I've noted in the past, that when you're a Ham, you tend to stack projects that never get completed. I must admit this has always been a character trait of mine, even before I got my ticket a few years ago. But these days, at least I have a reason, being home one day per week, usually. There simply isn't TIME to accomplish all the things I'd like to.
As an example, Antennas.
I've been trying to get to installing antennas in my back yard...(Garden for some of you) for a couple of years now, but something always seems to get in the way. I design a way to cover all the bands I'd like to cover, and the wife will decide she doesn't like guy wires, or that antennas are "ugly" and so new plans get made to satify that.. Or I get asked to work an additional day or two. Or the weather gets in the way. Even plans that sometimes don't work out, on those occasions when you do actually have the time. And each time, I end up starting over from line 1.
I've had a computer waiting for an OS installation for the last several months, now
I need to re-org my shack, the place is a disaster area, always teetering on self destruction.
Frustration seems a key element of this never ending story.
Increasingly, however, I have begun to notice a different element in all of this; a desire to improve on the projects I've managed to complete, being never fully satisfied with stuff I've already done. Thus, my list of projects tends to grow exponentially.
'"At last, I'm organized", he said. And then, he died.'
So goes the old saying, and I suppose it's true. I get the idea that when it comes time for me to leave this world, I'll be disappointed because I didn't mange to get more of my project list done.
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