I don't know if it is because spring is on us or because I am anxiously awaiting word from a bunch of clients on the decisions regarding the status of their projects or maybe its the constant war news on the tv & radio... but I can't concentrate on anything for very long these days. Luckily the deadlines I face are not tight or pressing. Two weeks from now that will be a different story.
The good news is that my project list is very long and so I can jump from one thing to the next to keep me occupied and busy. And the progress is steady but on many fronts at once.
So I carve for a little while... then go to the design table.... do some household chores.... do some sketching.... dream big dreams... and then back to a project at hand.
Is it just me or are other folks feeling the same?
-dan
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
quote: So I carve for a little while... then go to the design table.... do some household chores.... do some sketching.... dream big dreams... and then back to a project at hand.
Is it just me or are other folks feeling the same?
Hey Dan, I don't know if you saw Lotti's post on lists but you pretty much described my M.O. except the getting back to project at hand is still the several simultanous projects at hand.
Posted by Peter Schuttinga (Member # 2821) on :
Spring fever,and you got it bad.
Procastination season....
Mind keeps wondering to warmer days and long warm evenings. BBQ something for dinner, and go to the lake for a dip... Sound familiar??
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
Dan, I'm so revved here! I feel like I'm bustin' at the seams with all the stuff in the work around here.
So much is getting done. I just keep going and going all day, until I drop at night. Then I bounce out of bed each morning, and rev up again. whew! Alot of energy here lately. Don't know where it's coming from, but I'm riding the wave!!! Must be spring!
Steve and Barb are here, and they have been pitchin' in big time! They've been great! Since they've been here on "vacation", they've helped me put up a fence, and yesterday we did some wall murals together. (They just arrived Monday) hahahaaa Today, Steve said to me ... "so what are we working on today?" I gave them the day off! I'm hoping they are at the beach. Don't want to be pegged as a slave driver!
Nettie
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Well I finally got focussed this afternoon... decided to start welding up my new flatbed trailer. I was waiting for the steel and it arrived mid-afternoon.
I went to my other box trailer and started hunting for tools. Sounds easy but it is storing my tools and is pretty full. First item the welder... you guessed it. It was located the furthest from the door. So I crawled over everything and dug it out... all three pieces and hauled it over the top of all the other stuff. The welding cables were little toughter, funny how the load had shifted on our trip back from Edmonton.
Then the cut-off saw... it was near the bottom of the load in a chest... Digging that out only took a half hour.
And then I had to find a different sized liner for the whip as I was welding outside and was using a flux core wire instead of the gas shielded wore I used the last time I had the welder out. Hmmmm.... that took a little longer to locate in the upright tool box with the ladders stacked in front. I had to practically unload the box trailer (and then put it all back again.
I set the saw in the driveway and strung out the cables... About the fifth time I popped the breaker (which is located in the basement)I was beginning to get a little frustrated. One of the times I bent over to work the saw my reading glasses fell out of my shirt pocket... and you guessed it scratched them big time on the rough driveway surface. I put them in the house made a mental note to leave them there from now on.
I finished cutting the steel and set about replacing the liner in the stinger... only to cut it a little too short. I guess I shoulda gone into the house to get my scratched reading glasses...
So I decided it wasn't a good day to finish this job... I have to go back to the welding store and buy a new liner and the store is 30 miles away.
I didn't even get to the fun part of pulling out the clothes dryer so I could plug my welding cable into the 220 socket.
It took me the next half hour to put all the tools away again.
I was beginning to have a tough time holding a tune as I whistled while I worked. I even mumbled a little under my breath.
And I made a few resolutions....
I think its is time to build the shop that I have dreamed for than twenty years. And all those proper benches so I can work at the right height in comfort. And last weeks lesson of having good light and maybe even some heat came to mind as well.
In the meantime I am hoping tomorrow will go smoother. But I hear the forecast is for rain...
-dan
[ March 27, 2003, 09:08 PM: Message edited by: Dan Sawatzky ]
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Dan I have always seen you as some kind of giant among men with the heavens always smiling on your positive attitude & your good fortune. In a strange way it is re-assuring to hear you are human with days like that. I guess it makes it all the more clear that the rest of us can also achieve (live) the perception of a constant positive attitude & good fortune.
Have a great tomorrow too.
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Doug
Funny you mention that... Nettie expressed a similar thought when we spent some time together. Once we got talking and sharing stories she discovered that I am very human. And I suffer from the same frustrations and trials as everyone else.
In fact I always saying (tongue firmly in cheek) "the more I suffer - the better work I produce" And I got the scars to prove it.
It all makes for wonderful stories especially when told with a little flair (Janis would say gross exaduration) All my stories are based on truth
And while I do suffer the occasional bad day I try not to let it get me down.
Our kids grew up with the motto "next year will be better" And they quote it regularly to this day especially when they are around me and I am having a particularly not good day.
When I get real down I turn on the TV and in a few minutes of watching the news feel much better about the WONDERFUL day I had!
-dan
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
I dunno Dan...I think maybe we need to find you a job! You know an real 9 to 5 with breaks and lunch something really regimented and time and a half for actually working...waddayathink?
Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
It's been challenging for me lately being homebased. The sun has finally broken out a few hours a day and everything around me is growing at lightning speed and I haven't had a moment to deal with any of it. So I work away, then gaze down through my big bay window at all the new greenery that is pleading with me to be pulled or cut down.
Then I go inside the house for lunch and hesitantly look up at my 1/2 painted kitchen cupboards with masking tape still on the floor.
I go put my dish in the sink and hope the whole pile doesn't topple over, I can't do them now, I'm working of course!
Then I go in my shop again and get caught up in something and forget about the mess. Until next time. Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
i am the queen of attention deficit..thankfully i have stations set up all around that i bounce back n forth to...sometimes i feel my mind is like a red squirrel's trying to cross an eight lane highway in the middle of rush hour...but hey i have a good sense of humor about it and my husband is very understanding...i think it keeps him amused.
[ March 28, 2003, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: KARYN BUSH ]
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
I am glad to see that its not just me. I was ready to go to my doctor and have her up my Ritalin.
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
I have found alot of my friends who are also self employed have ADD. We get bored very quickly!! When I paint the house....I get bored with the wall I am painting....and just move on to the next. Drives people nuts when they watch, because I don't finish one thing (or wall) til I move on. I have all kinds of projects going. But when you have kids.....you have to be like that. You have to be able to multi task.
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :
Been meaning to post in this thread 5 times now but keep getting distracted amd goin back to other posts lol.
hahaha ADD is not a bad place to be, at least the scenery changes frequently haha.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
huh?? I thought this post was about Financial Matters....I just got a letter from the Bank....ATTENTION! Deficit Disorder!!...am I Really Overdrawn Again?!?
John Lennig / SignRider
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
That is funny, John. I've been battling those very same deficit disorders for awhile now.. I think this BB is a good Rx though, 'seems to get me motivated seein' and hearin' what others are doing.
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