BRENT ANFINSON on sat 15 feb 97
Dear All,
My perfect(almost) solution to both these problems is to take up
carpentry.This sounds like a joke,but it worked for me recently.Every
time I went in my workroom for the last month I found myself adjusting
pictures on the wall or picking lint off the dog,cleaning!Feh.It hasn't
been for lack of ideas either,which makes it even more frustrating not
to want to touch that cold gooey slab of mud.
Well the other day I was sitting watching TV(in my workroom)and there
was this woman giving instructons on how to make a coffee table.It
looked easy and I had this sudden urge to put my hands on power tools.As
I was shuffling thru the garage gathering lumber I got the idea to apply
a ceramic top to it.You've probably all seen the broken tiles and grout
things that are around these days,(and God knows that I have lots of
broken pottery around here),I figured it was a marraige made in heaven.
There is no moral to the story,but I had a great time sawing and
drilling and taking those broken bits of pottery and smashing them with
a hammer.The table turned out pretty good for a first effort,I switched
gears enough to combat my burnout,and I recycled my broken stuff.Infact
I liked doing it so much I've planned a 2nd and 3rd project,and I'm
going to make some new tiles for them. It seems sometimes that the
things that gave me the greatest pleasures in the past are the things
that are draining me the most rite now.I guess I can't let myself
stagnate,I have to be creating new stuff on a regular basis.I've also
found for myself that if my sense of humor goes in the toilet and I
take myself to seriously I have a much harder time with everything.
Thanx for listening Maggy
P.S.Anybody got any good jokes got there?
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