Mundane tasks and working with our hands.
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Cagliostro
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True. But I do have to admit that occasionally it is a mundane task, particularly when I am feeling non-creative. But mainly I was bringing it up in the "working with our hands" part of the thread title.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
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It's like you can't possibly be listening if you're not making eye contact.A female friend of mine once complained about a mutual friend who brought her knitting to a classical music concert. I guess it's more politically correct to nod off...?
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My wife finds it almost completely impossible to sit still/pay attention if she isn't doing something with her hands.
Ruffled some feathers and required a lot of explaining/working out of misunderstanding after tatting at her first couple faculty meetings.
[am I repeating myself?]
Ruffled some feathers and required a lot of explaining/working out of misunderstanding after tatting at her first couple faculty meetings.
[am I repeating myself?]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Linna Heartbooger
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that's a good point in those last couple of posts... seems like one little piece of our culture that should be turned around..
Wanted to add some of my mundane tasks...
mending little things by hand.. I actually like it when I'm doing it.
repairing my kids' books with tape
cleaning a toilet (provided that it doesn't have serious buildup)
cutting up fruit (something I've been known to avoid!)
not sure if I'm "supposed to" admit that I find cleaning a toilet satisfying
But I'm going for the chuckle here.
Wanted to add some of my mundane tasks...
mending little things by hand.. I actually like it when I'm doing it.
repairing my kids' books with tape
cleaning a toilet (provided that it doesn't have serious buildup)
cutting up fruit (something I've been known to avoid!)
not sure if I'm "supposed to" admit that I find cleaning a toilet satisfying
But I'm going for the chuckle here.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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TerisasMirror
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In the "working with your hands" category, I have to say that I LOVE working on my car. (Or friend's cars, if my own is not in need or repair or I can't afford that next oh-look-at-this-amazing {part name here} I want).
It can be very tiring and I have strained my back a few times, torn countless nails, and been burned on occasion, but I just love messing with things mechanical! Especially engines. Despite the hard work, I find I can get pretty "in the zone" with it. I don't want to stop, even when I have been at it all day & it's dark out. I feel so proud of the result!
I can fix a car better than all the men I know, including my dad. I do find this tends to intimidate or somehow insults guys, though.
Oh, well. It saves me tons of $$ on mechanic's bills!!
It can be very tiring and I have strained my back a few times, torn countless nails, and been burned on occasion, but I just love messing with things mechanical! Especially engines. Despite the hard work, I find I can get pretty "in the zone" with it. I don't want to stop, even when I have been at it all day & it's dark out. I feel so proud of the result!
I can fix a car better than all the men I know, including my dad. I do find this tends to intimidate or somehow insults guys, though.
Oh, well. It saves me tons of $$ on mechanic's bills!!
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Linna Heartbooger
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Haha, that is awesome...TerisasMirror wrote:In the "working with your hands" category, I have to say that I LOVE working on my car. (Or friend's cars, if my own is not in need or repair or I can't afford that next oh-look-at-this-amazing {part name here} I want).
It can be very tiring and I have strained my back a few times, torn countless nails, and been burned on occasion, but I just love messing with things mechanical! Especially engines. Despite the hard work, I find I can get pretty "in the zone" with it. I don't want to stop, even when I have been at it all day & it's dark out. I feel so proud of the result!
I can fix a car better than all the men I know, including my dad. I do find this tends to intimidate or somehow insults guys, though.
Oh, well. It saves me tons of $$ on mechanic's bills!!
I remember when I was a teenager, I'd get really excited installing new computer parts, and having the thing actually work... though I was more interested in the software stuff.
Glad you find fixing cars pretty interesting! =) I can't imagine thinking "oh that would be so amazing" about car parts the way I have about computer hardware or software, though!
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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TerisasMirror
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Maybe it's about the same - Because I assemble my own computers, too. 3 so far. And I have a serious itch to do so again. I don't have the $$ for a full new build, though. So I satisfied myself recently by picking up a new all-in-one.Linna Heartlistener wrote:Haha, that is awesome...TerisasMirror wrote:In the "working with your hands" category, I have to say that I LOVE working on my car. (Or friend's cars, if my own is not in need or repair or I can't afford that next oh-look-at-this-amazing {part name here} I want).
It can be very tiring and I have strained my back a few times, torn countless nails, and been burned on occasion, but I just love messing with things mechanical! Especially engines. Despite the hard work, I find I can get pretty "in the zone" with it. I don't want to stop, even when I have been at it all day & it's dark out. I feel so proud of the result!
I can fix a car better than all the men I know, including my dad. I do find this tends to intimidate or somehow insults guys, though.
Oh, well. It saves me tons of $$ on mechanic's bills!!
I remember when I was a teenager, I'd get really excited installing new computer parts, and having the thing actually work... though I was more interested in the software stuff.
Glad you find fixing cars pretty interesting! =) I can't imagine thinking "oh that would be so amazing" about car parts the way I have about computer hardware or software, though!
But, I dunno, I guess I like working on the car better because it's really more complex - more mechanical. I love boat engines, too. I will go on the Liberty Belle at WDW and spend the whole time looking to the inside of the boat at the steam engine instead of out at the water / island.
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TerisasMirror
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Yah, Av, it is. But the "All-in-one" I am speaking of is a printer-scanner-copier-fax. I'm sorry, that's common usage here and I made the assumption it would be so pretty much everywhere.Avatar wrote:Huh? Surely it's cheaper to buy the parts and assemble it yourself than to buy a PC off the shelf?
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Silly of me!It was only $100.00 (with free shipping!) and it has a feeder, which my old one does not. I have been wanting one so I can scan statements and bills (in one file per month) and get rid of all the paper!!
And while it is cheaper to build your own (esp if you know where to buy the parts!), please consider that my current system cost me $2K. So, if I get the itch to build a new one, it would have to outdo the current one. And that would easily cost an additional $2K (or more). And I totally cannot afford that right now.
Yes, my computer heats up the room it's in within 15 minutes of being switched on...