On 4/15/2016 7:53 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Jeßus wrote:
>> notbob wrote:
>>> Jeßus wrote:
>>>
>>>> Plumbers make like bandits over your way?
>>>
>>> When they're working.

Plumbers must be working around here because I am constantly seeing
plumbing trucks on Dataw.

>>> Yes, union trades make mucho $$$$. They also do not work steady. My
>>> late FIL was a union electrician in the IBEW. It was feast or famine.
>>> Lotta famine. 8|
>>
Skipping to:

> Union electricians make more money on side jobs than on their regular
> union job... they're simply not going to advertise their side jobs to
> anyone. One of my best and oldest friends was a master electrician
> with the IBEW for many years, but about 40 years ago decided to openly
> go into business for himself, because he made a lot more money doing
> non union jobs and his union job took up too much time. Now he's sort
> of retired but employs a crew of eight... he only does the estimating
> and five evenings a week he teaches to prepare people to take the test
> for licensed electrician. His son took over most of the physical
> work. Early on Joe was agonizing over of a name for his company, he
> thought Aardvark Electric because it would be the first name in the
> Yellow Pages. We both lived on the north shore of Lung Guyland so I
> suggested North Electric, he liked it and that's been his company name
> some forty years. These days he does primarily commercial jobs, he
> recently contracted for all the electrical work for 7-11 stores in
> Suffolk County. Store by store they've been switching over to all LED
> lighting... much better lighting at 1/6 the electric usage. I've been
> changing over to LED lighting at home, a major difference in my
> electric bill, it's already less than half what it was a few months
> ago. I changed over all my outdoor lighting fixtures, I no longer
> concern myself with those lighting bills, LED usage is not much more
> than tiny night light bulbs only they give fantastic lighting, like
> bright daylight... a 17 watt LED gives more and better light than 300
> watt incandescents... and I no longer need to buy and change bulbs, an
> LED fixture lamp is good for better than twenty years. In fact I
> already got rid of those incondescent night lights, and now use LEDs,
> much better. These use .8 watts... that's less than one watt and give
> much better light than ordinary 8 watt incondescent night lights.
> These are amazing, I bought six; one in each bathroom, one in my
> kitchen, one in each of two hallways, and one in my basement:
> http://www.amazon.com/Maxxima-MLN-50...=sr_1_2&sr=8-2
>
>
That's one heck of a paragraph. Sheldon, are you writing your memoirs?

Thanks again for being a shill for Amazon.com.

Jill