Life's too short.

[outback]

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.

[E. maculata]

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.

[zenwood]

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

Nice post outback. As refreshing as a haiku.




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

[Wongo]

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.

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

[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.

[Stu in Tokyo]

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.

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!!

Cheers!

[Gingermick]

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

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

[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...

[Pete J]

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

I know I do...

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

[Grunt]

Coffee in a bucket?

Coffee should be espresso and servered in tiny little cups.

[JDarvall]

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...

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...

[Iain]

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
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.

[Daddles]

Coffee in a bucket?

Coffee should be espresso and servered in tiny little cups.

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

RIchard

[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.

[la Huerta]

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