Tim Diebert Posted February 22, 2003 Author Posted February 22, 2003 ...ya, but they don't pee in your car and van. Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 Nice guitar...man. The IS the official year of the BLUES [attachment over 4 years old deleted by admin] Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 My guy is playin one of those three string jobs...very rare. Speaking of Luthiers. I have this client in Baltimore...grew up in the Bronx...I don't think he got much schooling. Has this amazing accent...I call him 'Hitman'. Anyway, he has a kind of minor quirk in his demeanor where he tends to mess up words. He always calls me a Lutheran. I told my cousin that story...now he calls me the Lutheran Luthier. Quote
capt jake Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Well that fits me at the moment, blue!! The kid is upstairs rocking out on a Van Halen tune, man he is getting good. Now if I can get a venue to go back into this..., sigh, I am too old to be thinking this way.., sigh. I love music, I have let it fall by the wayside for to long... Must get back!! .............Dingo, any thoughts on this!! You are a musician also!! Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 Most of the folks I build for are older than you Jake (what are you 60 or so?) They are all still rockin out. I am playing out tonight...doing some recording on a demo for a buddy. HEAVY slide guitar. Rip yer face of stuff. Ain't no age limits friend...get with the program! Give up all this boat nonsence and ROCK and ROLL!! Shane plays? Who else? Quote
capt jake Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 It's no the boat nonsense, it is the revolving schedule that I work. Alas, I can not be anywhere on certainty for 3 weeks, that is the rotation! It is a total bummer, but that is where I am at. Good timing about the blues!!! :( Quote
Johannah Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Jake, you have been sounding blue. Maybe work isn't the whole thing, but how many years do you have to put in at the Fire Dept. before you can do the "sort of retire" move and change to another career? Quote
capt jake Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Jo, thanks for the insight! Yes work sucks!! sorry! Years to retirement? Too many... 14 or so... Man it sucks when work is not a great place to be (it used to be!). The youngun's are on my nerves! Gimme, Gimme,Gimme.. and give me more.... Anyway, thank you Johanna for you insightful comment. I am trying to find an answer..... Quote
Guest Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Jo' date=' thanks for the insight! Yes work sucks!! sorry! Years to retirement? Too many... 14 or so... Man it sucks when work is not a great place to be (it used to be!). The youngun's are on my nerves! Gimme, Gimme,Gimme.. and give me more....Anyway, thank you Johanna for you insightful comment. I am trying to find an answer.....[/quote'] Seems to be the bulk of the entitlement generation groups, Capt. Work is just a second thought to so many of the new age workers. I am glad I am old enough to be out of the managing and oveseeing of the NOW generation. But keep the faith. Water is still around, and wind is free. This will allow you to escape, like I did today, and will, tommorrow, to the Rockfish hole. Are you done, yet? Quote
capt jake Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Seems to be the bulk of the entitlement generation groups, Capt. Work is just a second thought to so many of the new age workers. I am glad I am old enough to be out of the managing and oveseeing of the NOW generation. But keep the faith. Water is still around, and wind is free. This will allow you to escape, like I did today, and will, tommorrow, to the Rockfish hole. Man that is soooo right on!!! I will have paint on, on Tuesday!! Then the non-skid, then the finishing!! Back to the supervising these youg'un's, it is tryuely a challenge, if not a true pain in the .... It is truely a pain in hte /....... Work hard and you shall receive; isn't that supposed to be the motto??? Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 ...and it all started with a Pheasant. Hey Jake. Listen to Jo. She's one smart cookie. Read that quote from Bruce: "The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. - unknown " I am just a simple guy bumbling along the road. I love to observe folks....well, maybe spying would be a better way to put it....anyway. The thing I have noticed is this...for what it is worth. Too many people are working for another time other than now. Too many people have too much and want more. Their stuff makes them slaves to their work. Too many people hate their jobs...and they stay there because of the big 'P' word. Pension. Too many people lead totally miserable lives working at jobs they hate for too many years to be able to buy too much stuff...and it kills them. Maybe not dead killed...but almost. Some folks call it stress. It's not too late. Take the job and shove it....forget all the pension crap and get (better yet) create a job you will love so much it will be like playing...one in the same. You are obviously a very talented chap with lots skills in all kinds of areas (NOT spelling or composition!!)...plus if you are a Fireman guy now, then you have the big fancy house, cars, investments, vacations, and $800 worth of lathe tools... etc etc. Liquidate. Downsize. Drop OUT!! FREE YOURSELF...Fly little Grasshopper FLY!! Buy a little house with a shop and a pickup truck (to tow the Weekender Furniture Boat to the pond). Sell all that other crap, cancel the cable and have a life....dude. Just a thought. Quote
capt jake Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 The thought has crossed my mind more than once grasshopper!! No Imoticons for this feeling.... Quote
Guest Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Hey Tim, did that 34 years ago. Grew a mustache and beard, cut cedar strips, drove a volkswagon van, worked in the warm weather for the winter, married a professional woman, homebody that loved the water, traveled all over the world and got paid for it, had three wonderful boys, poster children, retired with nothing at 54 with tales that we all charish, and still fishing, eating, canoeing and getting fat. Life can be okay , if you try. Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 ...no no...YOUR Grasshopper. I'm the Lutheran Luthier. Quote
Tim Diebert Posted February 23, 2003 Author Posted February 23, 2003 Man Oyster...YOU ARE THE BOMB!! MY HERO!! I am there too (except for all that expensive stuff). That's how we do the life thing. You'd be a good one to sit down for a chat. My place Monday night...you bring the beer. Quote
Guest Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 I learned early that working for wages on Friday, it was spent on Sunday. I also decided if it couldn't fit in a carry on, I didn't need it. The larger the closets, the more boxes that you aquire. Most women like STUFF. No offense intended to anyone. I got lucky. If you live in the warm climates, one outfit and a change of underwear is sometimes too much. We enjoyed what Mother nature gave to us. I got really lucky with my job to get paid for what people work all their lives to do once a year. Thats vacation. Yes we had long days and many long nights offshore, but man did we do it up on our times off. Life can't be measured in dollars for me. I came into this world naked, and I think God intended for us to go out the same way. Its not how much you make, its how much you spend. One thing more, I have never seen a Well Fargo truck follow a hearse. Have you? :wink: Quote
Johannah Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Guilty on the "stuff" but not because of being a serious shopper or into clothes. Most men don't seem to get lumbered with or attached to grandmother's china, mother's christening dress and the great set of dishes I found in a junk shop in Aberdeen, Scotland. Etc. ad infinitum. And school projects from all the kids; they are amazed when I produce the shirt someone began life as a refugee in when he was 7 (turned over to wife, of course, men not being trustworthy with stuff). One daughter-in-law whacked her husband and really yelled at him when I turned over the box of keepsakes to her. She didn't know they existed. We have this odd need for physical connection with the past, and dishes, always dishes. I got so desparate after my mother died in the fall that I gave her silver to my cousin who now has two sets because I already had 2! So, please, careful with that "lighten your material load" stuff. Difficult area for clear thought. Quote
Guest Posted February 23, 2003 Posted February 23, 2003 Oh, with great respect to you and your side of the human species, Jo, we do have the cedar chests of stuff, but the rest, well some of us have to grandpa and grandma house to fall back on for the necessaties. But the boxes in the attic, and the garage of mothball boxes just wasn't in our vocabulary. When it started out and the gathering started and we moved, we found that a lot of it was outdated pots and pans, clothes, books from our high schools or out dated college text, and more. It went after two years of non use. Haven't needed it or missed it yet. One big savings, that I can look back on and say to anyone here and have said to many aquaintainances was automobiles. What a big waste of hard earned money, new cars. I never had but one two year car payment in my life time. Try putting that amount away for even 20 years. Give up the cigarettes and out that away. Some of you math nuts run the numbers. Different strokes for different folks.. As I said Jo, please with all due respect to the gathers, This is what made got my life in order. My wonderful wife and her level headed approach, no matter where we went, she was always even keel for our family. Quote
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