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1. not having the right tool to make the job easy to do, and the cost of the tool being too high for the one project, and the cheap version of the tool is only available at low quality or by mail order taking 45 days on the slow boat from you know where
2. being too tired to start work on the project due to life's other requirements whereas being able to wake up without other annoyances and spend a morning or a day when you feel good working on the project hangs there like an untouchable dream
3. compromises - not being able to have a design and construction in which all the audio gods are satisfied as well as having something that isn't grossly inefficient, heavy or plain ugly at the end of it
4. messy hobby room so you never have a clean bench to start work on, can't find the parts you know you have somewhere, and having to watch carefully where you tread in case you break something or hurt your foot
5. some kind of high voltage breakdown inside your 'oscope during it's warm-up that makes you jump out of your skin with a 'crack' whilst you are delicately probing inside a powered up chassis
6. somehow always ending up with a chassis that is too cramped to work in comfortably and then finding everything is a squeeze, a botch, a search for that nut which fell off inside and rattles around somewhere because the tools slipped off
7. being short-sighted so that whilst working on the project without your distance glasses you drop something small on the floor and can't see it, didn't see clearly where it bounced and now have no clue where the clucker is and it's the last one in the box....
2. being too tired to start work on the project due to life's other requirements whereas being able to wake up without other annoyances and spend a morning or a day when you feel good working on the project hangs there like an untouchable dream
3. compromises - not being able to have a design and construction in which all the audio gods are satisfied as well as having something that isn't grossly inefficient, heavy or plain ugly at the end of it
4. messy hobby room so you never have a clean bench to start work on, can't find the parts you know you have somewhere, and having to watch carefully where you tread in case you break something or hurt your foot
5. some kind of high voltage breakdown inside your 'oscope during it's warm-up that makes you jump out of your skin with a 'crack' whilst you are delicately probing inside a powered up chassis
6. somehow always ending up with a chassis that is too cramped to work in comfortably and then finding everything is a squeeze, a botch, a search for that nut which fell off inside and rattles around somewhere because the tools slipped off
7. being short-sighted so that whilst working on the project without your distance glasses you drop something small on the floor and can't see it, didn't see clearly where it bounced and now have no clue where the clucker is and it's the last one in the box....
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The darned honey-do list right in the middle of a project.
...on a Saturday
...when it's raining
...and you've been planning all week
...and your parts arrived on Thursday
...and she hadn't mentioned anything for weeks
...but you forgot to pick up her meds at the pharmacy
...and the neighbour was in her parking spot so she got wet coming inside after working overtime
...and you didn't quite get around to putting the wash into the dryer like you were supposed to this morning
...and you grabbed the wrong dish from the fridge and accidentally fed tonight's leftovers to the dog
...and hadn't noticed the dog and spicy food don't get along
..and whatever she was yelling as you headed toward the liquor cabinet
(sigh!) sometimes the best laid plans...
...on a Saturday
...when it's raining
...and you've been planning all week
...and your parts arrived on Thursday
...and she hadn't mentioned anything for weeks
...but you forgot to pick up her meds at the pharmacy
...and the neighbour was in her parking spot so she got wet coming inside after working overtime
...and you didn't quite get around to putting the wash into the dryer like you were supposed to this morning
...and you grabbed the wrong dish from the fridge and accidentally fed tonight's leftovers to the dog
...and hadn't noticed the dog and spicy food don't get along
..and whatever she was yelling as you headed toward the liquor cabinet
(sigh!) sometimes the best laid plans...
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MB, it was fictitious, every bit of it.
So she's looking over your shoulder right now?
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Thankfullly I don't have that problem.
Living room full of audio gear.
I even have my lab at one end of the living room so I can listen to tv while I work.
Utility room is also a wood workshop as well as a metal workshop.
Spending three days copying a PCB design in your favourite program just to notice that the scanned copies were mirrored and your program doesn't have a "mirror command" or even worse getting the darn PCBs from the factory and THEN notice that everything is wrong way around.
When I read about Cal's real life experience I remember when we left Portland, OR a few yeqars ago, and as I have corset sewing as another hobby I said to my wife:
- The biggest factory store in USA lies right here.
And she looked at me coldly and asked:
- You aren't planning to buy some fabrics, are you???
Well, I got the message LOUD AND CLEAR.
When I read about Cal's real life experience I remember when we left Portland, OR a few yeqars ago, and as I have corset sewing as another hobby I said to my wife:
- The biggest factory store in USA lies right here.
And she looked at me coldly and asked:
- You aren't planning to buy some fabrics, are you???
Well, I got the message LOUD AND CLEAR.