It is not easy to get along with my wife, but I suspect it is not easy to get along with me either. Finding the "right" partner and surrounding you life with an environment you find comfortable is what it takes. But then again, I have only been married for 42 years so I am still learning... John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Stratten" To: Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:11 PM Subject: [OT]: How tolerant is your partner of your "hobbies" > How well does your partner put up with you using the house as a workshop, > bits of electronic components getting trodden round the building, asking > her/him to RRF in the middle of the night because they are taking up too > much space in bed ;-) > > All those late nights spend debugging code instead of sitting down with your > hot chocolate and watching a good film, coming to bed muttering about > interrupts, stack overflows and "whose stupid idea was it to use page > banking". > > My ex-wife was terrible, she had no patience with my tinkering. Stuff would > get mysteriously tidied away never to be seen again. Chips would look like > they'd been trodden on, tools would be used to open cans etc. > > Current girlfriend is wonderful. She pays for my hobbies (I stay at home and > look after a child with ADHD), rarely complains, totally ignores me when I > start talking about electronic stuff and its only when she steps on > something sharp that I really get it in the neck. > > How do your partners cope ? ;-) > > > Dom > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.