paden cash, post: 416700, member: 20 wrote: I actually think most humans would make better choices about mates by standing on a corner and picking "dates" at random. I remember (years ago) becoming suddenly single and thinking that seeking feminine company would be fun...
I soon realized that it only took about 15 minutes of conversation to figure out why these women (whom your friends fixed you up with) were still unattached. I withdrew from the sport and enjoyed my motorsickles and refinishing old furniture.
Then I stumbled over an angel that liked motorcycles and old furniture......and (to coin a phrase) lived happily ever after. 😉
My neighbor put an old dresser out on the curb yesterday with a free sign. It is painted. I just wanted the wood. So I wheel it into my garage with my hand truck (first wife rolls her eyes "why do you want that?"). So I start looking at it, this thing is well built, all solid 3/4 stock, dovetailed drawers, 1/8 plywood back, plywood drawer bottoms. I'm showing her the drawers with blind dovetails. It is a plain 1950s or 60s design, just a box with flush drawers, I like the simplicity of it. So I'm going to repurpose it intact.
Dave Karoly, post: 416706, member: 94 wrote: My neighbor put an old dresser out on the curb yesterday with a free sign. It is painted. I just wanted the wood. So I wheel it into my garage with my hand truck (first wife rolls her eyes "why do you want that?"). So I start looking at it, this thing is well built, all solid 3/4 stock, dovetailed drawers, 1/8 plywood back, plywood drawer bottoms. I'm showing her the drawers with blind dovetails. It is a plain 1950s or 60s design, just a box with flush drawers, I like the simplicity of it. So I'm going to repurpose it intact.
I have several pieces of furniture I've made with 'old painted dresser wood'. Some of the prettiest maple and oak can be covered with lots of old paint.
Here's a trick I came up with to stripping paint from furniture:
I use some stuff called "Zip Strip" that has a jellied methyl-chloride base. It has a smell that will (literally) probably kill you and is caustic to your skin. Although it works fairly well I found myself having to use three or four applications to get all the paint. The alcohol in the stripper would evaporate before it penetrated the deep and serious paint.
I was having a helluva time stripping some long lathe-turned bed posts. I was wanting to immerse the entire thing in a vat of stripper but that of course was cost prohibitive. I finally settled on soaking rags in the stripper and winding them around the posts...AND then wrapping the whole mess up in Saran Wrap to keep it from evaporating. Put it up against the garage wall and come back in 24 hours. Voila, no more paint.
I started using that technique on everything, including flat work. Sure beats the "wash, rinse, repeat" method.
paden cash, post: 416700, member: 20 wrote: I actually think most humans would make better choices about mates by standing on a corner and picking "dates" at random.
At the ripe old age of 16 in 1966 I met the 'ole bag, err "SWMBO the Goddess", at high school. I was absolutely floored that she even talked to me. I fell head over heels in love with her and we were married in 1969. Well 3 kids, whom ALWAYS need money for whatever, and 4 grand-kids later we are still in love after 48 grueling years of marriage. 😎
And she's cool too! 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 416714, member: 379 wrote: At the ripe old age of 16 in 1966 I met the 'ole bag, err "SWMBO the Goddess", at high school. I was absolutely floored that she even talked to me. I fell head over heels in love with her and we were married in 1969. Well 3 kids, whom ALWAYS need money for whatever, and 4 grand-kids later we are still in love after 48 grueling years of marriage. 😎
And she's cool too! 😉
Wow. You definitely get the "suck up" award of the week!
I'd leave the post up on the screen so SWMBO could see it.
But seriously, congratulations. My first marriage didn't fare so well. We divorced for religious reasons: I'm a Methodist and she was the devil!
Holy smokes, a lotta grumps on here! I enjoy dating, but if I ever go exclusive again she'd have to be amazing. It would just be nice dating women who understand what I do during the day, or at least understand the role this profession has played in history. Or know some history at all.
On the "Ides of March" this year, I will have 20 years in with my wife. Yall can have the dating site. I'm doing crossfit with a hot chick every evening. 🙂
RoadBurner, post: 416721, member: 6168 wrote: It would just be nice dating women who understand what I do during the day, or at least understand the role this profession has played in history. Or know some history at all.
Meh...understanding history and the role of the surveyor therein is nice, but were I to be suddenly single again I'd settle for smoking hot with daddy issues 😉
James Fleming, post: 416724, member: 136 wrote: Meh...understanding history and the role of the surveyor therein is nice, but were I to be suddenly single again I'd settle for smoking hot with daddy issues 😉
That gets old too.
RoadBurner, post: 416729, member: 6168 wrote: That gets old too.
You're right, everything has a catch.
But tats and piercings and daddy issues were a cool change for a while. How can one go to a smorgasbord and not try a little of everything?
My first marriage was....well, I musta married the twin of Paden's first wife.
I've been happily married for 34 years to my second wife. She's not a surveyor, nor does she like to hear surveying war stories, BUT she does care about me. When I go above timberline she volunteers to be my safety partner. Here she is at 13,000 feet checking my progress as I hauled 24 feet of steel "T" fence posts, 18 feet of No. 6 rebar and my RTK gear up the hill. I had to set 7 witness corners with accessories along the ridge as the original corners had been destroyed in a scree slope.
gschrock, post: 416697, member: 556 wrote: meanwhile the young lady would slip past them and have the door held open for her on that shiny new Tesla... maybe the guy is an engineer... 😀
After graduation and joining my first engineering consultancy, the first joke I heard was told by a geologist (surname Underhill):
Q What do engineers use as a contraceptive?
A Their personality.
I thought that was terrifically funny but later on in life realised it could be true in my case, so my online dating profile was:
Personality Plus
Dating???? Dating???? Do you know what that leads to????
I took up serious dating with a pretty young gal back in 1970 and because of that today I am recognizing the fact that I have now been a grandpa for exactly 20 years.
It's like the old joke from Milton Berle where he states he wouldn't want to be a member of any club that was willing to accept his membership application.
Who would I want to date who was interested in someone who has been a grandpa for 20 years????
My wife and I "met" online back in the days when we had local dial-up BBS' (bulletin board systems) and the people made a point to meet in person on a weekly basis. Some of you might remember those days of dial-up when the Call Waiting "feature" would knock us offline -- we affectionately referred to it as "Call Wasting". Anyway, I was shy but finally came out of my hole to meet her at the local Denny's for one of the get-togethers -- I was in love before I even set eyes on her, but the in-person meeting just confirmed everything I was feeling. March 9 will be our 25 year Denny's anniversary and we'll celebrate by going to -- where else? -- Denny's. She's been putting up with me all these years and I'm lucky she's still hanging around.
Now, listen up fellers. We does has a few female participants in this here site. We doesn't want them to think we are ALL pigs, just most of us. So, when you say you wouldn't be interested in anyone who posts here, you may be hurting someone's feelings. There may even be a few fellers around here who happen to like fellers. You may be injuring their feelings as well. Please play nice.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Cool story, Wendell. Funny stuff, Holy. Like I said, what's age got to do with it. I've been a grandpa for well over a decade. There are still women my age who want to date without being chained down, but it's nicer when they can relate at a similar level intellectually. Seems to be a rarity.
Well...............if you need them to come down to your level......................look in other places.
Holy Cow, post: 416803, member: 50 wrote: Well...............if you need them to come down to your level......................look in other places.
Not sure what that means, but most women I meet think I'm a rock star and want to marry me. They're sweet, but I'm not interested in anything serious. I just thought a dating site for surveyors would be cool. Laterz
paden cash, post: 416717, member: 20 wrote: My first marriage didn't fare so well. We divorced for religious reasons: I'm a Methodist and she was the devil!
You win the internet for the day with that one.
Holy Cow, post: 416786, member: 50 wrote: Dating???? Dating???? Do you know what that leads to????
Reduced funds.
Dating advice:
A bachelor friend of mine says women are like dog turds:
the older they are, the easier they are to pick up.
