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Quigley


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Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Orillia Ontario Canada
Date: Dec 2, 2009
Date Uploaded: Dec 3, 2009

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 This is a house that I'm remodeling for a family that bought it from the husbands father who built it himself back in 1964. Before I started there wasn't a straight, square, or level wall in the house. I wish some people would never say "Sure I can do that." and just leave things to the people that know what their doing.

In the end it will be everything they want it to be but I could have built them a new house a lot faster then fixing this one up.

I'm doing the entire renovation by myself because I can't find anyone reliable enough to trust to do the work right and the helper I had in the beginning turned out to be less then useless and a total wast of my time and money trying to teach him how to do things. I love to pass on the things I have learned and taught myself but when the person your trying to teach turns out to be as dumb as a stump, there's just no use in continuing to try.

It's a fun job and I'm able to be creative with some of the things I've done for them which is a big plus for me. I've shown them different ways to do things and designed many parts of the changes to suit their needs. Good people to work for are sometimes hard to find and these people are awesome. I've been away a lot with Isaac (our youngest son filming) and they have been totally cool with it.

I'm thinking heavily about retiring from construction and this would be a dream job to finish my career with.

I'll leave you with a funny thing (one of many in my construction career) that happened to me the other day. If you can't laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at.

This was from another thread that I'm a part of.

Originally posted by Quigley:
Hello all, glad to see your all hanging in there.

Well I climbed on the scale this morning and I'm now 220lbs!!!! That makes 35lbs lost and 20lbs to go before the end of December. I think I can do it now that I've gone back to Judo and Isaac is finished filming Dino Dan, I have some time to concentrate on me for a little bit. This is the upside, the down side is I have nothing that fits me anymore, not to mention the plumbers crack and I'm an electrician and a carpenter. I now spend half the day pulling up my pants even with the belt on and 4 new holes drilled in it they still fall down when I put tools in my pockets.

The other day I was packing up at work and I walked into the house with my arms loaded up with tools and my pockets were full as well when I turned the corner and my pants started falling down, I couldn't drop the tools I was carrying because of the hardwood flooring (and the cost of the tools) so I had to keep going on into the room that I use to put my stuff. (the corner of their newly built living room.) Imagine my surprise when I entered the room laboured with the weight of the tools both in my hands and in my pockets and the home owner was there with three of her friends showing off my handy work. I was greeted with "Oh and here he is now. Max these are my fri......." "Oh my, what happened to your pants?"

Thank you Mom for telling me to 'ALWAYS' wear clean underwear. After I put down the tools, because by this time they had already seen me standing there with my arms loaded up and my pants falling down I figured this is no time to be shy or embarrassed just try to salvage what little dignity you have left and move on. I walked towards the four ladies with an outstretched hand, "Pleased to meet you ladies, my name's Max and I've been doing a little renovation to Crystal and James's house."

Now let me tell you I was not the only red face in the room. All four of them stood there in stunned wonder and couldn't speak and one by one they reached out to shake my hand. "I'm Judy." "I'm Shelly." and "I'm Christine but you can call me Chris for sh..." After shaking their hands I did the only thing I could think of, I said "Does anybody mind if I pull up my pants?" I never thought a line like that would ever come out of my mouth let alone be used as an icebreaker.

Laughter abound and Kleenex all around we finished the day with a tour of the place discussing the way things were and what I did to improve on the house and the amount of work that has been done. The ladies were all business and so was I. It's nice to know that I can still think on my feet and I'm a good enough salesman to walk into a room full of women with my pant down and still get work.

So all in all this whole exercise has been great and I have to give a big shout out the wonderful people at Calvin Klein for a fine fitting pair of boxer briefs with the pouch for the boys in front. Comfort no matter what the occasion. Now that's a picture.

All the best to everyone. Keep up the great work.

MAX!


Thanks for looking. I hope you had fun.

MAX!

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 12/07/2009 02:58:29 AM
Love your work... we might be needing something like this when #6 arrives soon... house is getting too small for our growing family. Nice photo, btw.
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 12/04/2009 02:27:04 PM
I'm sure it will be incredible when you're done! Fun story and congrats on keeping your composure!
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 12/03/2009 07:08:58 PM
great story- you are an artist !
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 12/03/2009 07:05:39 PM
lol lol LOL ..
hey max that was so incredibly funny ..
and congrats on losing all the weight ..
and thanx .. you've brightened up an otherwise sad and depressing day .. :)x

think i'll read the falling down pants story again .. !!!

Message edited by author 2009-12-03 19:06:55.
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