Hey, @themanwithnoname. I'm afraid enjoying and garden don't necessarily go together when it comes to me. I was with family for a good part of it, which is great for that, not so great for commenting numbers. It didn't seem like there was very much going on here towards the end of the week and I just couldn't find the desire to push through it this time. Hope that's not the start of a trend. :)
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I get what you mean. Sometimes I really enjoy gardening, and other times it seems like a chore. It's too bad that it's not like computer games where you could make the plants grow faster by clicking or something. ;)
At least you got to spend more time with your family. That's what this is really about, right?!
I understand that feeling. I wouldn't worry about it. It's ok to have your time here wax and wane. It's natural. I wouldn't worry about it becoming a trend unless you're not able to get back into it... in which case, you're probably due for a break and can use that time to recharge, then come back and be enthused about getting back at it!
It would be about family if I were doing things I wanted to do as opposed to things I don't. Like yard work. :) Or fixing things that shouldn't be broken in the first place that take me hours because I have to figure it out as I go.
The only thing I got to do with family this week that I wanted to do is watch Infinity War, and even that had a rocky start because my wife had her phone on and got a couple of text messages for the first five to ten minutes of the movie that she wouldn't let go (they were NOT emergent). In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal, but I'd been waiting five weeks to see the movie and then something impromptu steals her attention and thus mine. SIGH.
I had a hard time last week finding the reason to do extra. I don't feel like it was burn out. Things were fairly the same here, just that people always seem to disappear when I'm trying to engage with them. But my wife wants me to give up doing this all the time and find work that will bring money in immediately. You and I have talked about this before. So we're working at cross purposes right now and that got to me more than usual last week, too. As I said somewhere else, it was pretty much the perfect storm. :)
So apparently it wasn't about enjoying time with family. That's too bad. Yeah, that yard work can get you. And I understand your frustration with things being broken that shouldn't be broken. I've always been the kind of guy who figured things out as I went too. I sharpened the blade on my mom's lawnmower for her and she was shocked that I knew how to do it. I have been doing that for years. I just figured out how to take the blade off and then filed it. Not that hard, you just have to be willing to try.
I'm sorry the movie didn't go as smoothly as you had hoped. May I suggest that next time you take some rotting tomatoes and cabbages with you and subtly distribute them to the people around you so they can pelt her with the vegetables for being on her phone in the movie? :D Ha ha. Seriously though, that's frustrating. I hope it was a great experience after that!
One of the more difficult things about the platform is there really isn't a chat function. The site isn't conducive to carrying on a conversation well. It would be nice if they allowed you to carry on side conversations related to the prompts (posts). Then you could do it more in a chat format which would allow the conversation to go further.
My wife and I were talking about finances last night, so I'm with you there. It's tough when you're on different pages. I could see Steem going somewhere, but I also understand the need to have money coming in now. It's difficult to know which way is going to be best in the long-term (assuming that it's sustainable in the short-term as well).
I could go for mental pelting. Something I could laugh at in my mind and not have to suffer the consequences later. A scenario only in my head where she would actually learn from the experience and actually appreciate me for it, rather than storm out of the theater and make me go after her, thus missing the rest of the movie.
My week with family wasn't all bad. I just never know what I'm getting into, really, because my wife doesn't really know what she's going to do before she does it, and so I spend way too much time doing things that I'm not prepared to do.
She wanted me hauling dead flowers she cut to the debris bin, which was fine, but after some of that, I spent the rest of the time fixing a part of the fence that's going to be replaced anyway. One of the horizontal brace boards shrunk and slipped a bracket.
Fortunately, we had a replacement board, but it was too long and for some unknown reason, the saw used to cut the same kind of board was set at a higher level than would cut the board (and for the life of me, I couldn't get it adjusted), so I had to turn the board over and cut through it too, and because that missed by a quarter of an inch, I had to break it and then try to shave off the rest by hand.
Welcome to my world. :)
Of course mental. I wouldn't advocate for you actually having people assault your wife with rotting vegetables. What am I, a madman? No, really, am I a madman? Just kidding.
You wouldn't want to miss the rest of the movie, but if she's going to storm out and make you chase her, have her do it within the first 30 minutes so you can get your money back.
I know what you mean about not knowing what you're getting into. I offered to help my mother with a small project and it escalated into a bunch of things. It's the way it goes though and I'm glad I was able to help her.
That sounds really frustrating. There's not much you can do if it shrunk out of the bracket. At least you had the spare board, but when the saw won't cut, you're in for a long day... and a lot of muttering under your breath. I know that feeling. Ha ha!
I'm sorry it happened to you, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has issues like that. Sometimes it seems like the dominoes just keep falling... and they're all bad. The good news is that eventually you run out of dominoes and you can get back to life. Or something like that.
It's the old misery loves company scenario I'm pretty sure. In my case, though, dominoes falling is a good thing. I can never get the first one pushed over because it's the largest and thus the hardest.
We've had a couple of the brace boards (whatever they're called) shrink on us. There was another section of fence that was fixed towards the beginning of the year that eventually needs to be replaced. So, anyway. I might get a new saw out of the deal if I can't figure out how to adjust the blade height.
Okay, so, we're all good. No madmen here on either end of this conversation. Just two souls trying to look out for one another however we can. :)
Isn't that weird that when you're trying to get good dominoes to fall, it's a monumental task, but when you're just going about your life, bad dominoes start falling like... well, like dominoes? :P
There's got to be a way to adjust the blade height. Unless you want a new saw in which case, yeah, I looked at it and that sucker is broken! ;)
At least we've got someone looking out, even if that person is just a crazy. Ha ha.