600 bricks to go --- we are getting there !!!
i wish i had some brilliant concept to offer-- but my head on slightly crooked so i can't think straight. it is better but still left leaning..
the only odd thing i can think of is.....
remember when i had the wrong size balls-- i had hundreds of 27 mm and needed 30mm? and i was in a little bind because i needed them to make the monkey fists for everyone at dogfest...
in the process... i tried china-- which is where all inexpensive things are made.. and i ran headlong into alibaba. "let us help you find your 30 mm balls"
i thought ... just one more gimic.... except they hung in there with very specific emails about size, cost, how to order, shipping etc.. i would get 2 - 3 emails a day from different chinese companies-- and these were not form letters. i noticed-- very polite and helpful-
i finally got the 500 30 mm balls-- but i remained impressed with this alibaba connection to china... "is there any way we can help you find...." etc....
then yesterday i see in the wsj alibaba had an initial stock offering with alot pf publicity-- from my experience, they have the "ordering from china" down pat.
i have the same feeling about alibaba that i had about that first mcdonalds hamburger i had years ago.
somebody studied a need and is filling it..
the rest of that ball story is that i ran out of 1/4 " rope and ordered more from the rope company (r&w rope) and they sent some ever so slightly thinner than the spool i had been using...
consequently i needed 27mm balls... not the 30mm balls i had struggled to find..
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along that same line... i think... but i am not sure...that the toilet paper we just got is 1/4 " more narrow than i was used to...
i need to investigate this more.... but it looks to me like some company is pulling the "who's gonna notice?"
so will all of you take note....
