The auction was good - I picked up a couple measuring tools, a master square for calibration of my shop measuring tools, a height gage as well as a free-standing box bottom stapler (kind of like this unit) for the shipping business and two little two-ton presses for blacksmithing. The punch presses were made back in the early 1960's - the manual I have (complete with parts drawings) was dated 1959 and 1960. The company is still very much in business, making the same basic designs and parts and dies are available for my units (mine is the B-2 listed on this page).
Since I didn't finish until around 3PM or so, I ran a few errands, visited a box company north of Bellingham to make contact for the shipping business (I had dealt direct with a manufacturer because my first order was around $800 and I got free shipping. Subsequent orders will be much smaller. Had dinner in town and came home.
An early day tomorrow as well - the Whatcom County Emergency Operations Center is having a public open house tomorrow morning so I will be there. I have been there before and it is a gorgeous facility and there are plans to move the 911 service into the same building so everything will be coordinated. Big thanks to the Phillips Ferndale and BP Cherry Point refineries for donations to get this project off the ground. I am still very active in our local CERT program and we are organizing a team for the East County - get more people on board. We have a major faultline running through here, an active volcano and quite the history of major landslides and flooding. Be prepared!