The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: drunkatuw on August 10, 2005, 10:20:59 am
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Looks like I won't be needing to borrow any of my dad's tools for my next cabinet. I registered for lots of tools and surprisingly, I got almost all of them. Now it's time to use these tools and put up some drywall in the basement and turn it into my home theater.
New tools include:
Mitre saw (w/laser)
Dremel
Belt sander (got 2, need to return one)
2 19.2V cordless drills
socket set
wrenches
screwdrivers
jigsaw
circular saw (w/laser)
and some cheap sawhorses
Edit: I almost forgot, the most important tool for creating an arcade cabinet, a new router!
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Nice! There are other benefits that we won't discuss here. Use your imagination. ;D
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Nice! There are other benefits that we won't discuss here. Use your imagination. ;D
Thats what I did before I got married, It doesn't work that way.
By the way Drunk@UW, nice score.
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Nice! There are other benefits that we won't discuss here. Use your imagination. ;D
I'm guessing you're not married, those benefits decrease exponentially after that ring is on the finger...
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I'm guessing you're not married, those benefits decrease exponentially after that ring is on the finger...
Amen. But its even less when they take the ring back off.
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I'm guessing you're not married, those benefits decrease exponentially after that ring is on the finger...
Amen. But its even less when they take the ring back off.
But atleast you are free to have those benefits with anyone of your choosing now!
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Thats where those tools will sit, new in the boxes, until the day she goes home to mother.
J/K ya. I'm married, and it's great. ;)
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That's teh only reason to get married IMO. We got enough cash after the wedding to put a very healthy down payment on a house.
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That's teh only reason to get married IMO. We got enough cash after the wedding to put a very healthy down payment on a house.
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We already got the house, but we got enough cash to pay for the honeymoon, some new living room furniture, and new blinds in the house. It's a real pain the butt to plan a wedding for almost 300 people, but you get lots of loot :)
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.It's a real pain the butt to plan a wedding for almost 300 people...
You're actually involved in that? I just let the wife & mother in law go crazy and tried to remember to say "yes dear" when prompted. Only thing I had to do was show up.
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.It's a real pain the butt to plan a wedding for almost 300 people...
You're actually involved in that? I just let the wife & mother in law go crazy and tried to remember to say "yes dear" when prompted. Only thing I had to do was show up.
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We were engaged for about a year and a half, she moved in with me (job transfer) 3 months before the wedding. The first 15 months while she still lived with her parent's was a piece of cake. Once she moved in, everyday after work I got bombarded with how much we have to do and how little time we have. I typically just sat next to her on the couch while she filled out spread sheets and figured out seating charts. I got the booze and DJ done months ago, so "my part" was techinically done, I just had to remind her that everything will get done and if it doesn't, big deal.
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Nice! There are other benefits that we won't discuss here. Use your imagination. ;D
I'm guessing you're not married, those benefits decrease exponentially after that ring is on the finger...
Not with me...One of my conditions, before I'll marry my lady...is there must be no change in the "frequency" and/or "enthusiasm" for said benefit. Think of it as a "nookie pre-nup." I'm out tha' door if anything changes, and she knows it! lol. She can have half of my sh!t...it ain't worth the cold showers. 8)
mrC
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Not with me...One of my conditions, before I'll marry my lady...is there must be no change in the "frequency" and/or "enthusiasm" for said benefit. Think of it as a "nookie pre-nup." I'm out tha' door if anything changes, and she knows it! lol. She can have half of my sh!t...it ain't worth the cold showers. 8)
mrC
Yeah, that'll work.
I'm happily married, and my wife and I don't take s*it from each other. I make decisions, buy stuff, etc. If she tells me no, I tell her tough. Same to me.
You, sir, are naive if you think that anything a woman agrees to before a marriage actually means anything to them after marriage.
BUT, this isn't a suprise to me, since I've read your political posts.
;D
Art
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I'm happily married, and my wife and I don't take s*it from each other. I make decisions, buy stuff, etc. If she tells me no, I tell her tough. Same to me.
You, sir, are naive if you think that anything a woman agrees to before a marriage actually means anything to them after marriage.
I guess I'm naive enough to have flourished in a 14 year relationship with her. I was mostly joking. Mostly. *tucks away phone number for "escort service"*
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Escort service? What's that?
There was a time in my life that I used to tear the "E" section of the phonebook in whatever hotel I was staying at. Saved a lot of $ later on in the night when I got back after a couple drinks.
I was young and stupid back then, not old and smart like I am now.
"I am so smart. S-M-R-T. I mean S-M-A-R-T!"
BTW, 14 year relationship? Are you shacking up? Neither of you wants to get married? That's nice.
Finally, nothing can ruin a good marriage like kids. ;D
Art
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BTW, 14 year relationship? Are you shacking up? Neither of you wants to get married? That's nice.
Finally, nothing can ruin a good marriage like kids. ;D
Art
We've always had this, "Marriage? Why ruin a good friendship" approach. There has been, up until this point, no real need to get married. We know we're not going anywhere without each other. I guess I've postponed it longer than she has, since I kinda' enjoy the "renegade" status it imbues us with amongst our aging friends. Most are married now, with kids, and even though I see how much they enjoy their families, they pine for the days when they could do pretty much what-ever-the hell they wanted. Like me. They'll be crushed when we get "hitched", as it will hasten the twilight of our already dwindling youth. lol. We're kinda' like the last ones still bucking the system...
Anyhow, we've lived together for about 7 years now, so we're basically married, just without the papers. We're both grew up under horribly destructive marriages, so the whole "institution" had kinda' soured for us (I didn't become a curmudgeon all on my own, ya know). Lately however, we've been thinking of making it legal anyhow, for the obvious financial/societal benefits.
Unlike the author of this topic, both our families are flat-broke so we ain't gettin' squat when we're married.
The "kids thing" is a whole 'nother issue. I love kids, but I'm not sure I want any. I certainly don't *need* any, so until a greater justification comes along...we'll be debating that one. I'm more prone to just adopting, since they're so many children without parents already...but she wants *my* baby. I am irresistible that way! :)
mrC
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I love my kids. Wouldn't send 'em back. Also wouldn't have anymore. ;)
But, my wife and I used to have SO much fun before they came around.
That can be surprising. You want MY baby? But, uh, why? What do you love me or something? ::)
Art
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Hey drunkatuw, since we're on the subject of marrage and I live in Madison too.
Can I borrow your circular saw? ;)
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Hey drunkatuw, since we're on the subject of marrage and I live in Madison too.
Can I borrow your circular saw? ;)
I really don't want my new saw to get dirty (unless it's saw dust) :)
Besides, I had to leave the great state of WI after graduation. So now I guess my name should be changed to drunk@home in MN.
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Oh, in that case it could be your farewell present to me. ;)
You know I'm joking right.
Unless you'll really give it to me.
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Here's a joke one of my friends told me...
What is the only food proven to lower a woman's sex drive?
........................wedding cake.
Back on topic.
My father inlaw uses me as an excuse to buy new tools for himself then he gives me his old ones.
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What is the only food proven to lower a woman's sex drive?
........................wedding cake.
Well that settles it....we're having pie!
Frickin' weddin' pie!
mrC
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doh, we not only had cake, I've had left over wedding cake the last 3 nights!
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doh, we not only had cake, I've had left over wedding cake the last 3 nights!
Then you better finish it quick so there's none left for her.
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You're actually involved in that? I just let the wife & mother in law go crazy and tried to remember to say "yes dear" when prompted. Only thing I had to do was show up.
That depends on your mother in law being a somewhat reasonable person. My mother in law went psychotically selfish, doing things ranging from cutting half my family off the guest list without telling anyone to demanding that her sons be my ushers to then demanding that only two of them be ushers, excluding the youngest, who is handicapped, because she did not want to be watched walking down the aisle with him. By the time the wedding took place, so much damage had been done to relations in her family and between hers and mine that my wife refused to get the wedding photos or video (that were paid for) and speaks of the wedding as if it were something best left forgotten.
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Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I get along fine with my mother-in-law and with most of the rest of my in-laws for that matter. It's my side of the family that drive us up the friggin' wall.
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I got the best in-laws........
They live overseas so I never gets to see them......... ;D
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Nice!
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Nice!
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I can imagine folded laundry.
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Funny thing is that I've now been married 2 weeks and absolutely nothing has changed. Granted after we go to the social security office today she'll be Mrs. Drunkat@UW, but otherwise, she still does my laundry, still cooks me dinner, and still nags me about cleaning the house every day.
Although I'm sure you guys/girls which have been married much longer will tell me how things change with time :)
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Funny thing is that I've now been married 2 weeks and absolutely nothing has changed.
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As the years go by, you actually voluntarily forfeit them. It's a slowly eroding line of what you are satisfied with because so much less is offered that if you don't lower your standards you will notice just how much less life there is anymore.
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Oh don't listen to those old grumps. ;)
I've been married for ten years and I'd have to say that things are probably better between my wife and I now than they were at the beginning. There's a lot to be said for living with someone who understands you completely.
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Oh don't listen to those old grumps. ;)
I've been married for ten years and I'd have to say that things are probably better between my wife and I now than they were at the beginning. There's a lot to be said for living with someone who understands you completely.
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I see Mrs. Stingray has trained you into thinking that way.......
;D ;)
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Oh don't listen to those old grumps. ;)
I've been married for ten years and I'd have to say that things are probably better between my wife and I now than they were at the beginning. There's a lot to be said for living with someone who understands you completely.
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You know, as a young man yet to be married, it is good to hear this ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- from time to time. I hear the bitter folk, *cough* CWT *cough* and it just depresses me. Its good to hear that there is hope for life after marriage.
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Its good to hear that there is hope for life after marriage.
bwaaaaaaaa haaa haaaaaa haaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaa
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
that has to be the funniest thing I've read ever.....
stop it you're killing me
haaaa haaaaa haaaaaa haaaaa haaaaaaa
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Sure, there is life... you take the lowest common denominators from each of your lives, eliminate everything else, and that is your life.
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Wow! The cynicism is awfully deep in here!
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WARNING
Watch those plastic sawhorses. My wife bought me two of them and I had one full piece of MDF between the two with another cut piece on top and they collapsed.
I saw the legs bending (cheap) and I went in to tell my wife that I'd need to buy better saw horses and then we heard a load crash from the garage.
The legs split into a bunch of broken plastic bits
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Well it says right on them how many lb they should support reasonably. I know when I was at my lifting peak, I had a pair of plastic Black and Decker sawhorses I used for bench press spotting. I would regularly put well over 300lb onto them and they wouldn't even flinch. I think these are rated to about 800lb.
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Looks like they should hold up to 500lbs. Although I'll admit that they are really cheap looking/feeling. I couldn't find any other saw horses at our local sears, so I just bought these because they were $13.99 (now on sale for $9.99). I got to pick a few toys myself with gift cards people gave us as gifts. Not pictured is the new gas weed wackers...kicks the cr@p out of the old electric one my dad gave me.
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.It's a real pain the butt to plan a wedding for almost 300 people...
You're actually involved in that? I just let the wife & mother in law go crazy and tried to remember to say "yes dear" when prompted. Only thing I had to do was show up.
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I can't believe you didn't jump in there and tell her you want to have your guys in plaid so that they'd "go" with whatever color she picked for her girls, and you were going to take care of the flowers.
Surefire recipe for "nevermind, I appreciate the help, but I'll take care of the details" ;D
Guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I get along fine with my mother-in-law and with most of the rest of my in-laws for that matter. It's my side of the family that drive us up the friggin' wall.
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Dude, if you were smarter and better-looking, I'd SWEAR you were me! ;)
Here, I've got the perfect wedding cake topper for everyone planning on getting married
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Dude, if you were smarter and better-looking, I'd SWEAR you were me! ;)
Funny, I've always thought that you and I might be the same person if it weren't for your wacko politics and my much longer than average...
...hair.
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Damn. Wax that bikini line, no one wants to see that.
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Took me a second to get what the hell you were talking about there. How about if I skip the wax and go directly for the braid? ;)
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It makes my foot twitch.
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Best way to get married--ditch everyone you know, go to vegas, have a good time, get hitched in a small service off the beaten path, return home and tell everyone. Worked like a charm (married all of 1 month now) if anyone complains, make a mental note and stop talking to them--we are all old enough that our friends shouldn't be nagging at us for dumb crap like that.--I have long since stop talking to people who create more stress in my life than they release.
By doing this NO ONE can say so and so got preferential treatment--we also saved a boatload of cash that is better spent on mortgages, furniture and other stuff way more important than a one day party that more often than not turns you into enemies rather than happily married. The whole large wedding thing is WAY over rated in my opinion and you are no better off once its done and almost certainly worse off (financially or inter-personal wise)
Congrats onthe loot--have fun with the old lady and live long and prosper!
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You can't just stop talking to relatives. It doesn't work if you see them on a regular basis.
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I am extremely happy and have been married for 13 years. Though, it's only felt like 5.... minutes, under water.
We tied the knot 13 years ago, been swingin from it ever since.
And last but not least.....
A man is not complete until he is married, and then, he is FINISHED.
These were all great words of wisdom shared with me by my Dad who passed away 2 years ago. He was happily married for 41 years. I don't know how, seein how he was married to my Mom... LOL
Thank goodness she doesn't build HER own arcade controls!
Good luck to all, and remember, marriage is largely underrated AND under appreciated.
Kev~