I'm Building an ADD friendly Computer Room with a 32 foot Desk so I will have lots of room to spread out all my stuff

http://www3.sympatico.ca/garrylawton/Computer/

Oooooo!!!!

I'm jealous...

You need shelves, man! SHELLLVVVESSS!!!!! :D :D :D

Shelves are next

the counter is out 3 inches from the wall to make a shelf right at the top of the backsplash. It will be 4 inches wide with the backsplash which will be perfect for settin cds and disks on for temporary storage

then angle shelves in the corners and straight shelves up the back wall

and shelves between the support legs down at the floor

Awesome!

Hey Gary,

Do you do installs in australia??...want to come down for a holiday ..accomodation cheap...one bench....lol

You did the drywall youself as well?

sleepz

Garry: Would you like to come build for me a computer???? the table can come later:D

Oh I want one!!! Could you build me a home that could house it? please? ;)

I'll help build the computers and the rooms if you help pay for them... :D :D :D

Kassie: Ditto.....!! I want a house too....:) (poor Garry....what did he get himself INTO???:D)

Paul: YOU'RE ON!!....DEAL:)

Austrailia

Im buying my ticket as I type

You would never get rid of me

Garry: Can I go with you!?! ;)

sure can you do drywall

mudding and sanding

mainly sanding , I hate dust

I can do drywall and sanding, I have worked 2 years as a carpenters assistant part time.

I can build the computers no problem. I'm yer man there. :D :D :D

I just can't AFFORD any of it.. :(

I cant afford it either

Every time I start a new project it means I have to go to work again to pay for it

Work gets in the way of life

I like working at My X-Mother-in-laws cottage as it is right on a lake and she just gives me her Credit card and tells me what she wants done.

I get to build stuff with no worry about cost , work at whatever speed I choose and then go jump in the lake when I want a break.

My ex-wife is not real thrilled that I get along with her mother better than she does

I can plaster and sand... I just did that for my sister so all she had to do was paint! ;)

I can pay you good money when I get a job Garry to build me a computer.....and it looks like you're accumulating some assistants there with lots of talent:).....

Would you please fly yourself and everybody to Florida when you're done in Australia??:)

We have beautiful beachers here in Florida....and weather is always warm....you can jump into an ocean....:)

I went to florida in March once

couldn't wait to get home to my snow and ice

too hot for me

Hehehe, I know what you mean Garry... Iowa is too hot for me, never mind Florida! LOL

And "Work gets in the way of life"...

Boy, if that doesn't just sum up ALL of my troubles in life! *sigh*...

Gary,

I scrapped ICE off my windscreen yesterday to go to work...cold enough?

Now, how many tickets..

Kassie the plasterer
Gary the Desk maker
Paul for the computer
Joan for moral support

hmm..looks like no dinner for me tonight!

Sleepz

Sleepz: What a team....:)

Yes there is dinner for you tonight.....as I'm cooking..... (in addition to moral support:) ).........

I scraped off many many windows on wintery snowy mornings until I was in my 30's -- having grown up in New England......yes sometimes it was very cold....If it's that cold in Australia now and it's only September, what's it like in November - January??

Incidentally the reason I moved to Florida is because I went to a few inpatient treatment centers here and my therapist said to not go home to Boston because my dysfunctional family was there and I would never stay well....I listened to him....

And I also discovered one of the reasons for my severe depression all those years was because I have what's called SAD....seasonal affective disorder....

Winter afternoons around 4:00 when it started to get dark very early....I would get very depressed....came to understand my moods were affected by the dark and cold weather - and so living in Florida has helped....

So what does this have to do with building computers??? Not much...Sorry for the tangeant....

As my non ADD friend whould always say to me when I apologised for something I didn't need to appologise for

He would say

"Don't Be Sorry"
"Buy Me Something"

I always got a grin from that

So Joan
Dont Be Sorry
Buy Us Something

Wow sounds great Garry! Ct is still here....just lurking not much to add lately...busy at another forum...still come in to read ..this place can be addictive..

Deb: Yes, no kidding -- this place IS addictive.......I mentioned once that I think someone might want to start a group called "Forums Anonymous".........

Garry: What would you like me to buy?

An hagendaus Ice cream Bar and being that you cant send it to me you eat it and enjoy the treat

D: D: D: D:

Okay........I'll buy plenty of them....and save them for dessert.....to go with the meal that I am cooking for the computer building team (of which you are the head) sugggested above in Sleepz's post.....:)

Golly
a virtual meal
a virtual Haugendaus ice cream bar

all we need now is a virtual glass of after dinner brandy

and a couch

grin

Oops... excuse me... (virtual belch)

Joan,

It is our winter here. Apparantly, all our warmth gets sent via UPS to the northern hemisphere, and that is why it is cold here now, but warm where you are.

In our summer, it averages about 95-100 in January February.

I understand SAD, and if you want to check out something cool, look at this link. I built myself a pair of these.

http://flinderstech.flinders.edu.au/led_light_glasses1.htm

A must for every computer room!!

Sleepz.

I painted the room today

New photos to follow tommorow

Sleepz: Thanks for that website...Some good information there....Do you think you could post a picture of yourself here with the bright light glasses on that you built for yourself??? I would love to see what the glasses look like that you built...and heck, a picture of YOU at the same time.....:)

You are very talented for having built the glasses by the way...:)

Garry: Congrats for getting the room painted....looking forward to seeing "virtual" pix....:)

Joan,

Soon...when I get my camera.

My Avatar was me in a previous life it that helps..hehe

Sleepz

Shelves in my room (http://www3.sympatico.ca/garrylawton/Computer/DSC02299.JPG)

My 13 year old Daughters New Car (http://www3.sympatico.ca/garrylawton/Cars/DSC02306.JPG)

She has 3 years to put it together and get it running but she should have a pretty good idea of how to fix it by the time were done

My New Car (http://www3.sympatico.ca/garrylawton/Cars/DSC02305.JPG)

Garry, I know it gets cold in Canada, but does your daughter really need to have that much insulation for a car that size?

Shelves are cool. what materials for the benches and shelves? Melamine? MDF?

Sleepz

Originally posted by Garry Lawton

I get to build stuff with no worry about cost , work at whatever speed I choose and then go jump in the lake when I want a break.



You've got the gig that counts!

Garry, that was nice of you to get your daughter that car....let's see at 13 years old -- when will she be old enough to drive it in your country???:)

Shelves are beautiful.....Offer still stands...come to Florida and build me a computer with shelves:D.....I will pay you good $$$:D

Both Melamine and MDF

no the isulation is what is left over from redoing the attic.

you can get your beginners at 16 and I think you have to wait a while before you can get you graduated licence stage 1.

thats ok as she will have driver training to take first

by the time shes 20 or so there will be very few people left who can actully work on VW beatles so she will have to know how to do it herself as it will be her car someday. At first it is supposed to be her Mom's car but I know how long that will last

Well while she's in driver training....(toward getting her "learner's permit", right?), you will take her out driving, right???

I mean when I learned to drive, it really was my dad who taught me everything:) Don't forget to teach her "three point turns" and parallel parking just in case she happens to drive to Boston someday and needs to park there:D

Ill be teaching her to drive long before she is 16

the beauty of small town canada and back roads

grin

That will be nice....quality time....:)