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I'm coming up on 38 years with my second wife. While we were courting we went everywhere on one English motorcycle or another, she always said that she had a good time, liked being part of the surroundings rather than just passing through them I was 29 the year we were married, a good number of my friends that I used to ride with were being told by their wives to sell their bikes. I set up a verbal pre-nup: no ones tells me when to stop riding, if she ever gets to the point where she can't stand me riding she is welcome to go her separate way, we have never argued the point; I have dropped the idea that, if and when, I can't ride I'll try an Ultra Light...
She complains that I spend too much time at the shop, but never complained when I was working 60 hours weeks and having 7 stents put in my heart; I must be having too much fun??
I do all the cooking around here, so the kitchen is mine. we don't conflict over the Tupperware, but I generally prefer zip-lock bags anyway. The 30 " convection oven is just big enough to get a BMW engine block into; I use the "clean" mode, after a procedure, to clear any residual odors, although I love the smell of hot alloy and burnt oil in the morning...I don't like gear oil smell, however.
I fix the washer the dryer, the vacuum cleaner or any other mechanical marvel that is brutalized. She likes doing the wash; I've tried to bid the work, but she won't give it up. I do the ironing, although I never make the bed. A bed that is made up takes some doing to get in, one that looks like you just got out of it is instantly ready for sleep, too.
My wife has the mechanical skills of a rock, hard to believe. She has two huge cats and a small dog that seem to like me, but will follow her to the end of the earth. Entropy follows my wife everywhere, delta S is always positive around her. I grew up, in part, on a sailboat, if you are not organized you are dead, I fight to keep delta S negative, so to speak.
I'm not sure we qualify as Yin and Yang components, that would be too well defined, but this is one mystery tour that I hope never stops.
She complains that I spend too much time at the shop, but never complained when I was working 60 hours weeks and having 7 stents put in my heart; I must be having too much fun??
I do all the cooking around here, so the kitchen is mine. we don't conflict over the Tupperware, but I generally prefer zip-lock bags anyway. The 30 " convection oven is just big enough to get a BMW engine block into; I use the "clean" mode, after a procedure, to clear any residual odors, although I love the smell of hot alloy and burnt oil in the morning...I don't like gear oil smell, however.
I fix the washer the dryer, the vacuum cleaner or any other mechanical marvel that is brutalized. She likes doing the wash; I've tried to bid the work, but she won't give it up. I do the ironing, although I never make the bed. A bed that is made up takes some doing to get in, one that looks like you just got out of it is instantly ready for sleep, too.
My wife has the mechanical skills of a rock, hard to believe. She has two huge cats and a small dog that seem to like me, but will follow her to the end of the earth. Entropy follows my wife everywhere, delta S is always positive around her. I grew up, in part, on a sailboat, if you are not organized you are dead, I fight to keep delta S negative, so to speak.
I'm not sure we qualify as Yin and Yang components, that would be too well defined, but this is one mystery tour that I hope never stops.