Bob got fired after going over budget for the umpteenth time and I suspect finally PO'd the right person. He was a talker, not a doer and talk is cheap. Norm was almost too stoic in the shop rarely cracking a smile. I was really hoping they'd put together a bloopers reel of Norm whipping a hammer through a window after smacking his thumb or having his wide belt sander kick back a giant beam mantle through the engine block of a diesel truck parked outside, even a good ole fashioned tablesaw kickback that sends a thin, long board through a few walls before it finds a stud. Nothing that hurt anyone but something dramatic. I suspect nothing like that actually ever happened though if Norm was overseeing safety protocol. He studied engineering at MIT so by all accounts, he was a pretty smart cookie.
Norm Abram is Retiring
Norm Abram's retirement from This Old House was announced yesterday.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220519005404/en/This-Old-House%C2%AE-to-Air-Tribute-Special-to-Master-Carpenter-and-Television-Trailblazer-Norm-Abram
PBS will air a tribute show to him titled The House that Norm Built. While Norm is 72 and has not appeared on camera for a while, it is sad to see him described as "hanging up his tool belt." I hope he continues woodworking in his retirement, as 72 years old is certainly not too old to do most things with wood. I hope he isn't ill, and I wonder if there's a deeper story to this.
I'm hoping to see him on a YouTube channel, but he doesn't seem to have much of an online presence.
Here's to the legend himself!
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220519005404/en/This-Old-House%C2%AE-to-Air-Tribute-Special-to-Master-Carpenter-and-Television-Trailblazer-Norm-Abram
PBS will air a tribute show to him titled The House that Norm Built. While Norm is 72 and has not appeared on camera for a while, it is sad to see him described as "hanging up his tool belt." I hope he continues woodworking in his retirement, as 72 years old is certainly not too old to do most things with wood. I hope he isn't ill, and I wonder if there's a deeper story to this.
I'm hoping to see him on a YouTube channel, but he doesn't seem to have much of an online presence.
Here's to the legend himself!
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If it were a related arts or the like course of study or from any of the more touchy Feely universities, I would put far less faith in his ability to do something constructive with his education. Another thing to remember is he would have been attending at a time when there was far less emphasis on something like CRT and far more on objective math and science.I don t know Yeti, I ve known some grads from some pretty prestigious colleges and universities that couldn t common sense their way out of a box lol
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