When Was The Last Time You Hugged A Glass Worker?

A note from Paul:  This is a blog that you leave around the house.  Cut off this top section at the dotted line and let your spouse or significant other just happen to see it.  Now, I am not a voyeur, but if you get a hug, drop me an email!
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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HUGGED A GLASS WORKER?

Hey out there, you are among the luckiest people in the world.  You are near a glass worker, the best people around.  Glass workers are universally great people and they deserve hugs at every opportunity.  Glass workers work hard, lifting, moving heavy glass, driving trucks, and in a glass shop office, dealing with customers who bring in measurements based on the length of a string. 

Glass workers are more than industrial workers.  They have to be furniture movers after putting a mirror on the wall.  They are psychologists when after they have moved the furniture and put up the mirror, the customer says they don't look young in the new mirror.

They are negotiators, after moving the furniture, hanging the mirror, soothing the ego, and then the customer says, even though I might look good in the mirror, take 10% off and I will look better!

Glass workers are in large companies and small, and each one has its own stress, making each worker need a hug.  Glass workers have problems too.  If they do their work well, people just look through it, and don't realize how hard it was to install.  If a glass worker repairs a broken pane, the customer is just back where they started, and don't feel the glass worker has helped!  When glass workers put in low-e glass, which saves the customer money, the customer is glad the energy bill is down, but don't give the credit to the glass worker.

If you are in a trade related to our glass industry, like being a blogger, (that's a hint, Elaine), or you make insulating glass, or you write software to help glass companies send out their invoices, you deserve a hug too! 

So, you see, if you live with or care about a glass worker, give her or him a hug.  You are helping America, and of course, helping a glass worker.

This message is brought to you as a public service by The UnderHugged Glass Workers of America.

What's So Special About April First

There is always a lot of talk about April First being a special day.  I have done extensive research and found very little that makes this day special.  Here's the highlights:

• 1826--Samuel McRey patents the internal combustion engine.
• 1975--Apple is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

How about people?

• Rusty Staub was born in 1944. (For those of you who are saying "Who?", he is a great New York Met)
• Rachel Maddow, a television news commentator was born in 1973.

And the really important point one:  Since 2000, April first is EDIBLE BOOK DAY in Great Britain, where pastry chefs compete to make great literature that is also tasty.

So, since there is just no news that is worth writing about, I went to my list of blogs to write and couldn't decide which one to work on.  So, dear readers, please help me.  Take a look at this list and drop me a note about which blog to write next week.

How to glue together broken tempered glass.
A list of the fabricators that won't change hands in 2012.
Plans for a do-it-yourself laminating line.
Prediction of glass usage in 2022.
Your list of contractors in your town who will file chapter 11.
Apple creates an APP to fix failed IG using an IPhone.
PPG invents flexible glass.
Repairing windshields using Wrigley's chewing gum.
Instant glass tinting using blue food coloring.
Little known ways to use silicone as cake decoration.
Five guaranteed plans to double your business in 90 days.
Oprah's plan to feature the glass installer of the year.
Onion juice is the perfect glass cleaner.
Laws passed in Arizona requiring glass installers to wear clean t-shirts.
Six glass company stocks to buy in 2014.
Di-Chromic glass for every day use.
A way to guarantee what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
You can count on me for the best news of April 1--Happy Birthday Elaine!

I look forward to your votes.