Projects Ever feel like you are running out of time?

Been a while since I posted , was nosing around and saw this . Wish the best for the several folks that posted they were going thru some sorta medical issue . Since my last post sometime last year I found out I had Kidney cancer, they took it out ( probably sold it on the black market , ha) anyway suppose to be cancer free now but still gotta go get a CTI next month to see for sure . During all this I sorta became a couch potato ( tater here in the south) . Not that I wanted to but I had the hardest time getting motivated for a few months , I had never ever sat around more than a few minutes during a normal day , usually worked anywhere from 10 to 12 hours every single day with some closer to 18 but this thing was tougher than I thought it would be . Sorta depressing , but now I am back tinkering several hours a day . I say all this not to bring attention to me but yet to say do what you can , when you can , for as long as you can . Yes to the OP , I feel like time is running out but still gotta a lot that I want to do and will do as much as possible , every day is a blessing.

 

That's procedure I had done over a year and a half ago.Then a bit of cancer in my lungs and down near my ass hole...Still doing chemo and will continue on until I croak , no cure for me.. But I was lucky, no shingles or stones, I get scanned every two months because of being in a trial drug program, 4 good scans in a row....
Good luck to all of you !!

 

Thanks I just wish she had half the optimism that some of you guys have. I think her situation would be better if it was

 

Just turned 74 a month or so ago. I retired when I was 69. In 1979 I found a pile of 32 Ford parts which I carried home in my Datsun pickup. It was a channeled 32 Ford roadster in need of a floor and lots of patch panels. The frame sat on a jig in my basement until I retired and could take time to work on it. I have been working on it most days (except Sundays) since then. I found it hard to get up and down as I was way over weight. Started the MOVE program at the VA. and in a year lost 85 lb. So now I am more mobile, but now the problem was lack of funds. Luckily I had bought parts over the years and had most of the suspension and some extra parts to sell. That still doesn't build a 32 Highboy, so I drug my old drafting board out of the Lawn building and started detailing steel again (no CAD) ,something I used to do in the early 70's. So now I finance the roadster this way. The problem is that working cuts into my build time. I once saw a post by someone on here that said " do something to the car every day and I do ,even if it is just to plan the next phase. I am in pretty good health and have an excellent VA to go to when needed. My car is not quite as traditional as a lot of yours as I used to get my parts from Barry Lobeck every year at Knoxville. So Deuce Factory 4-bar, chrome tube axel ect. When I first saw HAMB I bought a 53 Merc. engine but now have a 65 SBC. and Muncie 4-speed. I did use my 56 F100 front brakes and 59 Ford rear. I said all that to say I read HAMB every day and yeah some times worry about my age and our great leaders in Washington,but my Dad passed at 92 and my Mom at 88,so maybe I have a few years. Main thing, enjoy the work and absolutely be ready to go at any time no matter what your age.

 

First liar hasn't got a chance with this bunch

 

The doctor is IN. Bone's, my diagnosis is change beers to something that doesn't have "lite" tacked onto the end of it, and, especially not Miller. That will be $10.00 for the diagnosis. The doctor is OUT.

 

Just for laughs.....

 

Hello,

For the time period you are experiencing, things will happen just as they should. Retirement is far away, unless you have a stock pile of cash hidden under a mattress. But, the important things that will get you through any maladies are family and a support system of co-horts/friends.

My wife and I did not start thinking about retirement until close to 60, whereas there are some people setting up goals/savings from their 30s. That was not us. Things just happened the way they should and we just went along for the ride to feel good about ourselves and family. For us, the important thing was to be able to deal with living comfortably first. Retirement was just something like teenagers used to see old folks, not happening.

When our son was in his junior year of high school, we thought of his choices of college offers and locations. We certainly did not have a stockpile of money and the worries that went along with how much saved for the college years. But, with him, we just went to visit places he might like and give him an option of his own choice. It was important for us to have him have fun while growing up beyond high school. He had offers from some very interesting colleges and universities across the USA. Distance and location were the first things to be eliminated.

Luckily, he selected and got accepted to UCSB (So Cal)and our worries about being at the University of Texas, Colgate in New York or University of Pennsylvania, all seemed like a world away. We just accepted the fact that it was another monthly expenditure for his daily expenses. Our lives were pretty much set and we dealt with whatever came up together, to make the choices we have been doing since our 20 something days.

Jnaki

There is no need to worry about what you are doing, the projects that are ahead of you, planned or not. They will all fall in line with your choices and lives. It will work itself out. Sure, there may be some detours, but life gives and we take what is offered while trying to adapt to those situations. It works out to be one day, one week or one month at a time, not worrying about 30-40 years down the line.

We always kept in mind that family and family situations were the most important and above all else, taking care of that part of our lives. All else just fell into place. Old hot rods were part of it as well as photography, surfing, traveling, and skateboarding. But, those were things that just allowed us to be happy being involved, when we were younger. Family always came first, not anything else.

That is how it was and today, it is still the same way, despite the awful pandemic. It is a lot different for our granddaughter. But, as a smart, flexible in ideas, and intelligent high school teenager, despite the pandemic causing tons of different scenarios, she has adapted well, so far. So have we.

 

Yep. Went to my mentor's estate auction today. Whole lifetime of work and acquisition all on the block. Felt bad for his daughter who was left to deal with it all. Wakeup call for me to make sure there's a plan for my time, so my family doesn't have to deal with it. Rather it went to friends or associates by a prior plan. He, like most of us, didn't figure his time was short so there was no plan in place, and things sold for way less than they should have to people who never knew the guy he was.