12-010 Garand Picture of the Day

[Harlan (Deceased)]

More OT (Sorry moderators)
I was in the copier industry for 30 years, and you are correct - the industry is in huge trouble. There's so much competition they're selling copiers for below cost just to sell the service contracts.

I started working at Xerox 30 years ago when they were the only thing around and they wasted money like you wouldn't believe. They had customers over a barrel and pretty much treated them how they wanted to. When they lost the patents on Xerography and all the Japanese companies started selling better made copiers, Xerox had a hard time adjusting to competition.

Now ALL copier companies are in big trouble. I lost my butt because I had so much tied up in stock from the copier company I worked at for 20 years - Our stock plunged from $80 per share to $3 almost over night after 911 and never recovered. The same thing happened to Xerox. I left my stock in, hoping it would go back up, and it did creep back up to $25 or $30 over the next several years, but then ALL copier company stocks plummeted back to almost nothing. Pretty sad.

Jim - Guys like you are just TOUGH! I've gotten my hunting boots just slightly wet from walking through dew covered grass and it was miserable. For the past several years I only use rubber boots now to hunt - Beside staying dry, they don't absorb odors like leather does. When you bowhunt you have to get so close to deer, odor of any kind is a big deal.

I just dug up this photo of me and my little baby heading out to deer hunt a couple of years ago. Tony was sixteen and already three inches taller and 60 pounds heavier than me. (Must be something in the water these days)