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It's 6:25 am and I can't get back to sleep, so...
It's that time of year again. Any New Year's Resolutions? Are you finally going to finish that restoration you started three years ago? What are you going to buy? Sell? Throw out?
 

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Mornin' Paul. Same here. Awake at 0430, no chance of going back to sleep. Dress, put on the coffee and with a cuppa in hand, go outside to indulge the nicotine habit.

The list grows. Now just considered as addendum. Likely to be ignored as "other things" pop up.
 

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Same as last year (hence last year's date from when I posted it)

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Seriously, a couple of things. Increasingly I am reminded of how quickly time is passing. Hence.

1. Pay much more attention to relationships with friends and family.

2. Get the odd jobs around the house done (as Retirement begins to wave from the corner) Our Real Estate friend made the point this fall that our next house is likely one that pops up for sale and not necessarily what we were looking for - and this house needs to be ready to sell (not necessarily this year - but it should be closer to done than it currently is)

3. Drive the Vauxhall to British Car Day in September.
 

PAUL161

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My New Years resolution is, not to make any more New Year resolutions! :applause:
 

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But you'll probably break that one too.
 
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When my mother says, "Come in, it's time to eat."
And I keep on playing games out in the street
I resolve to rush right home now when I'm called
Cause my pop just got a hairbrush, and he's bald.
This is my New Year's Resolution.

For those saying "huh??", look it up...
 

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To get both MGs able to drive long distances.
 

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My resolution is to have the '53 Plymouth running and driving by the end of 2019 -- and hopefully externally complete. And, yes, it is one of those projects that the more you dig into it, the more you find that needs to be done, but I'm so far into it that turning back is not an option either.
 

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1. Go on more adventures with the wife and the grown kids.

2. Take more photographs

3. Now that I'm retired I have actually been working more on my EType. So, one resolution is to get a good deal accomplished on that forever project with a goal of maybe getting back on the road before I die.

4. Several home projects:
- Paint the house (it really needs it)
- Put shade slats across the beams on the back deck (for added shade)
- Remodel the guest bathroom
- Remodel the master bathroom
- Start on some serious landscaping (already paid a landscaper to do a design for us)
 

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Redoing the bathrooms is a pain in the behind, did mine last spring/early summer. But I will admit the end results were worth it.

My plan is to first tear everything out - pull up existing tille and start with a completely bare room. Then take it one step at a time. In the guest bath I am replacing the bathtub with a smaller, more modern corner shower (this will open up more room for a bath towl cabient in the other corner now occupied by a tub; a tub that no one ever uses (we do bath - just not in the guest bath and a shower will suffice there). I'm doing the guest bath first so as to hopefully learn from the smaller room some things that will apply when I do the master bath.
 

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Best thing I ever did was chop out the tub and build the shower.
 

DrEntropy

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Yup. That was the path of least resistance. Now we have a bespoke shower with an overhead rain pan and two-head wall mounted unit. Two controls, one above the other, upper for the overhead and lower for the either-or shower. That has an integral valve to direct output to the wall mounted head or the "wand" on a flexible line. Bi-fold glass door installed, yet to build the glass block on the knee wall at the control end, but having framework made with custom built stainless steel. Still need to construct the vanity/sink cabinetry and run the plumbing.
 

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Yup. That was the path of least resistance. Now we have a bespoke shower with an overhead rain pan and two-head wall mounted unit. Two controls, one above the other, upper for the overhead and lower for the either-or shower. That has an integral valve to direct output to the wall mounted head or the "wand" on a flexible line. Bi-fold glass door installed, yet to build the glass block on the knee wall at the control end, but having framework made with custom built stainless steel. Still need to construct the vanity/sink cabinetry and run the plumbing.

I "think" I may have a bit more room to work with than you and hope I can pull it straight out without the need to saw in half. But that's my fall-back position.
 
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