Rotarydragon

[quote name='1988RedT2' date='May 27 2005, 01:24 PM']The key to being good at any job is to thoroughly enjoy what you are doing. Unfortunately, finding your right livelihood is not an easy thing to do. At least it hasn't been for me.


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I know what you mean. I enjoy doing several things but not in any large quantity. I keep changing up what I'm doing every few years it seems, allthough I've done IT for some time now. Oddly enough I'm switching off to doing stenography then probably linguistics. Yeah that court reporter thing, allthough my interest in it is not court reporting but the ability to type at 250wpm and assist the deaf. That way when I get back to school I can take notes verbatim.



And imagine the havoc I could create if I could type as fast as you can speak. Imagine the posts I could put up. Just .... imagine...



:evil:

j9fd3s

[quote name='Rotarydragon' date='May 28 2005, 06:47 AM']I know what you mean. I enjoy doing several things but not in any large quantity. I keep changing up what I'm doing every few years it seems, allthough I've done IT for some time now. Oddly enough I'm switching off to doing stenography then probably linguistics. Yeah that court reporter thing, allthough my interest in it is not court reporting but the ability to type at 250wpm and assist the deaf. That way when I get back to school I can take notes verbatim.



And imagine the havoc I could create if I could type as fast as you can speak. Imagine the posts I could put up. Just .... imagine...



:evil:


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i can talk slower if you want.....

1988RedT2

Got my order from B&N last night. UPS driver was running late. He dropped it off at quarter to seven.



The Chilton's Volvo manual sucks, but Truck by John Jerome is a riot. He really has a way with words.



For example:



...we watched New Hampshire settle into mud-month, slit-your-wrists time, when the snow is gone, the sky droops to about a seventy-five-foot ceiling, the thermometer sticks at a steadfast thirty-five degrees, day and night, and the world is endless gray muck, a miasma of not-quite-rain. Day after stinking, bloody day. Firewood and whiskey consumption shoot off one end of the scale, domestic tranquility off the other. It is discover-new-roof-leaks time. It is watch-the-furnace-expire, wreck-the-car, sick-dog, falling-cake, stopped-up-plumbing time.



from Truck by John Jerome. Pub. by University Press of New England

Amy

[quote name='spaceman Spiff' date='May 27 2005, 12:50 PM']whats this vw rabbit book, those were my first love.


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It's the best, I'll have to grab the title tonight - you have to find it at a used store they don't publish it anymore it's about how to rebuild a rabbit for a iddiot or jackass or something - as it explains task it elaborates on stupid **** not to do like close the garage door and die from fumes or wrap a cord around your neck. And when something doesn't work it says go swear and grab a drink - it's a comedy with information on how to rebuild a rabbit. It's great - rabbits were my first 3 cars - I was on my third before I was 17.... Lets say they had a hard life.

1988RedT2

[quote name='Amy' date='Jun 3 2005, 11:21 AM']It's the best, I'll have to grab the title tonight - you have to find it at a used store they don't publish it anymore it's about how to rebuild a rabbit for a iddiot or jackass or something - as it explains task it elaborates on stupid **** not to do like close the garage door and die from fumes or wrap a cord around your neck. And when something doesn't work it says go swear and grab a drink - it's a comedy with information on how to rebuild a rabbit. It's great - rabbits were my first 3 cars - I was on my third before I was 17.... Lets say they had a hard life.


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So can we say that the rabbit, um.... died?

Amy

[quote name='1988RedT2' date='Jun 3 2005, 09:35 AM']So can we say that the rabbit, um.... died?


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Multiple Rabbits died... In my adventure to learn how to drive. Who else can say they have the driving ability to roll a diesel rabbit? Why I can, and well my brother like to take them offroad to see how much they could take - he had a big truck so he could tow it home. Best cars though got great gas mileage and reliable for a $500 car in its day.

banzaitoyota

THIS IS WAHT GETS ME IN TROUBLE:



"Besides, there's the building of it first, an idea that makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Not the whole truck, from scratch, of course-No truck-entyre, out of scrap iron and barn junk. Nothing like that. I'll just swap some farmer out of an abandonned pickup truck somewhere in New Hampshire or Vermont, haul the hulk hme, take it completely apart, lovingly refurbish and rebuild every single piece of it, and put it back together. I'll end up with SUPERTRUCK, for next to nothing in investment."





THAT PARAGRAPH HAS STARTED ALL MY PROJECTS

DJ Blu

its a great book i read it a year and a half ago, been meaning to give it a new look. There are really good quotes, but it gets to be a tough read @ times. For me, i really have to be in the mood for the deep philosophy. It is also interesting to know that the author is an actual schitzo.