The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

Hey ya'll just waiting on the snow we don't see much round here these are the days I wish my layout was up and going. Plus I have been in this house for 4 weeks with this hip.

I know how ya feel bud. After my amputation surgery I was trapped (for lack of a better word) in my fathers house. Ever live in a flipping museum? No layout, no work area, very slow old PC for internet surfing. Luckily I had moved a couple of old Apple IIe computers down there beforehand and I obtained some passenger cars and locos to work on. If I hadn't had those items I'd have gone straight up the wall! I love collecting and working on the old pre-Macintosh Apple computers. My father asked me why I collect something so (as he sees it) useless. So I asked him why he has multiple volumes full of common stamps and coins that won't turn even a novice collectors head. He said they're worth something to him to which I answered 'EXACTLY!' I have four of the IIe's, each one a different phase. One means more to me than the others as it belonged to my mother. After my mother passed on my sister said she was going to throw the old computer out. I told her if she did I'd smack her right in the mouth. She thought about it and thought it wise to leave it right where it was.

A good way to keep from being bored is to find something you love to do that can be done (in your case, and mine) indoors and doesn't require you to cause yourself pain. Some people like pain. Even though I have a high tolerance to it I don't like it. Yesterday wasn't enjoyable for me at all as I was hurting all over from being stupid the day before. I don't look like Atlas any more. That was in my younger days. Today I look more like the Popeye character Wimpy. Hefting heavy things around is something I occasionally have to do but man, do I pay for it afterward.