I never ask, I just set up my sawhorshes and turn on Rush. I love garage door work, from custom wood to steel, and am never alone thanks to a really good radio.
I’m fine with carpentry and building stuff out of wood. Garage doors are a bit heavy and unwieldy for me.
another garage door man. a rarity
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission... I work as a network admin, and the company I work for has a "no streaming" policy, and there's simply no AM radio reception where I work. But I'm in charge of setting up VPN routers and shipping them to our remote sites, and I've got a big stack of routers to check over... So, I patched one of my cubicle ports into the 10/100 switch on one of our DS3 routers, and I use that open line directly to the Internet to test and "burn in" the VPN routers, and of course, I hook my laptop into it, so I can listen to Neal and Rush and anyone else I want to listen to, since they don't monitor traffic on the DS3 routers, just the internal routers and PIX firewall.
Of course, I want to be sure that these routers are working properly, so I run them for about a week each before declaring them "OK."
Mark