lazy lima bean

I have spent the last two weeks attacking the nerd cave.

Reorganizing.
Not just the room is the subject of my rampage,
but the hobbies, projects and equipment within.

Currently i have done more damage than good--

that is the way change is accomplished in the beginning. 

I have a great deal to do in there a bit at a time.
I am getting to a point where i may possibly be able to
begin painting.
Happy with the results so far tho.

I am trying my best to work out the alarm on my

Seiko 100M Chronograph.

I had to decode Seiko's model number system which was a

pilgrimage within itself--

Uncover a users manual on the web,

now i am simply attempting to decode how to operate the alarm

from a very non-user friendly manual...

A quest status at the moment....
which i may never be able to accomplish.

Still await the receipt of my Chinese/Russian, Slava mechanical, military wrist watch.

I cannot really expect to see it till early March.

On Amazon streaming i discovered a 

new (to me) stock of mst3k.

I am having MST3K festivals after JoJo goes
to bed.
You gotta be a fan to enjoy these....
It is an either/or.

Currently reading:

In route:

I am just now sort of recovered from last year

which was a very tough year mentally.

Doing all this reorganization is part of the

process of shaking last year off..

I understanding the spring cleaning tradition now

It is now just for your home...

but for your mind....

"Create your own hipness."

Peabo Bryson

Did i sound confused?

I am still working out the redesign/rebuild my nerd cave.
The problem is that i have an overwhelming amount of
projects going on in there--many of them going nowhere..
but still----important to me.
This is going to be a big rebuild--including paint...
I am in one of those mental zones whereas i feel
that everything needs to be reorganized---but
I cannot get myself to actually begin to do anything?

Perhaps it is the Winter--or that truly I 

need to hack through all the project/reorganization options available?

I am falling back on the thought that 

it will happen when it happens.

I will remain in the moment.

On DVD---

Excellent.

Russian sleeper agents operating in the US

during the Regan years.

I have not built a watch in some time now.

I am planning on continuing to build or attempt to build watches in retirement.
I did sell a watch I built completely from parts during the Christmas season.
I could take that as a sign that i was doing something correct.
The problem is that

Matching parts are now extremely difficult to obtain.

I have started purchasing cheap mechanical watches as 

a possible parts source for the future.

When i see a cheap mechanical movement watch on Amazon

I order it---if it works--great---not then i have parts to stock.

My last purchase was a Russian Watch that I wound up

disassembling for parts to build one of my Frankenwatches in the future.
I have to admit however that i really fucked up the disassembly--
but i tell myself that is part of the learning curve.

My latest purchase is a Chinese manufactured, Russian CJIABA watch.

What has the world come to when the Chinese are knocking off, Russian Watches?

CJIABA was originally a watch manufactured by the Slava watch plant in the

Soviet Union. 

Slava translates as "GLORY".

I'll advise of the status of this watch after it arrives and i work with it for awhile
---be its destiny as parts or work wear...

Sneak reading at work:

Just arrived:

"The secret of getting ahead,

is getting started."

Mark Twain

Are we there yet?

I have been focused on my guitar playing.

I am working on jazz style soloing.

Standards.

Calming nice stuff.

I've been working on my equipment.

I've temporarily installed an electronic pickup

on my D'Aquistino arch top..

before and after photo's below-----

I have rebuilt my amplification system...

before and after below------

I am also working on a small pedal board
with just the limited effects needed to get that
late 1950's cool jazz guitar sound.

I am enjoying practicing and am hoping that perhaps

when retired i might pickup the odd solo gig.

I'm not counting on it but the concept gives me 

something to think on, practice towards and maybe accomplish

when retired---who knows?

I am also testing an Eastman arch top that a local player
wants to sell me?

It is a wonderful guitar and I do enjoy playing it but yet---?
I haven't really come to a decision about it?

We watched the Lone Ranger on DVD.

I liked it.

I can't understand why it got panned so badly by

all the Internet reviews.

I thought Johnny Depp did a great job.

Sort of a William Gibson style novel about a hit man in the near
future.

Back to work this last week.
I am doing better about working since retirement may loom
on the horizon. 
Still no news on that front however---
unable to make a decision due to lack of information
that is suppose to be in route.

So I merely wait--------

"I'm always a struggling guitar player..."

me