Dangerous little monkey... and thats a good thing!

Theres this movie called the Boondock Saints 2 and towards the end theres a dialogue about real men... and it's hilarious!, and true.The bit that comes to mind is about real men never showing their feelings... because they're personal... and therefore none of your damned business! I like that but it's also about men doing things because they believe in them and hang what anybody else thinks or defines as safe and appropriate. Of course, this doesn't just apply to men but to everybody who's got their head screwed on and isn't a victim.
Anyways hows this for safe?

Thats a picture of my jury rigged scaffold so I could cut down a length of wood, that black projection, one handed with the skilsaw... dangerous? Potentially yes but I know what I'm doing and I'm willing to take the chance. Shouldn't be a chance eh? Well there was because once I sidled out to the end the 4x2 I'd nailed up to prevent side to side movement had come away but it felt safe so I carried on regardless.

If I'd done this job by the book... I wouldn't have been able to do it. The scaffolding alone would have cost more than all the materials I used and basically thats why I like that Macho man thing sometimes. The idea of only relying on your own intelligence, skills and fortitude to get a job done and not falling back on others involvement because your basically a scaredy cat.

When I learnt to weld, way back in the early eighties, I was on a course at ATI (AUT now) to learn Arc welding but the first thing they taught us was gas welding and the first thing they did was show us a bunch of films about how dangerous it can potentially be. This had benefits in that when we went into the workshop to fire up the gas for the initial lesson the scaredy cats were so scared they did everything wrong and were obviously told to leave. Soon after that the teachers weeded out the dumbies who were brave enough to turn the gas on but made silly mistakes because of their inability to retain knowledge.

The thing was that it was a dangerous skill and you want a mixture of bravery and intelligence to be able to do it... or an elevated balance of left and right brain co-ordinations... see where I'm going with this? Doesn't matter because thats enough. Explaining it all is a waste of time really because the type of learning or awareness engendered by this elevated balance actually thrives on not being told the whole story... it's how being able to figure things out happens.

Anyways heres another view of the house.

This is my little verandah and the vertical face unfilled on the left, which has a roof butting up to the floor... but will be removed to stop the possums having a free run accross all the roofs, is going to be covered in fibreglass sheet with a big round hole in it... so it's flash moderne!




Almost finished the outside. Odds and ends here and there... actually maybe three more full days then I'm moving in.