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Ed Huntress wrote:
Thanks, Jon. Actually, I'll probably start writing again in a few weeks. I don't like the looks of what happens to my friends when they retire. Right, more than a few people I knew retired, and were dead within months! Now, maybe they retired BECAUSE their health was going down the tubes, but it was a bit of a shock. I know I'd stay active with a million projects if I retired. I'm just not going to work on somebody else's schedule again. Sounds wonderful! Jon |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:22:11 -0700, Hot Coals
wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. No, you don't. Sure I do. Eds just a feeble minded RINO. He should have years ahead of him to learn the errors of his ways...not that they were really evil..just..misguided. You on the other hand....(VBG) What's it like to claim that so many people are stupid and past their cull date, and then watch them get so far ahead of you? Just goes to show that even SOME morons can win the Lotto. You on the other hand..have nothing but boasts. Which is why you hide. (VBG) Hey Wieber, when are YOU going to retire? Oh right, first you need to get a job and learn how to earn a living. Tick tock. LOL I figure Ill pull the plug at about 70. 7 yrs from now. Then Ill let your tax dollars support me. Pay lots of taxes now, ya hear?! Exactly when did you give up after realizing that you couldn't do the simple things that normal people do? Was it before or after you started posting all the crazy Walter Mitty nonsense? ????? This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus What email? Don't know how to remove moronic information from your posts? What else is new? Why should I bother removing it? Because it bothers you? All the more reason to leave it be. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:16:03 AM UTC-4, Don Foreman wrote:
Congratulations, Ed! On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:39:29 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Yes, congratulations. You've earned it and it's the greatest thing since bottled beer. |
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There ya go!
When I retired back in 1999, I thought that I'd like to continue doing pretty much what I had been doing but: *I'd play at least half of the time -- go fishing, etc *I wanted to do only what I wanted to do *I did not want to have to do anything I did not want to do *Projects would have no budget, no schedule. I didn't even have to finish them if I found something more interesting to do. NIU: Nothing Is Urgent HFIJ1: Having Fun Is Job 1 It's worked fer me for 17 years, and I'm still going strong, learning new things and continue to do stuff I already knew how to do and enjoyed doing. On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:40:14 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Thanks, Jon. Actually, I'll probably start writing again in a few weeks. I don't like the looks of what happens to my friends when they retire. I'm just not going to work on somebody else's schedule again. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Glad to see you again Don!
I try to practice what you preach even without being retired. i On 2016-09-14, Don Foreman wrote: There ya go! When I retired back in 1999, I thought that I'd like to continue doing pretty much what I had been doing but: *I'd play at least half of the time -- go fishing, etc *I wanted to do only what I wanted to do *I did not want to have to do anything I did not want to do *Projects would have no budget, no schedule. I didn't even have to finish them if I found something more interesting to do. NIU: Nothing Is Urgent HFIJ1: Having Fun Is Job 1 It's worked fer me for 17 years, and I'm still going strong, learning new things and continue to do stuff I already knew how to do and enjoyed doing. On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:40:14 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Thanks, Jon. Actually, I'll probably start writing again in a few weeks. I don't like the looks of what happens to my friends when they retire. I'm just not going to work on somebody else's schedule again. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On 14-Sep-16 11:24 AM, Ignoramus16559 wrote:
Glad to see you again Don! I was going to say the same thing! |
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:51:19 PM UTC-4, Martin Eastburn wrote:
Right - might be thin sheets floating in the water. What kind of glue is used ? Is it marine or just interior glue. Martin The sheet have no markings , but are many plys. Maybe 7 or 9 plys for the 1 cm thick plywood. So before doing a lot of work, I soaked some pieces in a bucket of water. Dan |
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Gunner Asch on Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. In Orthodoxy, we have the saying "Many Years." On your birthday, your anniversary, your promotion, what ever. Not necessarily because we want you to live a long life, although we do, but because "many years" provide you with time to repent from those things which separate you from God. Many years. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 05:59:42 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote: Gunner Asch on Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. In Orthodoxy, we have the saying "Many Years." On your birthday, your anniversary, your promotion, what ever. Not necessarily because we want you to live a long life, although we do, but because "many years" provide you with time to repent from those things which separate you from God. Many years. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." Well put!! Bravo! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? -- The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. --Andrew Johnson |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:43:59 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote: There ya go! When I retired back in 1999, I thought that I'd like to continue doing pretty much what I had been doing but: *I'd play at least half of the time -- go fishing, etc *I wanted to do only what I wanted to do *I did not want to have to do anything I did not want to do *Projects would have no budget, no schedule. I didn't even have to finish them if I found something more interesting to do. NIU: Nothing Is Urgent HFIJ1: Having Fun Is Job 1 It's worked fer me for 17 years, and I'm still going strong, learning new things and continue to do stuff I already knew how to do and enjoyed doing. Atta Boy, Don! My goals are the same as yours, 'cept for the "no budget" thing. Funds are far too finite. I just finished building an 8 battery box for the solar system. I figured that, at some point, I'd want more than the 2 I already bought. The 1kW of solar I have now will be installed just before the rainy season, later this month. Also slotted are repairing all the equipment from my Gunner Runs. The drill press idler is awaiting assembly, tubes are here for the MIG tires, and I'm drafting up a table for the table saw. I just have to get the 4 tons of crap off my shop floor first, which means more shelving and putting order to that which I already have up. I have a lot of interests, so staying busy during retirement is never, ever going to be a problem for me. Imagination breeds life extension! -- The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. --Andrew Johnson |
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On 09/14/2016 7:59 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
.... In Orthodoxy, we have the saying "Many Years." On your birthday, your anniversary, your promotion, what ever. Not necessarily because we want you to live a long life, although we do, but because "many years" provide you with time to repent from those things which separate you from God. Many years. +1 "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." Of similar sentiments, one of my favorites from Mark Twain -- 'Good judgement is the result of experience. Experience is the result of bad judgement.' |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:37:02 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:22:11 -0700, Hot Coals wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. No, you don't. Sure I do. Nope, you're just lying as usual. What's it like to claim that so many people are stupid and past their cull date, and then watch them get so far ahead of you? Just goes to show that even SOME morons can win the Lotto. So everyone who's more successful than you must have won a lottery. Nothing to do with them having jobs and paying taxes, eh? Hey Wieber, when are YOU going to retire? Oh right, first you need to get a job and learn how to earn a living. Tick tock. LOL I figure Ill pull the plug at about 70. 7 yrs from now. LOL The air will be sputtering out of you before long, much like a bald tire that finally runs over one sharp rock too many. You were lucky to make it to the ER on time in the past, but that luck is unlikely to last. Then Ill let your tax dollars support me. You've been a tax charity case for most of your life. You and your family have absorbed over a million in medical care, and I doubt any of you ever paid a nickel of the bills. Exactly when did you give up after realizing that you couldn't do the simple things that normal people do? Was it before or after you started posting all the crazy Walter Mitty nonsense? ????? Translation: you gave up a couple of decades ago. About the time you stopped paying taxes on your mobile home. This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus What email? Don't know how to remove moronic information from your posts? What else is new? Why should I bother removing it? Because it's what any normally intelligent person would do, and most people (not you) don't want to appear so ****ing stupid. |
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On 9/12/2016 3:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) When I retired I became a bit more liberal. Will you become a bit more conservative? |
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Tom Gardener wrote:
On 9/12/2016 3:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) When I retired I became a bit more liberal. Will you become a bit more conservative? Its almost like you're begging ... |
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One of those jobs is engineering. I think it's true of any job where
one's identity and job might eventually become indistinguishable and the job becomes the reason for living each day. Ed already has plans and schemes: build a boat, go fishing for pickerel. Other interests and passions will pop up. He'll write about whateverthehell he wants to write about, and won't really care whether or not some editor somewhere likes what he's written or not. That's freedom! Another retiree I know, a name well-known to old RCM'rs, is now writing novels. What keeps us alive is having a reason to be alive: excitement and anticipation of what we're going to do and enjoy today and tomorrow and next week. Having a good partner for the journey helps a LOT. Today, 17 years and 3 months after retiring ... I'm going fishing as soon as it warms up a little outside. Saturday we're going to a grape stomp at a local winery. Next week, back to town for this 'n that. I have three little shop project ideas in my little notebook. I'm helping a fellow RCM'r to get started with anodizing aluminum. I have a new computer waiting for me to "move into". I haven't designed a circuit in at least two weeks ... been fishing! The last circuit I designed was for a very bright LED spotlight to illuminate my American flag at night. Except for the Cree XM-L2 LED, it used '90s technology and parts because that's what I had in my goodie box and I don't need to make a competitive product -- I only need to make one. The circuit before that was for the 3-watt "bugfree" LED light. It lights up the whole deck for cleaning fish after dark, is visible from across the lake 1.25 miles distant. It's a very narrow-spectrum amber color that bugs can't see. This was Mark III. I gave Mark II to one of my good neighbors at the lake. On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:11:59 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 Gee, thanks for the encouragement, Bruce. g Seriously, I would be worried about hard-core retirement. But I don't think I'll ever stop my writing work. I'm just severing all connections with deadlines, employment, and related things. I think that just stopping work itself is a good way to make yourself age faster. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. Gunner --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:51:37 -0400, Tom Gardner
wrote: On 9/12/2016 3:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) When I retired I became a bit more liberal. Will you become a bit more conservative? SNERK!!! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:55:11 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: Thanks, Jon. Actually, I'll probably start writing again in a few weeks. I don't like the looks of what happens to my friends when they retire. Right, more than a few people I knew retired, and were dead within months! Now, maybe they retired BECAUSE their health was going down the tubes, but it was a bit of a shock. I know I'd stay active with a million projects if I retired. I'm just not going to work on somebody else's schedule again. Sounds wonderful! Jon 23 years now and I still haven't figured out how I ever found time to go to work. NO regrets! --- Gerry :-)} London,Canada |
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We all have finite budgets. I guess what I meant was that I spend
about zero time worrying about cost-cutting. If I can't afford to do what I want to do without fretting about cost then I just do something else! I do a lot of "junkbox design", meaning that I design around what I have on hand rather than what might be optimal in a product design. On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:57:44 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: Atta Boy, Don! My goals are the same as yours, 'cept for the "no budget" thing. Funds are far too finite. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 16:16:28 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. Gunner Interesting. A fellow who makes a decent living, educates his kids, and generally acts like a decent white man is going to be culled while another fellow who is too lazy to work and is just a lay about bum two steps down the financial ladder from an illegal Mexican laborer isn't. Says something for the American Dream doesn't it. -- and a good day to you Sir, The Mighty Ant |
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On 9/14/2016 4:16 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. There is no "list", there are no "those who maintain the list." It's all bull**** - 100% of it. |
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:27:46 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote: It's a car-topper rowboat that I can get up and down by myself; it weighs 60 lb or maybe a little less if I decide to go for the high-class imported plywood. It's mostly for pickerel fishing in the ponds and cranberry bogs in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, and I may use it in the tidal creeks that run into the NJ bays. Gorgeous day on the lake today. Post-coldfront high blue sky, fish shouldn't have been biting, but I can usually find a few fish. We caught our supper again this afternoon, fish went direct from cleaning table to pan. 6 nice sunnies, 1 little largemouth bass, one northern pike. We were out for about 2 hours. Spent another pleasant hour on a boat ride and recon looking for some new spots to try next time. Small pike (under 5 lb) actually taste better than walleye, and bass and sunnies from this gin-clear Minnesota lake are very close behind. Egg wash, panko breading, sautee in butter. YUM! Sides were sweet corn, onion bread and cole slaw, accompanied by a very pleasant Riesling. One northern hit my lure like a runaway truck, broke my 20 lb test line and cost me the RedEye Wiggler lure I bought just yesterday. He got away ... this time ... we'll be back! I marked an X on the side of the boat so I'll know exactly where to cast when we return. Shop project: repaired a rod. An eyelet broke off when that northern hit. My workbench was the fish cleaning table out on the deck by the lake in the sunshine. Tools were some dacron fishing line, some super glue and a sharp knife. Finished reading a very good novel: "Cold Vengeance", Preston & Child. I'll start another tomorrow. Being retired's a bitch, but we soldier on bravely. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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Catherine L. Cranche wrote:
On 9/14/2016 4:16 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. There is no "list", there are no "those who maintain the list." It's all bull**** - 100% of it. You hope ... I see you've morphed again , still to much the coward to post your real name . -- Snag |
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On 9/15/2016 7:34 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
Catherine L. Cranche wrote: On 9/14/2016 4:16 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. There is no "list", there are no "those who maintain the list." It's all bull**** - 100% of it. You hope ... We all *know* that "the list" is bull****. You know it. We know that you know it. I see you've morphed again , still to much the coward to post your real name . I'd apologize, but it would be insincere. I really like that it upsets you. |
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On Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 11:05:17 AM UTC-4, Catherine L. Cranche wrote:
I'd apologize, but it would be insincere. I really like that it upsets you. That says everything about you. Dan |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:27:30 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:27:46 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: It's a car-topper rowboat that I can get up and down by myself; it weighs 60 lb or maybe a little less if I decide to go for the high-class imported plywood. It's mostly for pickerel fishing in the ponds and cranberry bogs in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, and I may use it in the tidal creeks that run into the NJ bays. Gorgeous day on the lake today. Post-coldfront high blue sky, fish shouldn't have been biting, but I can usually find a few fish. We caught our supper again this afternoon, fish went direct from cleaning table to pan. 6 nice sunnies, 1 little largemouth bass, one northern pike. We were out for about 2 hours. Spent another pleasant hour on a boat ride and recon looking for some new spots to try next time. Small pike (under 5 lb) actually taste better than walleye, and bass and sunnies from this gin-clear Minnesota lake are very close behind. Egg wash, panko breading, sautee in butter. YUM! Sides were sweet corn, onion bread and cole slaw, accompanied by a very pleasant Riesling. One northern hit my lure like a runaway truck, broke my 20 lb test line and cost me the RedEye Wiggler lure I bought just yesterday. He got away ... this time ... we'll be back! I marked an X on the side of the boat so I'll know exactly where to cast when we return. Shop project: repaired a rod. An eyelet broke off when that northern hit. My workbench was the fish cleaning table out on the deck by the lake in the sunshine. Tools were some dacron fishing line, some super glue and a sharp knife. Finished reading a very good novel: "Cold Vengeance", Preston & Child. I'll start another tomorrow. Being retired's a bitch, but we soldier on bravely. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Oh, boy, you make it sound great. I hope I enjoy mine nearly as much. About the pike: Do you cut out the Y-shaped bones along the lateral line, or do you cook them with the bones in, and eat around them? We have northerns in a few lakes but we have pickerel -- redfins and chain pickerel -- all over the place. The redfins are too small to eat but I'll bring home a chain pickerel. I have a tiny Rapala filet knife that I've sharpened like a razor and save just for removing a strip of those bones (and the dark lateral line on bluefish). BTW, I skin my sunfish. It seems to get rid of any muddy taste. I filet them, too, which is like performing surgery. g -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:43:59 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote: There ya go! When I retired back in 1999, I thought that I'd like to continue doing pretty much what I had been doing but: *I'd play at least half of the time -- go fishing, etc *I wanted to do only what I wanted to do *I did not want to have to do anything I did not want to do *Projects would have no budget, no schedule. I didn't even have to finish them if I found something more interesting to do. NIU: Nothing Is Urgent HFIJ1: Having Fun Is Job 1 It's worked fer me for 17 years, and I'm still going strong, learning new things and continue to do stuff I already knew how to do and enjoyed doing. That's an inspiration, Don. I should keep that list. -- Ed Huntress On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:40:14 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Thanks, Jon. Actually, I'll probably start writing again in a few weeks. I don't like the looks of what happens to my friends when they retire. I'm just not going to work on somebody else's schedule again. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:29:53 -0700, Rudy Canoza
wrote: On 9/13/2016 3:27 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: On 13 Sep 2016 04:46:03 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" wrote: On 2016-09-12, Rudy Canoza wrote: On 9/12/2016 12:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Congratulations on retiring. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. [ ... ] What kind of fishing? My son and I are thinking of getting into fly fishing. I'd like to look into building my own fly rod. Ever done that? A friend, who recently retired also, and moved to somewhere in Michigan (if I remember right) makes fly rods from bamboo, and even took the time to design and build a CNC machine for cutting the taper of the sections from split bamboo. Apparently, people pay him quite a bit for the rods, so they must be pretty good. Enjoy, DoN. Well, a Carmichael bamboo rod brings something like $3,000 or more, so there is some money in it. But building rods in bamboo is like making guitars, if not violins. The level of craft is on a similar order. Maybe I'll aim a little lower to start ;-) I'll make a few suggestions here, because you can get really deep into the weeds in a hurry when it comes to fly rods and fly fishing. It's like golf clubs or shotguns: you can spend unbelievable amounts of money on it, but their performance and pleasure you'll get from it have no relationship to how expensive your equipment is. And if you build rods and find out that you don't really like it, it's a waste. Ovis makes fly-fishing outfits that start at $170, and they have some that go up into the thousands. Until you've been at it for a year or two, you wouldn't recognize the difference. If you want to try it, my suggestion to everyone (except my wife g) is to attend a fly-casting school and see what you think of it. I love it but not everyone does. You have an excellent one in Calif. -- Bill Ward's -- and there are many other smaller, lesser-known ones that would be just as good for a first try. Try their rods and talk to them about what you'd do with it. There are many different kinds and weights, and starting off with the wrong one for the kind of fishing you'd do would be very frustrating. BTW, there are lots of videos that will help after you get a little hands-on instruction, but they won't help you with the feel and the timing, which are almost everything. Until the last few days I hadn't fly-fished since a year ago this past Spring, and I got really rusty. I'm still not back up to speed. If you only do it from time to time, it probably won't go well. You have to do it fairly frequently. When I can't get trout fishing I'll fly-fish for sunfish or bass. Salt water is another story entirely. Building rods is fun, but it won't save you any money. My rods probably contain an average of $300 worth of materials each. I could buy really nice rods for that. My newest reel cost a couple of hundred. My $39 one works just as well. But two of my rods are very special -- you can't buy anything like them, or you couldn't, unless you had them custom-made. That kind of specialization, though, is for someone who has been at it for years. If you go to a school and find that you really like it, you're probably better off buying a decent but inexpensive rod, rather than building one to start. It takes a few weeks of spare time to do it right at home but the factories can build them in less than an hour. After you've been at it and decide what contour you want, what grip, and what weight, you can buy components a lot more intelligently. I like to make my grips, hosels, and so on from scratch. Without a lathe, you'd want to buy them already made. All you need for equipment is a big book to put some drag on the winding thread, a couple of wire coat hangers, some sandpaper, and a couple of razor blades. But take your time. Good luck. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:34:04 +0800, Alan wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:11:59 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Seriously, I would be worried about hard-core retirement. But I don't think I'll ever stop my writing work. I'm just severing all connections with deadlines, employment, and related things. I think that just stopping work itself is a good way to make yourself age faster. You are absolutely right Ed. There was one guy at work who had no outside interests, not even sport. He retired and 2 months later was dead. I took early retirement in October 95, nearly 21 years now, and have never regretted it. Interests : woodworking, woodturning, metalwork, model trains & reading. My library is somewhere close to 1500 books, 2 more due today and another 3 in the post. Best wishes for your retirement --- keep yourself busy. Alan Thanks, Alan. So far, I'm too busy to turn around. But I have so many little jobs around the house that I just haven't been able to get to until now, so there is plenty to do. I am going to sneak in some fun. I just got in from a couple of days of trout fishing -- I caught the morning mayfly rise this morning and then headed home from PA -- and I'm heading out for a few days of surf fishing late tomorrow. That will help recovery from my fishing-deficiency anemia. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:29:12 -0700, Rudy Canoza
wrote: On 9/13/2016 3:23 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:28:43 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote: On 9/12/2016 6:29 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:29:52 -0700, Hot Coals wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:39:29 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. Congrats! Thanks. I'll tell you if it was a good idea in a few months. d8-) Work is work, and there's a reason we have to be paid to do any (much) of it for someone else. But your work sounded like something you really enjoyed, and it always seemed to me you had a lot of control over the amount and pace of it. You're still under age 70, seem to have taken good care of yourself and be in relatively good health, so what made you pull the plug? I'm rushing out the door here, so this is not well thought out, but the short story is that it was becoming too frustrating. I have an editorial vision and the world was going somewhere else. Or my publisher was. Or publishing is. It will take some time and distance for me to have an accurate view of it. Oh, I completely get the type of frustration you're talking about. I've gone through something similar over the last 15 or so years. I've worked all my life in IT, and from 1983 until 2005 it was all as an independent consultant/contractor. Most of the early days of that was spent on installing and customizing commercial vendor-supplied ERP packages, mainly in distributing and manufacturing, with some forays off into insurance and health care. This was entirely on medium to large IBM platforms. I probably caught most of the second half of the big computerization wave in the U.S., when computers went from doing some accounting and tabulating to becoming central to firms' core business functions. The shift meant that what came to be known as IT (after earlier being "the computer room" and then "data processing") stopped being managed by the CFO and came to have its own senior executive. Except for a short spell in the very early 1990s, I never lacked work. As an independent contractor, I had a lot of control over my time, and I got a lot of the hardest assignments, which I liked. There was one firm where I spent most of a five year interval in the late 1990s, and near the end of it, the CIO got dinged in an audit because she gave me too much of the important stuff, and there was no "succession plan" if I got run over by a truck or inherited a few million and stopped working. It all changed quickly in the early 2000s. First, nearly every medium to large firm that was going to acquire and customize an enterprise package had already done so, and focus shifted to customer interfaces rather than core enterprise functions. Second, Sarbanes-Oxley and other onerous regulations came into place that mandated segregation-of-duties and extremely cumbersome change management procedures; the change management bull**** made it harder and harder to get things done. Third, there was a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions, and a lot of big companies that had needed a lot of IT work simply disappeared. Finally, there was the surge of "off-shoring" that moved quite a lot of IT work to India and elsewhere, and also the notoriously corrupt H-1B visa debacle that put intense downward pressure on contract rates and salaries. In the heyday, I could bill $75 and occasionally $85 an hour for truly independent work, and I would get offers from contract brokers for $65 an hour; by 2006, the brokers were offering in the $35-$40 range, sometimes less. I had to give up contracting in 2005 and take a so-called "permanent" position, of which I have now had three. Today, I work for a huge financial services company, heavily regulated, and the work is tedious and hard to get done because of all the change management and regulatory compliance hoops. They motivate the proles with near-constant reminders that failure to comply with all the regs can result in consequences "up to and including termination" - very cheerful. I have to take numerous internal training sessions annually in change management, incident management, anti-money laundering, risk management, time tracking, "diversity and inclusion" (what bull****), and more. The work is pure systems management - no more development. There's really no challenge to it, or very little. It has become just a paycheck. Now I better understand your inclination to libertarianism. I've only had to face that kind of thing when I was a medical editor for six years, and half the job was making sure we complied with medical, legal, and regulatory standards. Medical editing pays pretty well because not many people can do it, in that environment. I found it to be insufferably tedious but it was a good-paying job when other editing jobs were on the skids. They always need medical editors. The regulations in that industry, however, generally make good sense. What doesn't make sense is the huge negative consequences for making a mistake. They grind up editors with regularity, because a mistake can cost the company itself an enormous financial hit. I've witnessed a proofreader getting fired for misspelling a word in a headline. Ironically, it's easier to do that than to make a mistake in text. It's vicious. I envy your situation where you feel you can retire. I can't - married late, have a 15 year old son in private school, major expenses far out onto the horizon (unless he can get a full-ride scholarship to a good school.) If he can get his university education all or mostly paid by someone else, I'll sell everything and get the hell out of the People's Republic of California and go someplace where it's cheaper to live, and maybe then I can cut back on work or at least not have to worry as much about chasing the highest salary. Hang in there. We eventually get old and the kids leave the nest. g I think I'd be cutting it pretty close if I didn't do any work at all, but I look forward to just writing articles I want to write, when I want to write them. It won't be many. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:28:50 +1000, Jon Anderson
wrote: On 13/09/2016 5:39 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend The worst day fishing beats the best day working. But I guess that doesn't apply anymore, eh? Enjoy! Jon Thanks, Jon. I hope the rest is like the last week. d8-) I didn't catch many trout (man, am I rusty!) but just being on those freestone streams is worth the effort. It's beautiful up in north-central PA right now. But then, it usually is. -- Ed Huntress --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:41:23 +0800, doggerel wrote:
On 13-Sep-16 3:39 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) Enjoy! I'm sure you will be back here sooner than you think. Thanks for the useful advice you've given here over the years. Thanks. I'm between trips and somehow I had to log into RCM. g I'm off again tomorrow evening for some sal****er fishing. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:03:49 -0700 (PDT), Garrett Fulton
wrote: On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 11:16:03 AM UTC-4, Don Foreman wrote: Congratulations, Ed! On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:39:29 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus Yes, congratulations. You've earned it and it's the greatest thing since bottled beer. Thanks to both of you guys. So far, so good... -- Ed Huntress |
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On 9/15/2016 9:06 AM, wrote:
On 9/15/2016 8:05 AM, Catherine L. Cranche wrote: On 9/15/2016 7:34 AM, Terry Coombs wrote: Catherine L. Cranche wrote: On 9/14/2016 4:16 PM, Gunner Asch wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:47:04 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:55:55 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:07:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Ignoramus7822 wrote: Awesome! I hope that you enjoy your retirement for a long time! Actually, that time period is a concern. A BBC article says: "... in some jobs, average life expectancy after retirement is just 18 months". Here's the website: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18952037 True indeed. I hope Ed stays alive for a very long time. Like my tee says "The more you complain, the longer God makes you live." You just want him to live long enough to be culled, dontcha? Nah..they wont cull Fast Eddy. They might prop him up in the Clown Car..but he has too little influence over anything ...he is just a minor stench..kinda like a kindergardners fart. Nothing of any significance. And I kinda like him, damaged as he is. If he is on the List..its not by my doing. There is no "list", there are no "those who maintain the list." It's all bull**** - 100% of it. You hope ... We all *know* that "the list" is bull****. You know it. We know that you know it. I see you've morphed again , still to much the coward to post your real name . I'd apologize, but it would be insincere. I really like that it upsets you. That says everything about you. No, not everything, and what it does say isn't particularly negative. Coombs, and his pal Wieber, are thorough-going assholes, and upsetting assholes who have no redeeming qualities is not a bad thing to do - it's a good thing to do. I don't consider you an asshole, just plodding and thick, and I don't derive any satisfaction in upsetting you, in the way I get great satisfaction from upsetting Wieber and Coombs; I just don't attach much significance to upsetting you. |
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:51:37 -0400, Tom Gardner
wrote: On 9/12/2016 3:39 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. So I went fishing this weekend -- and I see that a lot of people here spent this nice weekend blowing smoke at each other. Tomorrow I'm leaving for a few days of .... more fishing. Then I'm going somewhere else. I won't be back for a long while. So, enjoy yourselves. I'll be finding better ways to use my time. I have a small boat to build before it gets cold. Hasta luego! (if anyone wants to reach me, delete the "3" from my phony email address above) When I retired I became a bit more liberal. Will you become a bit more conservative? God, I hope not, but I'm developing some bad habits. I already swear too much and I eat squirrels. What's next? -- Ed Huntress |
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On 9/15/2016 9:49 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:29:12 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote: On 9/13/2016 3:23 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:28:43 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote: On 9/12/2016 6:29 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:29:52 -0700, Hot Coals wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 15:39:29 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote: Well, I retired on Friday. 'Finally had enough. Congrats! Thanks. I'll tell you if it was a good idea in a few months. d8-) Work is work, and there's a reason we have to be paid to do any (much) of it for someone else. But your work sounded like something you really enjoyed, and it always seemed to me you had a lot of control over the amount and pace of it. You're still under age 70, seem to have taken good care of yourself and be in relatively good health, so what made you pull the plug? I'm rushing out the door here, so this is not well thought out, but the short story is that it was becoming too frustrating. I have an editorial vision and the world was going somewhere else. Or my publisher was. Or publishing is. It will take some time and distance for me to have an accurate view of it. Oh, I completely get the type of frustration you're talking about. I've gone through something similar over the last 15 or so years. I've worked all my life in IT, and from 1983 until 2005 it was all as an independent consultant/contractor. Most of the early days of that was spent on installing and customizing commercial vendor-supplied ERP packages, mainly in distributing and manufacturing, with some forays off into insurance and health care. This was entirely on medium to large IBM platforms. I probably caught most of the second half of the big computerization wave in the U.S., when computers went from doing some accounting and tabulating to becoming central to firms' core business functions. The shift meant that what came to be known as IT (after earlier being "the computer room" and then "data processing") stopped being managed by the CFO and came to have its own senior executive. Except for a short spell in the very early 1990s, I never lacked work. As an independent contractor, I had a lot of control over my time, and I got a lot of the hardest assignments, which I liked. There was one firm where I spent most of a five year interval in the late 1990s, and near the end of it, the CIO got dinged in an audit because she gave me too much of the important stuff, and there was no "succession plan" if I got run over by a truck or inherited a few million and stopped working. It all changed quickly in the early 2000s. First, nearly every medium to large firm that was going to acquire and customize an enterprise package had already done so, and focus shifted to customer interfaces rather than core enterprise functions. Second, Sarbanes-Oxley and other onerous regulations came into place that mandated segregation-of-duties and extremely cumbersome change management procedures; the change management bull**** made it harder and harder to get things done. Third, there was a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions, and a lot of big companies that had needed a lot of IT work simply disappeared. Finally, there was the surge of "off-shoring" that moved quite a lot of IT work to India and elsewhere, and also the notoriously corrupt H-1B visa debacle that put intense downward pressure on contract rates and salaries. In the heyday, I could bill $75 and occasionally $85 an hour for truly independent work, and I would get offers from contract brokers for $65 an hour; by 2006, the brokers were offering in the $35-$40 range, sometimes less. I had to give up contracting in 2005 and take a so-called "permanent" position, of which I have now had three. Today, I work for a huge financial services company, heavily regulated, and the work is tedious and hard to get done because of all the change management and regulatory compliance hoops. They motivate the proles with near-constant reminders that failure to comply with all the regs can result in consequences "up to and including termination" - very cheerful. I have to take numerous internal training sessions annually in change management, incident management, anti-money laundering, risk management, time tracking, "diversity and inclusion" (what bull****), and more. The work is pure systems management - no more development. There's really no challenge to it, or very little. It has become just a paycheck. Now I better understand your inclination to libertarianism. I've only had to face that kind of thing when I was a medical editor for six years, and half the job was making sure we complied with medical, legal, and regulatory standards. Medical editing pays pretty well because not many people can do it, in that environment. I found it to be insufferably tedious but it was a good-paying job when other editing jobs were on the skids. They always need medical editors. The regulations in that industry, however, generally make good sense. What doesn't make sense is the huge negative consequences for making a mistake. They grind up editors with regularity, because a mistake can cost the company itself an enormous financial hit. I've witnessed a proofreader getting fired for misspelling a word in a headline. Ironically, it's easier to do that than to make a mistake in text. It's vicious. I envy your situation where you feel you can retire. I can't - married late, have a 15 year old son in private school, major expenses far out onto the horizon (unless he can get a full-ride scholarship to a good school.) If he can get his university education all or mostly paid by someone else, I'll sell everything and get the hell out of the People's Republic of California and go someplace where it's cheaper to live, and maybe then I can cut back on work or at least not have to worry as much about chasing the highest salary. Hang in there. We eventually get old and the kids leave the nest. g I think I'd be cutting it pretty close if I didn't do any work at all, but I look forward to just writing articles I want to write, when I want to write them. It won't be many. What happened with fishing? I might have misunderstood, but I had the idea you were going to be off doing it for a week or so. |
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