Scooter
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posted December 14, 2003 01:54 AM
 Edited By: Scooter on 14 Dec 2003 01:55
Sounds like you need to keep Mom & Dad on retainer for a little while to smooth out the transition.
Heard the one about the professor and the jar? Goes something like this.
Prof takes a jar and holds it up to the class, fills it with large stones and asks if it is full. The class replies, yes. Then he pours a handfull of marbles into the jar shaking them down between the stones and once again askd if it is full. Again the class replies yes. He does this again with even smaller stones and finally with sand, to which the class decrees, Yes, the jar is now totally filled. The professor then says to the class, This jar represents your life. The large stones are the important things, Family religion home etc, the marbles are lesser things, your job car hobbies vacations etc, and so on down to the sand which are the menial things like the drycleaning and mowing the lawn. If you put the smaller things first in your life you find one day you havent left room for the important things. The class all nodded in agreement. At this point the professor set a sixpack next to the jar, popped the top on one and poured it carefully into the jar, soaking down around the stones marbles and sand. He then asked the students what this meant.....................there's always room for a BEER!!.
The moral being...When there's too much on your plate, take a look at the things in your day and decide if it is a stone a marble or sand. Put it in that order and sit back and have a beer and quit worrying about it or you'll be wakin' up at 3 AM stressin out about all of it. One thing I've learned, when you leave work, try to LEAVE work there. I know it's hard especially when your running the show. But if you can, separate it from everything else and use your projects to clear your head of the job worries and not add to them.
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VincentHill
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posted December 14, 2003 08:32 AM
Scooter, I have also seen it with starting out with Golf Balls and then Marbles BB's sand and then Beer! Of course for Golfers, the important thing in life is Golf  and then the smaller things and always time for a beer!
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zxfingyz
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posted December 14, 2003 04:31 PM
Damn, some of you guys got some serious stuff goin' on. Can you keep this thread going so I can check back in when I feel like I got it tough? My challenges ain't shit compared to what a few of you got to work with.
Hey Otis I think they got you licked bubba. That fear you are feeling?
That is the fuel that keeps alot of men from f&%*king it all up. That is probably (on a bit different scale) the fear/fuel that keeps soldiers and cops and firemen and winners and heros from giving up. The fact that you feel it and are dealing with it means you might be one of them. Seems like some good advice up there about delegating and using your resources and keeping your sanity. You should use that stuff. One thing I would add is try to keep your old man involved. These old sled dogs work to get off the sled their whole lives and when they finally do, if they don't have something else to pull they just die. Keep him working.
That and just think how bad you will feel if you do f%&*k it all up! 
Those footprints in the sand? Those belong to the monster from your closet. He has been looking for you for 20 odd years. If you don't work hard and smart and fight every day to be happy, he'll get you.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No! So C'mon!
You ever notice that when women do this type of thing that Otis just did" I have this horrible situation and ..." and then you give them a solution, they get mad? It is truly a miracle that anyone(especially me) gets laid.
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Otis
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posted December 15, 2003 05:33 AM
Thanks for all the thoughts and support fellas. I knew I'd get the mojo I needed from all of you. Vinnie I'm 36. Well, I had a good weekend. I spent the whole day Saturday with Michelle and Alli. We went and got a Christmas tree, put it up and decorated it, had Christmas music on in the house (always makes me feel relaxed, especially the "All I want for Christmas is a hipoppotomus, LOL) and just felt happy. Got to work on the tile Sunday morning and got that installed (note: if installing tile, spend a few bucks and buy some knee pads so you don't feel the agony of bare knees on hard floor) (2nd note to self: Talk to Bart about where to buy knee pads, LMAO), the tile turned out awesome now I just have to grout it tomorrow night.
Anyway fellas. I feel much better today and your thoughts are what I needed. To you fellas that are having trouble, I feel for you and of course wish you the strength you need to deal with it.
Another good point in the weekend for me was, after being up with Alli for 2 hours in the middle of the night we are all sleeping a little late when I heard the phone ring, glanced over at the clock and it said 9am and I waited and heard the answering machinge pick up. It was my mother and she said "Hello? Are you up yet? WE CAUGHT SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!!" That my friends WAS good news.
Sorry again to make my "short term mid life crisis" public here but you all are my brothers and a certain source of strength for me.
DAVE!! What did you "find out"?
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted December 15, 2003 05:40 AM
we are here for ya brother.....I just think ya need to go for a ride Chris....and dont give me this crap about it being cold up there and snow on the ground....Bring the family and yer bike down here for a few days and we will go put osme miles on, its nice here man I think I am gonna go for a ride, andyone wanna go.......not you Chris, you have shit to do...NOW get your ass back to work ya slacker....just messing with ya bro....seriously though, anytime you need a get a way, load up the family, and if ya cant bring a bike dont sweat it, I have an extra one..just come on down....
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Otis
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posted December 15, 2003 06:31 AM
Ohhh, Jim I can't tell you how much I'd like to pack the bike and head on down there and ride with you for a few days. It was 18 degrees when I left for work at 6:30am. BURRRRRR
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VincentHill
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posted December 15, 2003 06:37 AM
Otis, your thread made me feel better also. Compared to the spoiled brats that the family my friend worked for, you can see the difference! Still so tired that I did very little this weekend! (My Cousin got me some gel filled knee pads!
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Otis
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posted December 15, 2003 07:12 AM
I can see Vinnie. May God give me the strength and wisdom to do right by my employees.
GEL FILLED KNEE PADS! I'd have paid $100 for them after the first hour of tiling Sunday. LOL
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VincentHill
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posted December 15, 2003 11:44 AM
Bad knees runs in my family! After my cousin saw me at Maxton on my dense foam kneeling pad, he got them for me! I even found out that his dad went down the stairs Side ways, just like I do now! I asked about you age because if you were in your 50's, then the maturity is there, but not the energy level! At the age of 30, the energy level is there, but not the Maturity! About 40 is right for this to fall on you and at 36, just about perfect! Otis, the fact that this even worried you makes me believe that you will do OK! Only a fool would walk into this saying I can handle this! In about a year, you will have it in stride and just realize that you now must play safer!
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted December 15, 2003 12:17 PM
hey Chris, try this out....Trackday on Friday...I got a bike you can ride.....Track day on January 4th as well......we still have openings for the 19th of December....back in time for the guy in the red suit......think about it...all ya got to do is load your gear and drive the car down....let me know, I know its short notice, but the offer is on the table ......OH yeah its 60 and sunny here right now....lol
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