/tags/plunge/Recent content in Plunge on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usWed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2008/04/30/the-candle-factory/Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2008/04/30/the-candle-factory/<p>Julie would never have gotten caught if she had thought about the system backups. And I never would have done anything about it if she hadn&rsquo;t lied to me about messing with my machine.</p> <p>I work for Julie&rsquo;s father, or I should say I am a one-fourth partner with her father in a candle factory. We specialize in &ldquo;hand dipped&rdquo; candles. Actually it is only the outer two or three layers of colored wax that are hand dipped. The rest is done by a machine which I invented. We supply these &ldquo;hand dipped cores&rdquo; to a wide variety of small candle companies throughout the United States and Canada.</p>