On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:08:48 -0700, Cy Ubinger
wrote:

On 6/14/2016 7:20 AM, Tesla's Hotel Room wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:23:17 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I want to
put together a list of affordable welding schools for him...anyone
that has the Knack this well..really needs to go to a decent school,
get certified and get a good paying job.

LOL You claim to have a lot more than a knack. So why haven't you
gotten certified so you can get a good paying job?

Wieber reminds me soooooooo much of my younger brother, with whom I
haven't spoken in close to a decade. My brother actually can do a whole
lot of things - useful stuff that I wouldn't even know how to get
started doing - but he can't do any of them really well, and he always
scoffed at the idea of learning something (or a couple of things) really
well in a formal setting, because that would have required keeping his
damned mouth shut and not pretending he knew it better already than the
instructor. Like Wieber, he brags incessantly about having done stuff
that no reasonable person would ever believe he could have done. Like
Wieber, the little details of his lies seem constantly to be in flux.
Like Wieber, he's both a scrounger and a pack rat (here's a good one:
in 1993, I bought a new BMW K75S. I let him ride it one evening, and he
said it was "nice," but he preferred his Royal Enfield
something-or-other. It was *completely* disassembled in a couple of
wooden crates, and had been since he acquired it some time in the 1970s.
When he and I had a complete rupture early in 2007, it *still* was in
crates.)

One more resemblance to Wieber...every once in a blue moon, the façade
would collapse and he would reveal that he actually had very little clue
about how to make it through life. Those episodes were very much like
Wieber's long wheezy lament here a few months back about not having an
operating vehicle, and seeming to be in a vicious circle: no money to
get a vehicle on the road, no vehicle to get to a place where he might
earn a little money. Those episodes were pathetic in the real sense of
the word: evoking pathos in those who had about written him off. But
like Wieber, he'd immediately do something to wreck that, usually
involving an angry rant about why any suggestions of what he might do to
break out of the circle were lousy ideas, and any feelings of empathy
would evaporate.

Unlike Wieber, he had a couple of long-term friends who were of a much
higher caliber than Tom Gardner. One in particular who had done quite
well financially helped my brother out of some jams, and the two friends
together once took my brother to buy a couple of suits so he could start
a sales job.

As offensive as my brother could be, I never heard him advocating mass
murder of people whose politics he didn't like.

That's a sad tale, and a familiar one. A friend has an adult kid with
a ton of problems. He's an enormous financial drain, and they know
they might as well flush the money down the toilet. Some people are
tough to help.