Scott, I felt like being struck by the lightening! But also felt some consolation that I was not alone :-).
See below. Cheers, Ken On 7/11/05 11:53 AM, "Scott Loveless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes. Find another, more expensive hobby. I already have. > You'll have no cash left for Pentax goodies. That's exactly what happened to me lately. > Classic cars/motorbikes would be a good choice. > You might take up trap shooting - over-unders can be really pricey. I've been doing other kind of "shooting" for over 30 years, and it is expensive. > You could also lie to yourself. I already did (sorry, lady). > e.g. Convince the S.O. that if you buy a garage full of power tools you could build her that new dining table and save a fortune. I did buy a garage full of power tools (literally), telling my lady all along that these would help me maintaining the house in top shape. > In reality you'll end up with a garage full of perpetually new tools and a store-bought table. In reality, I always ended up hiring good hands, with the excuse that I was too busy and that it was a wee bit beyond the capability of an amateur with expensive tools. The handyman was so impressed by my collection of shiny tools that he had to borrow quite often some of those to finish the job. All these tools were gone, many of them without even a chance to be used in any serious way, except to cut some firelogs from the 2x4 remnatnts, when we moved to a condo. So, the only thing I could keep was our marriage (well, so far). Now, I got an *ist Ds with a few other lenses (congrats to myself), and must start saving all over again to buy back things I lost in order to finance this :-(.
