On my way to St Hives I met a man with seven Hives...
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megamania
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I felt that way with salami and pepperoni a while ago. A pizza with extra of bothThere was quite a bit of meat on that pizza
Not sure why but I feel like belching..... really loud.... after reading and thinking about this.
Bacon.... pepperoni..... salami....... spices..... herbs...... mmmmmmmm BURRRRRP!
ahhhhh better..... much much better......
Dog Moon
Adventurer
I felt that way with salami and pepperoni a while ago. A pizza with extra of both
Add Green Olives and for me, that would be a scrumptious pizza.
Relique du Madde
Adventurer
That sucks. Megamind was a good movie too.
Got some bad news yesterday.
I design jewelry as a hobby, and a few weeks ago, I had 2 of my designs in for some minor repairs & tweaks with the jeweler who did the original metalwork...
And his place got robbed.
He's been trying to do an inventory of what was taken...yep- my rings are gone. On top of that, that particular safe may not have been covered by his insurance.
Now, this guy is a buddy, so this isn't going to affect OUR relationship, but I'm still cheesed: one was one of the best designs we'd partnered on; the other involved a LOT of work on his part (it was made with mokume gane), an opal and an orange diamond my mother had given me...and I had only worn it 4 times.
And materials costs have jumped ENORMOUSLY since both projects were initiated.
Between the two of us, we can come damn close to remaking the originals, but the lost work, the lost sentimental value, all in the hands of some scumbags...GRAAAAH!
I design jewelry as a hobby, and a few weeks ago, I had 2 of my designs in for some minor repairs & tweaks with the jeweler who did the original metalwork...
And his place got robbed.
He's been trying to do an inventory of what was taken...yep- my rings are gone. On top of that, that particular safe may not have been covered by his insurance.
Now, this guy is a buddy, so this isn't going to affect OUR relationship, but I'm still cheesed: one was one of the best designs we'd partnered on; the other involved a LOT of work on his part (it was made with mokume gane), an opal and an orange diamond my mother had given me...and I had only worn it 4 times.
And materials costs have jumped ENORMOUSLY since both projects were initiated.
Between the two of us, we can come damn close to remaking the originals, but the lost work, the lost sentimental value, all in the hands of some scumbags...GRAAAAH!
Insurance in the jewelry business is notoriously nasty in it's terms, largely because the risk of loss is so high, and the InsCo's exposure per claim can be so high as well.
Another jeweler I know was robbed after a trade show: $1M of merch in secured trunks was taken out of his vehicle while he went back for his last trunk. Because he hadn't tried to defend the goods with a gun (tough to do, what with him not being near it), he only got reimbursed pennies on the dollar.
In this case, I suspect it wasn't covered because it was a small safe that was used to secure stuff that was actively being worked on, as opposed to his 1+ ton storage safe. IOW, it wasn't secure enough to be covered by his policy.
Bold or Stupid
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That seriously sucks. Insurance companys can be complete gits sometimes.
Well like I said, the jewelry biz is extremely high risk- probably only the big chains can afford all the coverage they really need, so the little guys' coverage is always going to have some kind of hole in it.
The icing on the cake is that unless these guys were pros- there are indications going both ways- they won't get the full value of what they stole. The designs are unusual enough that they probably will be scrapped. The white gold & Afghani tourmaline will be easily moved, as might the orange diamond. The boulder opal? Pennies on the dollar. And since the value of mokume gane lies in the workmanship, the same will go for the amount of gold they'll get from that laminate.
My. Art. Destroyed.
*grrrrrrrrrrrr*
The icing on the cake is that unless these guys were pros- there are indications going both ways- they won't get the full value of what they stole. The designs are unusual enough that they probably will be scrapped. The white gold & Afghani tourmaline will be easily moved, as might the orange diamond. The boulder opal? Pennies on the dollar. And since the value of mokume gane lies in the workmanship, the same will go for the amount of gold they'll get from that laminate.
My. Art. Destroyed.
*grrrrrrrrrrrr*
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