I am less productive in the woodshop since joining LJ's

Frank;

I think you maybe on to something here!

I’ll bet you’ll find a large amount of us suffer the same affliction.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

I’ve been slacking both in the workshop and in LJ’s lately.

It’s just been too doggone hot to get excited about working in my un-air-conditioned shop, and I’ve been too busy at work to keep up with ll the posts here as much as I’d like.

At least I’ve got two “commissions” to get to work on….. The wife wants a pair of Adirondacks, and mom has her order in for a sofa table. Now if only these were paying jobs… <g>

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Frank,
I too suffer from your ailment. I haven’t done too much in the shop lately, but I have all kinds of ideas running through my head. Cutting boards I never would have made, but after LJ’s it is time to do one for myself using multiple woods and multiple angles like GaryK's. Any box I made in the past I made simple rabbit joints, but now I am working with a back saw and trying my hand at hand cut dove tails.

While not do as much, I find that I am doing more by doing less.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

I’ve been having less and less sleep with more and more dreams of working in workshop for 2 consequetive weeks. LOL.

-- Regards, Woodworm

Hey kicking the L.J. addiction is REAL easy! Just have a real old computer and then install firefox. You then have nothing to worry about! I even had a computer guy out here just this morning cause I miss L.J.’s but I cannot navigate here at all anymore unless I go to my personal blog and hit on the L.J. widget. And that’s it!!! Trust me when I say HANG ON TO YOUR ADDICTION!!!
It is the best you can have. I cannot wait to get a new computer so I can get hooked again!!!
PEACE!!!

-- Allison, Northeastern Ca. Remember, Amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic!

Frank don,t feel bad some guys live on here .

-- John in Cranbrook http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

Join the club!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Spend a couple hours a day here…...when I should be doing more in the shop.

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

yup, me too. If you find a cure, look me up.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Fortunately my job means 8 hours out of 10 are spent in front of the computer, so I can just leave a browser open and hit refresh every 15 minutes or so…

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

LJ’s, it’s not just a job, it’s an addiction.

For me, everything is cyclical. I’ll spend a ton of time in here, then in the shop or elsewhere. Everything happens in spurts – this summer it’s been a lot of yard work and gardening. The past couple weeks have been a challenge, so much rain I’ve had to switch gears every couple of hours… I’m already pining for the fall when I can dissapear back downstairs, rather than dissapear down back building retaining walls – much better on the back!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I might have to go for rehab, because of LUMBERJOCKS.<;O)

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

i am also addicted, and i love it. my shop is down right now do to a huge flood in it, so it may be a little while before i get back in, so i will be on here alot.

-- Roper - master of sawdust-

Its been real busy here in Brandon, I’ve actually completed a project (almost a week ago now) and will post it once I get enough time at home; we’ve been camping and holidaying the last two weeks so I been suffering severe LJ withdrawal…fortuneatly the last couple of days I’ve been back close to the net and can read about what everyone is doing. I think reading LJs has made me more productive (less time in the shop though) in the shop as I do things better and more effectively. I’ve actually tackled stuff that was beyond me before I started reading here.

Jenn has me building a fence this weekend so I may start the whole withdrawal thing again :-(

-- ....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

Hey computer game genius out there..can’t you create PC games for woodworkers? Something like XBOX soccer game, strategic warcraft likes the rise of Empire II, but players are equiped with TS, BS, SOS, RT, DP…
etc instead, where they can select lumbers, planks, or turning blanks to work with to make boxes, jigs, table, adirondecks. birdhouses bla bla bla…..in real woodworking enviroment.
Then LJs members may be able to switch from working with wood and visiting LJs in just a second.
LOL…

-- Regards, Woodworm

the following is just for a smile and is not intended to offend anyone who thanks the 12-step program for giving them their life back or anyone who thinks the program is a lot of hoo-ey)

• admit that you cannot control your addiction or compulsion, (so enjoy LJ every day)
• recognize that there is a greater power (than 110)
• examine past errors with the help of a sponsor (another LJ addict, that is)
• make amends for these errors; (remember that errors are just creative opportunities)
• learn to live a new life with a new code of behavior (find a balance of life off the computer and life at LJ )
• helping others that suffer from the same addictions or compulsions. (by acknowledging the addiction)

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

We should start a L.A’s, or L.U’s.

Lumberjocks Anonymous, or Lumberjocks Unanimous!

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

I got it, how about a Celebrity Rehab for LJ WoodWorkers overlooking a beach somewhere,no computers, and you have to spend 30 days with Maloof, Molesworth, Marks, etc…and you can not check out till you master one of their pieces but you have to put your own twist on it in your own style :) hehe Ok, get back to work now…

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

Just quit … I did . did . did. did . did . did …................

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke".

haha reminds me of someone who said he was turning off the computer and going back to the shop and then posted oh… several different messages in the following half hour… yah, ... good intentions!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Deb: ironically the Sarah Connor thing is on the boob tube tonight, where computers take over and have a mind of their own:) hehe…mebe that was what happened…. :)

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

SDnS,

I like the whole 30 days on a beach with the masters thing… I could go for that. Since Martin created the site, I vote he pays for it…. lol. (I’m sure he won’t agree, but it’s worth a shot…)

(and let’s make it Greece or something… )

—Steve

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

celebrity rehab – sign me up for season one! I don’t care if it gets filmed or runs on TV, I just wanna build furniture and stuff on the beach! If we can go a week without logging in, Festool Dominoes all around, Two weeks, we get a Saw Stop, week three, a full set of planes, rasps and rifflers…. and at the end of the month we’ve got enough toys and mad skills to keep us in the shop (or on the beach!)

Sponsors? Anyone?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Scott, can you imagine how awesome that beach would be at the end of a month with a bunch of LJ’s on the loose! Imagine the projects we could post once we logged back on!

Count me in!

-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA

OK….This thread is taking a free-form LIFE all on it’s own…and I like it and I agree…with Steve, Scott, Itsme and all ya’ll…why not take LJ’s to the next level? A new reality series…Where LJ’s come out of CyberSpace for a spell…Funding? Well that would be nice but we could earn it, we could silent/auction off what we do after the show to the highest bidder or not…Just a Thought…..But a (beacHING) good one :)

Be Well…and I am repeating Scott..

Sponsors? Anyone?

So forget Rehab, the new topic is “What would you title a new LJ’s Reality Series”???

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

maybe Martin posted those pictures about his home town so we’d all get to love it .. and be willing to go their for our “therapy”

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I was goin to check myself in, but I can’t get any woodwork done if I am in a straight jacket

-- making sawdust....

Ask me why I took the computer out of the shop…

-- - Real men read directions

ok.. “why did you take the computer out of the shop?” haha

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Taking my computer out to my shop would work great for me,

because it might get lost with the all of the other tools I can’t find.<;O)

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

we’d miss you, Dick! Don’t go losing your computer.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

So I can work more wood! <g>

-- - Real men read directions

I like to think I’m not addicted, spend time on a motorcycle, just getting back to LJ’s. (Sounds like Denial to me…
ME Too!!!) Well it’s unanimous!! both agree I’m addicted. Pretzel

-- Pretzel L8agn

Aw man! This is another addiction?! Knew I was enjoying it too much! Sheesh, and I haven’t even got rid of the old addictions yet!

-- I'm a wood magician... I can turn fine lumber into firewood before your very eyes! - http://www.woodworkersguide.com

Aw man…I feel myself backsliding again…better call my sponsor….. :)

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

...when they pull my cold dead fingers from around this mouse…

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

dennis… LOL

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

I tried taking the laptop out to the garage to listen to an online radio station and ended up getting saw dust in all my ports and didn’t get a thing done.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

What about an old aged home for retired LJ’s. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

can i just say why look at LJs as a addiction but as a way of life this is the best woodworking site out there

-- cut it saw it scrap it