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WHAT A WEEK!!!

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MAN... Is this week over yet?!?!?!?!
IT all started last sunday. I decided that the only way to get the $$$ I needed to build the sides on my trailer that I need for my living history campout this weekend was to call the guy that's been bugging me to work on his TR6 and havew him bring it over. So I started on it sunday.
Had to replace the Windshield and gasket (and locking strip) and lower windscreen frame to body seal.
The upper dash pad, and sand and repaint the defrosters. New wood dash, take apart and clean all the guages (glass was foggy, and chrome nasty). New speedo cable, fix the loose steering column, oil change, check the diff, check the noise in the right front.....
Worked on it sunday afternoon, monday night, tuesday night, and gave it back to him wednesday. took the money, and bought the wood I needed and started in on the trailer late wed.
Got a little done and finished it up this evening and promptly went out to the parents house to load up all the camping gear.
And that's just all the major stuff........
Oh yea, and I've been commuting to a 3 day class on auto trannies 2 hours away since tuesday....
I'm about done... I can't wait to set up camp tomorrow night. Than its realx till sunday.
 
Hey Ben,

Next time you be needing' a cash influx for a home
project, give me a call. You accomplished in basically
2 1/2 days what would have taken me months and months.

Heck, reschedule your trip to PR for 2 extra days, work
on the Crypt Car those two day and your entire trip will probably cost you $zero out of pocket.

The local Old Brit car club is loosey goosey. I contacted them twice with no response (yet).

Have fun and relax on your days off.

d
 
Sounds like Normal week around here and I have to go to the office for 58 hrs a week. I did however teach my wife how to put the flooring down in the basement and she is about 98% completed.
Oh and then I still have to get the kids at camp and pick up parts and go to a christening..... when will it slow down.
 
Living History Campout is probably like
those campers in Pennsylvania back in the
70's who made a home moving of their
camping experience:

"The Night of the Living Dead".

At least Ben could get a stalled car started!!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] when will it slow down.[/QUOTE]

I'm gonna be 62 in March..have been retired since 2004 (the 2nd time; 1993 the 1st)...& it never slows down...actually, it speeds up! But, its stuff you want to be doing!

You know the only bad thing about retirement? You have to wait so long to take advantage of it!
 
I can relate...

I leave for Singapore next Thursday for two weeks.
Then home for two weeks, then to Barcelona for a week, then onward to Krakow for a week. Then home for a month or so; then leave for Shanghai for three weeks. Then home for a month or so, then back to Krakow for 6 months.

Airports, hotels, taxis, hotels, more taxis ...

I'll be gone for my son's 9th birthday, my 13th wedding anniversary, my daughter's 7th birthday and my 40th birthday. :-( Not to mention the Penn State/Notre Dame and Penn State/Ohio State games.
 
scott.....just curious.. what you do for a living...that is other than fly?
 
BIBBER said:
scott.....just curious.. what you do for a living...that is other than fly?
Click to expand...

I lead the Global SD/Sales+Distn IT team for my employer, including CRM. We run a single, global enterprise instance of SAP. $10B in revenue, 20k employees. Recent stock pick on Cramer's mad money.
 
Darn, Scott - & I'm concerned about my travels!! All I'm doing is spending a couple of weeks next month in upstate New York - Watertown area & then a week in September in Kansas.
 
Scott_Hower said:
I can relate...

I'll be gone for my son's 9th birthday, my 13th wedding anniversary, my daughter's 7th birthday and my 40th birthday. :-( Not to mention the Penn State/Notre Dame and Penn State/Ohio State games.
Click to expand...

Scott,

Make sure you don't miss your children too much. When I married the second time, I decided that business was secondary to my kid's events. Yes, I missed a few, but there were times my staff had to handle things and I would go back to the office at night and check that we were okay for the next day. But then, bleeding ulcers will teach you to change priorities over time...
 
Sage advice Dave.

Once I get through this assignment, things should slow down for awhile. We're at the tail end of a $300million project to implement SAP globally. This is the last official release.

--Scott
 
Steve... I had an open seat Shotgun. But I don't think I could have swung in an picked you up.
hehehe.
For whoever it was that asked.. A living history event can encompass a lot of things. Almost all of them revolve around a re-enactment of a specific war. Civil War, Revolutionary war (Rev war) and WWII are the biggest ones right now.
Our camp is not military related. we recreate the time period of Pre-1840. the golden age of the American fur trade, when famous mountian men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Jaremiah (liver eatin') Johnson and Danial Boon were exploring the uncharted west
There are black powder shoots, archery contests, knife and tomahawk throwing contests all day, and lots of music played into the wee hours of the morning.
It's definatly like nothing else I've ever seen.
We had a great time. Thew weather, while hot and muggy, held off in the rain department, and we had a ball.
My fingers on my left hand are killing me from playing, I sang myself outta having a voice, my sides still ache from laughing, and I'm sure my blood pressure has dropped considerably since friday.
I wanna go back!
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif Sounds like a lot of fun!! Reminds me of the Monty Python historic war re-enactment skit!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
YEA!!! that's a pretty good visual. just colonial and frontier type clothing (think Louis and Clark)instead of midevil.
 
Sounds like a bunch of fun, Ben.
Do you have a Bowie knife? I saw
a guy forging them by hand once;
real interesting.

regards,

d
 
Nope... no Bowie knife. I have a Sweedish dagger with a turned wooden handle that I usually carry, but it really dosen't get used much. it's just too big. and it's far smaller than a Bowie. My small antler handled knife is what gets used the most.
My defence weapon of choice is my tomahawk. I can use it for splitting firewood, and I can throw it far more accuratly than I can a knife.
hehehehehe.
one of my long time friends (next door neighbor while I was growing up) is a master blade maker. He forges his own damascus. It's facinating to see him work, and his knives are highly functional works of art. Some day I'm gonna have enough to buy one. He's outta my budget right now.
here's his website
 
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