MOTM

Time for another stooge update, I guess.

Paul H is at home and recovering very slowly. He is still unable to
work and the prognosis for a return date is uncertain.

Paul's cousin Rick is now handling the family business that has been
providing the manpower to support the stooge business. You may recall
that on the weekend Larry died, we were discussing ending it all as it
was just becoming more than we could handle. Another problem that hit
us at the same time was that most of our vendors shut down, sold their
companies, raised their prices, took a rocket ship to Mars, or some
other @#$% thing.

Paul's access to manpower and company infrastructure seemed to be the
rescue that I needed to keep it all going after Larry passed.
Unfortunately, Rick has all he can handle just stepping into Paul's
CEO shoes of the family business. He has indicated to me that he can't
spare time and manpower for Stooge Industries any more.

So it is looking to me like it's time to wind it all down. Unless I
can get Rick to agree to continue ordering and selling products that
we DO have suppliers for, we will probably sell the remaining stock on
hand and fold it up.

I would love to do panels (and end caps) again, but people have become
used to the brackets. I don't know if anyone would be interested in
the one without the other, so I'm not feeling highly motivated to beat
the bushes for a new panel vendor and a new bracket vendor and a new
flat rail vendor, especially if I would have to go back to doing
everything from my basement.

I need to have a conversation with Rick to nail everything down for
sure, then I'll have an official announcement for the list.

Moe

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Koos Fockens <torikoos@...> wrote:
>
> The end caps are illustrated on their on line shop.  Dave Bradly (one  
> of the 3 original Stooges :-) ), and Paul Haneberg's son are looking  
> after the business as much as possible.
> I believe there is a contact e-mail on it, but Dave  is also on this  
> users group.
>