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Good to see you've got a plan...

 

Thanks Stormin' besides I have a few tools I can't get rid of.

 

If I had to do that again, I'd leave decorations behind and keep the tools. I got here and spent a fortune replacing them, just to fix the new house and keep the car maintained. :banghead3:

 

Oh sure, at least I know it was just an excuse to buy new tools!

 

Shhh!

 

Yeah SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! My wife can't find out.

 

I don't understand women when it comes to tools. They want stuff built, fixed, restored and maintained, but they whine and groan. When they want a new kitchen gadget, dryer, etc. we bite the bullet and get it done. I buy mine and that's that!

Then 6 months later when a girlfriend tells her the new kitchen cost $18,000, there isn't even a whimper.

 

You've got to use the dollars and cents approach. My clutch replacement on the Ranger was $324. $72 of that was the jack. The dollar and cents approach was "It's either spend $324 and I do it or $1200 for the mechanic. I got no argument.

 

I just found another excuse for more tools.

 

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Are we frustrated today? Didn't get your Pinto perhaps? No cookies and milk?

Well, if you don't get a project going, the SWMBO will. Trust me. I was doing our taxes over the last two days. And my wife was on my case that she had to have it done by today to drop it off at the Regional Federal Tax Building. I finished at 2:35 AM, and up like a shot at 6:30 AM, because she had to sign the forms to. I've done them for years, and they're still complicated. She wanted me to explain them in Spanish!!! :banghead3:

Read My LIPS, I said! She calmed down when she saw the nice refund. Numbers need no translation, in a woman's purse.

 

Money talks.

 

It baffles me that the gals don't take on innovative projects. It's a phenomenon that really escapes me. Honest. I had some great profs in French Quebec, and later in University who'd chat with me about History and Culture. When I went and lived in Mexico for five years, I was impressed at the culture, the social framework, the family glue, and the ingenuity at solving problems. Quick on their feet. Right from the CEO to the techies who worked with me to build a Mexican/Canadian/US fibre optic network to some 600 plastic injection machines in 8 plants.

My wife has so many great ideas, and couldn't turn a screwdriver to open a paint can.

She's had to teach herself how to cook (she was a career bureaucrat, taking 2 university degrees at night, after working 10 hour days, six days a week). No hobbies, no reading, just ideas. How can anyone have so much packed into themselves (475 years of culture, huge social network, educated to the teeth, worked with engineers and factory management, and learned a second language) and still can't figure out how to use her hands, beyond stirring up stuff in the kitchen. She's not even blonde! :banghead3:

 

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This too shall pass...