Same here, it’s often better not to stare at a problem.
Same with unfindable stuff (a tool, my glasses etc)—most of the time I find them a moment after I stopped searching… I then just look at it 🧐
Same with unfindable stuff (a tool, my glasses etc)—most of the time I find them a moment after I stopped searching… I then just look at it 🧐
I think it is kind of „scary fascinating“ that the vast majority of those plastic kits are reproducing war-gear.
Yes, me too am awkwardly attracted by these technology driven machines, but isn’t it astonishing that it dominates the market by that margin? …
That is why 45 years ago I switched over from consumer repair to broadcast TV. After 4
years of consumer repair dealing with the same as you, I wanted to go back to school but
needed to pay the bills. I had my FCC first phone because I was repairing CB radios and
while that only required a second phone, I had to drive 135 miles to take the tests so may
as well try for the whole deal. I did go back to school but TV was more fun and am in my
3rd week of retirement from CBS TV City. Nice thing about TV is the equipment is better,
you have a known history on much of it, owners don't complain about the price to maintain
and vacation / health insurance is better.
G²
Glad you found a more suitable profession.
How long did you work for them up there in NYC?
TV City is in Los Angeles. I was with CBS the last 12 1/2 years, a dub house,
post house (transfer film, edit it down), Sony and ABC network. I started with
the CBS local station in Madison Wi in December of '76 and moved to LA in '85.
45 years altogether.
G²
Guess I need to start reading my issues of Procrastination Annual. The 2019 edition just came out.
I've had as many as 4 to 5 projects at varying stages of completion. With work and day to day its not easy to return to projects after several weeks away from it.
I find when I push myself just enough to go back to one and remember how enjoyable and satisfying it can be its enough to jumpstart back to a time it never felt like work, more like something fun.
I find when I push myself just enough to go back to one and remember how enjoyable and satisfying it can be its enough to jumpstart back to a time it never felt like work, more like something fun.
Scale modelling of military subjects is certainly popular, but there are many other categories of plastic modelling.
These include; cars, motorcycles, buses, trucks, construction vehicles, railway trains, buildings, airliners, passenger ships, robots, figures of people, animals (including dinosaurs!) - plus, let's not forget, rockets and spacecraft!
Airfix (which released its first Spitfire kit in 1955) was key in introducing an immediate post WW2 generation of UK youngsters to the then new hobby of plastic modelling. Now in their 70s & 80s, many members of that generation still want to model Spitfires, because doing so connects them to their youth.
Attachments
An old friend-collegue of mine used to have a small TV/stereo repair shop here.
Eventually, he moved to Trenton NJ.
In the late 1990's the shop closed down, and since he had ample schooling in broadcast transmitters, he got a sweet job in NYC, maintaining and overseeing the main system up there.
In 2002, he told me of an odd happening that he thought was strange, and I also wondered about.
His job included scheduled inspections of the WTC tower antenna system and cabling.
On the night before 9/11, his superior officer called him at home, and he thought that was pretty odd.
The boss ordered him to Buffallo NY to do an inspection of their transmitters.
Now, he never..... never, was told to do that before, however the morning of 9/11 he drove to Bufflalo as ordered.
His normal routine for that morning was to climb the WTC tower antenna to check the cables, and it was normally scheduled for 9AM.....
Obviously that would have meant that he'd be hanging off a harness at around 9AM.
He told me this story, and had the strangest look on his face the likes of which I've never seen.
Funny thing - two days later, on 9/13, he received a certified mail at home containing a new WTC transmitter room pass keycard.
Why would that have been mailed to his home, instead of him picking it up at the work site?
I told him to save the dated envelope and keycard, frame them, and in the future it might bring him a ton of cash on Ebay.
If I'd got hooked into this like the diyaudio-stuff, I'd start collecting for this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/albums/72157632208677161.
Lucky as I am, I'm not inclined to go down this rabbit-hole.
Lucky as I am, I'm not inclined to go down this rabbit-hole.
Yesterday got me there:
(Progress has been done, if I may say so, and this time those tiny pieces won't be buried inside! So I’m glad I could train myself on invisible teenytiny parts)
(Progress has been done, if I may say so, and this time those tiny pieces won't be buried inside! So I’m glad I could train myself on invisible teenytiny parts)
Attachments
Well, procrastination is not bad at all, but of course, if there is a balance. If you procrastinate all the time, then you should change it. But sometimes it's good just to do nothing, it helps to reduce tension and stress level.
When I feel like I'm overwhelmed with something, emotions, or something else, I just stop, and do nothing
When I feel like I'm overwhelmed with something, emotions, or something else, I just stop, and do nothing
So, I took advantage of the fact that I catched a little cold, and continued…
This following „chapter“ should be especially entertaining @6L6…
This following „chapter“ should be especially entertaining @6L6…
Attachments
From the stone of a Swedish writer... (Fritiof Nilsson Piraten)
"Below is the ashes of a man who had the habit to postpone everything until tomorrow. However, he improved on his final day and really died on 31 Jan 1972."
//
"Below is the ashes of a man who had the habit to postpone everything until tomorrow. However, he improved on his final day and really died on 31 Jan 1972."
//
Haha.
This could be for me, at times. Besides the date of passing. Although, 50 yrs postponing ones death…
This could be for me, at times. Besides the date of passing. Although, 50 yrs postponing ones death…