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Airbear wrote:Thank you Ken, for that particle of appreciation.
This is an interesting and enjoyable thread, but I'm wondering how Rapid Dog is going with his intake port.

I'll bet he is standing about with an intake spigot in one hand, the head in another,
re-reading Ken's post, and scratching his head ...

Now there is a shop. Just being in airbear's show would make me start a project.

With my work keeping me away from home, not time for using the shop when I am home and no projects anyway, my shop is a mess. I go out to change oil, or drill one hole, or some such minor thing and I am always in a hurry. Often I don't put things away and it builds up. I have the bug today and may just go spend a few hours in the shop putting things aright.

Duane Ausherman wrote:Now there is a shop. Just being in airbear's show would make me start a project.

With my work keeping me away from home, not time for using the shop when I am home and no projects anyway, my shop is a mess. I go out to change oil, or drill one hole, or some such minor thing and I am always in a hurry. Often I don't put things away and it builds up. I have the bug today and may just go spend a few hours in the shop putting things aright.

Much the same with mine at the moment, Duane. Every horizontal surface is covered with tools, dust, empties and offcuts from every little project from the last three years. It is home to thousands of spiders, a family of swallows, two possums, at least one blue-tongued lizard and I shudder to think what else. I am appalled and embarrassed every time I rush in to attempt to find something. Your post might inspire me to also put things 'aright'. I like the word 'aright' by the way. I'll try to introduce it into the Australian lexicon.

Duane Ausherman wrote:Now there is a shop. Just being in airbear's show would make me start a project.

With my work keeping me away from home, not time for using the shop when I am home and no projects anyway, my shop is a mess. I go out to change oil, or drill one hole, or some such minor thing and I am always in a hurry. Often I don't put things away and it builds up. I have the bug today and may just go spend a few hours in the shop putting things aright.

My memory is just a memory.
No alzheimer's or meds induced ... just never had one. We are just here, eh ?
But OCD tendencies prevail in the garage. Or everything would be lost –

I spent a couple of hours doing things and putting some things away today. At that rate, it will take another 40 hours to do it up right. Yuk!!

It is good to know I'm not alone when it comes to lack of shedliness (cleanliness in da shed)
But I know where everything is!

The bigger problem is remembering what I went up to the shed for in the first place.

Sometimes I have to go all the way back to where I had my last thought about what I was actually doing, before I remember.
..........and there have been occasions where the second trip to the shed has ground to a halt. Momentarily, mind you.

ME 109 wrote:The bigger problem is remembering what I went up to the shed for in the first place.

Sometimes I have to go all the way back to where I had my last thought about what I was actually doing, before I remember.
..........and there have been occasions where the second trip to the shed has ground to a halt. Momentarily, mind you.

I feel your pain. I mean I really do feel your pain. It's like you've been readin' my mail.

At least I don't remember ever having to make the trip three times!


Ken, memory challenged in . . . in . . . in . . .

Ken in Oklahoma wrote:At least I don't remember ever having to make the trip three times!

Yeah, me neither. I'm not that stupid.
Iffen I don't get it the second time.....

The thing I really hate is spending two hours looking for a pencil. I have to have a pencil to do whatever I'm planning on doing. Maybe it's just me, but without a pencil I am completely useless. I keep buying them - where do they go? Sigh.

I like the idea of 'shedliness'. I plan to do a bit of that when that is the next thing to do.

ps: Oklahoma, Ken. (phew, that took a bit of effort but I got there). Now, where's that fekkin' pencil?

I live in a condo and we have a common work shop, which means I have to clean up all my toys and put them all away each time I work in the shop. But my storgae lockers in the shop are a total mess.

I am as bad as Charlie looking for a pencil when I need to find a spare bit that I know that I have somwhere. I ususally find it is faster to order a new part from Germany than it is to look in all my storage bins and cubby holes.

The reason I don't actually want to look in every place is that I will find something I bought on Ebay 2 years ago, and decide that it is now time to install it, and never get back to what I actually put the bike into the shop for in the first place, if I can find the gasket for it.