Its been a tough week for me personally. Many of you know that my days of upgrading PCs a few times a year have dwindled, as my interests take me elsewhere after 20+ years of doing PCs day and night. I have taken up riding an ATV as a hobby, and with that bought a trailer that needed some serious work.
If you've followed along with me on any of those stories, you may recall the two High School kids that I befriended and mentored 2 years+ ago. They've been the primary workforce behind the trailer restoration, and I feed them and give them either PC hardware or my old mountain bike as payment for their work.
One of the guys joined the Marines 2 weeks ago, and the other passed away at the tender age of 17 last Wednesday in a one car accident.
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I went to the viewing on Sunday, and its been very hard to get over this for me. My daughter and I just went bowling tonight at a local bowling alley, and there was his Mom. So we sat and chatted, and I came up with the idea of having a custom graphic created for the trailer to honor him. What I envision is a fictitious company named 'Stanley's Sprockets' (the kid LOVED to ride his bike everywhere, at least until he got a license and truck earlier this year). We all said that his career profession would be in a bike shop somewhere.
So here is the font I pictured: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/stanley-steemer or something similar .. block with some edge to the letters.
The 'o' in sprockets would be an actual sprocket (I like this one - http://k4.stylefeeder.net/thumb/f9/c...1dbc2d-200.jpg sized approximately twice the size of the letters.
Under the graphic in smaller text would be added: Dedicated in memory of Michael 'Mikey" Stanley * 1993-2010.
Feel free to use your best judgment on it as well, as my plan is to have it made into a graphic to put on the trailer. Thanks for any help you can provide on this too.
If you've followed along with me on any of those stories, you may recall the two High School kids that I befriended and mentored 2 years+ ago. They've been the primary workforce behind the trailer restoration, and I feed them and give them either PC hardware or my old mountain bike as payment for their work.
One of the guys joined the Marines 2 weeks ago, and the other passed away at the tender age of 17 last Wednesday in a one car accident.
http://www.inyork.com/ci_15621103?source=most_viewed
I went to the viewing on Sunday, and its been very hard to get over this for me. My daughter and I just went bowling tonight at a local bowling alley, and there was his Mom. So we sat and chatted, and I came up with the idea of having a custom graphic created for the trailer to honor him. What I envision is a fictitious company named 'Stanley's Sprockets' (the kid LOVED to ride his bike everywhere, at least until he got a license and truck earlier this year). We all said that his career profession would be in a bike shop somewhere.
So here is the font I pictured: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logo/stanley-steemer or something similar .. block with some edge to the letters.
The 'o' in sprockets would be an actual sprocket (I like this one - http://k4.stylefeeder.net/thumb/f9/c...1dbc2d-200.jpg sized approximately twice the size of the letters.
Under the graphic in smaller text would be added: Dedicated in memory of Michael 'Mikey" Stanley * 1993-2010.
Feel free to use your best judgment on it as well, as my plan is to have it made into a graphic to put on the trailer. Thanks for any help you can provide on this too.
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