Thread: What level Is Your "ISM"?

Thanks Rod for starting a very interesting thread. It is potentially a serious issue, but the reaction here and the awareness from contributors in mostly a very humourous and self-deprecating vein is so indicative of the nature of the Woodwork Forums and the people who typically participate.

I think it is clear that the facility to speak in this way and to some extent bare our souls is therapeutic in itself.

I guess we all have issues and some of them are more serious than others and in some instances more debilitating than others. Indeed there are clearly levels even within an "Ism." Bi-Polar I now know has two distinct levels.

A friend of mine sends me emails and he normally has some little ditty associated with them. For a while one of them was "Don't take life so seriously. None of us are going to get out alive."

Speaking personally, I suggest that we all need to relax a little and to use a modern term "chill."

If we don't get something done, does it really matter? Only to SWMBO!!

I certainly can relate to the lost property issue. I built a house back in NSW and it took a little over four years. When people express the view that it was a long time I point out that two years of that was spent looking for my tools.

Maybe we are all normal: Just different normal.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

I built a house back in NSW and it took a little over four years. When people express the view that it was a long time I point out that two years of that was spent looking for my tools.

Did you have teenagers or adult children living at home at the time?

That is why I cannot always find my tools and sometimes when I can see where they are I cannot get to them...

Now lets see - 21 inch bandsaw needed for a resaw job and only about a tonne of boxes and old car parts to move so that I can get to it... Not today thanks, my back is too sore.

Cheers

Doug

Hi,
Maybe we are all normal: Just different normal.


How can anyone be normal when no two people are alike?
Regards

Hugh

Many years ago I heard a comment about the weather and the theme was when would we return to regular climate patterns. It was pointed out that irregular climatic occurrences were the norm and regular patterns were abnormal. Perhaps people are the same: All over the place, but is it that which makes us diverse and interesting?

Regards
Paul

Great thread! As part of dealing with my particular part of the "spectrum" I've had to learn how to relax. And I mean really relax. I've become quite good at it. Which drives SWMBO completely insane because she thinks I'm just being lazy. Which of course I am - but I'm being deliberately lazy, to relax and empty my mind. I get heaps of stuff done, just not necessarily the things that I should be doing right now...

I lost my ISM on the internet years ago, been looking for it ever since. Pretty sure that's where my jism went too. Seriously tho, great thread. I am most excited when I am starting a job/project without any time line pressure and that is new and interesting. I am most content/happy when I have overcome an obstacle/completed a long overdue job or just generally done a good job on something (to my standard). For me happiness is doing both what I feel I should do and what I feel I want to do (my version of balance?). I like the saying "it takes all types to run a world". Two pet hates: working in the dirt in front of the shed (cause the shed's a mess) and having to spend my time looking for tools or parts I shouldn't have to look for (cause I didn't put them away). I am my own worst enemy. My feelings follow my thoughts and then my thoughts follow my feelings.

Originally Posted by doug3030

Did you have teenagers or adult children living at home at the time?

That is why I cannot always find my tools and sometimes when I can see where they are I cannot get to them...

Doug

Yes there were teenage children around at the time, but alas I cannot blame them. No such squemishness with wives as I can blame them (well one actually) without remorse as things are always being "tidied up"

In fact when I first met SWMBO I shared a flat with three other messy blokes. You know real blokes. Anyhow, they reckoned that if you stood still in the kitchen for long enough when she was around you'd get washed up. It's not an easy life

Regards
Paul

Here are a couple of pics of the Steering wheel under construction. I was surprised just how good I felt knocking this one over. Hopefully it will give me a boost to get a couple more jobs finished from my never ending list.

Rod

That's looks good, but remember it is not finished until we see a pic of it on the Chevy .

Regards
Paul

I have to say I am not the world's most tidy worker. My excuse is that the artist in me doesn't have time to be mucking about putting stuff away. I am actually impatient (and its getting worse he older I get)

My Brother rang this morning about another matter, he also said it could be another year before he is in need of the wheel. For him it is a ground up restoration! He paid $500 for it. It was a rusting hulk on a farm rubbish tip. It has wooden spoked road wheels. The chassis is 6 metres long!!! He will put a timber framed tray on the back. I think its a 2½ Ton truck. He has gotten it to a rolling chassis and is working on the motor. He is a stickler to the authentic so there will be no lumpy hot rod V8 in it. I am expecting him to eventually employ my services to help him with the all wooden C cab. He also restored a 1933 Dodge Sedan which he has driven around NSW a lot as well as a trip to Tassie some years ago.