In A Hurry To Get Nowhere
For some strange reason I seem to be willing to spend a lot of time effort and money to get ready to do something, but then never get around to the doing. An example is this sewing machine. I have it running OK, to be in perfect order I still need some parts. And I will probably get them, and I might buy the sewing supplies I will need to use with it. However, will I ever do anything with it beyond simple mending?
I do not know, if I go by my experience with other hobbies, probably not. I am thinking of making shirts and trousers that fit perfectly, but really that is a lot of effort and I can buy ill fitting ones for less than the cost of materials. All my life I wanted a few custom tailored (I refuse to use that pretentious English term) suits. I love the way they look and fit (on others), but could not afford them when they cost $300, and certainly not now. I did find a place on the web that sells nice cloth, only $120/yard. Let’s see, six time one hundred twenty dollars, why that is only $720 for the outer fabric the rest of the stuff needed would most likely only bring that up to $800 or so. Now a $3000 suit for only $800 is a bargain, but it is about ten times what I can afford.
Which is another point about my thesis, it usually turns out that I can not afford to do what I want to do at the level I want to do it. Should I lower my standards and make ill fitting shirts and trousers for twice what I can buy them for? On top of that there is the energy problem, I am energy challenged. No, I do not mean I can not afford gasoline. I mean that for some undiagnosable reason my energy level is about 1/20th what it was used to be before the illness that led to my disability retirement. If I spend two hours at something not too difficult I am as tired as if I had just worked a 12 hour shift doing physical labor. That is very hard to deal with for someone who once was described, “He can do anything. If he does not know how to do it, he will learn how to do it, and then do it”.
So those two problems, lack of funds and lack of energy, leave me rather unmotivated. It is very hard to overcome that lack of motivations and do things. Getting ready to do them about uses up my resources. And by the time I have recovered my resources, I have moved on to a new interest.
Your Comments and Corrections are always welcome.
Twice the Fun
Stopped into Good Will today.
Found a 19″ Dell P991 CRT Monitor for the princely sum of $7.00. It is now replacing the old 15″ Goldstar as my secondary monitor. Five years newer than the 19″ Hitachi SuperScan Elite. Not quite up to the Hitachi performance wise, although the Dell has a flat CRT screen. Can not seem to get them to match colors exactly, but then the Hitachi has profiles, and I have not found them for the Dell, yet. Sure, I would like to have a pair of 20″ LCD’s, or a 24″ widescreen LCD, but that is $500, not $7. Us poor boys have to make do.
I put the Dell to the left of the Hitachi which is my primary monitor. At the moment I have not figured out how to get the cursor to move to the left to get to the Dell. I have to move it to the right to get there. Not how I want things to work. It may simply be a matter of switching plugs.
Why do I want the Hitachi as the primary monitor? 1. It is a bit sharper. 2. The actual image area is larger. 3. It is capable of runing at higher resolution.
Why do I want the primary monitor on the left? 1. I have my Windows Taskbar on the right, and would prefer not to have to move the cursor across it to get to the secondary screen. 2. The lighting works better if the monitors are on the left end of the computer desk.
While I was at the Good Will I also picked up a $15 sewing machine. Old, and featureless, but all I need it for is to hem up pants, redo pulled seams, and such. I have had my eye out for a cheap sewing machine for a couple of years. The seem to think old worn out sewing machines are valuble antiques around here.
Almost!
Well, the website is almost what it was. One file had gotten overwritten on my computer, and none of my backups is old enough to find the original. So that set of photos is gone (SIGH!).
The transparent GIF on the index page has noise in the background. I kind of like the effect, but would like to figure out why, and how to eliminate it. Guess I am going to have to spend some time with my Photoshop books.
I have no plans for today, Labor Day, just kicking back and relaxing.
I do not like this blogging engine. It does not seem to have the features it claims to have, and the ones it does have do not seem to work. I have to put in html tags to get paragraphs, for crying out loud. Consider this to be temporary, and what I am posting in it will most likely be lost when I switch back to Wordpress.