Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aurelius.

I wish you all a happy new year and a good life.

As I look back, I give thanks to god for the peace and ease of the last year, and I give thanks for the unknown future, for surly he will watch over us and guide and protect us. I know that I don’t always get what I want, But I always get what I need, if I just have faith. Time and time again this has proved true. Lord help me to remember this and please look after all of mine and I and all the ones here and gone. Thank you, all of you, in my life, past and present , for the good times, they were great and  for the bad, for they were good lessons.

To the ones I love, all of you, then and now, I love you, I will always love you, till the stars are cold and the light goes dark……. Good night and good life, later Edward.

And now for the traditional song.

Thank you.

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine† ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

The Bars are now done. Here are a few pictures to show them off a bit and at
the end of this post will be a little video.

Any body wanting anything like it, just contact me through this page and we can discuss it. Have a great day! Edward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qud-QKVB3eY

The discovery school security bars for the back door, Not done yet, still have to clean them up and weld it all together, but you can get an idea of they are going to look like.  All parts are forged, by hammer, by me, the only welding i used is to put it together. The sun took the  longest to make, came out well i think. Any questions ask, later Edwyrd.

www.astragalpress.com

Finney Company
8075 215th St. West
Lakeville, MN. 55044

Thanks for the tour and having such a great place for us to get the books we need to expand our knowledge.

The video says it all, Check out when I hit the warehouse, wow, books all over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564w7g_VtWM

The July Update from my Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0unbuwLqTo

And a four part  series on How to make tongs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWaoyq0cVk

Plus I got roped into a Nerdwar about Star Trek and Star Wars, Check those vids out, over on my Channel; YouTube.com/edwyrd.

>Edward, been trying to get a hold of you. XXXXX XXXXXX here, reality TV producer. I think you’d be great for a concept we’re working on. Would love to talk to you and explain everything. Let me >know! -J.

This was just one of three he sent to each place I frequent on the web. My homepage, my you-tube channel and my face-book. Now at first I didn’t know what to make of it, I figured it was one of you guys out there messing with me, so I googled the guy, yep, he was what he said he was. Then I made a couple calls, yep, legit. I emailed him back. In the back and forth, I found out he watched my you tube vids, cool. He then he sent me the concept email:

Well, being level headed is important and you are approaching it the right way.

Let me explain the concept, the opportunity for you, the expectations, the
process and the compensation potential.

CONCEPT: The concept would revolve around your blacksmithing. If you are familiar with the show American Choppers, think of it like that. So what we’d capture is you making things, and any interaction you have with clients and employees (I know you’re saying, “I don’t have clients or employees”, we’ll get to that.) :) But we’d like to see you making things, being you and having some drama as you build your business. Believe it or not, reality tv shows are ultimately about promoting someone’s business. American Choppers is a 1 hour commercial for Orange County Choppers. Same with other shows such as Mounted In Alaska, etc. Anyway, that is the concept. You, blacksmith, drama, cool things that you make, your success.

Wow, I was flabbergasted – me on TV – however, right off the bat I could see some some problems. Besides the potential (huge problems there) upset to my family and the added drama of being on TV in the public eye, was that I really believe that TV is a bad thing. It would be a huge sell out on my part, I have said time after time TV is bad for kids and people, here and on my channel before. It is basically Evil! Then I end up on TV, no, that is a sell out – big time. I and my family have not watched TV for almost 11 years now. Act like the guys on American chopper, wow, I could not do that, yea, I rant and rave, but having public fights with friends and family, no, sorry buddy, just no way I could do that.

Also, if you follow me over on you tube, you know he was just looking at my fuck you attitude, my rant vids, the straight out, you people are morons stuff that I do, yep, it would make great TV. But that isn’t all there is to me. I called a family meeting and explained what was going on, the women got it right off the bat, nope, no way, to much drama, selling out and problems, No, no amount of money ( The fist season, if picked up, at the low end could have been as much as 40 or 50 thou, for a months filming!) was worth that junk. The kids all thought it was cool, but eventually they got it and agreed with us.

So the upshot is, no, we are not going to do it. I wrote the guy back and thanked him for his time and the opportunity but no thank you.

However, this did give me a tremendous boost to the ego, wow, I am getting to people, my channel is good ( right now it sits at 1100 some subscribers) my rants mean something, people are listening. My choice of the Internet to get my stuff out there to people really does work, I really believe though, if I got it on TV, it would get lost in the drama, the hype and the crap. On you-tube I am a voice that is heard, on TV I would be a voice lost in the Gabble. So I will keep doing it my way and find even more ways to get it out there, hell, maybe I’ll write a book!

Thanks for the time, later Edward.

Here is the You-tube vid a made about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDtFYSKZwpY

Do I even need to say anything?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-6oAVMDxs

This is the vid of my new welder, 1st use, enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB1WdNX3fo

The idea, script and action is all the kids. I just held the camera, then they told me how to edit it. Here ya go. Nice way to enjoy the day with the kids. Later Ed.?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDc-PXs49BU