05-09-2020, 03:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2020, 03:54 PM by Drunk Monk.)
I appreciate your support, my brothers.
When I left AFS, I remember regretting that I wouldn't have access to a shop and I'd lose my shop skills. I nibbled at getting some of my own tools, but to what end? I did get enough to make some Bodhidharma Canes, but I didn't get far there. I made the prototypes for Tiger Claw's mass produced ones and I made a nice one for myself out of black walnut, but that was it. I don't miss shop work although I always thought I'd do more with it.
Don't I have to invest in the Adobe suite before I get that photo bundle?
I'm not worried about becoming homeless. My mom's home is paid in full. Our Fremont home is a nest egg, not paid off yet - still a few more years to go - but we could liquidate that. Hopefully not, of course. We always intended that to be an investment towards another house, hopefully here in Seabright.
It's the job market that gives me the most trepidation. How many are unemployed now? Stacy said she could probably get me a job working the desk at the Well, assuming the Well reopens at some point. Even tho the pay would be low, and no medical, that actually has some appeal, at least until things get better.
It's totally the END. The END of the mag. The end of an era.
Here's a story I just shared with Stacy. When Patrick was cleaning out his desk last Weds, he found a postcard from India that I sent him in '97. That was before I worked there. We had met when Shi Yanming came through, and perhaps at John Ervin's tournament (a pupil of Sifu in Ohio) where we both worked, then we crossed paths at a Shoreline Dead show, which led me to think he was a Deadhead. He's not. He's an old skool NYC raver. I had sent him a postcard of Hanuman, berating him for fusing Hanuman and Monkey King myths. We both laughed at him finding that. Man, I'm really going to miss him in my daily life. We've been through so much together. He joined the JNK for a while. We did a lot together outside of work - went to so many screeners together. We'll still stay in touch, of course. He'll be the only one I really want stay in contact with from TC.
When I left AFS, I remember regretting that I wouldn't have access to a shop and I'd lose my shop skills. I nibbled at getting some of my own tools, but to what end? I did get enough to make some Bodhidharma Canes, but I didn't get far there. I made the prototypes for Tiger Claw's mass produced ones and I made a nice one for myself out of black walnut, but that was it. I don't miss shop work although I always thought I'd do more with it.
Don't I have to invest in the Adobe suite before I get that photo bundle?
I'm not worried about becoming homeless. My mom's home is paid in full. Our Fremont home is a nest egg, not paid off yet - still a few more years to go - but we could liquidate that. Hopefully not, of course. We always intended that to be an investment towards another house, hopefully here in Seabright.
It's the job market that gives me the most trepidation. How many are unemployed now? Stacy said she could probably get me a job working the desk at the Well, assuming the Well reopens at some point. Even tho the pay would be low, and no medical, that actually has some appeal, at least until things get better.
It's totally the END. The END of the mag. The end of an era.
Here's a story I just shared with Stacy. When Patrick was cleaning out his desk last Weds, he found a postcard from India that I sent him in '97. That was before I worked there. We had met when Shi Yanming came through, and perhaps at John Ervin's tournament (a pupil of Sifu in Ohio) where we both worked, then we crossed paths at a Shoreline Dead show, which led me to think he was a Deadhead. He's not. He's an old skool NYC raver. I had sent him a postcard of Hanuman, berating him for fusing Hanuman and Monkey King myths. We both laughed at him finding that. Man, I'm really going to miss him in my daily life. We've been through so much together. He joined the JNK for a while. We did a lot together outside of work - went to so many screeners together. We'll still stay in touch, of course. He'll be the only one I really want stay in contact with from TC.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse