[sdiy] Messy workshop and Into the future (was Old Age and Synth-DIYers)

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org> wrote:
>Quothe allenre at umich.edu, from writings of Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at
>01:27:08PM -0400:
>> 2) If you can THINK of a use for something, it is worth keeping!
>
>If you think that you might possibly think of a use for something at
>some point in the near or distant future, it's worth keeping!  Once
>in a while I find that something, kept for that purpose, twenty or
>more years ago, comes in very handy!  
>
>> 3) This is key--never get rid of something unless you absolutely have to (to
>> make room for more stuff) !
>
>Definitely!  Just curious about something though... something that
>some other bachelors are perhaps also wondering about: Those of you
>who've gotten married, and kept all of your valued posessions, how did
>you do it?  Those of you who've gotten married and had to get rid of
>valued posessions, what early warning signs should we be on the
>lookout for before it's too late?  Such vital information needs to be
>passed down to others in the best intersts of mankind and SDIY.

There is no clue.  It happens like a thief in the night, but ONLY after you are
married.  She won't ever tell you her plan until after it's too late.  My
workshop was in one of the 3 bedrooms (now my son's) and the music studio was
1/3 of the living room.  She lived with me for 3 months before we got married,
and said absolutely nothing.  After we got married, the axe fell.  Fortunately,
I made enough money that I was able to spend some to convert the garage into an
office which is where I am right now.  All of my stuff is down here.  I had to
get rid of some, a PDP 11/04 system with 3 RK05s was donated to a local
university.  I really had no use for it anyway.  The upshot is that there was no
warning whatsoever, just all of a sudden one day when it was legally too late to
do anything about it, I had to deal with the stuff in the livingroom and bedroom.


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