Re: Drive-through update

Save some of the rebar, bend it into arcs, and epoxy the semi-circles
to the side of coffee mugs and sell them to recoup some of the costs?
;-) You could let the handles rust and have something printed on the
cup like:

"If your Crema is not the color of this handle, come back to..."
and the address of the shop.

Randy "better than an alt.coffee T-shirt even" G.
http://www.EspressoMyEspresso.com



bernie <bdigman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Okay girls and boys, its time again for the annual update on the fabled
>drive through project here at Milagro Coffee y Espresso. After moving
>around $10,000 worth of dirt and laying some asphalt and concrete curbs
>and building an obnoxiously large (4'x45'x3') flower box we were ready
>to have the openings cut for the two windows. About 5 weeks ago. The
>wall turned out to be more than the standard 8" cinder block. It is a
>12" cinder block wall. With #5 (5/8") AND 1" rebar in cross lay after
>which they filled the friggin' wall with concrete. So the standard
>masonry saws didn't work. We found a guy with a big ICS saw which is a
>14" plunge, water-cooled high speed chain saw. The chain is diamond
>impregnated and runs around $500 and they charge by the .001th inch of
>wear. After breaking the saw twice, the owner of the saw hasn't been
>back for 3weeks. I went up to Truth or Consequences where I'd reserved
>the same model. When I got there last Friday the guy was showing me how
>the thing operated and it broke the clutch in front of us. The original
>saw man was supposed to be in Monday this week to finish. He hasn't come
>in yet. I've called him twice every day. He came by today and said his
>daughter is in the hospital and he will be in first thing in the
>morning. It has become a giant pain in the ass. I'm doing much of the
>landscaping myself which is theraputic. So, girls and boys, thats the
>annual update on a project that should have taken no more than two weeks
>and is now in month 5 and almost double the budgeted amount. The upside
>is that the customers have become totally engaged in the soap opera.
>Bernie (almost out of patience) D.

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