| Author | Message | ||
     Smitty808 |
First the bad...due to some back stabbing family members(long story), I am now reduced to living in my nephew's garage...we fixed it up as good as we could, and it's really not that bad. I will get back on top, and they will pay for their sins. BUT...there is good news! The S1 has a warm place to ride out the winter!! It's in my living room/kitchen! There are advantages to living in a garage!  (Message edited by smitty808 on November 23, 2006) | ||
| Greggrthomas |
I have an observation; Life's lemons plus you equals lemonade. Rubber side down. | ||
| Swampy |
You don't know how lucky you are. My wife won't let me bring bikes inside! ??? Enjoy it while you can! (Message edited by swampy on November 23, 2006) | ||
| Imeazy |
Sorry to hear of your situation. Funny thing is this is my dream. After the kids are grown and gone I plan on getting a piece of land and building a four car garage with a loft appartment. Six years to go. The best of luck to you!  | ||
| Buellgirlie |
computer, internet access, microwave, heat, motorcycle = not so bad. sorry to hear of your troubles, i can sympathize. keep your chin up, D | ||
| Captpete |
This little thread has been interesting for me, especially this time of year. It’s made me think about complaints a little, and I realize that all complaints are really comparisons, and generally indicate that something is worse than it’s been. So, I look at the opening picture, described nicely by Dora, and as far as the living conditions go, I can’t find much sympathy. There ain’t no waves crashing on the roof, there’s no water leaking through the walls, and that beautiful bike ain’t airborne, flying across the room. I can only think that it evidently used to be pretty damned good. A Thanksgiving Day thought for that part, perhaps. The family part: my sympathy for that, and best of luck. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I live in my garage 80% of the time anyway. Computer is in there, bike is in there, got my little fridge... Don't worry about it, you have a roof and a heater. You're all set dude, think of it like camping in the back yard when you were a kid. | ||
| Buellfighter |
Gotta 8 year old daughter watching disney channel in the living room. My wife watching lifetime in the back bedroom and me watching speed in the garage. It's all good.  | ||
| Oldog |
Your family was subjected to that too? Remember that their greed has its own "rewards" On the other hand having a warm dry place to sleep for you and your family, your bike and most of your kit, you are a head of 95% of the rest of the world that is good keep us posted. | ||
| Etennuly |
Hey, I'm sorry to hear about your situation. I think your nephew is to be commended for helping in your time of need. My hat is off to him and his family if there are any. THAT is truly what family is about. | ||
| Smitty808 |
Captpete, I didn't come looking for sympathy, just to post a "glass half full" picture. I found some good among the bad. Had I been looking for sympathy, I would have gone into WHY I am in the garage... but you really don't wanna' hear all that. I know there are many other's in the world that have it a lot worse than me, and I truly feel for them. With 3 or 4 days straight of rain just past me, and below zero weather looming soon in front of me... with a couple electric space heaters that are barely hangin' in there now...it's not a bed of roses. This will pass, and I will be back on top of the world...hell I may even move to Guam!(I hear it's warm there!! ) Thanks to everyone for the kind words...though I didn't mean to be fishing for them. You meet the nicest people on a Buell (those honda ad guys didn't know what they were talking about!) | ||
| Pwnzor |
Isn't Guam near the bottom of the world? If you're cold, grab some tarps or big sheets or blankets or something, hang them up like walls around your cot or whatever you're sleeping on. Then bring one of the space heaters in there, it will trap a pocket of warm air around you. BTW, with a bike like that your glass is always at least 3/4 full!!! (Message edited by pwnzor on November 24, 2006) | ||
| Rocketman |
Hell that S1's that bright you could catch a tan!  Yellow S1's look great. They seem scarce around these parts nowadays. Rocket | ||
| Nevrenuf |
yea, if i told you some of my horror stories, you would know your the luckiest man on the face of the earth. and i also remember the story of the guy they interviewed back in pittsburgh years ago. was living out of his car, staying down at the "y", going back to school after losing everything he had, wife,kids,house, job and etc. the one thing that kept him going was, look what i did in my first 45 years, so what do you think i can do in my next 45. hang in there, what goes around comes around eventually. | ||
| Captpete |
Isn't Guam near the bottom of the world? I don’t know what that has to do with the price of figs in Patagonia, Matt, but I guess the answer depends or your point of reference for the top of the world. If it’s the North Pole, then Guam is in the top half of the world. If it’s the middle of the Atlantic about 600 miles south of the equator, then yep, Guam’s at the bottom. If you are living in Puluwat, I suspect that the general consensus is that Guam is at the very top of the world. But you are bull’s eye on the heat solution. A while ago, I was building an apartment in a concrete slab/tin roof shop that I owned. It was only due to my poor planning, but I was forced to move in, in the dead of winter, long before the job was finished. I framed up a 8 x 8-foot space inside the shop, added a framed door, and enclosed it all, ceiling, walls, and door, with Visqueen, and threw three layers of old carpet on the slab floor. A little jury-rigged wiring, a couple of cantilevered shelves with a bar beneath for clothes hangers, a phone line, computer, single bed, small dresser, and space heater, and I was in business. The big rush was to get the shower stall framed in place & the hot water heater plumbed.  Five days later, I had all the comforts of home:     I lived in that space until spring, enjoying more space than the stateroom on my fishing boat afforded me for the 200 days a year that we fished until I sold her. The big bonus was that the weekly house cleaning in "The Hole" took all of 10 minutes. Didn’t mean to hijack your thread, Smitty, but you’re living in luxury, son.  (Forget thee not: the best revenge is living well.) (Message edited by captpete on November 26, 2006) |
