Billy

Welcome. I too am a Texas newbie. Since you must buy more tools, you
need to go the the First Monday Sales in Canton. Weatherford has a small
but sometimes very fruitful First Monday Sale. I wish I were closer so I
could go more often. You are also lucky to have some very knowledgeable
galoots in the Dallas/ Ft. Worth area. 

Tom - "No, honey, I didn't buy any more old rusty tools. They just
followed me home on their own."

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:07:17 -0600 Billy Patton bpatton@a...
writes:
>After lurking and posting a couple of fauxpas I'll finally do 
>something of a bio.
> My name is Billy Patton. Married 19.5 years. 2 kids . B9 G5
>I'm a software developer at Texas Instruments. I live in Ennis Texas 
>which
>is @ 25M south of Dallas.
>Like many others I started as a normite. Home improvement! Thats 
>what I
>wanted to do! Then I caught a few episodes of Roy. This planted a 
>seed.
>A galoot here at work let me make a few curls with one of his planes.
>HOOK SET!! Reel him in. I don't intend to give up my normite tools
>but just last week I got rid of a lot of scrap particle board and 
>plywood.
>I talked to the local vocational school that has a timber mill that 
>will cut on the halves.
>This raises all sort of possibilities.
> SWMBO wants someof the furnature and tables replaced. Told her I 
>must buy more tools.
>Se said OK but not all at once.
>
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