I have a Dream

[Redback]

I have a dream...

On cleaning up on the Powerball Jackpot....

First buying 1000 acres around Pemberton or Walpole. beautiful country, big trees, bliss...

The wife wants horses, she pines for her youth when she used to ride all the time.

We would then set up a small business where we build little cottages set around a lake, and we rent them out on holiday basis.

We'd also build us nice house and one for the folks.

Then, My dream....the perfect workshop.

I'd offer a competition on this board to design and outfit the perfect workshop with a generous prize for the winner. Design would include things like machine and tool types and brands, dust extraction, timber storage, finishing room and most efficient placement of machines and best usage of available space.

Once I had received all the tools and machines I would then realise Im totally unqualified to do a decent job of it, so next I'd offer a couple of people the opportunity to come help set up the workshop to make it the best set up and outfitted you could get. With all the expertise around here, I'd offer a couple of guys full accomadation, transport, vehicle and generous salary to basically help set up and teach me the tricks of the trade.

I'd want to learn everything, first how to use hand tools, then on to using all the machines.

Then I'd while away my spare time indulging myself by building whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, how I wanted.

In between time, we'd go tripping around the world and Australia.

My job is so boring, I sit here and daydream about this all the time. My workshop plans are taking shape! :)

Other people don't understand my dream, but Im sure fellow woodies would! :)

So what's your lotto dream....

RB

[silentC]

Same as yours, RB. Except I don't know where Pemberton or Walpole are, but I'm sure they're nice.

I'd add a beer drinker's tour of the World as a 'must do'. I'd have to find something else to do in America though.

[Zed]

I concur with you . yours sound similar to mine I call them my "parramatta road peak hour fantasies"

Tio get over myself I sit down and design my w/s myself and write me tool listings.

this is a common fantasy I'll bet....

I like the idea of beer - possibly an extended stay in Deutchland.

[LineLefty]

Same as yours, RB. Except I don't know where Pemberton or Walpole are, but I'm sure they're nice.

I'd add a beer drinker's tour of the World as a 'must do'. I'd have to find something else to do in America though.

My car broke down and I needed emergency towing from Walpole and then needed my brakes fixed in the 'town'.

Let me tell you, it cost nearly as much as a powerball win!

[bitingmidge]

I'd eat nothing other than Walpole salads.

Life would be grand.

P (Hang on .. life is grand!)
:D :D :D

[JDarvall]

Interesting thinking about what you'd do if you won the lotto.....

I've personally got a little phobia to money....which must sound odd.....but seriously, I let my wife control it all....which she loves as she's a bit of a control freak (shhhh)....I don't want to know how much is in the bank at any time......all I want to know is 'Is there enough ?'........my life revolves about working with my hands......and I reakon a millionares life is somewhat different.....too many temptations......I'd have a lot of trouble coping with the concept of winning lotto and propably just give it all away to my many 'new' friends :D .....

Just don't think life would change that much anyway.....you still have to
sleep, crap, eat, drink, work(I couldn't not work) and it won't ever give you eternal youth....what Ashore says hits the nail on the head
'nobody gets out alive'.....winning all that money will probably disquise all that reality......

and the way life is now is fine despite the complaining....I get plenty of laughs.....still get the odd bottle of wine.......time with the kids... :)

[Sturdee]

Then, My dream....the perfect workshop.



Sorry Redback, there is no such thing as a perfect workshop. It will always remain a dream.

Just when you think it is perfect you find out about a new tool and then a whole reorganisation of the shop may be needed. :D

But that is also part of the fun, to learn to adapt what you've got so that all will fit in.


Peter.

[Kev Y.]

My dream.. win tattslotto , THEN invite the X to a party just to rub it in :D ( yeah I know vicious aint I :p )

Then TOYS, TOYS, TOYS.. and find MYSELF a cure for old age .. that way I WIN

[Redback]

Sorry Redback, there is no such thing as a perfect workshop. It will always remain a dream Yeah that sounds right.

Well it will be perfect for that micro second in time :P

Already my exisitng workspace is now too small, with not enough wall space and half the machines I have, I wish Id bought a better version!...

But, I still love my workshop :)

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?t=17136

RB

[Grunt]

I'd add a beer drinker's tour of the World as a 'must do'. I'd have to find something else to do in America though.


Me too. I also want to do a Curry World Tour. Fiji, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, South Africa (when there is cricket on), England and the West Indies. Beer is goes very well with curry.

[Iain]

Drool you poor bastards drool, I had TWO big wins in lotto years ago :D :D :D
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#1 $15.00
#2 $8.00
No need to play anymore ;)

[echnidna]

Nuthin fancy
One house south for summer
One north for winters (maybe in the NW)
and a workshop with each house

[AlexS]

A few years ago a young bloke where I lived won $5million just after splitting from his wife & doing the settlerment. He told his employer he'd stay with them until they could get a replacement for him. But, he started coming in later & later, and going home earlier & earlier, until they told him they could see his heart wasn't in it and it would be OK if he left.

Last seen heading into the sunset in his sports car with a new lady friend...

[echnidna]

.... heading into the sunset in his sports car with a new lady friend...
:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[Schtoo]

I also want to do a Curry World Tour. Fiji, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, South Africa (when there is cricket on), England and the West Indies. Beer is goes very well with curry.
Curry? in Japan?

Where?

I am sure you can get a localized version of any curry, or a real incarnation of it if you look, but I don't know about a Japanese curry.

Unless you count the curry flavoured stew they call curry here...

Case in point, one of the chain stores that does only curry has a scale of 1-10. 1 being normal and like American beer, 10 being quite violent and nasty. I know one guy who orders 13. Stuff is green, it stinks and is probably only done because he can eat it and not get violently ill.

This is the same place where if you order the largest serving, eat it within 10 minutes without leaving your table, you get it for free. If you think you can eat a large bucket full of curry and rice within 10 minutes and without it spilling out your ears, then go right ahead!

Now, local food... :D

[doug the slug]

Well my dream is to build my own ocean-going catamaran (from timber of course) and i am currently saving for the plans and the materials to get started. this is becoming a reality in any case, but with a nice powerball/lotto win it would accelerate teh project somewhat. and probably enlarge teh boat a bit and have better facilities onboard, but even if i won $100,000,000 tomorrow i would still build it, not buy a production model. the dream and goal is to build it myself and sail it round the world living onboard for 20 years or so. My g/f thinks this is a wonderful idea too. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Ashore]

The big powerball win ... I don't know you would be scared to let the grandkids out of sight, the begging letters , unwanted beggers etc na.... When I retired in 95 I got a bit worried do we have enough, what if ...?? so I took on some part time work and every time I did it turned into full time work so after 18 months I said enough. We don't live a flambouyant life style, don't touch poker machines or the tab , drink with moderation , fortunately shmbo said that anything I made from part time work should go to buying toys , so the shed is more than adequate .We have traveled a bit overseas but now concentrate on Aus and are off to Aderlaid...Darwin ...Back on the Ghan ...home via Melbourne..will take a month Aughust ... Sept
The thing is we didn't need a big win to do it.

I have my dream , lived most of my dreams and the ones I haven't am too old to do and enjoy now anyway

A lot of the big win dreams you wouldn't enjoy anyway as the side effects will far outway what your've already got.








Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

[AlexS]

Yep, the worst thing about a big win would be the begging letters
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but I think I'd keep sending them :D

[Daddles]

To quote someone very famous, though I can't remember who but I'm sure she was very famous ... to some people, probably people who matter because I remember her as being famous even though I can't remember who she is ...

what was I saying?

Oh yes ...

The quote from someone famous ...

Money can't buy happiness ... but you can have a lot of fun being miserable :D

Richard

[Grunt]

Curry? in Japan?

Where?


I bought this cook book called the Ultimate Curry Bible. The first part of the book describes the history of the curry. It said that Japan has fallen in love with the curry. Seems like a good excuse to go to Japan anyway.

[Ashore]

To quote someone very famous, though I can't remember who but I'm sure she was very famous ... to some people, probably people who matter because I remember her as being famous even though I can't remember who she is ...

what was I saying?

Oh yes ...

The quote from someone famous ...

Money can't buy happiness ... but you can have a lot of fun being miserable :D

Richard
May West






Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

[kiwigeo]

I bought this cook book called the Ultimate Curry Bible. The first part of the book describes the history of the curry. It said that Japan has fallen in love with the curry. Seems like a good excuse to go to Japan anyway.

Curry has been a big thing in Japan for some time now. If you like your curries really hot then theres a place in Tottori on the western side of Honshu that serves the hottest curries Ive ever tasted.

Curry only one of many good reasons to check out Japan. Its a place you can spend months touring around and never get bored.

[Daddles]

There was a restaurant up the road from where I lived in Brisbane. Thai or Indonesian or Malaysian or something Asian. I went in there one day to buy a curry. In those days, I used to eat a lot of curry and liked it really hot. They had three grades of curry - mild, medium and hot. They didn't know me so they said I had to have their 'beginners' curry the first time. I was a bit jacked off by this until I noticed that it came in an asbestos bowl with the emergency number painted on the side. Talk about self induced torture. I've NEVER eaten anything like it. Sort of felt like swallowing a blowtorch and trying to put it out with napalm. Dead set, my sweat was boiling on my skin. I ruined three pairs of jeans farting fireballs the next day.

Richard

[Ashore]

Curry has been a big thing in Japan for some time now. If you like your curries really hot then theres a place in Tottori on the western side of Honshu that serves the hottest curries Ive ever tasted.

Curry only one of many good reasons to check out Japan. Its a place you can spend months touring around and never get bored.Screwed , ignored, Served last if at all in shops , supermarkets , yuckatory bars denied entry into bars , ridiculed to you face , have open racist slurs said to you on the street unless you speak some japaneese , but never bored



Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.

[Auld Bassoon]

Well my dream is to build my own ocean-going catamaran (from timber of course) and i am currently saving for the plans and the materials to get started. this is becoming a reality in any case, but with a nice powerball/lotto win it would accelerate teh project somewhat. and probably enlarge teh boat a bit and have better facilities onboard, but even if i won $100,000,000 tomorrow i would still build it, not buy a production model. the dream and goal is to build it myself and sail it round the world living onboard for 20 years or so. My g/f thinks this is a wonderful idea too. http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon14.gif
Mate,

Whatever the boat, bigger, longer, beamier, it's still worth doing (whistful expression herehttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon12.gif)

The only Q. I have is: where on board are you going to put the buzzer and T/S?

I know mine occasionally put the wind up me, but that doesn't power the buggershttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon10.gif

Enjoy your dream, and I hope it come true for you. Not sure about a cat' though!

Cheers!

[doug the slug]

Mate,

Whatever the boat, bigger, longer, beamier, it's still worth doing (whistful expression herehttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/images/icons/icon12.gif)

The only Q. I have is: where on board are you going to put the buzzer and T/S?

Enjoy your dream, and I hope it come true for you. Not sure about a cat' though!

Cheers!
Not sure about a cat? well you wont find room for the triton on a monohull!!!

Doug