I’m under pressure because wife is actually very angry at a lot of things to do with my keyboard hobby.
Ranging from, nasty dremeling sounds of metal on metal.
To drilling sounds.
To paint fumes.
To soldering fumes.
To wasted time when I could be doing home repairs and other things befitting a grown man.
I broke many promises 'this is my last keyboard, no more drilling'. She hates my modded boards more than the cockroaches in the house.
And now I have asked wife and relatives to pack for me when I’m at work, since I have long hours during the weekends/holidays when I get more work.
Packing is not a pleasant job at all with so many orders, changed orders, customized orders, things that must be found and retrieved from many separate boxes, etc. The kids think it is great fun, but the adults are very mad at me for my folly.
My domestic life is teethering on a thread.
When I promise to get rid of Big Things, I must get rid of Big Things.
Whatever doesn’t make it to the post office by close of office hours on May 3, might be hosted in a relative’s place until we have time to write customs forms and go to the post office. NOT IN MY HOUSE.
ONE BOX is all I get to keep.
Many old Geekhackers have the same problem. Fohat and Henz both tell me their wives are giving them hell with regards to old keyboards.
Ps just because I say I get to keep one box and can sell small stuffs next month, doesn’t mean I am going to entertain the kind of orders I used to process in the past when someone can just ask for 1 jailhoused switch and I would send it to him FOC. Not going to rummage through my one huge box to pull out one switch.
Also if no one has noticed, I am taking paypal now. Just going to delete PMs from kids who don’t sound as though they know what they want. It is amazing that after weeks of me ranting online about troublesome buyers, there are still people who PM me laundry lists, essays, question bombardments, stream-of-consciousness musings about what they might want if only they had the money, etc.
Hello, if you have no money to even pay shipping, musing about what you might want doesn’t get you something just like that! I don’t do that for my kids, why should I do it for you? I am fed up with talking with someone who wants x, y, z free, I help him plan out a 5kg box, and when I say ok that’s $62 shipping to USA, you feign to be shocked that you have to pay shipping.
I’m blue and my house is now like a rubbish bin. I’m Gutz the Grouch, NOT SANTA CLAUS!
