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

[Ian Fritz]

At 01:23 PM 6/7/2004, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> >
> >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.

That's right, they change as soon as they get married.  And the shoe 
business should be a HUGE red flag.  BIG trouble.  She will tell you "go 
ahead honey" when you want to buy parts, and then use it as a justification 
to spent ten times as much on shoes.  You are in BIG trouble, son.  Of 
course you won't listen to us, but at least we have done our duty to warn you.