"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
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Shiva wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
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In this mid winter scene we have here, the sheilas seem to become
invisible,
and I never see one out on her own after 6pm lookin fo a lil company.
The cold weather has ruined many a romance, or even the chance of it
occurrin.
Maybe I ought to pack up, and **** off to an island with some palm
trees.

Trouble is, to get anyplace decent, youse gotta pay through the nose.

Patrick Turner.


You know, the islan thing may not be such a bad idea. I wound up
onTortola
(BVI) pretty much by chance - my ex-boss invited me to spend a couple'o
weeks at his place there, and paid for the tix. The two weeks didn't do
it
for me - I spent over a year there ('till immigration finally cought up
with
me & booted me out), bein' a boat bum & fishin' & fixin' boats for a
living.
After starving (well, actually, eating fish fish & fish - had a
speargun)
for a month, made really good friends there, and life was so
ridiculously
simple & good. I didn't have to charge locals for working on their
boats -
they always wound up giving double in food, old outboards / boats, and
it
just kind'a made it seem like people weren't such sh7ts after all...

You are right, not everyone is a hard ass.
So what led you to the unatural crazy world of electronics?

Patrick Turner.


I dunno. I actually sat and thought about this for 10 mins, trying to
figure out just what makes me like electronics, and couldn't think of a good
answer. This is the best i could think up: Always likebreaking /building
stuff since I could remember. By the time I was 4 i was dragging junk TV
chassis home, ripping them apart (conning my grandma into helping me with
the tight screws & stuff), without knowing what all the stuff did - just
looked neat. Same with mechanical stuff. Maybe some people are born with
the *geek* part of the brain bein' dominant? I never remember names or
phone #'s, but i can still quote all the basic clearances & torques on a 356
motor, even though it must have been 10 yrs since I touched one. Maybe it's
also some kind of a mental hangup - when i see some chunks of electronic
gear, or machine shop gear, i get weird fascination /obsession /lust usually
reserved for ... well, enough.
-dim