things I've learned...
1. Flaws are not as obvious to anyone else.
2. I bought too many unnecessary tools in the beginning.
3. I didn't buy enough necessary tools in the beginning.
4. Open shelves in shop is the most efficient dust collection system.
5. Wet finish rivals open shelves for dust collection.
6. Safety glasses are cool.
7. Shop vas must be emptied before you remove the filter to suck up a wet
spill inside the house.
8. SWMBO doesn't see any humor in sawdust sprayed all over the living room.
9. SWMBO doesn't forget you sprayed sawdust all over the living room very
quickly.
10. SWMBO still thinks it's a garage.
11. If you've been in the shop cutting and sanding all day and the wind is
blowing just right and you time opening the door to the house when your
daughter has opened the back door you will instantly be transported back in
time to when you filled the living room with sawdust.
12. Reread #9
13. Kickbacks are a huge adrenaline rush.
14. Always keep some money tucked away for those deals you stumble on.
15. MDF produces saw powder....not saw dust.
16. Ask permission before grabbing a towel to use in the shop.
17. Move Samba's car before blowing out shop with leaf blower.
18. Finally and most important...build something nice for SWMBO and show her
how much money you made on the side with your tools. Give her a kiss and
work on that to do list diligently.
Happy Holidays y'all from Forth Worth Texas!!
--
"If you are arrogant, who's going to care if you're the best?"
Sat, Dec 20, 2003, 12:57pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(mel) claims:
things I've learned...
<snip> 2. I bought too many unnecessary tools in the beginning. <snip>
14. Always keep some money tucked away for those deals you stumble on.
<snip>
What a totally stupid list. Number 2, is totally untrue; and,
Number 14. never happens.
LMAO
JOAT
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might
as well dance.
- Unknown
Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
Web Page Update 19 Dec 2003.
Some tunes I like.
http://community-2.webtv.net/Jakofalltrades/SOMETUNESILIKE/
Wife's name?
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 13:03:10 GMT, "mel"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I hate typos.....SWMBO's car...not Samba's car...geeesh.....who the heck is
>Samba???
>
mel wrote:
> 10. SWMBO still thinks it's a garage.
> 11. If you've been in the shop cutting and sanding all day and the wind is
> blowing just right and you time opening the door to the house when your
> daughter has opened the back door you will instantly be transported back
> in time to when you filled the living room with sawdust.
> 12. Reread #9
Sounds like you need a new SWMBO. I tell mine to get out the damn vacuum
cleaner and take care of my mess.
I bring in boxes and boxes of sawdust and blow it all over the place just to
give the lazy wench something to do.
When she's done cleaning, she bakes me some cookies, apologizes to me for
not getting the mess cleaned up faster, and then we retire to our budoir
for six hours of lovemaking.
Huh? What was that? Oh. I have to go now. SWMBO has just revoked my
posting privledges.
(She *does* bake me lots of cookies though. :)
> 16. Ask permission before grabbing a towel to use in the shop.
Best investment I ever made was an economy pack of dish rags. We never,
ever do dishes by hand, and I'm slowly but surely claiming them one by one
for shop use.
> Happy Holidays y'all from Forth Worth Texas!!
Back atcha.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> I hate typos.....SWMBO's car...not Samba's car...geeesh.....who the heck is
> Samba???
>
>
Late 80's era word processor.
Phisherman wrote:
> Before marriage a man yearns for SWMBO,
> after marriage a man earns for SWMBO.
And after divorce, a man earns for SWMBO's common law husband.
I had a pair of neighbors like that once. She cashed the alimony checks, and
she and her live-in were both unemployed.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
ok...to prove a point, I bought a delta oscillating spindle sander
attachment for a drill press. It moves down for a 1/2" stroke then returns
to original position and sits there waiting for the oblong thingy to make
it's revolution before it moves again.... a totally useless and unnecessary
purchase. But you say "totally untrue" ok..... you also say deals never
happen...ok... it's yours for $2. + shipping and handling.
mel wrote:
> I hate typos.....SWMBO's car...not Samba's car...geeesh.....who the heck
> is Samba???
Maybe you were thinking you want to samba with SWMBO later?
Otherwise slips like that can get you in the doghouse BIGTIME.
WHO IS
SSS H H EEEEE !! !! !!
S S H H E !! !! !!
S H H E !! !! !!
S HHHHH EEE !! !! !!
S H H E !! !! !!
S S H H E
SSS H H EEEEE !! !! !!
<lighting strikes, sounds of trees breaking in the distance, echoes, then
utter silence>
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
Mark Jerde wrote:
>> Sounds like you need a new SWMBO.
>
> That can be really expensive... <g>
Yeah, I know. All of my old friends are on the far side of their second or
third divorces.
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
On Sat 20 Dec 2003 06:57:13a, "mel" <[email protected]>
wrote in news:[email protected]:
> 10. SWMBO still thinks it's a garage.
>
I think that should be a little further up the list. This has been
confirmed by a SWMBO check.
SWMBO has also offered the opinion that there are a great many patient
women in the world.
Dan
On Sat 20 Dec 2003 12:57:23p, [email protected] (Charlie Self)
wrote in news:[email protected]:
> Dan writes:
>
>>
>>SWMBO has also offered the opinion that there are a great many patient
>>women in the world.
>
> Waiting for their men to die first?
I don't think that was what she originally meant but she says "Yeah, that's
it!"
Dan
"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in >
> Sounds like you need a new SWMBO. I tell mine to get out > the damn
vacuum
> cleaner and take care of my mess.
>
> I bring in boxes and boxes of sawdust and blow it all over the place just
to
> give the lazy wench something to do.
>
> When she's done cleaning, she bakes me some cookies, apologizes to me for
> not getting the mess cleaned up faster, and then we retire to our budoir
> for six hours of lovemaking.
Apeman, is that you?
Swingman wrote:
> You left at least one out:
>
> 19. Don't staple one of SWMBO's red linen dinner napkins to the end of
> oversize lumber load when transporting.
20. Don't ask another woman in SWMBO's hearing what size belt she wears
(It was completely innocent!)
21. Don't forget that even though it's "mother's day" and not "wife's day"
that means YOU have to buy her a present.
(I still haven't lived that one down yet. Oh man have I not lived that one
down. Nobody ever TOLD me that.)
Here's a good lesson I just learned:
22. When you've gotten two new power tools and the makings of a decent dust
collection system for Christmas, and you find you have some cash left over
out of your bonus after buying everything SWMBO asked for, don't buy the
Veritas hand plane you really want. Instead, say goodbye to the hand plane
money, hand some greenbacks to SWMBO and let her go shopping while you stay
home with the kids.
I'm sitting here with a whole pile of relatively cheap jewlery to wrap up
for her, and she's got *that* look in her eyes.
It makes sense. She would never get me the right tools without my help, and
I would never get her the right useless bits of shiny metal and rocks
without hers. We're grown ups. This way we get what we *really* want, and
get it right.
Daddy is going to get lucky to night boys, hooYAH!!! :)
--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/
An excellent summary. Though I think you can slip in, between number 1 & 2,
"SWMBO will find flaws even you didn't see"
--
Mike G.
[email protected]
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> things I've learned...
>
> 1. Flaws are not as obvious to anyone else.
> 2. I bought too many unnecessary tools in the beginning.
> 3. I didn't buy enough necessary tools in the beginning.
> 4. Open shelves in shop is the most efficient dust collection system.
> 5. Wet finish rivals open shelves for dust collection.
> 6. Safety glasses are cool.
> 7. Shop vas must be emptied before you remove the filter to suck up a wet
> spill inside the house.
> 8. SWMBO doesn't see any humor in sawdust sprayed all over the living
room.
> 9. SWMBO doesn't forget you sprayed sawdust all over the living room very
> quickly.
> 10. SWMBO still thinks it's a garage.
> 11. If you've been in the shop cutting and sanding all day and the wind is
> blowing just right and you time opening the door to the house when your
> daughter has opened the back door you will instantly be transported back
in
> time to when you filled the living room with sawdust.
> 12. Reread #9
> 13. Kickbacks are a huge adrenaline rush.
> 14. Always keep some money tucked away for those deals you stumble on.
> 15. MDF produces saw powder....not saw dust.
> 16. Ask permission before grabbing a towel to use in the shop.
> 17. Move Samba's car before blowing out shop with leaf blower.
> 18. Finally and most important...build something nice for SWMBO and show
her
> how much money you made on the side with your tools. Give her a kiss and
> work on that to do list diligently.
>
> Happy Holidays y'all from Forth Worth Texas!!
>
> --
> "If you are arrogant, who's going to care if you're the best?"
>
>
mel wrote:
> ok...to prove a point, I bought a delta oscillating spindle sander
> attachment for a drill press. It moves down for a 1/2" stroke then returns
> to original position and sits there waiting for the oblong thingy to make
> it's revolution before it moves again.... a totally useless and unnecessary
> purchase. But you say "totally untrue" ok..... you also say deals never
> happen...ok... it's yours for $2. + shipping and handling.
>
Yeah but...
There is a difference between some tool being a total POS, which is what
it appears that you got, and one for which you can find no use. The
former happens, the latter does not.
mahalo,
jo4hn (who prolly doesn't know of what he speaketh...)
(or mayhap he doth)
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 03:34:53 GMT, "Mark Jerde"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Silvan wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you need a new SWMBO.
>
>That can be really expensive... <g>
>
> -- Mark
>
Before marriage a man yearns for SWMBO,
after marriage a man earns for SWMBO.
"mel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> I hate typos.....SWMBO's car...not Samba's car...geeesh.....who the heck
is
> Samba???
>
>
SAMBA??? She Attacked My Big Ass after getting sawdust all over her car.
You left at least one out:
19. Don't staple one of SWMBO's red linen dinner napkins to the end of
oversize lumber load when transporting.
--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 12/18/03
"mel" wrote in message
> things I've learned...
>
> 1. Flaws are not as obvious to anyone else.
> 2. I bought too many unnecessary tools in the beginning.
> 3. I didn't buy enough necessary tools in the beginning.
> 4. Open shelves in shop is the most efficient dust collection system.
> 5. Wet finish rivals open shelves for dust collection.
> 6. Safety glasses are cool.
> 7. Shop vas must be emptied before you remove the filter to suck up a wet
> spill inside the house.
> 8. SWMBO doesn't see any humor in sawdust sprayed all over the living
room.
> 9. SWMBO doesn't forget you sprayed sawdust all over the living room very
> quickly.
> 10. SWMBO still thinks it's a garage.
> 11. If you've been in the shop cutting and sanding all day and the wind is
> blowing just right and you time opening the door to the house when your
> daughter has opened the back door you will instantly be transported back
in
> time to when you filled the living room with sawdust.
> 12. Reread #9
> 13. Kickbacks are a huge adrenaline rush.
> 14. Always keep some money tucked away for those deals you stumble on.
> 15. MDF produces saw powder....not saw dust.
> 16. Ask permission before grabbing a towel to use in the shop.
> 17. Move Samba's car before blowing out shop with leaf blower.
> 18. Finally and most important...build something nice for SWMBO and show
her
> how much money you made on the side with your tools. Give her a kiss and
> work on that to do list diligently.