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If you are going in the hole maybe you just need a bigger truck.

I'm balls to the wall with work (industrial stuff), but I feel your pain on the money end Larry, money comes in, money goes out. I feel like it's a broken sieve that you are trying to fill, but the holes keep getting bigger and bigger. At least that's a good way to describe it. Just paid almost 5gs in insurance, and yayyy it's tax time too. Never ends. I always thought growing up that biz failed bc people weren't industrious enough, well either I was dead wrong or something has changed bc you can work your ass off 90 hours a week, and just tread water. It's batshit crazy.

So, what do you want to do with the rest of your life? What are your goals and what are you doing to fulfill them? You have a bunch of tools and the skill to use them but what do you want to build, I doubt its pointing breaker bars. I have recently been taught a hard lesson from a client of over a decade, seems they threw me to wolfs for no apparent reason. Anyway it really put in perspective what I should be doing and my drive towards that goal is paying off. I really hope you find what your looking for, I feel you have a lot of talent a strong drive and a shit load of kick ass tools, good luck.

I'm not trying to say busting bits aint a good job to keep the doors open and any time spent with your boy is good time spent IMO. I wish my boy liked to pound on iron, computer has ahold of him and wont leg go, hopefully its just a phase? Overhead does suck the buck but once you have those toolys its hard to go back, I can see the potential in a wad of tin foil, so Hector the collector be his name. I had to close a shop and layoff people during this shit storm, but showing real passion in the work don't mean you always get paid, one thing I didn't see in the man I bought my hammer from was a hole lot of passion about metal anymore. He had hundreds of thousands breaker bars pass through his hands, had a cool way of moving them around too, a sling made from old tires, and a push behind electric lift. His entire shop was a coke forge, 2 power hammers and a pedestal grinder. What are you working on doing after you get those machines moved round? Lots a time I wonder if I will ever be able to put a pencil to paper again, staring at the blank page.

I had a very good friend die last Sunday, Richard. He is about the same age as me 50. His funeral is tommorow. I talked to him the night before he died. He pasted away having his last smoke of the night on the patio at a table and BAM masive heart attack------gone.

Remeber the story that Grant told of the Mexican fisherman. Life can be simple.

I once was getting a straight ravor shave from a wise old man in a barber shop in Seligman, AZ on old route 66 and he gave me some of the best advise of my life that rang true to my ears. He said, " Son don't let a dollar ruin your live. Live life today for tomorrow is uncertian. "