I have been working on some stories from my past but some of the details make me sad at times and I have to stop. Besides the weather has been warming up and it is actually warm enough to wear a kilt. I have been in the shed working on bicycles, cleaning up, making
gizmos from wood, just generally screwing off, listening to music and finishing nothing. I eyed the garden and made plans for doing what ever I have to do to plant another bucket garden. I know I said I wasn't going to but I'm going to prepare just in case I change my mind. It's not hard for me to change my mind anymore there is so little of it.These pictures are of my new (to me) note making station. I picked this model of a butcher paper dispenser up at the thrift store. I believe the paper is a roll for a cash register. It is nothing fancy being made from what appears to be shop leavings and at about the same skill level as mine. It has been knocking around for a while. In my youth large paper rolls stood at the wrapping table in every store that had a meat market. There was no such thing as prewrapped or plastic. Even our bologna was weighed out and wrapped in this waxed on one side white paper. This model is perfect for tearing off a piece of paper just big enough to write a phone number or the encryption code for the wifi for the 10th time for those people that would lose their ass if it wasn't attached.
On my little road trip last week to deliver Her Highness the Princess to her home I found this little jewel. It looks very comfy to me with a ceiling fan and plenty of yard for the beer cans. This trip takes me up through the woods and you see a lot of porches with living room furniture on them. This looks a little too calculated to me. The owner probably is an executive in Baton Rouge in the world of financing.
Whilst working in the shed on several broken bicycles at once and trying to patch cheap tubes from Chinaland my hair kept getting in my eyes and mouth. Why did you let it get so long you ask? The answer is " 'cause I could". Besides cutting it cost too much.Well I showed that cheap tube from Chinaland a trick with a pair of scissors (why is it called a pair there is only one). By cutting at an angle instead of straight across like I do when making rubber bands I was able to make it big enough to double up. My hair has always been very fine but as I get older it is becoming brittle especially in the winter when the air is dry so I need a wide band with a coefficient of friction high enough to not slide out. A ⅜ inch wide 3 inch long band from an inner tube is big enough to loop back on itself 3 times and not be so tight as to break the hair. Add that to the "Uses for used up bicycle inner tubes" list.
Next time I have something really important to fix I'm going to make a belt from one. I only have about ten already.
Now you see why I don't get a damn thing done. Too busy making important things like hair bands.
Life is short. Play nekkid and don't worry about getting a damn thing done. You'll die soon enough and someone else can worry about it.
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I'm learning. Slowly, but that old work ethic is hard to stop sometimes.
Instead of using the scissors for making a band to hold back long hair, just use them to cut your hair. I do that, cut my own hair, and so far no one has run screaming at the sight of my DYI hair-cut. And the cost: zero.
Glad you can sport long hair, Richard! I had long hair once when I was younger. Now, I think my beard is longer than the hair on my head.
I cut my own hair because I don't like to sport any particular hair style. I cut it as short as I can or shave it off with a beard trimmer. Works for me!
BTW, good paper is great for writing on, especially with any nice fountain pen.
Peace :)
Ah great, now I can make a list of all the unfinished things in my shop, if the paper roll is long enough.
I have been cutting my own hair for at least five years now, take the clippers and zip all gone every three months or so. Just got tired of having to pay ten or fifteen dollars for a two minute hair cut.
Does nobody else have trouble seeing these posts? It works fine from my iPhone but using IE, all I ever see are the dials and the red tab. Otherwise it's just blue screen.
It works fine on the real computer using Safari.
Steve A: I had an email from D L Rowe saying the same thing yesterday. I checked it with Opera that I keep with 0 cache so that it goes in cold every time. I check it also with Chrome and with Firefox the two I use when writing. All show everything OK. I then talked to my Sis in Ohio and she pulled it up with MS windows and IE and it was fine so I don't know what is going on.
Maybe the great God of Microsoft has decided that since I don't use any MS stuff that I am not worthy.
I Don't know what else I can do.
I use linux and all these post from day one has been linux and all with Firefox. Please keep me informed.
Nice hair. :-)
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