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Too many toys
At some point, you exceed the optimum number of "toys" so that your
ability to maintain them begins to exceed your time to use them. I believe this has happed to me. With two small homebuilt sailboats and a 28' S2 sailboat, a homebuilt dinghy, a 20' Tolman Skiff (homeebuilt) and a canoe, a 100 yr old log cabin in Wyoming that needs rebuilding, an old Nissan truck with 309,000 miles on it that I love and a need to maintain camping and caving equipment (did I mention a 20 yr old Dodge Ram I inherited), I have no time to use any of it. Yesterday, we wanted to go sailing but after I had de-fouled the prop by going overboard in the canal, the engine overheated. Dang, I knew I shoulda had the bottom painted thsi year (its been 4 years, a long time in N. FL.). Engine intake was clogged with fouling and I couldnt find a piece of stiff wire long enough to run through the intake from inside (I wasnt going back in that nasty water again). So, sometime this week, I gotta take time offa work and go to the coast and do this, oughta replace the impeller at same time, scrape barnacles too. My prop is just about shot from corrosion and dings so I'll haveta sail her about 40 miles sometime in early Oct to have her hauled, prop replaced, I will paint the bottom, and replace cutless bearing. Somehow this week, I gotta set up caving gear for 5 people cuz my 20 yr old daughter has decided she wants to take her new BF on a caving trip (gotta take the younger kids too). Somehow, I think that I can do all of this if I optimally use each evening and weekend to do stuff but something has to give. Money has not been an issue because I do all the work myself cuz I dont like the work anybody esle does and I have built 4 of my boats and my truck was paid off 16 yrs ago. What should I give up to make room for doing stuff? OH, I have this notion of building a kayak for my 11 yr old daughter cuz she likes kayaks............ |
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