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randy(at)romeolima.com
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:15 pm Post subject: happy with Van's rant

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		   Hobby!  Hobby!  This is no d&^%^ Hobby!  This is life.  This is passion.

 This is what I live for, what I work for, what I gave up xes for!  Hobby?

 You nuts?



 Ok, I'm ok.  I'm calming down.  I'll go to the hanger tonight and hook

 myself up to the rivet gun.  Get another fix.


	


John, you've hit on one of my conundrums. My wife calls my involvement with 

RVs a "hobby" but that has always seemed an inadequate description that to 

me trivializes it a bit -- as we all know it is much more than that. 

Passion? Sure. Lifestyle? That too. In the end I have yet to come up with a 

word that I think adequately describes this avocation we are all so into. 

Anyone have a better way to describe it?



RV-10 list lurker,

Randy Lervold

www.rv-3.com

www.rv-8.com



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deej(at)deej.net
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Randy Lervold wrote:



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		   all so into. Anyone have a better way to describe it?


	


	Obsession?  Addiction?  



-Dj



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pitts_pilot(at)bellsouth.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Oh yeah!  ADDICTION!!!  I admit it.  I'm addicted.  There appears to be 

no relief ..... repeat offenders abound.

Linn

Randy Lervold wrote:

 	  Quote: 	

> Hobby!  Hobby!  This is no d&^%^ Hobby!  This is life.  This is passion.

> This is what I live for, what I work for, what I gave up xes for!  

> Hobby?

> You nuts?

>

> Ok, I'm ok.  I'm calming down.  I'll go to the hanger tonight and hook

> myself up to the rivet gun.  Get another fix.

 John, you've hit on one of my conundrums. My wife calls my involvement 

 with RVs a "hobby" but that has always seemed an inadequate 

 description that to me trivializes it a bit -- as we all know it is 

 much more than that. Passion? Sure. Lifestyle? That too. In the end I 

 have yet to come up with a word that I think adequately describes this 

 avocation we are all so into. Anyone have a better way to describe it?

 RV-10 list lurker,

 Randy Lervold

 www.rv-3.com

 www.rv-8.com

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DAVELEIKAM(at)wi.rr.com
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: happy with Van's rant

It's a need.

  

 Dave Leikam

  

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Jack.Phillips(at)cardinal
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:24 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Addiction.  That pretty well sums it up.  When I finished my first

airplane, I expected that would be the last one I would ever build, but

after a year I found I missed having an airplane project in the

basement.  I'm much happier now, with something to look forward to when

I get home beside dinner and TV



Jack Phillips

#40610

Riveting the elevators



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LloydDR(at)wernerco.com
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

You know you are addicted when you call in sick to final sand your fuse

for paint, and then you start skipping meals to get things final

mounted, then you start not sleeping because you are out in the garage

just doing that one last step so you can quit for the night, but that

step leads to ten more....shoot, why am I on the computer when I could

be out there fitting wheel pants? 

My wife is so used to hearing I will be right there, and me showing up

two hours later, she now calls me on my cell phone out in the garage to

tell me it is time to turn off the compressor and go to bed. She is

threatening to put the circuit breakers for the garage on a timer and I

can earn my time in the garage by doing work around the house, I told

her I would hire her a handy man as I was too busy to discuss house

work. I say this tongue in cheek, because those of you that have met my

wife know she gave up her manicure because she could not put in the

rivets fast enough and she has taken to calling herself "Rosie"



Now I will share the ultimate sign of a spouse addiction to plane

building, everyone has seen the new tattoo's the women are getting on

their lower back, right above their butts? Well my wife asked the other

night if she should get a N289DT tattoo in that location, and being a

dunce I did not get it until she explained it, her tail number, get it?

I was drinking a coke at the time, and it was not a pretty sight, we

laughed all night on that one!



Dan

N289DT on the plane and the wife!



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indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Insanity, perhaps too much to give up for the end product. Even if the joy 

is in the journey.



But then why do I think about the Rotoway helicopter, or a Supercub clone or 

making a new composite sailplane from scratch.



It all come down to a shortage of something we all face...TIME.



It's a battle.



JOhn G.

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		  From: Dj Merrill <deej(at)deej.net>

Reply-To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com

To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com

Subject: Re: Re: happy with Van's rant

Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:33:58 -0500






Randy Lervold wrote:



 > all so into. Anyone have a better way to describe it?



	Obsession?  Addiction?  



-Dj



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indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Daniel,



Sorry to say this, but you left yourself wide open. Don't forget where your 

hands should be, not just your aircraft's tail numbers.



Why just take a bite of the cake when you can have the whole thing and be 

better off for it.



Makes for a healthier relationship.



Ooops, I think I am straying into a branch of medicine which I am not 

licensed for...sorry!



I am only asking for pictures of your dual battery tray!



JOhn G.

[quote]From: "Lloyd, Daniel R." <LloydDR(at)wernerco.com>

Reply-To: rv10-list(at)matronics.com

To: <rv10-list(at)matronics.com>

Subject: RE: Re: happy with Van's rant

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:31:32 -0500






You know you are addicted when you call in sick to final sand your fuse

for paint, and then you start skipping meals to get things final

mounted, then you start not sleeping because you are out in the garage

just doing that one last step so you can quit for the night, but that

step leads to ten more....shoot, why am I on the computer when I could

be out there fitting wheel pants?

My wife is so used to hearing I will be right there, and me showing up

two hours later, she now calls me on my cell phone out in the garage to

tell me it is time to turn off the compressor and go to bed. She is

threatening to put the circuit breakers for the garage on a timer and I

can earn my time in the garage by doing work around the house, I told

her I would hire her a handy man as I was too busy to discuss house

work. I say this tongue in cheek, because those of you that have met my

wife know she gave up her manicure because she could not put in the

rivets fast enough and she has taken to calling herself "Rosie"



Now I will share the ultimate sign of a spouse addiction to plane

building, everyone has seen the new tattoo's the women are getting on

their lower back, right above their butts? Well my wife asked the other

night if she should get a N289DT tattoo in that location, and being a

dunce I did not get it until she explained it, her tail number, get it?

I was drinking a coke at the time, and it was not a pretty sight, we

laughed all night on that one!



Dan

N289DT on the plane and the wife!



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LloydDR(at)wernerco.com
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

THX for reminding me, I will call the welder on the way home and pick it

up, shoot some pics for you. He called me last week and I forgot to go

get it. I am in the last class of my MIS degree, so the next 25 days are

the long ones.

Dan 

N289DT

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LloydDR(at)wernerco.com
Guest

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: happy with Van's rant

Sorry to all this was supposed to be back to just John, please just

click delete.

Dan 



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