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Howdy All,
I am traveling to San Mateo Sunday to begin training on NETSUITE essentials. The class is Monday through Friday from 9-5. Look forward to checking out the corporate culture, meeting my account rep and most importantly learning.
Peace
There is also a mountain mixed in but it did not read as well as the current title.
This was the first time that I went to Salt Lake.
It was wonderful weather.
This was the first meeting I had with Contempo Tile
What a boring post. Getting warmed up.
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| From Contempo Utah |
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| From Contempo Utah |
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| From Contempo Utah |
came across this site through the wall street journal
Wall of bottles
This past week Arto was at PCBC held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. A first for this generation: a trade show so far from home base. I think Arto himself did a trade show in Vegas, once.
This first pic was taken on the roof of Moscone. The convention hall is subterranean, very cool.
These pics are of our booth and crew. The crew all did an awesome job. Left to right; Stephanie, Sarah, Will & Sam (I am in the third one down, far right). These pics were taken at 2:59 PM on Friday, the show ended at 3PM. The booth was well used, but everything still looks great doesn’t it?
These are pics of our (convention hall) neighbors. The last ones are a series & one of them was having fun.
This is at Bourget Flagstone in Santa Monica. It has been installed for more than five years, the beautiful colors caused by the exposure to dirt and water.
Driving around town came across this project in Santa Monica
Arto and crew have been going here since the sixties. Here is the LA Times Story link
Here is a very old school advertisement. I saw it at Bourget Bros. Someone highlighted “Hostesses” .
Will and I were in Goleta and stopped by Goleta Building Materials. The picture is taken from their front door not a bad site.
These shots are from NASCAR cafe in Orlando Florida
Very excited today. Just purcahsed my first item off of EBAY. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on the net for business and persnol items. I have surfed EBAY sites many times but have never bid. I even have an account I set up back in the 90′s, never used it. I needed an air compressor for the plant, got some quotes and choked. I have eaten up a lot homerepo air compressors so I needed a good one and I needed a lot of scfm, 37 plus for one item. Well I bid for the first time and won. Here is a link to my item. LINK
So know you know the reason for the destination. Not really it was Fontana 1 hour east of West Los Angeles. Now the adventure.
I miscaluclted. I got out to Fontna almost three hours ahead of time. Yes that is a lot. That normally is not a problem but had in the car with me three kids of my own and two first cousins the ages 4 to 10 median age 5. Ouch. No problem had my wifes Honda Odessey a very manly vehicle with it over the top GPS. So I searched for parks and historic sites to visit. Did plenty of drive-bys (spelling). Then it happened Jensen-Alvarado Ranch. Drove down a regular looking rsidential street. I thought my wife’s GPS was broken. Looked like a dead end or culdesac depending on your tax bracket. All of a sudden two homes were not where they should have been and there was an entrance to I think 45 acres of what is left of the historic site ranch.
Parked the VAN and got out. Wow its hot. We left Santa Monica / Westside it was what 71 degrees farehit. Got in the VAN had the AC full blast opend the door in Riverside and it was 101. It was hot the kids melted but they were free to run and sweat. We walked the property did not know what to expect. Came to some dirty pigs in the shade laying in some cool mud. Turn the corner and there is a beuatiful house, a sqaure brick building, a tower and white linens hanging up. It was a real surprise. Got closer and there was a docent Mrs. Henry. Very nice she asked us what we were doing here. I said I am here to buy a air compressor and I got out here to early. How much time do you have she said. I said about and hour. So here is the hour tour.
Jensen came from Denmark with a cargo laiden ship to Gold Rush San Francisco. Sold everything married a 16 year old Alvarado of Alvarado Street fame of Los Angeles. Had 12 kids 10 became adults. Had a winery and was the social center of the community. The kids can churn butter, clean laundry and churn Ice cream. There is much more like some military guy named Sherman stayed there. Anycase great people, great history not enough time. Definitley and redo.
Next.
Went to kickthe tires on the air compressor. Oh thats right at this time I had not bid on the compressor. Met a great guy named Mark. He is a master tinkerer.His back yard is a man’s playground trucks, machines compressors,not abandoned being worked on. The compressor looks great I hope it runs and picked up a drill press for one hundred dollars. Good deal. I hope it runs. Then Mark walked me to behind his home the kids had peeled away to the VAN by now. Well behind his home were a few avocado trees. He handed me the bigest avacados I have seen. As I end this note I am rushing to the end so I can go to the bed. We left had pizza. The end. Pictures Below.
I could not post them on the appropiate post. HA
It happened on my exciting trip to Indianapolis for committee week of the NPCA*. Yes exciting, it really is. One example of exciting is that the foundations subcommittee is adding a new category to the ICC code book. Basically a new product has been created that will make available precast concrete basements for residential use. Yes, exciting. Why? Because I hope basements can make a come back. I like basements and I think all children and all men do too. Plus maybe Arto Brick can put veneer on the walls.
Well what finally happened, First Class happened. Not on the way out. I am too cheap. I was converted. On the way out I sat next to a grandmother and her 10 year old grandson. No big deal. But they did not stop talking. That alone is not bad but they spoke a language I did not know, on a non stop flight from Los Angeles to Indianapolis. The boy was in my prized (assigned) window seat, prized because I have not flown enough to not care about looking out the window. I made my normal move and said it is okay that he is sitting in my seat. The grandma thought I was being rude. I sat through my prison sentence and got off the plane and forgot about the experience.
No conversion yet. On the journey home while I moved through stranded passengers going east I came to my self check-in terminal, slid my ID in, pressed a few buttons and then a message in red letters popped up on the screen. Not as impressive as the Red letters in the Bible those are of Jesus Christ?s message. Not nearly as impressive I realized the red letters were not due to my error at the terminal or indicating that my plane would be stuck in Washington DC because of bad weather. UPGRADE FOR 100 DOLLARS for the longest leg of the flight – Minneapolis to Los Angeles. I took the bait and later had remorse because I figured it is really not that good in first class or that bad in coach. No conversion.
Indy to Minneapolis. I sat next to a person who needed a seat belt extender. I am a fat man but I was thin now by comparison. The arm rest was up because the person overflowed into mine and there was attitude to go along with it. I was looking forward to first class but still no conversion.
Minneapolis to Los Angeles. I walked half mile for the plane change. Got on the plane and turned right and could not find my seat and realized I was fooled because it looked the same as coach. First class was not that special. Then I looked at the number it was 12 not 4. Turned around went past the curtain and sat down in seat 4C. I was converted; lots of room, friendly service, free food and, if I drank, free booze. I am converted.
*NPCA ? National Precast Concrete Association
**ICC ? International Code Council
Today themfg was not at work. I was doing jury duty. It would have not been so bad if it was not so boring. The view was good, 11th story of the Superior Court Building @ 210 Temple (on a hill) great view of the city. Walked down to Philippe’ s good walk. Walked over the City Hall Project we did. Looks good. Can use some sealer.
The court building for me was a good example of my belief that the porous products grow with building while impervious products do not. Columns were covered with travertine, floor of terrazzo wall of glazed tile. The whole job was probably from the 70′s. Everything looked good but the ceramic tile. It was out of date. The other products are timeless.
