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<blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 4083309" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>Only a couple of projects? You were obviously mis-diagnosed. <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /> When we were first evaluating my son, back in 1994 or 95, I gave the developmental pediatrician a ride in my van to get from her office to a meeting she needed to attend, after spending extra time with my son. Took one look in the back of the van (which was my vehicle, SWMBO had one of her own) and said: Aha! Obviously an adult with Attention Deficit Disorder. I have, at any given time, as many as 1000, and no, I didn't at any extra zeros. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> I've mentioned here the various machine tools. That has been the longest running "hobby." Took the first class in 1973, 2nd in 2015-2022. Been collecting machine tools since I got the first, (harbor freight mini-lathe) in 2008. Traded it off for a couple of Unimat late in 2021, but have 6 restoration project machines besides the Unimats sitting here right now. Stripped the carpeting out of the house years ago, still haven't finished redoing the floors. Bathrooms, kitchen and dining room floors got tiled, but we don't like them. Gonna have to strip that up and re-do one of these years. At least 5 project rifles. Only one project pistol at the moment, but that's only because I haven't been able to find blueprints for a C-96 Mauser. Still need to put the other brake caliper in my pickup. The rear camera in the wheelchair lift van. Security cameras on the front of the house. My workshop, which is most of those 1000 project all by itself! Tried to learn to paint in oils, acrylics, and water colors. Tried to learn how to write computer programs. Did OK at hacking other folks programs to my specific needs, once upon a time. Put myself online with a 300baud modem and a Heath H-89 computer (FIL built it, not me) and a Turbo Pascal terminal program on GEnie, back in the BBS days. Built my first computer in late 1978 or early 1979, from Radio Electronics magazine. The COSMAC Elf. Also smoked it the first time I powered it up. Pro-tip for building wire-wrapped computers. NEVER try to do it with only one color of wire. <img src="/images/smilies/new/cry3.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":cry3:" title="Cry3 :cry3:" data-shortname=":cry3:" />I'm still building and modifying computers these days. Haven't smoked one in quite a while now. <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-shortname=";)" /> MIGHT have something to do with switching to PC compatibles long ago. </p><p></p><p>Animals. For a while, I had a sidewinder in a terrarium in the garage. Dogs and cats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, 1 steer, horses and ponies, most of them shared with my dad. He also had homing pigeons, parakeets, and ground squirrels. A rat. Seriously considered a ferret or two. <img src="/images/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> Tropical fish, of course. Have considered getting some city chickens here. Tried to garden, discovered I have a black thumb. Unless it's a weed, if I touch it with my bare hands, it dies. The weeds thrive pretty good here, though. Youngest child has been including Lamb's Quarter in our salads lately, grown in our backyard. I'm trying not to touch them. Sculpture, wood carving, whittling, knife making. I'm not good at any of it. My poor dog needs a good brushing. Fortunately, he still loves me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillM, post: 4083309, member: 45785"] Only a couple of projects? You were obviously mis-diagnosed. ;) When we were first evaluating my son, back in 1994 or 95, I gave the developmental pediatrician a ride in my van to get from her office to a meeting she needed to attend, after spending extra time with my son. Took one look in the back of the van (which was my vehicle, SWMBO had one of her own) and said: Aha! Obviously an adult with Attention Deficit Disorder. I have, at any given time, as many as 1000, and no, I didn't at any extra zeros. :) I've mentioned here the various machine tools. That has been the longest running "hobby." Took the first class in 1973, 2nd in 2015-2022. Been collecting machine tools since I got the first, (harbor freight mini-lathe) in 2008. Traded it off for a couple of Unimat late in 2021, but have 6 restoration project machines besides the Unimats sitting here right now. Stripped the carpeting out of the house years ago, still haven't finished redoing the floors. Bathrooms, kitchen and dining room floors got tiled, but we don't like them. Gonna have to strip that up and re-do one of these years. At least 5 project rifles. Only one project pistol at the moment, but that's only because I haven't been able to find blueprints for a C-96 Mauser. Still need to put the other brake caliper in my pickup. The rear camera in the wheelchair lift van. Security cameras on the front of the house. My workshop, which is most of those 1000 project all by itself! Tried to learn to paint in oils, acrylics, and water colors. Tried to learn how to write computer programs. Did OK at hacking other folks programs to my specific needs, once upon a time. Put myself online with a 300baud modem and a Heath H-89 computer (FIL built it, not me) and a Turbo Pascal terminal program on GEnie, back in the BBS days. Built my first computer in late 1978 or early 1979, from Radio Electronics magazine. The COSMAC Elf. Also smoked it the first time I powered it up. Pro-tip for building wire-wrapped computers. NEVER try to do it with only one color of wire. :cry3:I'm still building and modifying computers these days. Haven't smoked one in quite a while now. ;) MIGHT have something to do with switching to PC compatibles long ago. Animals. For a while, I had a sidewinder in a terrarium in the garage. Dogs and cats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, pigs, 1 steer, horses and ponies, most of them shared with my dad. He also had homing pigeons, parakeets, and ground squirrels. A rat. Seriously considered a ferret or two. :) Tropical fish, of course. Have considered getting some city chickens here. Tried to garden, discovered I have a black thumb. Unless it's a weed, if I touch it with my bare hands, it dies. The weeds thrive pretty good here, though. Youngest child has been including Lamb's Quarter in our salads lately, grown in our backyard. I'm trying not to touch them. Sculpture, wood carving, whittling, knife making. I'm not good at any of it. My poor dog needs a good brushing. Fortunately, he still loves me. [/QUOTE]
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