Thanks, everybody, for the welcomes. I got nothing bad to say about neon. I bent tubes for a while myself.
Little bit about myself?
I am 47, married, and drive a Honda SUV that sucks so much gas it's incredible. It has a nice stereo in it though. I have a degree in art from a smallish midwestern university, and have been in the sign business for almost twenty years now, working for North American Signs in South Bend, IN for the last 15 years. I have done just about everything that there is to do in the business, and I'm now in national sales and account management. I don't exactly get my hands dirty very much anymore, this is a union shop and I could get in trouble for that sort of thing. I still make art at home, and play the guitar and harmonicas. I used to have a blues band, but that's a hectic life and really hard to keep things in priority with a bunch of blues musicians. So now I play to a tape recorder in my living room mostly.
At work I manage sign programs for clients accross the country, get to do a bit of traveling, and I don't ever really have to get bored. This job is stressful sometimes, but it seems I'm now a junkie for it, I love the sign business. If somebody tells me how I'll post some photos on here someday soon.
Anyways, thanks again for the welcomes, talk you ya'.......