Hmmm, that sounds like my entire life!!
My sides hurt!
Hmmm, that sounds like my entire life!!
My sides hurt!
Add a trip to the BORG to buy $2.98 worth of hardware to start the project and then a second trip about an hour later to pick up the special tool I need to install the hardware (which I meant to get on the first trip but forgot about....I won't even go into how distracted I get at the BORG with all of those tools floating around) and you have described a typical "project" day for me....except that my wife would have obligated us to go over to the neighbor's house (despite my frantic arm-waving) so the project would get extended into the next day....... (which too often is a repeat of the first day)
Kevin,
You have made my life easier! Now, when I have one of those days, instead of going into detail about my trials and tribulations, I am going to submit the following post: "Hey guys, I just pulled a Kevin!"
Greg
Thank you for that Kevin,
It good to know you are not alone. I have wandered through the yard with a tool in each hand thinking about how I need to change something to get to work on it. SWMBO usually finds me and lets me have the rest of the day off. She knows it will
only get worse before it is over.
Roger
Last edited by Roger Fitzsimonds; 06-01-2005 at 1:40 PM. Reason: illiteracy
I've had entire weeks like that.
In my line of work (software engineering), doing a task that appears irrelevant to but is actually required for the primary intended task via a long chain of dependencies is referred to as "yak shaving".
If that "long chain of dependencies" is longer than 3, there's about zero probablility that the nth-ary task will actually contribute to the final result...unless by "contribute", you mean "delay until original requirement is forgotten".Originally Posted by Chip Olson
"Satisfied, she looked around the garage and asked, "What are you doing?" I had no idea.."
That sentence pretty much sums up my days in the garage. Me tearing up something or causing a huge mess. Then my wife walking in the garage, looking at the floor, then at me asking "what are you doing?"
I am totally a Yak Shaver...
I've attached a picture of the insert I made next to the worthless one that came with the saw.
DeWalt sells one without a kerf. I wonder why they just don't ship it with the saw. I could have bought the dang thing for less than 10 bucks but that story wouldn't be worth telling, would it?
"He who dies with the most toys is none the less dead."
I'm thinking we've got a new one for "Going Post-al!!!"Originally Posted by Greg Mann
Last edited by Chris Padilla; 06-01-2005 at 6:49 PM.
Geez! I'm gonna be famous...
"He who dies with the most toys is none the less dead."