Thursday, 16 April 2009
Monday, 06 October 2008
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What's REALLY going on!
In case you're wondering, no the girl in the picture is not my cousin, and no, I did not photoshop her in. The girl in the picture just happens to be my girlfriend, Miss Jessica Sharp.
Here are a list of other frequently asked questions:
Where is she from? Greenwood, De goes to Laws Mennonite Church
How did you meet? I was hanging out with some old SMB friends, Joel and Caleb Bontrager. We were going to a rodeo, and thier sister Abi wanted to go along, but she didn't want to be the only girl, so she invited Jess along.
She looks familiar, have I seen her before some where: As a matter of fact you might have, she was at SMBI the past two winters and graduated this past spring, and before that she quizzed quite a few years.
How did you ever manage to get her to go out with you? I actually didn't have a whole lot to do with it, God did a lot of the work. It has been totally amazing the way He has worked so far. There have been some crazy stories about how He has directed and led and continues to lead.
There are many more details but you are going to hav to call me or email me if you want them
Thanks and have a great day,
Davey
Sunday, 28 September 2008
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Okay, so its been like nine months since I updated my Xanga. Which basically means I got a life and Xanga feel by the wayside.
It was a year ago this week that I quit my job and decided to start working for myself. It has been an absolutely awesome ride, building my own business and stuff. Not realy xanga material, so you didn't hear much about it. Basically I realized My life was going no where and I wasn't going to get anywhere at my job, so I quit there and tried something that has the potential to go places.
My job wasn't the only place I decided it was time to get a move on with. I also realized that if I want to get anywhere with some of my relationships with church and friends and stuff, I am going to need to be alot more proactive. Which has been awesome. The past year has been one of the best, most rewarding years I've enjoyed. And I've been too busy to really post a whole lot about it on Xanga.
So yes. I am still alive. If you really want to catch up with me, give me a ring on my cell some time. 484-332-5988 or drop me an email.
Later
Davey
Saturday, 26 January 2008
Monday, 21 January 2008
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It's cold and windy out today. High today is supposed to be 18*. My kid just called in sick, so I get to spend the day in the office balancing checkbooks, paying bils, and all the other paperwork that goes with running a business. O' joy, O' delight.
Saturday, 19 January 2008
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There is nothing like camping out in the winter!!!! Twas frosty, but a big fire and two sleeping bags keeps you nice and toasty.
Friday, 11 January 2008
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Prision Break!!!!!
Nothing ever happens in Snow Hill, except today. There is a convict on the loose right now, somewhere in the neighborhood. The Police keeps cruising up and down the street, the whirly bird is circling overhead. I should put on my orange hunting clothes and sneak around the back yard.
Friday, 28 December 2007
Thursday, 13 December 2007
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Some guys got it made. Self-employed guys gotta get up, make thier own tea, and drag their stufy noses off to wor so the bills get paid and the employee stays happy
Friday, 23 November 2007
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A Week in the Life of a Business Man
I started my first official project this week. People are asking me how it is going; so for their sake, and the annals of history, allow me to tell you the whole story.
Week 1:
Objective: Frame a 30'x32'x12' Pole Building and have it ready for steel by Wednesday afternoon
Lets Just say things didn't go quite like I planned
Sat Noon
Call my helper to confirm he's working Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Something else came up and he can't work Monday
Call the rental yard to make sure they have a post hole driller they do, but I can't have it till 8:30
Call another yard, they have one and I can pick it up at 7:30 (the time I had wanted to be at the site)
Sun Eve
It starts to snow like crazy
Mon Morning
Get up and we have an inch of snow with more falling Deliveries are scheduled and things are coming, I have to go for it.
Wait around for the rental yard to open, Load the post hole driller on my truck, Its a piece of junk
Get to the jobsite, they have 2 inches of snow. The lumber was delivered 3 hrs. earlier then I told them. They dumped it in the wrong spot. I'm missing some of the the items.
Wait around for the skidsteer.
Trusses are delivered. The price is higher than what the estimate said, checked my paperwork and realized I used the wrong number on the estimate
Skidsteer finally shows up.
Push snow off site and begin turn site into a muddy soup
Have a half hour lunch meeting at 11:30 Leave for it at 11:15 and don't return till almost 1
Site is a muddy soup
Post hole driller is a piece of junk, takes several wacks with a sledge to convince it to fit on the skidsteer.
Post holes drill easy except for several convincing rocks.
By the time I'm done drilling it's time to get the post hole driller back to the rental yard, so I call it an early day.
Tuesday
Pick up my helper bright and early and we head out to the site
Miss my gas station I wanted to stop at for coffee, no more stops between here and there.
Get to the site and its raining.
Carry all the poles 150' to the site and get ready to set poles.
Discover that we are 3 pole short.
Realize that I must have used the wrong piece of paper for the limber list cuz I'm short on other things too.
By now its raining heavier, so we go to the lumber yard.
Spend an hour at the lumber yard talking with the salesman and getting things ordered, helper is out in the truck sleeping
Go back to the site and decide to man up or leave
Set poles in the mud
My phone keeps ringing, everyone else is in the office and wants to talk
Get the side purlins on, everything is covered in mud
Wednesday
I meet with a group of guys for a Bible study at 5:00am at Shady Maple. It's usually over by 6:45 and then I needed to stop at the lumber yard then drive up to the site, I should be there by 8:30. The evening before I give my helper instuctions on what to do till I get there and drew him a map how to get there.
Get to the bibble study and my phone beeps low battery
Helper calls at 6:45 to ask if it's okay to stop for coffee. I say sure
Try to make a call at 7 and my phone dies
Get my lumber and remember that I need my ladder back at my shop in Reading
Drive up to Reading, get my ladder and head for Myerstown
Get to the site at 8:45 nobody is around.
Try my phone, still dead
run to town, buy a charger, call helper
He's lost, the map was wrong
give him directions,
head back to the site, he calls, can't find the road yada-yada-yada
find him lead him over
finally get started around 9:30
keep it moving and get the trusses set. and get the stone truck stuck in the back yard
pull the truck out with my pick-up, make ruts and tracks the whole way out.
Use up all my lumber and get the thing to the place where we're ready to start putting steel on next time we come.
So, to make a long story short, it has been a very real-life initiation session. Sure it has it's challenges, but that's what job doesn't ?
And, regardless of my story-telling, we accomplished our goal, getting the frame up and ready for steel.
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- Name: Davey
- Country: United States
- State: Pennsylvania
- Metro: Reading
- Birthday: 8/26/1982
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 12/29/2004
About Me
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What are you doing with your life? I'm taking life as it comes and enjoying every minute of it.
