doc_gonzo's man cave

[doc_gonzo]

wooohooo!!!!

the boli's finaly arrived. 3 wks my butt, i didn't give em 3 days in the humi, i did a gentle squeeze test.... passed, cut the end cap and gave it a draw test....yowwwza, fire that bugger up!!! now normally i would have paired this gar with my favorite caribian rum, Kracken, a black spiced rum, but.... lil mama finished off the beast last night aparently, so an amber "black heart" rum will have to do. probably more appropriat since "isom" (island south of miami) does not produce a "black rum". omg the bolivar junior corona is amazing, for a small, short smoke, i am BLOWN AWAY. for the money ($4.00+ a stick)this is an incredible value, lawd, lawd, lawd i cant wait to taste the belicoso in the spring, 30 minutes of joy transportded into an hour of bliss.

moxie,

lawd, you make me feel like a lush, i smoke 1or 2 cigars a day plus the appropriat,coffee or liquor, or beer to go along with. once every couple of yrs,wow,thats almost like, why bother. i understand special ocasions, but i'm a beaste, carpe diam, i suck up every moment and every gar i can. not dishing at al........just sayin
chers

doc

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

moxie,

lawd, you make me feel like a lush, i smoke 1or 2 cigars a day plus the appropriat,coffee or liquor, or beer to go along with. once every couple of yrs,wow,thats almost like, why bother. i understand special ocasions, but i'm a beaste, carpe diam, i suck up every moment and every gar i can. not dishing at al........just sayin
chers

doc

I don't "do" special occasions either. Just, once in a blue moon, I might desire a sip of alchohol. Considering I don't get the buzz everyone else is after. I didn't really drink ..ever..till my first b/f after my divorce. He was a Nam vet, marine SAR yada...yada..and so forth. He drank when he got home, then just had to go bar hopping at 10:30 every night. To the worst dives in the region. I took up vodka and a seegar......kept the men at bay. B/F insisted I dress sexy, and all I ended up with was getting hit on all night long. The biker bars, the hole-in-the-wall dives. Stripper clubs. So....when the guys asked me what I was drinkin'...I say "vodka & 151 proof rum, mixed, room temp". Then, I swig me some. They pretty much left me alone after a while. Not that the alchohol affected me anyways. It took 1/5th vodka..for me...9 double shots alchohol...no chasers....to get me drunk. I don't pass out. Don't get a hangover. Never had a hangover for that matter.

So, the buzz/fun everyone speaks of.....just never happens to me. The seegar does taste good though. I grew up in the city, in the 60's.....and all the men smoked a pipe. Distinguished gentlemen. Kansas City MO in the 60's....Plaza neighborhood, was a very classy place. They had a lounge there, no bars. The bars were up a ways, in Westport.

 

[doc_gonzo]

moxie,

i prefer my liquor neat as well. i'd be bummed if i had your tolerance though. obviously from all the spelling errors in my last post, i dont suffer from that afliction 10 or 15 yrs ago i was the road manager for a blues band so i can totally relate to your adversion to dive bars. lots of fond memories but glad they are now just memories. dealing with 3 "rock star" ego's, equipment issues, club owners, and groupies (all the band members and crew were happily married) was a harrowing chalenge. although it was a lot of fun more often than not. loved the "rock star" life style awsome restaurants, great vip lounges, and opulent recording studios, dawn and i lead a much more mellow life style now, love our little slice of the ozarks.

cheers

doc

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

I didn't know I had a high tolerance till later on. I did manage 3 childbirths without pain meds..and yes...it was quite painful. I have read where people with red hair, women especially...have a high tolerance to medications as well. The only inkling I had about the tolerance, when I was young..I had to have a molar pulled out at 16. The laffing gas bugged me, so I had him take it back off. He gave me a shot, it never took. I told the Dentist just to go ahead an pull it out. Without meds. Then, with my first child, at 18, the pudendal block didn't take. I felt it all.

 

[doc_gonzo]

yikes mox,

i'm a wimp if i actualy do go to a doc instead of doctoring myself i expect maximum pain scrips. if i doctor myself, i sound like a chicklet box for a week walkin around from all the 500 mg ibuprofens clacking around in my system.
on a happier note, i'm just starting my monthly week off. wooooooot!!!!! as a steam engeneer we work a "dupont schedule" swing shift.....3 days work, 3 days off, 3 nights work, 3 days off etc. etc. and 7 days off every 28 day cycle. not a schedule for the light at heart, but if you can handle it killer money and killer time off. mondo time around the the farm to get crap done, unless it's spent sleeping to get caught up hehe.

doc

 

[Joel_BC]

I thought I'd bump the thread. I put some pics of my "man cave" (my shop) on page one of this thread. I have a picture, from another corner of my shop, of a workbench I've used for many years (the surface looks it, eh?). I built it as one of my first woodworking projects, when I was real young.

It's heavy - which was intended. I'd acquired an old book (a classic to be found in used-book stores) called How to Work with Tools and Wood, by Nathan Mager. I made the frame according to Mager's design, plans given in the book.

The frame uses 2x4 and 2x8 sections, bolted together. Top is from 4-inch-thick lumber. There is a shelf of 1x boards (could have used plywood).

 

[CrealCritter]

Your shop is so clean... Mine has about 6" inches of sawdust covering the floor and it looks like a bomb went off in there. I bet you couldn't find anything in there but I know where everything is .

I clean my shop with a leaf blower seriously I do.

 

[Joel_BC]

Your shop is so clean... Mine has about 6" inches of sawdust covering the floor and it looks like a bomb went off in there. I bet you couldn't find anything in there but I know where everything is .

I clean my shop with a leaf blower seriously I do.

The dustiest work area I have is in our big shed, where my table saw is. The metal-working area, shown on the first page on this thread (scroll down) gets a shadow of steel dust from cutting & grinding. Yeah, I do clean those areas up, usually, after working in there for a day or two... or maybe a bit longer. My wife is a "neat freak" and rarely hesitates to point out when I'm displaying grubby tendencies.

 

[tortoise]

That sawdust is the best weed-blocking mulch there is! Save it!

 

[Country homesteader]

Isn't a "man cave" supposed to have recliners, TV's, and a fridge?
I think what you have is just a tool "playground".
For your info, I'm a chick but I'm allowed into my Uncle's man cave seeing how it's also the tool storage! I do lots of work around here so I have to access his area. You could say " I was a Jacklin of all trades and Master of none". The only tools of his I don't mess around with are chainsaws, blade sharpener, and welder.
My Uncle also has a bike which I absolutely love even though I haven't never been on it. I can't straddle it's too wide. If I have a pic I'll post it for all you want-a-bees to drool over.

Isn't she a beauty? I so can't wait until summer when I'm able to give her a bath. Right now she's put up until Spring.
Thanks tortoise, for the helpful tip about sawdust. Right now my Uncle and I are in the process of sawing up logs to split for firewood for the evaporater.