Silly rich people

**Beirut** · 06-09-2007, 02:07

Originally Posted by FactionHeir

Nice looting. Happens often?

First time.

Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

I think I like your job, Beirut. You need a hand for next season? I can imagine it gets trickier in winter though. Hence your ultra-caloric baking experiments. It all makes sense.

Any time, brother. I'll pay for the plane ticket. Very hard to find good help. There are only two or three guys in town who can/will handle work like this and everyone wants them. When we get someone who will give us even two days a week, we treat them like gold in order to keep them. That's why 99% of our jobs it's just me and my partner. We've had lots of people quit after one or two days.

Winter is pretty quiet, mostly emergency jobs and some log home building. Biggest problem in the winter is keeping your hands warm, especially the climbers. Very hard to find gloves that stay warm, dry, and have a good tactile feel for hanging on in the tree. The stretchy wool ones with rubber palms and fingers are best, but far from perfect.

Lots of flightsims and cleaning the house in the winter. Good time to get fat.

**SwordsMaster** · 06-09-2007, 09:37

Originally Posted by Beirut

First time.

Any time, brother. I'll pay for the plane ticket. Very hard to find good help. There are only two or three guys in town who can/will handle work like this and everyone wants them. When we get someone who will give us even two days a week, we treat them like gold in order to keep them. That's why 99% of our jobs it's just me and my partner. We've had lots of people quit after one or two days.

Winter is pretty quiet, mostly emergency jobs and some log home building. Biggest problem in the winter is keeping your hands warm, especially the climbers. Very hard to find gloves that stay warm, dry, and have a good tactile feel for hanging on in the tree. The stretchy wool ones with rubber palms and fingers are best, but far from perfect.

Lots of flightsims and cleaning the house in the winter. Good time to get fat.

Hehe, I might still take you up on that, so be careful. Since academia finally releases me at the end of the month I'll be jobless and in debt by the end of summer...

Cutting trees in Canada might be better than programming in the UK...

**AntiochusIII** · 06-09-2007, 10:16

Brings out the Viking in you.

**naut** · 06-10-2007, 15:32

To get all that free stuff you have awesome karma.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 06-12-2007, 00:54

Silly rich people don't get rich by being stupid. They're probably utilizing an insurance write-off for storm damage of some of that property. A win-win for both. Nice score. Can we expect to see pictures of the new addition on the Beirut Estate any time soon? A new family room and outside deck overlooking the cement pond and English Garden perhaps?

**Beirut** · 06-12-2007, 01:19

Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito

Can we expect to see pictures of the new addition on the Beirut Estate any time soon? A new family room and outside deck overlooking the cement pond and English Garden perhaps?

I wish. I can get you a nice photo of my broken piece of granite, though.

Not sure when we'll be able to afford to put in the windows we took or the kitchen cabinets. The windows shouldn't cost too much and it will really make the house look better, inside and out. Putting in the kitchen cabinets will cost a chunk. Our kitchen is very small and we'll have to rip out part of the bathroom upstairs to make room for the new cabinets, which is ok because the bathtub we're getting rid of is redundant as well as leaky and unusable, and it would be great to have a bigger kitchen.

I can handle some of the destruction to save a few bucks, but I'm utterly incompetent as a carpenter, so we have to hire someone.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 06-12-2007, 01:57

New windows are a joy. I just replaced all of my 34 year old wooden windows, 30 of them. I installed triple pane low e-glass vinyl ones, and though it cost me a pretty penny, was well worth the investment. No more rope caulking before winter, watching the curtains waving in the breeze even though the windows are closed, having to use a hammer and 2x4 block of wood to persuade swollen, sticking, windows with broken balance springs to open. A joy indeed.

A larger kitchen with more cabinet & counter space sounds nice, saving on the materials is a step in the right direction, too bad about the granite. Hope you can pull it off soon. I'm fortunate to have a few friends with different construction skills, I can do drywall, flooring, and some rough carpentry, but plumbing, furnace, and electrical stuff that is beyond the basics is not within my competency either. However, I do a little flooring job and get some electrical work done in return and everyone's happy.