Thank you. I am going to share this with Jan...she thinks my stuff is a mess.
BTW, she still talks about getting up to go work and finding "bodies all over
the house". She got a kick out of it. With better planning we could have had
more beds available.
> One observation my buddy Tony and I made during our tour to Road America
> with layovers at two separate points of interest in FOT land, was that these
> two guys (Joe and Jack) had their lives put together much better than Tony
> and
> I. How did we know? The organization and cleanliness of the garages. I
> believe that a person's overall success in life and racing can be measured by
> looking at their garages. Missing from their garages were the black museums
> of broken parts and piles of other crap that conceal the one missing valve
> spring needed to complete the head job. Visiting these guys has made me pick
> up 50 plastic totes so now the piles of parts are neatly piled in plastic
> totes and placed on shelves rather than scattered all over the floor. And
> when guests come over I clean off my work bench and re-oil the wood
> strategically placing only the finest of my Whitworth stuff out poised to
> take
> on another project. My wife laughs and thinks I'm nuts. Or am I just
> getting
> old?.......................................Henry
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