Lost and found

I was lost. 

Because? 
Does it really matter how or why you get lost?

Finding your way back is the only thing. 

I was lucky, pure and simple. 

The important thing is that I realize that i have been found, and what i came close to losing.

The important things are important and 

the unimportant -- should not even exist. 

We are going to make it a purpose to spend more time socializing.

This is something we need to do, but we actually need to learn to do.

We are both very private people who enjoy home. We can and have become  very hermit like. 

Out of fear, insecurity,laziness, exhaustion so many reasons to list, all true and all conspired against us to close us into ourselves. We are breaking out of this loop of isolation.  Learning to enjoy people and ourselves again. Not by forcing ourselves. Rather by wanting to do it. Wanting to change. Wanting to share, experience and enjoy others. 

We know that regular people as a whole do not have to make themselves interact, or have to plan to socialize.
It occurs naturally for them. 
We however are like the apes kept for experimentation that have to
be shown how to live with others. 

No one actually builds a complete watch today.
Years ago it was commonplace an integral part of actually being a watchmaker.
The remaining watchmaking schools, the real ones, some do require 
a student in order to graduate they must build a complete watch from scratch.
Me? 
I am definitely 
I design a watch, collect together available parts, fit them, assemble and regulate.

My current watch building project is a dress, Swiss mechanical movement wristwatch.
I have assembled or have in route the required parts----a Swiss Unitas manual movement,
a 45mm Flieger, coin rolled, pilot case with exhibition back,

a B-Uhr Pilot Guilloche silver dial,

and Breguet blue anodized hands

My goal is to have this watch assembled and working by the end of August. 
As i proceed I will do a build report here with photo's. 

The latest Marathon viewing subject is Supernatural. 

We don't have regular TV..not because we're snobs..because we do not like yelled at by 
advertisers.
We get our visuals from streaming Netflix or DVD's from Netflix.
On season 5 of Supernatural to this point.

I was one of those people displaying stickers on their cars indicative of the
positions they hold in life.
Free Tibet, The Church of the Dude...and on and on.
Did this for years..it was fun
I very suddenly got up late one night/early one morning and scraped them all off.
I am still trying to figure the why on that one out?

I suffer from insomnia..as in like right now.
0330hrs in the AM and not even close to sleep.
When insomnia strikes i believe it is because my 
brain is on fast idle..
It really sucks in many ways. Occasionally there may occur a breakthrough 
in thought experiments i have been working on. Occasionally
I may get a ton of creative work done. 
Occasionally absolutely nothing of any consequence happens all night other than 
totally fucking up the next day. 

"Love is composed of a single soul,
inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle

I blogged for years, i got angry at the world, i had to stop a while ago, but i am back. This time without anger. Just thoughts observations and interests. 

It's hard for us in our area to actually buy furniture..the middle of nowhere New Mexico has both advantages and disadvantages..lack of furniture stores is actually fits both mantra's if you think on it.  We are forced to go sofa shopping on the web. Try buying a sofa without planting an ass cheek on it and see how that turns out---You won't have to tho because I'll  advise how sofa by mail works out...at least we can get a sofa thanks to the net.  We would be sitting on our hands in the desert without it. 

I am am studying watchmaking. I love wristwatches. Mechanical wristwatches. I have been in the process of assembling tools, parts and developing the necessary skills.
I am sure i will drone on endlessly about my watchmaking attempts in future blogs--but for now let it be know that:
I have built one watch to this point. A modern copy of a wristwatch issued by the German Luftwaffe, to their observer/gunners
a B-Uhr.

I could bury you in watchmaker's parts details about the movement, dial, case hands and in the future i will--so be prepared. For now, for the start of this new blog--It actually works perfectly, accurately to the point of a chronograph and leave it at that.

 I will write on watch projects that i have underway and watches i own or obtain. I am, for example, designing a watch for a friend that i do not think has every been made before. Building it to fit his particular personality. As a thank you. I don't know if i can accomplish what i design but i will attempt it.

Simply because i am learning to build wristwatches doesn't mean i don't still desire or collect those produced by real manufacturers.
My wonderful, angelic wife  purchased for me for my recent birthday a German
Stuhrling Mercury Mechanical Chronograph.

Beautiful, double coin rolled case, exhibition back, pure mechanical movement which for a chronograph today is becoming exceedingly rare. Absolutely gorgeous...and i adore her for it. I will wear it, use it and think of her every moment i feel it against my wrist. 

There will be more. I am no longer angry or confused.

"Mistakes are always forgivable,
if one has the courage to admit them."
Bruce Lee