you're a twisted cat, Julie. (get it?)



So, wait, you're saying they aren't all just the most interesting and entertaining things ever, huh?

My buddy Russ orders only Windy City unless he gets in a time crunch, and then he buys from ADI. (That's nuts because of the two cartons we got where, at the end of a very long day, we found that one carton of wire from ADI went from 1000 down to 192 and another was similarly more than a hundred feet short. And they haven't ever addressed this except to toss HDMI cables at us.)

Anyway -- we keep finding ourselves in situations where we have to spool out a length of wire, then add to it, then pull the whole mess. It's not always possible to have four boxes of wire to make a hundred foot pull; sometimes you just have to use one box.

And what I found is that the Windy City wire was much less... straight... it didn't exactly tangle, but as we fed it, we had to undo kinks much more than with the ADI wire, or even the stuff from A$$D that I had recently bought. That actually kinks in the box from time to time.

Bonus for the guys who go to the WC warehouses: you can return the spools and side holders from inside the cartons for some credit if you should choose to. Not much credit, but it is an environmentally friendly thing to do (there should be one single word for that -- Julie, get to work on that!).

RG!

(That's Gr if I had dyslexia)

Talk about a double kick to the family jewels. So they shorted you on two boxes of wire, which could potentially been a real huge pain if the last run on the box required 192' 1" or more. Tell me about the rage you had inside of you when they handed you those hdmi cables as consolation; you know the very type of cables that likely relate to the majority of your install issues, service calls and system failures. "Gee thanks guys!"

What ever gave you the impression that I care about the environment?

Silly me.


On this topic, I'm presently working on a restaurant in Malibu where yesterday they laid out more than a hundred 48" x 96" sheets of [petroleum-based] plastic, then covered them with a similar hundred pieces of particle board, out in the sun and the fog to be ruined while cars drive over them, all to protect the cool red-clay-looking finish on the parking lot.

I wonder if environmentalists who hold meetings in large hotels or restaurants and decry the use of fossil fuels, have ever been back in the kitchen and seen ten to thirty large natural gas pilot lights burning twenty-four hours a day just so the stove will turn on fast. For them, the environmentalists.

For that matter, I've found it fascinating that The Sierra Club will get behind all sorts of corporate misdeeds, forgetting that the income of most people comes from corporations, while refusing to decry illegal immigration, which leaves a trail of trash and diapers and the occcasional human body across swaths of once-pristine desert.

So, in the overall scheme of things, Julie, you don't need to be forgiven [not that you asked]; you hardly matter!  Only in re the environment, of course.

We now return you to the original topic, Windy City wire.

Thanks babe.

They use to call out office a lot!