Ok... Sure is fun to travel to other tropical countries with waves to make boards... Here is how todays work on location in Bali went. i went to sleep last night with the knowledge the the broken part on the shaping machine had arrived and would be in operation first thing in the morning. therefore i would be able to start early and get about 10 boards shaped today. Great, i go home to Oz on friday, thats just enough time to comfortably be able to finish them all and deliver them b4 i go. zzzz zzzz Wake up at 7 am, packing all the orders forms i had completed the day before. i Opened the packet of new logos i had printed in Australia b4 i left. they are a special logo made for Indonesia to help us all know where your board is made. mmm nice new Rail logo... but lo and behold no main DIVERSE logo? what the! thats right the printing company had left them out... maybe i should have opened the packet b4 i left! but after dealing with that company for 15-20 years you kind of get a little lazy.. ok 8am the breakfast is down the hatch, im off to the printers over here to get a quick batch of make-do logos done. They are open, but the man who knows my job is not in till 9am.! right on time, he says ok, we dont have that paper here sorry. Well lets try an alternative then, so we feed it into a printer.... jam! no go. ok lets try the good laser printer it should work he says! oh sorry this computer just got formatted we have to install the drivers..... lets find the cd. mmm that guys not here yet... oh here he is... install. load paper. print... JAM! ok sir we can screen print for you. please come back toomorow morning at 10am! sheesh pretty quick for screen printing, ok sir thanks, thats the best you can do. Off to the factory thinking i can shape them all still and pick up the logos in the morning to glass them toomorow.. no biggie! get to the factory.. The parts didnt come, the guy flight comes in at 3pm this arvo now! Ok gonna be tight, i will do some shapes tonight. My family are not here to go home too, i dont mind working at night here, its cooler too! While im waiting i go to the wood factory up the road and but some timber to make an Alaia i promised the boys over here. Sweet! all good, fired up the old planer and hacked away wishing i had earmuffs and did it at night too. it was 34 degrees and 99% humidity! out with the sander and the 60 grit. nice finished in 2 hours. a bit rougher than what i make at home but nice to have some fun with! Well while im waiting for the Shaping Machine parts, i thought i better go collect some money owed to me for a board from one shop. Hello is the boss here? oh no sir he has gone to lunch, back in 30 minutes. cool ill just check my emails while im waiting in the air conditioning. oh the wireless password is? oh dont know. the guy who does that is on lunch too! ok here comes the boss, Sure we owe you x,xxx,xxxIDR. but the girl who does the money just left for the day, come back toomorow !
ok Quick email check at hotel then back to factory... parts arrived time to test it.. no go, test, no go... fiddle with wire, no go, test no go, support call at $7 per minute.. test no go, ewiggle test no go, swear turn off .. test no go etc etc. 7pm. time to go home 40 minutes of ball tearing motorcycle riding in traffic down the same road for the 6th time today... a quck shower and im writing this Email as the low battery warning is coming on on my computer and the lightning is signalling an impending storm probaly putting the power out briefly again!.. mmm better save and send real quick huh! see yas all toomorow! gonna be a good day! |
