If you need any electric motor

Though I did not do much the first year other than walk around and say

WOW, I don't have to work today.

Right now I am working 30 - 60 hours a week for myself.

I am about to publish a book soon, it will be easy to spot

in letters it will say EDITED BY : COLLEEN K...

then somewhere in small letters there will be a parenthetical note such as (oh, by the way, philo wrote this book)

What's the book about?

You just make the nuts and bolts reflect your actual cost plus a fair markup. If you are running a tech parts room like I did, we figured it cost about $65 to sell an empty box if we had to invoice it and bill the customer. There was no "cash".

For the past three months I've spent 60 hours a week scanning my old slides and negatives.

The book will be a brief pictorial auto-biography, perhaps 140 pages , half text, half images.

Though this book will come right up to present it will also go back to the late 50's.

It turns out that anything prior to 1995 or so is considered history.

Although I've been doing photography since I was six years old, when I got a 35mm camera in 1970, I considered myself a serious photographer. Only recently at the age of 66 have I gone pro and have been "discovered." My wife, who is an artist is already represented by Timothy Cobb fine arts, and one day he told me he'd like to represent me as well. Due to this recognition I've been inspired to do a book.

Some of the photos were taken while I was stationed in Germany 1970/71

I realize now that 25 years after WW-II was just the blinking of an eye. When my wife gets done doing the layout of this book, it will be a masterpiece.

My previous book was a photo essay on Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall, owned by my friend Andy Kochanski

I don't hang out with sissies, heck, he's almost as tough as my wife

The previous book was fascinating,imo, with lots of great photos. This one probably will be a masterpiece. Please let us know when it's available.

Thank you very much! I recall that you and Old Gringo bought one...

This next one should be even better unless Colleen kills me for my ungrammatical writing. We hope to submit for proofs by the end of this month

I might buy a book on needing any electric motor, if the book wasn't too pricey.

Good for him! Defending himself.

Sounds like a lot of work! Hope it comes out great!

You're welcome. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I am a big fan of black and white photography.

And hire someone to do all of that?

We were an engineering company. We wanted to do engineering, not stock and supply parts (to a $20B company).

Their rep had the right solution: don't put rules in place cuz all that will do is cause folks to "get creative" about how they worked AROUND the rules. Instead, assume each party is aware of the issues and doesn't want to cause the other pain.

E.g., their R&D types could more easily get parts from us "as spares" -- regardless of what they actually wanted to use them for -- than to cut a PO and "go through corporate". So, they have a big incentive not to wear out their welcome -- causing us to drag our feet as much as their corporate, would!

We, of course, wanted to encourage good will between a valuable customer/client and ourselves -- without it becoming too distracting to our normal business.

I love it too.

Though there will be some color photos, quite a few were taken in B&W with either my 35mm camera or medium format 2.25" x 2.25"

Also, I am including some taken with my Brownie camera.

They might not have seemed like much at the time, 50/60 years later they turned out to be quite interesting.

Here is one (and only one) preview from the book

With my wife at the helm it's absolutely going to be splendid. It is a lot of work and my wife is just the person to do it.

He killed the would-be robber not so much to protect himself, as to protect his customers.

This was the SECOND time he shot at would be robbers.

Oh, I really like that. Lots of sharp focus and then a blur to draw the eye. Love it!

Again thank you.

That was taken at a supper club about 20 miles south of Milwaukee. It was built in 1954 and it has stayed mostly unchanged.

What's the story behind the photo?

When you buy the book, you will find out, but briefly, the guy at the bar is my friend Doug.

My wife and I along with Doug and his wife and a few friends stopped in that the Hob Nob on our way back from Chicago.

When my wife and I discovered the place many years ago, we almost did not go in because we thought it might be too expensive.

Every car in the lot was a Mercedes!

We went in anyway and found out that a Mercedes owners club had rented a private dining room and you did not have to own one to dine there.

We could afford the place and we love it

Nice story. :)