So many projects, so little time!

re: So many projects, so little time!

Brett — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:01:20 GMT

I envy you the space! Fortunately my wife is also quite sympathetic and allow me quite a bit of leeway in keeping "projects" around. However, she has one hard and fast rule: if I can't tell her where something is going to "live" in one of the RVs, I can't have it. I discovered this when I nearly came home from The Crucible (www.thecrucible.org) in Oakland with a pair of six-ton Mitsubishi robots, formerly in the old NUMA plant and auctioned off for about $500 at a fund raiser. Of course she was right: they wouldn't fit in the storage basement...I have a picture of them on their rail car captioned "My wife wouldn't let me get these!" on the wall of my office.

I do like the analogy of walking through a forest: such a sweet metaphor with such sinister images! Bambi vs. Godzilla?

Nice start of a blog: keep us posted with the more humor from the "forest" at home!

re: So many projects, so little time!

caveman — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:33:43 GMT

Kelvin I like you already. I recently requested that you post our Rallyfest info for the June events in Maine.

Well, I started sanding and scuffing my '73 TR-6 a year ago. Presently it has no interior, the hood, grill, trunk, and doors are off the tub. I have also decided to change the color after falling in love with the white 'cover girl' on a recent Motoring issue. What started as a sanding and re-coat has got a bit out of hand. I mean, when I walk into the garage...I sometimes don't know where to start.

I now have a bit of an obligation as the events manager to show up at the Rallyfest June 23rd with something besides my Jeep Cherokee. We have planned for at least one hundred preserved British (and other) specimens. I am in a borrowed space in a friends garage and his Jag and our assorted stuff is a forest of overgrowth too.

Life is peachy!

Caveman

re: So many projects, so little time!

caveman — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:43:16 GMT

Kelvin I like you already. I recently requested that you post our Rallyfest info for the June events in Maine.

Life is peachy!

Caveman

re: So many projects, so little time!

Bill Young — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:20:39 GMT

Kelvin, sounds like you suffer from two ailments, LBC collection disorder and being a tool junkie. I also am a tool junkie. I don't attend any meetings but have at least publically admitted my addiction in print in our club newsletter for all the world to know. I have learned to curb my LBC collection to the point of at least waiting until one project is finished before really starting on another. That's not to say that I don't collect small parts along the way for that next project. Often extra parts will dictate what the next project is to be. A spare set of wire wheels aquired for my current MGA project will certainly not go to waste once the A is on the road, I think a semi-replica N or L type might be in order then. Once in a while I do take leave of my senses and either clean out the garage and basement or haul some items to the local swap meet. I still have items left over from the Midget build 8 years ago that I can't find a home for and I won't throw away. I might try e-bay this year if they don't go at the spring swap meet. I do need the room and some other collector might need to satisfy their addiciton by taking them home.