Life's too short.

Things have been busy round here lately, there's no denying. What with Give Zed a red day, in which I didn't partake. The "are you a troll or not" debacle, and of course lets all create a pseudonym, none of which interested me greatly, I guess it's no wonder poor old is shagged, and probably a little ****** off with us.

This evening after dinner it was warm enough for me to go out to the shed. When I finished there I relaxed with a beer, or seven, watched the footy and cricket at the same time. Greeted my daughter home, who has been on a school excursion.

It's late on a Friday night, I'm feeling a little mellow, But I can't help but think life's all a bit too short.

Don't worry, tomorrow I'll be back, stirring, pushing as hard as I can, but for now, life's good.

Agreed Outback, life seems far too short at times, spent the last 3 weeks every spare daylight moment with my kids and some nights into the wee hours, BMX track practice, weekends racing and building & rebuilding bikes.
My knees hurt (I ain't 15 anymore it would seem)hands are all roughed up again, squinting from too much welding with an 11 lense, my metal working gear/tools & I got reaquainted, I've spent thousands more than I anticipated, the weeks are just rolling into one giant loop, but by crikey it's fun, just going by too quickly.

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Originally Posted by outback

...It's late on a Friday night, I'm feeling a little mellow...

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Nice post outback. As refreshing as a haiku. :)




Did remind me of Paul Simon's line in Annie Hall, though;)

Well it is Friday morning here and it is my last day in America. We are flying out tomorrow. I just can’t wait to go back home and back to some normality. When I am back I will continue setting up my workshop. The first thing I will do is the dust collection system. I bought some very good blast gates from LV that I can use. Then I will build a workbench, a couple of tool cabinets and a router table.

Then my wife's 30th birthday :)
Then Jasmin's 4th birthday :)
Then the baby comes :) :) :) :)
Then I am a happy man again. :D

I am not entirely thrilled about to going back to the office though. :mad:

See you all in Sydney and thank you for keeping me happy :)

Wongo, I wonder if you will miss coffee in a bucket though?

I know I do...

Actually, I too have been pretty happy of late.

Made a nice knife for someone else, got a hefty chunk of change for 90 minutes work today, everything is going fine.

However...

The beautiful, smart and wonderful girl sleeping in the next room is not ok.

And I think all heck is about to start breaking loose somehow...

3/4 terrified, 1/2 excited, 3/8 petrified and 0.00001% hoping the assumption is right.

I don't know if it's adding or subtracting to my feeling pretty good with the world right now. ;)

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Originally Posted by Schtoo

Wongo, I wonder if you will miss coffee in a bucket though?

I know I do...

Actually, I too have been pretty happy of late.

Made a nice knife for someone else, got a hefty chunk of change for 90 minutes work today, everything is going fine.

However...

The beautiful, smart and wonderful girl sleeping in the next room is not ok.

And I think all heck is about to start breaking loose somehow...

3/4 terrified, 1/2 excited, 3/8 petrified and 0.00001% hoping the assumption is right.

I don't know if it's adding or subtracting to my feeling pretty good with the world right now. ;)

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Are you suggesting there could be little Schtoo's running around in 9 months or so, or am I reading this wrong...?

If yes, then Congrats!

You life is about to change in a way you cannot possibly understand until after it has done so!! :D

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Stu in Tokyo

You life is about to change in a way you cannot possibly understand until after it has done so

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And by that time you can't take it back even if you have all the recepits.

i'm just thankfull that i was not born into some filthy rich houshold, and having no interest in anything but money...being just the average block does make a more enjoyable life experience, the thrill of simple pleasures like selling your first piece of furniture, working and saving hard to buy that special tool, or just enjoying the company of love ones, life is grand but to bloody short...




s*#t now i'm depressed...

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Originally Posted by Schtoo

Wongo, I wonder if you will miss coffee in a bucket though?

I know I do...

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Bucket yes - coffee, no!

Having just spent some time in the US, and having reaffirmed amongst other things that all the yank baiting which goes on in this forum is entirely unjustified, what I can say is that most of the coffee in the US is mediocre. Perhaps I should modify that to say that most of the coffee I have tried there is mediocre.

I spent a few days in Seattle, home of Starbucks, Boeing and Microsoft. Bill Gates addressed our group and claimed that of those three, the greatest achievement was Starbucks finding out how to charge $3 for a 50 cent cup of coffee!

(My deepest apologies to the Bellingham Fire brigade one hour to the North - I just couldn't quite make it and get to see the Grizzly factory)

Regards

Coffee in a bucket?

Coffee should be espresso and servered in tiny little cups.

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Originally Posted by la Huerta

i'm just thankfull that i was not born into some filthy rich houshold, and having no interest in anything but money...being just the average block does make a more enjoyable life experience, the thrill of simple pleasures like selling your first piece of furniture, working and saving hard to buy that special tool, or just enjoying the company of love ones, life is grand but to bloody short...

s*#t now i'm depressed...

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:rolleyes: yeh, even the rich complain constantly about not having enough money. Says a lot to me. My uncles like that. Yet , the blokes a bleeding millionare,,,,,100 times over. Owns houses everywhere. But always walking around with a knoted brow.....paces. I went up to him once and give him a big crushing bear hug to try and snap him out of it, but the wally stayed cranky, pushed me off with 'GET OF ME!!!' and started pacing again. <- frustrating to watch....pacing that is.

I got nothing compared to him, in material assets I mean. Yet, I'm so much happier. Wealth just seems to draw upon just more evils that we are all ill prepared to deal with.

We all still gota
CRAP
SLEEP
EAT
and as depressing as it sounds, regardless of how much of a big shot we are we will still all die and be forgotten as relatively quickly as the bloke next to us. Even if with we're loaded.

s*#t now i'm depressed too... :D :D

Aaah, Money. No object to me!!!
After all an object is an obstacle in ones path and in this instance I have never encountered it.
My claim to fame is getting six straight numbers in Tatts, unfortunately the line was vertical :o
Apart from that, I have a free weekend, last weeked was fighting off rabid leeches at Gembrook for a Scout Leader training session, prior to that just about every weekend was taken up towing bloody mules around for various events, and to top it off it is warm and sunny.
There must be a God and he loves me, well this weekend anyway.

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Originally Posted by Grunt

Coffee in a bucket?

Coffee should be espresso and servered in tiny little cups.

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NO, Coffee should be espresso and served in BIG CUPS :eek: :D :eek: :confused: :eek: :( :eek: :o

RIchard

My third and final child is growing up too quick, she's already 20 months. Not too long ago she was an angel, now she's only an angel when she's asleep. She menaces her older brothers 3 & 9. Runs over and grabs whatever one of them is playing with and does the bolt. That or sneak up behind the middle bloke and hit him with something. Then when you rouse on her she turn on this sweet smile and I can't stay mad. :o

gingermick...one might say that your a wealthy man...you everything you need

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Originally Posted by Gingermick

My third and final child is growing up too quick, she's already 20 months. Not too long ago she was an angel, now she's only an angel when she's asleep. She menaces her older brothers 3 & 9. Runs over and grabs whatever one of them is playing with and does the bolt. That or sneak up behind the middle bloke and hit him with something. Then when you rouse on her she turn on this sweet smile and I can't stay mad. :o

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Ahh, you have a little princess among the princes. You are for it mate. If she isn't spoilt now, she will be by the time she can wreak some real havoc.

Richard
who has a little princess of his own :D

I heard if you want to know what God thinks of money look at the people he gives it to.

American Coffee is a bit lacklustre. Mind you the Japanese have no idea themselves although they do make great tea. I have been twice in Tokyo now and I still haven't found an Italian or anyone else making coffee. Mind you the Japanese were taught coffee by the Americans so it makes sense.

Not that the Seppos are that bad just they get bad press.

But it is just so nice to bring a piece of timber to life and have the pleasure of seeing work you made with your own hands.

Been a while since I made any money but I am happy. The money will come soon enough.

Studley

On the coffee front, we spent a week in San Francisco and most of the coffee was alright (then again, a triple espresso from Strabucks after staying awake for 36 hours, just to stay awake for another 4, wouldn't have cared if it was dog squirt), but there was one place...

Walk in and there are 6 jugs of coffee, a couple flavoured ones, but 2 normal. Serve yourself.

The sizes are small, medium and large. I chose large, which looked like a milkshake cup. Filled it up, topped it off with half and half (couldn't do it every day, but it does taste pretty good!) and paid my $1.50 for it.

Walked out, took a swig. Threatened to go back in and kidnap the guy who made it. Possibly the best coffee I have had. Not saying it's the greatest, but it was very very good, and dirt cheap.

I really miss that. :(

On the little creatures, we don't know anything yet. But she is giving the can a new technicolour spray job in the mornings, and I have pickled jellyfish in the fridge. Strange things are afoot in this corner of the rock...

On cash. I taught a class for 90 minutes yesterday, and got paid about $120 for it.

Any questions of why I do what I do anymore? Don't work many hours, but the rate of pay is spectacular and the gov doesn't have a very big finger in my pie either. :)

Things are good right now. How the heck could they not be? :D

Studley, I know a number of places that make great coffee, including my own house! :D

I have several friends that own/run French or Italian places, and they make GREAT coffee.

Schtoo buddy, $120 for 90 minutes? I hope that is US dollars ;)

Oh wait, you are not in Tokyo.

When I was doing the private lessons, I would not move for less than $100 an hour plus travel expenses, but Tokyo is more expensive.

Heck I used to work at NOVA (1st job, only for 8 months) and I got paid $1800 US for 3 hours a day 6 days a week, 10 AM to 1 PM, talk about free time :p

If your wife is in the family way, wait until she goes into "Nesting" mode, that is fun to watch!!

Cheers!

That's right. Take advice on parenting from someone who has Calvin as his avatar :rolleyes:

RIchard

i live 30 sec. from several coffee shops, there coffee is somewhere between flavoured water and warmed milk...cost $2.80

i'v never made any real good money, that's why i'm still stuck renting, but only up to reciently i was doing lawnmowing (grrr, hate it) and got nowhere...now i make furniture for a living (yippi love it) and i'm slowing getting somewhere, the good thing about hitting rock bottom is theres only one way to go ...up

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If she isn't spoilt now,

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She's spoilt, they all are. They get more presents each for their b'days than my entire family got for b'days xmas combined.
But I'm worried about Lili-jazz, She's only 20 months and manipulative as a teenager, almost. I try and preach sterness and discipline and walk around yelling and being generally grumpy but it dont cut the mustard as far as lili is concerned. She just turns around and gets into something else. (and gingerchick is a softie..)
i dont know how I'm gonna make it through teenagery :confused:

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Originally Posted by la Huerta

i live 30 sec. from several coffee shops, there coffee is somewhere between flavoured water and warmed milk...cost $2.80

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Save up your biccies and invest in an espresso machine, I've seen them as cheap as $60 in Coles etc, I bought one to take away with me on my trips and they work just fine.
Thats just 21 and a half cups of the crap you are complaining about, Moccona and Forte cost about $5.50 a jar, Gloria Jeans about $7.00 (200g) and you are still way in front, and at your leisure, impress your friends but don't forget to invite me :D :D :D
Long black thankyou.................

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Originally Posted by Daddles

That's right. Take advice on parenting from someone who has Calvin as his avatar :rolleyes:

RIchard

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Hey, Hey!!

Now wait a sec, can you imagine what kind of Dad Calvin would be!! :D

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Stu in Tokyo

Hey, Hey!!

Now wait a sec, can you imagine what kind of Dad Calvin would be!! :D

Cheers!

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I can't imagine him getting the chance to find out :D

Richard
Calvin fan from waaaaayyyyyyy back - my budgie is called Hobbes. :D

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Originally Posted by Gingermick

i dont know how I'm gonna make it through teenagery :confused:

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It's simple Mick, you won't :D

My little princess was at a birthday party today. All dolled up in her fairy outfit, with a butterfly painted on her face and huge wings on her back. Sorry, grubby boys with a head scarf, eye patch and fake sword just don't cut it.

Spoil the little darling. Just don't spoil her rotten. Of course she manipulates you - you're Dad. Live with it and love it. Then, when she's got kids of her own and expects to get some sympathy ... :D

Richard

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Originally Posted by Daddles

I can't imagine him getting the chance to find out :D

Richard
Calvin fan from waaaaayyyyyyy back - my budgie is called Hobbes. :D

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As long as you don't have a cat named Calvin:D

A long time ago, while at Uni, in Canada, a buddy who was short, skinny, had a large head and crazy blonde hair dressed up as Spaceman Spiff for the big Halloween party on campus, by evenings end we found there were three kinds of people;

1) Spaceman who...? <-don't bother inviting them to a dorm party! (unless they were VERY cute, we could always educate them!!! ;) )

2) Oh....Calvin and Hobbes.... the cartoon:rolleyes: <-don't even talk to them the rest of the night.

3) "Hey Spaceman Spiff!! COOL!!" <-now these people would fight their way across the room to come and shake his hand and say "Way cool dude!" there are the people that we wanted to party with!!

PS about 4 in 10 were chicks, which surprised us!

Love Calvin!!

http://www.captainnapalm.com/wmcal_aka_spiff.gif

Cheers!

People who don't appreciate Calvin and Hobbes either have issues to sort out or haven't read enough of it. It should be compulsory reading for all parents ... if only to ease a few concerns about how bad it can get.

True story.

When I was married, I was blessed with a step-son ... with ADD traits (means he didn't have it all the time). This kid was Calvin in all his forms in person and at full roar - I kid you not. Lovely kid but jeez ...
Kindy was a trial. In the end, they just let him run and do his own thing - the manuals hadn't even considered a kid like him, let alone provided guidance in handling him. I was discussing him with the kindy teacher one day and commented that he had a fair dose of the Calvin and Hobbes syndrome.
She nodded, made 'hmm' noises, then said, seriously, "I haven't read the latest literature on that. Could you give me some references please."

I barely stifled the giggles.

Cheers
Richard