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What can I say? Some of us are made for honest (== hot, sweaty, dirty, outside) work, and some aren't 
Small jobs (e.g. filling in some cracks, painting a wall) I do myself. Anything to do with electricity or water is done by professionals. Wallpapering is right at the limit of my abilities, so I'd hire someone to do the job. Life is too short to live with minor aggravations like crooked wallpaper etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Some of us are made for honest (== hot, sweaty, dirty, outside) work, and some aren't
I do lots of dishonest work.
Like groceries, they're all like "this is a good time to come and get us!" and then it's all busy at the store or it starts raining.
Or starting the dishwasher, which is all like "I need some brightener!" and then I get the brightener, but it's actually near full.
And of course coding, and the code is looking compilable, but then I get all kinds of compile errors.
Or worse, the compiler works and tells me the software is good to go, but when I run it I get runtime errors.
Dishonest work, all of it!
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Whenever I would go into a neighborhood to work 2 things would happen within a day or two; 1. The sound of men in the area using power tools and the resulting dirty looks I got from them, 2. Women asking me how much I would charge to do such and such that they've been trying to get their husbands to do forever.
Got a lot of work that way.
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I feel your pain - my mother moved into an old folks bungalow after hes cancer diagnosis, and some f*ckw*t had Artexed the Elephanting walls. Guess who got to remove that lot?
The final method was an industrial steamer rental, and a quick lesson in plastering ... followed by getting someone else to do the papering.
Artex should be governed by the Geneva Convention...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I hope you kept in mind that old Artex could contain asbestos.
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Artex is truly awful, it'a bastard to put on even worse to get off and looks f*****g horrible
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Good luck!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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OK, you got me! Your weekend sounds a lot worse! 
Hope it gets better for you! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: OK, you got me! Your weekend sounds a lot worse!
Life is a competition and I must win. LOL 
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Why are you heartbroken? Your average CP article rating is 4.85 - that's no small feat. Plus, you're clearly smart and capable of carrying on without your boyfriend. If he asked you not to talk to him anymore, he's clearly not worth talking to! Get well, get your attendance back up, write more articles and have an awesome life! Don't let small people make a big difference in your life!
/ravi
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Now you're discriminating the little people !
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Randy Newman wrote a song about that.
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Love that song, have it in my MP3 collection
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Small-minded people, not little people. I love little people. A lot. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Don't let small people make a big difference in your life!
LOL. He was the one introducing Code Project to me. (I hope he's not reading this right now) 
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Even better.
/ravi
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Many young men find intelligent and competent young women intimidating. The only advice I will give you is not to compromise; somewhere out there is someone who can appreciate you for what you are, rather than what he'd like you to be.
As for the rest (sickness, rain, stairs, squash, studies), that's just life - some days you get honey, other days you get onions. The important thing is not to let it depress you.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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MehreenTahir wrote: my boyfriend asked me not to talk to him anymore
For this blessing: rejoice !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I feel your pain. I am sitting here, on my computer, while working on my wife's computer. It pulled a MEMORY MANAGEMENT Blue Screen of Death. The house is not air conditioned and it is 10F degrees warmer and much dryer than normal for late September. Rain would be appreciated – my pastures are starting to brown from lack of rain. My wife and both children (all three are college students!) are studying for an exam tomorrow, leaving me to do all of the daily chores – both the household chores and the ranch chores.
Feeling ill just makes everything worse for you. But it could be much worse. From your use of words, I would assume that you are at least 40 years younger than I – Yep, I am a "retired" senior citizen.
The good news is that boyfriends and girlfriends are replaceable. I know, at first, it hurts. Better to find out about potential relationship problems before marriage. If you cannot work them out, you can both walk away. After marriage, it is significantly more difficult and much more painful.
If you want to talk, email me directly. I usually can write back late at night or shortly after midnight US Central Time.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 29-Sep-19 14:11pm.
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I see this as more an intra-family conflict, rather than a "life-work" conflict ... of course, that does not mean it's any less troubling for you.
imho, your reasons for not following demands you had no input into are solid, and you have every right to say to anyone who has problems with your necessary work-related choices ... whatever you want to say.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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kmoorevs wrote: OK, that's a pretty good start for arguments!
You mentioned the word "wife" in your post, so I presume you know that even with the best arguments you are going to be wrong in the end, don't you ?
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kmoorevs wrote: The second one (in just over a month) interferes with a long planned rival college football game and weekend visit with my brother-in-law and wife. Strike two!
What teams?
My Saturday was alright but Sunday was much different.
I'd been running fevers and had random sweating all week (hair wringing wet sweats) so the Mrs told me I looked to ill to go to church. She went and while she was gone I went to hang my pants back up. Reached down to the bed to grab them and the back seized up. It's happened before and I've just had to move slowly and be careful for a couple of days. This time though, I laid down and an hour later when I tried to get up, it was pain just short of kidney stone pain*. Took me 20 minutes to figure out a way to get to a standing position, the sweat this time was from pain. When she got home, we went to the Emergency Room and got to be there for 6 hours. Feel a lot better today, morphine was my friend.
*I was delirious with a kidney stone, was able to keep hold mentally this time.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: What teams?
FL State and Miami. My wife almost graduated from FL State. I'm only guilty by association. The in-laws are Miami fans, not because they ever went to school there, only 'cause the lived there.
Personally, I don't give a hoot about sports other than golf...and even that's a waning interest.
Sorry to hear about your godawful Sunday!  Get better!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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