Dan, I know what you mean about making things and the physical work, using tools and seeing the sawdust fly. My wife, Anna, and I have had projects, here, that we made, together. They aren't the best looking, and somebody else would have made them better, but we did them together, and the finished products have love in them.
earlier, Dan Rossi, wrote: >Carla asked: > > > Just curious though, what would it have cost to have someone come > > in and build this deck? > >Carla Carla Carla. You are missing the point completely. I could easily >have paid someone to come in and build this deck for me. They would >probably have done a better job. They would have gotten it done a hell of >a lot faster than I will. And I wouldn't have had to haul 80 freakin >pound bags of cement up the stairs. and it would probably have cost me a >grand or two more to save my back. > >However, I am building the deck not so much because I want a deck, but >because I want to build a deck. I sit at my stupid desk pounding on a >keyboard all friggin day. At the end of the day, I have nothing to point >to and say I made that, I created that. I can only say, nothing broke >today. I can say I gave people answers to questions they had. I can say >I tested this or tested that and it broke this way or didn't break that >way. I can't even get into the room where the machines I work on are >stashed. They are in a secure machine room two blocks away. There is a >total lack of physicality to the work I do. > >I want to create something that I can touch and feel and know that it is >there because I made it be there. > >My degree is in mechanical engineering but when I couldn't convince an >employer I could be a mechanical engineer I had to earn a living so I went >into I T, something I can't stand but it earns me a lot of money so I do >it. > >anyway, that's probably a bit deeper look into my head than folks on the >list needed, but it's the truth. > >Later. > > > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > >To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html >or >ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > >The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. >http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > >The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. >http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > >Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions > From Various List Members At The Following Address: >http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ >Visit the new archives page at the following address >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy >Man list just send a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > John To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
