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The Coffee Shop / Re: Happy Birthday Steve!

« on: December 04, 2011, 01:49:57 pm »

Thanks everyone. It was a beautiful day and your messages made it even better. God bless all of you.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Happy Thanksgiving

« on: November 24, 2011, 09:02:20 am »

I hope all of you in the US have a wonderful thanksgiving. Everyone be safe.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Dust mask evaluations ???

« on: November 13, 2011, 08:04:02 pm »

Hi Brian, it all boils down to the level of protection that you want. The dust be gone filter is less efficient but it's more comfortable and easier to use. My strategy is actually use both of them. I plan to use the Totobobo for when I empty my dust collector or have high dust in the air. When I'm simply scrolling I like to use the dust be gone. If I could only have one I guess I would go with the Dust be gone.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Mini nativity set.

« on: November 13, 2011, 07:56:43 pm »

Still working on it. I'm am still swamped with name ornament orders and everything else is taking extra time. I'll see if I can get it done tonight or tomorrow. Sorry to be so slow.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Just a thankyou

« on: October 31, 2011, 11:51:50 pm »

Thanks Boutime, I agree with dgman. Jump on in and make some saw dust. If you get a chance send me a picture of first project you and your son finish. The thing I like to hear the most is that your son is working with you.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Thank you

« on: October 31, 2011, 11:39:30 pm »

Thanks Glenn, I don't get much time to spend in the forum but I also enjoy all the wonderful people from around the world who visit here. I'm lucky that I get to meet hundreds of others by email every month. I'm glad to hear you are having a nice time here and I will try to keep things interesting.

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Brag Forum / Re: Intarsia Guitars

« on: October 16, 2011, 11:59:16 pm »

That would look great hanging in the Rock and Roll hall of Fame.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Steves Pattern for today 9/30/11

« on: October 01, 2011, 01:24:06 am »

Thanks ChaChi, I missed that one.

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Are you ready for some Football?!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: September 09, 2011, 01:18:45 am »

Great game and my Kentucky boy Cobb had a great first game of his career. The kickoff return was a thing of beauty for him.

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Are you ready for some Football?!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: September 08, 2011, 08:08:30 pm »

I am so ready for the opener. Get the nachos ready!!

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Computer questions / Re: 1st Computer

« on: August 26, 2011, 02:58:11 pm »

The cable TV box in the room is the biggest heat generator. Those things are a sin how much current they draw. The older ones with the first DVR's built in draw about as much current as a refrigerator. If you turn them off they lose their menu database and take about 20 minutes to populate the menu when you turn them back on.

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Brag Forum / Re: Steve's Guardian angels

« on: August 26, 2011, 02:42:35 pm »

The inlay was a neat addition. I like it. Nice job.

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: WTG Steve

« on: August 24, 2011, 11:48:57 pm »

That's a great idea. I get that question several time a month. I wish that option could be turned off in the .pdf file so it was not an issue. Maybe I need to add instructions to the first page of every pattern?

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Ask Steve a question. / Re: Donations

« on: August 24, 2011, 11:44:34 pm »

Hi Chuck, welcome to the forum and thanks bunch for the donation. I use the donations for whiskey and wild women, errrr I mean wood and blades so it is truly appreciated. Let me know if you have any questions or ask the group here. You will find a great group of people here on the forum.

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Steve Goods e-mail today 8-22-11

« on: August 24, 2011, 11:39:44 pm »

I was just checking the forum before hitting the sack and saw this thread. You guys are pretty special.

I'll tell you a little story. After I posted the comment about needing the week I was on vacation to rest. I was hit by a nasty case of food poisoning. I spent about 30 hours in bed curled up in the fetal position wondering if an alien was hatching inside my stomach.

I remember waking up at one point and saying how much I wished I could be out in the shop scrolling. It's funny how a simple invisible parasite can change your perspective on things. Sunday I just wanted to lay on the couch and be lazy and yesterday I wanted to be anyplace but laying down.

I take a lot more time away from the blog than it appears. My wife and I spend more time together now that we ever have in our 32 year marriage. Believe it or not I cook all the meals and do the house work(poorly). She is retired now because of disability with her back and deserves to be taken care of for all the work she has done over the years. Before someone picks up on me cooking and the food poisoning mentioned above it was not my cooking LOL.

Burnout is not as much of a problem as disappointment. The less enthused I am about sitting down to work the worse the patterns get. It would be impossible to design a new intermediate pattern everyday so I throw in a lot of basic patterns. On those days we are only talking about 2 or 3 hours work. That's sustainable but it gets disappointing to me when I get too many of those in a row. That's what happened last week. I was putting up marginal patterns and that is just not much fun.

Here is the problem. When you write a blog and you want it to grow you have to post nearly everyday or the readers will go away. The content also has to be worth the readers attention or again they go away. There are a core group that will hang around but the blog won't support itself with just the core group. The ads you see in the email newsletter and on the blog page pay for the upkeep of the site, shop materials etc. If readers go away there is no revenue and my wife says "You want to do what with our money?". Now the blog will never be a lucrative money maker but it does have to pay the cost plus keep me happy with a new tool every now and then.

You can tell I'm feeling better because I'm rambling now. Thanks for all the support and kind words. Back to work.