On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:22:14 -0800, "Steve B"
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:13:24 -0600, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

"Steve B" fired this volley in
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I see shops of anal persons, and I just cringe. As long as I can find
it, just don't mess with any of my "stuff".

Anal is one thing, and it's sometimes ridiculous. My shop is
"cluttered", mostly for lack of space, and I have a "disorganized
organization system" for where things should/will be. But it's not a
physical safety hazard to work in.

Gunner may like his layout. I find it distracting to have to physically
climb over one machine tool to work on another. Even more so to have to
move 300-400lb of randomly-stacked tools and materials just to get to the
one wrench I laid underneath it all a month ago.

LLoyd

I dont like my layout..but I dont have to crawl over one machine to work
on another..not yet anyways.

Ill take pictures again when I finally finish
clearing/cleaning/organizing.

My problem is..is that for the past 12 yrs..I was working away from
home 5-14 days at a time, often home for 1-2 days, and then back on the
road again..and so forth. The reason its a mess..is that this year..I
was for much of it...unable to go out and move Stuff around due to the
triple bypass and stroke. Frankly..it hurt a LOT to try to move heavy
**** and lift and carry. It has been a growing and healing year. And
one where I found limitations that I never had before.
And of course..my son and his family moved in twice...so the back
bedroom, where I used to store electronic Stuff got emptied out and all
that crap put in the shop as well. Hence the pile of boxes in front of
my grinder bench..still going through that stack. It used to be much
bigger. Sigh. Excuses excuses..yah..I know. Shrug. But Im getting a
grip on it. I brought the Lancer lathe home last week and laid all the
bits and pieces on the two welding benches...so now I cant even weld
anything out there.

Sigh...snivel..whimper...chuckle

Gunner

C'mon, Gunner. A while back, I commented that my chest still hurt 7.5 years
after my bypass/valve job. You said yours didn't after two years. So, it
still hurts, just not as much? And even when it's real bad, it's nothing
like that first month, is it? g

Steve

Its been less than a year since the by pass. Jan 24 of this year.
Coming up on a year next month. 11 months almost.

I had the stroke in March of this year.

Im leaving in a few minutes to drive over to a buddies shop in
Bakersfield and keep loading machinery into 40' trailers so they can go
to his new shop up in Idaho. This morning Ill be loading 4 Bridgports
and 5 Hardinge lathes. Fork lift to get them into the trailers...mice
to push them to the end..prybars to get them free of the mice.

Shrug. Of course it hurts a bit sometimes. But pain is just weakness
leaving the body. Shrug again.

The day after I got out of the hospital after the bypass..I was in Costa
Mesa repairing an OmniTurn Cnc lathe. I had to use a ladder to get up
to the control..as I still had 172 staples in me...and climbing up hurt
a bit. I was more worried about pulling out staples than the pain.

After my first back surgery..I was waiting in the doctors office for him
to come in and remove the staples. He came in, we chatted for a few
minutes..then he spotted the helmet and leathers on the chair....Id come
over on my motorcycle..42 miles each way.

He went ballistic. Shrug.

But the wife had to take the kid somewhere that day in the car..so I
rode the scooter.

Hell..Ive been shot, stabbed, bayoneted, bucked off, stomped on, beat
up, knocked down, thumped, stomped, blown up and gone down more than a
few times.

So pain isnt a stranger to me. Waking up some mornings ...shrug...been
more than a few times I had to roll out of bed, and use the wall to
stand up. But in a few minutes..Im up and ready to hit the new day..and
praying it doesnt hit back G

Gunner





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