff glancing out the windows watching. Jeeze. It's
> just past 5:30 in the friggin' morning and most of the staff are here. I
> walked in and these sweet young folks greeted me and wished me a happy
> birthday. Graciously, they had only put one candle on the cupcake. A table
> was layed out with fresh baked goodies and fruits. They had put on a
> vacuum pot of soooo great Kona from Cea and Bob. The card was made from
> sacks, coffee filters and markers from the shop and signed by all the
> staff and a lot of customers. It was really nice and came at such an
> opportune time. So. That's my story. Be at peace and be well.
> Bernie
>
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 23:26:41
From: Steve
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:38:52 +1200, "Brent" <me@privacy.net > wrote:
>Obvious proof that you underpay your staff, and don't look after them at all
>Bernie!
>
>Happy Birthday
>
>Brent
LOL!
Happy birthday.
Funny how the nice things seem to happen when you need them.
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 14:14:29
From: Randy G.
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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bernie digman <bdigman@zianet.com > wrote:
> We've been having unusually strong storms here
>in the SW and lots of flooding around. The lightening and thunder are a challange to my beagle who
>spent most of the night chasing around the house barking and howling. Not much I did helped. I was
>
Beemer was just about 6 months old when he heard his first thunder and
the first thing he did was look me right in the eyes with a "what's
that?" look. I said "Get 'em!" and eh "attacked" the noise. He never
was scared of thunder (or anything else) the rest of his life.. A
current GSD I have crawls under our bed with the slightest hint of
thunder.She is so intelligent she can spot a threatening sky and wants
nothing to do with the out of doors when it looks like that.
> A man had
>been working underneath a car when the jacks failed. Those of us who have taken that extra step to
>grab some tool underneath a jacked up car or have worked around heavy machinery know how easy and
>quick and deadly those things can be...
>
crap...
When I was in college I worked at Monkey Wards in the auto repair area
doing tires and batteries. I was installing a battery when I heard a
loud noise next to me. I looked over at the car up on the split lift
in the next stall. The motor was sitting next to the rear lift. The
mechanic who had been working on it had just removed the rear motor
mount and was going to lower the car to take the front mounts off. He
had walked out from under the car and the entire V8 motor had fallen
over 6 feet to the ground, bounced on the steel diamond plate, bending
the plate substantially, and landed at the rear of the car.
I asked him, "Wasn't that just up there?" pointing at the motor.
The mechanic nodded and said, "If anyone asks, I'm on a break," and
walked away.
>.....I walked in and these sweet young folks greeted me and wished me a happy
>birthday. Graciously, they had only put one candle on the cupcake. A table was layed out with fresh
>baked goodies and fruits. They had put on a vacuum pot of soooo great Kona from Cea and Bob. The
>card was made from sacks, coffee filters and markers from the shop and signed by all the staff and a
>lot of customers. It was really nice and came at such an opportune time. So. That's my story. Be at
>peace and be well.
:-D Happy B'day. Let's all work safe and fit in a few more, eh?
Randy "gravity- bad" G.
http://www.EspressoMyEspresso.com
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 10:10:32
From:
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:19:19 -0600, bernie digman <bdigman@zianet.com >
wrote:
> More like sitting in a parking lot than a field. I'm the opener
these days in an effort to keep
>closer to the business. Rolling out at 5am and getting to the shop at
around 5:45am is not something
>I relish, but it has it's upside. This morning happened to be my
b-day which was to be of not much
>notice by me. I was on the schedule as usual and thought nothing of
it. My night had passed way too
>quickly and without much, if any, sleep to speak of. We've been
having unusually strong storms here
>in the SW and lots of flooding around. The lightening and thunder are
a challange to my beagle who
>spent most of the night chasing around the house barking and howling.
Not much I did helped. I was
>restless anyway from a bad outcome as first on scene to an industrial
accident yesterday. A man had
>been working underneath a car when the jacks failed. Those of us who
have taken that extra step to
>grab some tool underneath a jacked up car or have worked around heavy
machinery know how easy and
>quick and deadly those things can be. It looked like he had been
working safe so who knows what went
>wrong in an instant. So those incidents take me a few days and nights
to get back my bearings. Life
>is fragile.
> As I rolled into the parking lot this morning the extra cars
caught my attention immediatly. At
>first I thought the danged students were staking out parking spots
since the university is back in
>session this week. But I recognized the cars in the lightening sky.
Whaaa? The lights to the store
>were on and all the chairs outside. And as I parked and started
across the lot I could see my staff
>glancing out the windows watching. Jeeze. It's just past 5:30 in the
friggin' morning and most of
>the staff are here. I walked in and these sweet young folks greeted
me and wished me a happy
>birthday. Graciously, they had only put one candle on the cupcake. A
table was layed out with fresh
>baked goodies and fruits. They had put on a vacuum pot of soooo great
Kona from Cea and Bob. The
>card was made from sacks, coffee filters and markers from the shop
and signed by all the staff and a
>lot of customers. It was really nice and came at such an opportune
time. So. That's my story. Be at
>peace and be well.
>Bernie
Wow Bernie.First of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I read your story and felt so sorry for you about the storms (we have
none here) and thinking how frightened the beagle was:( and your awful
accident yesterday and then the wonderful response to all the negative
stuff was that your staff surprised you with cheer on your one special
day of the year. That was amazing!
I just wrote to a distressed customer whom I had written earlier in
the week to say his CC hadn't gone through. Oh he was so upset,
honestly, and he felt so terrible and I wrote him and said , it is all
okay. I told him I must be older as I know life is seemingly not
fair. It has its hills and valleys and lumps and bumps, but the
character he was displaying was the most valuable thing and I'd take
that happily.
Thank you for sharing your goodness with all of us Bernie.
Hauoli la hanau today as we say here, and hope your week continues in
the upswing.
warmest aloha,
Cea
--smithfarms.com
farmers of pure kona
roast beans to kona to email
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 12:52:08
From: Johnny
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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"bernie digman" <bdigman@zianet.com > wrote in message
news:44eb58ba@nntp.zianet.com...
> More like sitting in a parking lot than a field. I'm the opener these
days in an effort to keep
> closer to the business. Rolling out at 5am and getting to the shop at
around 5:45am is not something
> I relish, but it has it's upside. This morning happened to be my b-day
<snip/ >
that brought a tear to my eye. Looks like they appreciate you.... :-)
Happy birthday one year old.
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Date: 23 Aug 2006 13:01:36
From: Danny
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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bernie digman wrote:
> More like sitting in a parking lot than a field. I'm the opener
> these days in an effort to keep closer to the business. Rolling out at
> 5am and getting to the shop at around 5:45am is not something I relish,
> but it has it's upside.-snip-
Great story! I am at the market at 05:45 (up at 04:50) and enjoy the
early mornings. Unfortunately, no-one else can stand in for me, since
they couldn't take the trailer down to the location.
--
Regards, Danny
http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/EU ordering for Malabar Gold blend)
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Date: 22 Aug 2006 21:54:39
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: 'pologies to Danny....
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Randy G. wrote:
> > A man had
> >been working underneath a car when the jacks failed. Those of us who have taken that extra step to
> >grab some tool underneath a jacked up car or have worked around heavy machinery know how easy and
> >quick and deadly those things can be...
> >
> crap...
>
> When I was in college I worked at Monkey Wards in the auto repair area
> doing tires and batteries. I was installing a battery when I heard a
> loud noise next to me. I looked over at the car up on the split lift
> in the next stall. The motor was sitting next to the rear lift. The
> mechanic who had been working on it had just removed the rear motor
> mount and was going to lower the car to take the front mounts off. He
> had walked out from under the car and the entire V8 motor had fallen
> over 6 feet to the ground, bounced on the steel diamond plate, bending
> the plate substantially, and landed at the rear of the car.
Hired a guy to supervise doing a clutch for halfton G10 on pavement.
Had me jackstand the motor and proceeded to wear on me tired and hard,
like the local Cadillac floor supervisor he was once was. Of course, I
loved it. Dropped a car on him, too. After the Caddy days, on another
busy street, at a corner shop when they stop at a fast, harried pace.
Mechanics can tend be that way, I suspect, residually a heath issue.
They used the jaws of life to get him out underneath, I believe he told
me. Looked OK, working beside me and wearing at me hard the whole
time. Lost it once, screaming because I can periodically take time to
keep clean. No sweat, like I said (but not to him), I simply can. I
invest fairly well, also. Someone else told me it was a glucose level
thing and not me. I didn't know what to think when he told me he
wasn't right (internal affairs) and thought I knew better. He'd never
had the chance to focus slower, a fast moving grease monkey since a
kid. He even took me to a backroom in a house he rented from a
divorcee, where he tried to sell me his old $10K snapon toolchest setup
for $2K (which cost a hell'va lot more and went for a hell'va lot less
shortly thereafter, hopefully, to a more deserving soul). Few weeks
later he got his settlement from the shop where the car fell one him.
Got a new Cadillac with it, just like he said in one of those living
type of dreams he mentioned. He died a few days after. Not more than
3 or 4 weeks after, I'm sure. I still work on trucks and think of or
mention him to a few that knew him now and then. God knows why.
> :-D Happy B'day. Let's all work safe and fit in a few more, eh?
Sure, why not. Don't buy cheap tripod jackstands, he said. Get the
ones with 4-way supports.
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