I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.

While everything in my heart wishes that I *could* just snap my
fingers, and you'd all decide "that I was right," -- maybe in the
spirit of Steve Turner's post -- I've realized that I've had a rough
few weeks, and latched on with the foolish tenacity of a pitbull.

ON topic ... here's a little more insight ... AND some woodworking
content:

http://lumberjocks.com/NBeener/blog/14108

Life HAS piled up on me, lately.

I've faced more challenges than normal, and "normal" includes more
than a few.

Did I take that out on y'all?

I guess I did.

It *would have* been better if -- in the words of the Grateful Dead --
I had "State yer' piece and get out."

Would I be grateful if the *message* lingered a while, in the minds of
the Wreck's contributors? Sure.

But I won't flog anybody ... or myself ... any more on this.

I have my wounds -- like most of us do -- and will vow to find
*better* ways to heal them.

If I'm *really* lucky ... part of that healing WILL be in my wood
shop ... where ... the SECOND one of these (this is #1)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WVVYjLCNo2w/S3...%20%283%29.JPG

Is in the works.

So ... please accept my apologies.

Rough roads ... usually don't lead me to take things out on others.
This was an unforeseen speed bump.

Neil

Neil Brooks wrote:

I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.


Onward and upward.

--

-Mike-

On Feb 28, 5:58*pm, Neil Brooks wrote:
I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.

While everything in my heart wishes that I *could* just snap my
fingers, and you'd all decide "that I was right," -- maybe in the
spirit of Steve Turner's post -- I've realized that I've had a rough
few weeks, and latched on with the foolish tenacity of a pitbull.

ON topic ... here's a little more insight ... AND some woodworking
content:

http://lumberjocks.com/NBeener/blog/14108

Life HAS piled up on me, lately.

I've faced more challenges than normal, and "normal" includes more
than a few.

Did I take that out on y'all?

I guess I did.

It *would have* been better if -- in the words of the Grateful Dead --
I had "State yer' piece and get out."

Would I be grateful if the *message* lingered a while, in the minds of
the Wreck's contributors? *Sure.

But I won't flog anybody ... or myself ... any more on this.

I have my wounds -- like most of us do -- and will vow to find
*better* ways to heal them.

If I'm *really* lucky ... part of that healing WILL be in my wood
shop ... where ... the SECOND one of these (this is #1)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WVVYjLCNo2w/S3...lQ/P-KRr2L0bVk...

Is in the works.

So ... please accept my apologies.

Rough roads ... usually don't lead me to take things out on others.
This was an unforeseen speed bump.

Neil


Good luck, Neil. Lost my dad whenever I was 39 and he was only 66.
He lost his father at a young age (25) and he was the one who drew the
short straw to tell my grandfather that he had terminal lung cancer.
He had a really rough time with that for the rest of his life--he
wanted to die of *anything* but lung cancer. So what did he die of?
Lung cancer.


Oh, and he and my mother lost two children: one still born and one
lived a couple hours. Although I did not lose them myself, I think I
know what it was (is) like.

busbus

On 2/28/2010 4:58 PM, Neil Brooks wrote:
I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.

While everything in my heart wishes that I *could* just snap my
fingers, and you'd all decide "that I was right," -- maybe in the
spirit of Steve Turner's post -- I've realized that I've had a rough
few weeks, and latched on with the foolish tenacity of a pitbull.

ON topic ... here's a little more insight ... AND some woodworking
content:

http://lumberjocks.com/NBeener/blog/14108

Life HAS piled up on me, lately.

I've faced more challenges than normal, and "normal" includes more
than a few.

Did I take that out on y'all?

I guess I did.

It *would have* been better if -- in the words of the Grateful Dead --
I had "State yer' piece and get out."

Would I be grateful if the *message* lingered a while, in the minds of
the Wreck's contributors? Sure.

But I won't flog anybody ... or myself ... any more on this.

I have my wounds -- like most of us do -- and will vow to find
*better* ways to heal them.

If I'm *really* lucky ... part of that healing WILL be in my wood
shop ... where ... the SECOND one of these (this is #1)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WVVYjLCNo2w/S3...%20%283%29.JPG

Is in the works.

So ... please accept my apologies.

Rough roads ... usually don't lead me to take things out on others.
This was an unforeseen speed bump.

Neil

quoting the whole post for the benefit of those who have Neil filtered

Well Neil, I'm not quite sure what to say... I'm having a hard time imagining
what you went through in the two hours that elapsed between this post and all
the others before it. Maybe I should say a little prayer of thanks that my Dad
is still with me, and I'm not even a religious man...

I think back to some of the things I *wanted* to say and *could* have said in
my post, but past experience has taught me that it would accomplish little and
I forced myself to take as much of the high road as I could. Thanks for
confirming that it was the right thing to do.

Enough said for now, except to echo Mike Marlow: Onward and upward. Cheers.

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(From a Shiner Bock billboard I saw in Austin some years ago)
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Neil Brooks wrote:

I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.

.... snip

Took some courage to write that and also to apologize. Condolences on
your loss.


If I'm *really* lucky ... part of that healing WILL be in my wood
shop ... where ... the SECOND one of these (this is #1)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WVVYjLCNo2w/S3...AAAAAAAAAlQ/P-
KRr2L0bVk/s512/NS1_Glue_Up%20%283%29.JPG


Looks like you do good work. Great thing to focus upon.

Is in the works.

So ... please accept my apologies.


Certainly. Time to start over and focus on the woodworking



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