I am NOT addicted.... uh uh !!

My name is David and I AM addicted! I even brought some woodwork with me on holiday (more on that later) and I have been checking in LJ a couple (OK more than a couple) of times a day – just to see what is new.

And we all do know about MS Debbie! LOL Not addicted? Our Life Guide, Intrepid Traveler and blossoming woodworker? No, clearly not addicted!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

I was looking at a storage room in my office and deciding if I could fit a lathe in it. I’m currently designing my tool cabinet that sits above my bench to house the iMac I bought for the shop…slid out keyboard, dust contaiment with the computer as a centrepiece of the cabinet. But I’m not addicted at all. Nope… 1113 posts in 52 days.

I am Spid-Ato Man!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

lol David… you are just impassioned!
We need MORE people on this planet who are passionate about their work/hobbies.
and Spid-ato Man?? Efficient!
You could teach a few people about time management!

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

My name is Erik and I’m a Lumberjockaholic. I’ve been intoxicated with sawdust and tools now for 2200 days and I’ve just been informed that my affliction is terminal…THERE IS NO CURE for Lumberjocks or woodworking.

-- Erik garagewoodworker.blogspot.com

Me, addicted to another damn thing? I am sitting in my sister-in-law’s kitchen awaiting the wedding tomorrow and I have logged on three times today and thrice yesterday. My greatest hope would be that there are no twelve-step groups forming for this addiction.
http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Radish/blog

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Hi!
My name is Lee.
I have been addicted to woodworking, off and on, for 55 years.

I gave up alcohol in 1978.
I gave up cigarettes in 1984.

I hope to always remain addicted to wood, women (well, one woman) and song.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Can we have a moment of silence followed by the sound of screaming tablesaws.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

I love the smell of sawdust, and the clacking of my keyboard. But I can quit anytime. I just don’t want to!

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

Addicted…What! No, not me, nope, no, no, no. I don’t have a problem….I can quit anytime…anytime at all….watch I’ll take my hands off the mouse…...well just one finger won’t hurt…....Oh to heck with it….click…click…click, click, click. OH look! Someone just posted a new bubinga and zebrawood box!

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

I hear ya Bob. And it is pretty late where you are….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

LOL…yeah I should be sleeping….Got windows to install tomorrow and I want to do some work on my chair. But I don’t have an addiction….just sitting up with the rest of the house asleep…..working on my CRT tan, bleary eyed but still clicking away. I’d go out to my shop but I’d probably cut myself.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

I know it now…it 2 AM, I can’t sleep, and what do I do, I log on. Yes, I’m an LJ Junkie. I heard once that the first step to healing is admitting you have a problem, but there lies the problem, I don’t have a problem, no problem at all… Its not a problem…(nervious twitch)....no..not a problem.(beads of sweat froming on my forhead) Even if I did have a problem, which I don’t have, it wouldn’t be a problem, would it?

Boy, I realllly need to get back in the shop!

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

CRT tan, too funny, Bob!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Sawdust… I had to share that one with Rick .. made me laugh right out loud.
the CRT tan also made me laugh loudly.
Rick’s thinking that I didn’t get enough sleep last night. And, no, I wasn’t on the computer!!

Here is my 12-step CHAT-aholic program that I developed many years ago (ok.. many, many years ago, now). Perhaps it will help someone here that DOES have a problem—which isn’t me. I’m not addicted, I’m exercising my brain…

12 Step Chat-aholic Program

1. Admit that you are addicted to Chat.
2. Chat with someone about it.
3. Acknowledge that there is a Higher Power.
4. Thank the Higher Power for Chat.

o.k. so it is not a 12-step program…....
but the 4-steps works for me !

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

O-I-C-U-R-1-2.
Seems there are a fair proportion of folks here who have substituted woodworking for other, well, less productive addictive pursuits. Good for us!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

i am addicted if im not in the shop wood working im on here readying about woodworking omg do they have AA for woodworkers

lmao

-- I buy tools so i can make more money,so ican buy more tools so I can work more, to make more money, so I can buy more tool, so I can work more

I agree with Dennis, and scottb, and…dare I say…MsDebbieP…

Just not enough hours in a given day.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

New benchmark for woodworking addiction. Went to the wedding today, Hawaiian theme, outdoors. Trees which made the background to the vow-taking were box-elder. They had had a limb fall from the big trees several weeks ago. I managed to score two log sections of box-elder with the red stain running through the heartwood. Can’t even take time off from the wedding to look for new lumber!

Now I need to consult with you turners to figure out how to process the hunks so I can turn some bowls revealing the illusive vivid red streaks.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Sweet find Doug…I woulda grabbed it too. You certainly couldn’t have just walked away. Of course I don’t think I would have danced with it at the reception….:)

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

I only danced with it after I took my turn with my wife. Perhaps it’s my new indian (first nation to my canadian friends) name – “Dances With Logs”.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

lol…. “see??? I was at this wedding and….”
uh huh.. the history behind the wood :)
nah.. no addictions here.

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

LUMBERJOCKS (should that be Lumber-jokes?) ADDICTION SCALE

MsDebbieP 23.46
mot 20.83
WayneC 20.08
Don 8.39
David 6.78
Bob Babcock 6.10
dennis mitchelll 4.68
scottb 3.10
Douglas Bordner 1.93

Sorry, the rest of you don’t even rank on this scale.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

Karson is not on this list? LOL

I’m guessing this is posts per day of membership….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

The list only included people who had replied to Debbie’s addiction comments.

But here are a few more that don’t even know they are addicted.

Panama Jack 18.95
oscorner 9.32
Karson 8.06
Dick Kane 7.80
obi 7.35

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

They probably know, but are afraid to admit it….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

It would appear that the list is generated as a ratio of posts/days of membership. This doesn’t utilize any of the “sweaty-palm” indices of addiction: for example log-ons/day, time spent working up submissions prior to posting, number of postings one wishes to make/number of postings; visting The Wood Whisperer, Matt’s Basement Workshop, Woodtalk On-line or Furnitology Productions in lieu of logging on to LJ (attempting to “control” or moderate the addictive behavior).

What the heck, anything that doesn’t have me as a poster-child for LJ addiction or subject of one of the stories in the back of the Big Book of Lumberjock Addiction (”Modems, Morado and Marquetry”) is gravy as far as I’m concerned!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

lol
at least we are willing to talk about it—- very sad about those who are so oblivious to their state that they don’t even acknowledge that there even MIGHT be a problem…
yah… don’t worry about me….. THEY have a problem!!!

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

I am pretty sure i,m addicted to sawdust and screeching saws..

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

and birdhouses :)

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

I don’t, I don’t have a problem. When those you love, and love you in return are asking you to use your -non- addiction to help them. Then how can it be called bad.

But then again those who use drugs, have other druggies asking them for some.

So maybe it’s true.

Say it isn’t so. Say it isn’t so!

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

LOL! That’s too funny, Don!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

an addiction is normal behavior done in abnormal proportions, according to the DSM4. Diagnostic manual used by the (helping) professionals.

Now it apears that our behaviors are not done in excess as they apear to be the norm of those who (use) this site therefore they are NOT excessive.. they are the norm… Or am I just rationalizing….. Oh noooooo…

-- Hope Never fails

Isn’t our motto something like – I saw, therefore I am?

No, no problem here. Just over 1100 people with an attraction to wood is all. And computers, and blogging, and pictures, and typing, and….

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I am so glad that I am not the only addict!

having worked in mental health, I’m siding with Mario on this one…. the amount of time spent at LJ.com seems to be the norm here… So.. I’m not addicted. I’m normal!
:D

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

oh.. and I’m exercising my brain.

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

AND…
I can’t be addicted. I enjoyed my long weekend—and am now 7 pages of PULSE content behind!!! Again.

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