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Randal Zartman

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Last summer I started building my first longrifle from scratch with the help of a local builder. About October I got distracted by hunting season and finishing the enlarging of our kitchen/dining room. Since January I have been coaching my daughter's softball team at school. Oh I forgot that I also have to work to support my habits and then there is sleeping on occasion.
So what distractions do you folks run into and what do you do to get back at it? :hmm:
Thanks
Zman
 
Simple to get back at it. :what:
Just gather up all the parts and spread them out on the dineing room table and let them lay around there for a day or so :relax: (or sooner if the wife starts the war dance) then gather them back up (when she tells you to either finish this project or get rid of it) and start working on it again. :thumbsup:

Woody
 
Woody,
I get it, get your primary motivator involved. I wonder if she would add that to her "honey do list"? Thanks
Zman
 
Woody,
I get it, get your primary motivator involved. I wonder if she would add that to her "honey do list"? Thanks
Zman

I seem to remember something about a "honey do".
Of course after 38 years, the list became the "When are You going to..." and then became the "get in there and..." list.
:: ::

The problem with having too much to do is some of the most enjoyable things end up getting put aside.

At the risk of sounding like an old fart, I'll have to turn my collar around and say,
There are a few things that come along that will never come again.
Children are one of these, so enjoy them while you can.
Before you know it, they will be grown and gone.
When all of the fun, and the not so fun of raising a family is done, a person can get down to the other fun things.

Don't get me wrong. There are things like building guns that can often be worked in on the side and the nice thing about that is the parts will sit there patiently waiting for you.
So, you only work on your gun 1/2 hour or a couple of hours a week, or even every other week. It won't spoil by sitting there.
When I started building, it was primarily to give me something to do besides watching television. I mean, TV pissed me off so many times with its bleeding heart programs, or those in which the man was an idiot that except for sports and the History Channel, I gave up on it. I replaced it with gun building.

Most people need something to help them unwind at the end of the day. For me, it is either sitting here on the Forum, or working on some little thing on my latest gun.
For others, it may be talking or playing with the kids (or the wife). There is usually a half hour or so that a person can spend puttering around with a gun project.

I'm sure you will be able to work out what works best for you. :) :) :thumbsup:
 
Walkin in the front door I noticed the gutter is need of repair, There's paint samples on the kitchen counter, I can see a two month diversion to the honey do list and then getting back to the things I'd rather be doing.
Bill
 
I think you just gotta jump in there and get those things done. And don't forget to enjoy those kids while they are still kids. They grow up much too fast. Mine did.
Last summer we bought a new place. It had no fences, no barn and needed a lot of work on the house. I built all the fences, the barn, and handymanned the house by my lonesome. I had to eat a $486. New Mexico elk tag. And I hunted less days than I have in the last 30 years. We finally got moved in last January.
I have the parts for a new .40 Isacc Haines gathering dust. Luckily my Rice barrel hasn't arrived so I can still drum up a little patience. But I don't have my shop finished. Half the interior walls are up and no workbench is yet built so I can't start it anyway. And before I can finish the shop I have to get the old house ready to sell.
And finish the barn....
And now the pool liner is cracking....
And during last falls hurricanes my privacy fence took on a bad southerly lean....
And I have horses to train...
And its breeding season....
I wish I could retire.
 
I wish I could retire.

I've retired twice, once from a large green machine and once from a bomb factory...

now i have a full time job, 2 part time jobs, and 2.5 ex-wives.. ::

i'd been better off to have never retired the first time ..

be careful what you wish for, you may get it.

oh yes, redoing my house, 4 gun building/repairing/modifying projects are underway, and there are two little pistol kits hiding in the safe....

full speed ahead...

rayb
 
Heres the plan. you GOT to have a place of your own to do your stuff. <----period. This is a safe place, away from kids, grandkids etc. wives of course have access. You'll remember eventually. If something gets moved, soiled or molested in your place, just go to the kitchen and re-arrange to your hearts content. This said after 29 years, 9 months, 10 days of marital bliss to the same old gal. When you DO remember, you'll have a ball. :)
 
Back in the days when I had ta show up 5 days a week somewhere to get the wherewithal to indulge in my hobbies, it took me 2 years for one rifle & 3 for another. Just worked on 'em when I could. It was also good therapy, as I was getting burned out telling Generals & Colonels what they couldn't do with your tax dollars. (Ever tell a General "No" on somthing he wanted?) I am also waiting for my shop to be built, but even then will probably still get distractions before any of my several boxes of parts are put into something recogonizable. Tend to have some attention disorder; got 4 or 5 projects going at once, so never finish much in one sitting.

I like the kitchen table routine, but before my wife was my wife she was also the vise for holding a barrel on the doffee table as I draw filed it. She also helped clean up the wood chips in the carpeting. Break 'em in early.
 
Zonie,
Thanks.
What happened to your English, I can understand what you are typing :crackup:.
Thanks to everyone else for helping me feel somewhat normal. Now, everyone back to their honey do list.
Take care
Zman
 
(Ever tell a General "No" on somthing he wanted?)
:thumbsup: :crackup:

lol, i started early, with a Major...

never will forget that jerk..
:results:...

but i doubt it..

the good old days are right now

rayb
 
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