Decisions, Decisions!!!

Happy Thursday gang!

So as you may or may not have read, for the past couple months Griz has been flying a dayshift desk then pulling 20-40+ hours weekly, nights & weekends, at a cool side job, getting back to my machining / tool & die roots, making custom patient specific surgical implants & mating surgical instrumentation at a small shop near the house. The 4 owners of that small shop have a solid business plan & are growing that business, even in this tough economy, at an impressive rate & have recently added nearly $2 million in additional equipment. In order to keep up with the growing engineering & operations requirements they’ve begun negotiating with me to come on full time & then some there, leaving the desk jockey job behind & taking over operations. This sounds Uber appealing as I really enjoy the hands on, making, doing, driving, customer interface, of that job compared to the corporate America, fly a desk, sit in meetings, day job BUT 2 of these 4 guys are serious poker playing businessmen who love the game of haggle, which is a game I despise!!! They’re really pushing me to take a smaller salary, to save themselves overhead, but as an offset are offering a small percentage in business ownership. Now at this point, ownership is nearly a net $ wash, based on risk to reward, due to all the recent additional capital investments BUT long term could be an outstanding opportunity. Decisions, decisions LOL!

What’s all this got to do with pushing iron?!?!? Well, just sharing some of what has Griz’s brain swirling these days, on top of everything else you’ve already heard about! Wouldn’t want you thinking I’m letting the gray matter / memory muscle sit idle while working the rest of’em!

This morning I managed to grind out 33,600 LBs of UBWO iron, Ms Iron Talon’s high rep / low weight way, on about a 5 hour nap with weird dreams that were at least a bit less dramatic & MUCH less depressing than the nightmare parade of Tuesday night!

Rock on pals! Hopefully things’ll settle into a groove one of these days but never fear! Boredom is NOT a part of Griz’s life anymore!!!