Tom Geiger

Watching items on eBay is a full time endeavor

I retired September 1, 2023 so it's almost been a year. I spend a lot of time working on my eBay store, and I'm even behind on house stuff. I haven't gotten into a regular building habit. During Covid, I was building every day and was getting a lot done. Then I went back to work and lost that rhythm. I tend to be a binge builder and I need a deadline. This spring I saw that the MidAtlantic NNL had a long roof theme so I used that as the excuse to finish my 1960 Plymouth Wagon limo. I put in whole days and nights until I got it done the evening before (actually it was early morning before the sun came up!) of the show. I have a few projects on the work bench that do need to be finished up, so maybe I'll try an hour or so a day.

I don't have a 3D printer because I don't need another hobby. If I went through the learning curve to print parts for my builds, the media would go bad between my usage! Right now I'm lucky to be building one or two models a year.

Route 55 in the New Jersey Pinelands on my way home today.

Mine, only mine said the greedy seagull as he steals a sandwich right out of your hand while fighting off the other gulls

Hit the beach in Wildwood NJ, where I am located this week!

firing their weapons

Very cool color scheme!

Leasing company is gonna be plenty pissed when they get this one back on the repo!

True or False... Alien sightings have been down the last decade because they got a load of us and are now hiding

Pintos were much maligned vehicles that really weren’t all that awful

Tooled from memory

Belts, hats, wallets

Great build! I need to do a surrey for my Jeep shelf

Translations can be wrong, like when the monks discovered they were to “celebrate” not “celibate”.

Small details can often become the biggest problems, right Bill?

The driver doesn’t even need to look at it! Zip plus four is your address. The AI equipment sorts the route down to the house. The mailmen used to have to sort the mail, but no more! When you get your neighbor’s mail instead of yours, it probably means one house didn’t get any mail that day and the route is one number off. Back when we did the mailing for NNL East 2023, we got a ton back marked insufficient address. When I checked, the addresses were correct but I noticed the label was put on high on the card, like right below the stamp. My post office agreed that the reader only looks at the bottom inch or so of an envelope or card and rejects if it doesn’t detect a zip code. With my eBay mailings, I hand address the envelopes so I figure the machine couldn’t read my handwriting and rejected the piece as “no such address”. There used to be a job called Nixie Clerk. That was the person who got all the undeliverable mail to deal with manually. They would straighten out all this stuff. The post office declared the machine as infallible and eliminated the position. And we all know how that’s working out.

My eBay mailings have taken forever lately. Since I sell flat paper items, I ship in a standard business envelope with first class postage so I don’t see the tracking. Seems it’s been taking up to a month coast to coast. I had on going to Texas and after a week the buyer was asking me where it was. The next week he agreed to keep waiting. Week 3 it landed back here for postage due! It went all the way there and back. So I weighed it and I had the correct postage on it. But what ya gonna do. I put it in a clean envelope and sent it again. This time the buyer got it in a week. I’ve had several returns for invalid address. Buyers confirmed address was right, got there the second time. What I surmise is that the scanner / reader kicked it out and they no longer have folks to look at it.

Vee-dubya convertible out for a ride

Closed stores and restaurants are a sign of the times, not good for anyone

If you’re balanced

Reed broke on Jimmy’s flute so he could on make awful noises like Toot!

Tripped on one!

really, really suck!

In the stamp hobby there is a current effort to capture and archive all the web articles and such so they are not lost when a site goes away. Sadly sites often go dark after the owner dies, or simply has had enough of dealing with people