tk2kewl
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Tue Aug-23-05 12:38 PM
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I wish I had time to ride a god damned bike! |
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1½ hours of commuting each way to work ...
8+ hours of work ...
and working every weekend renovating an old house.
I've only had about 3 days for recreation all summer, never mind 3 hours a day for bike rides! :grr:
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patrice
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Tue Aug-23-05 12:40 PM
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I'm one to talk; my bike sits in the garage as I run errands . . . ???
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Tue Aug-23-05 12:43 PM
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Tue Aug-23-05 12:54 PM
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3. I'm gonna say something that you might not like.... |
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Edited on Tue Aug-23-05 12:56 PM by mike_c
But really-- is that the life you want to lead? Even asking the question sounds like a segue into a platitude, but I think it's a legitimate one. When you're old, will you look back and say that you're happy with that life? If so, then great. But if not-- and I hear some frustration and dissatisfaction in your post-- how about changing it while you can, because once you've lived your life you're stuck with whatever choices you made.
If *I* were living the life you describe, I'd be doing everything in my power to change it. I once did live similarly, and I did change it. You can too, if you want to. At one time I drove an hour and a half to work each way, worked 8-10 hours as a cog in someone else's wheel, and was always too exhausted to have a life in the small amount of free time that was left. Now I live in a beautiful rural area, ride my bike to work for 45 minutes each way because that's what I WANT to do, and get fresh air, exercise, and stress relief, and love most-- not all-- aspects of my job. I changed professions completely.
The tipping point for me was the realization that I was a wage slave-- that the only thing I had of real value to sell in a market economy was my time, and that the time I sold was absolutely irreplaceable. And it's a buyer's market. My skills were only useful because I sold my time-- that's what my employer was buying. That hasn't changed of course-- I still work for someone else so I'm still selling time-- but now I sell it on much better terms because I like the way I spend it.
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tk2kewl
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:08 PM
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4. My wife isn't too keen on the idea of moving out of the NYC area |
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I have pretty much lived within 15 miles of manhattan for half of my adult life, and the other half I lived on the east end of LI and had a 15 min commute. Needless to say I had quite a bit more time to enjoy recreational activities then.
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:33 PM
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10. Yeah, you don't want to die before you've actually lived. |
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:10 PM
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5. the renovation will be over sometime. |
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however, it may very well ruin your marriage before it's done. it's happened before.... :scared:
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tk2kewl
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:11 PM
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6. thankfully this a house in which i used to live. |
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the house we now live in is done and we are trying to get the old one ready for the market.
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:25 PM
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7. And that's taking you all summer? |
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Good gad, what did you do?
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:32 PM
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8. it is about 60 miles away, for one |
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so since it takes an hour to get there I can only work on it over the weekend. It has so far had:
- about 60 yards of brush and trees cleared
- new roof
- new ceilings upstairs due to leaky roof
- new windows
- new decking for front porch
- new driveway
- exterior completely painted
- interior completely painted
- leaky plumbing repaired
and it still needs:
- carpet upstairs
- minor bathroom tile re-grouting
- serious cleaning
- basement door
- grading and grass seed
but we are getting close
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Tue Aug-23-05 01:33 PM
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9. Damn, that's a lot of work! |
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