i can relate
i built the shop for days like this. There is plenty to do in the shop.
--however--the shop heater quit. Ok cool, use the torpedo, it works good. It quit too (this morning). Race car needs brakes, got everything, found wheel studs have issues. Ordered them last Monday. Tracked it today (saturday). Sent from Florida, got to memphis, sent back to Florida, now they're on the way-running late. "Winter weather" delay. Well I went to work without issue what the heck?? Well I have other stuff to do. Started to service the bike. Nope. Battery dead, nobody got one. Hurry up and wait for that. Need to put injectors, cups, gaskets, fluids and such in the truck. Can't do that, won't fit in the shop with a dead race car and a dead bike sitting in there and I can't move the race car because the wheels won't go back on (studs). Had a couple lathe projects to knock out so I bundled up and started. Jackshaft bearing in the lathe decided to take a dump while facing one of my jobs. Ok run into town and get a couple 6204 bearings. Yeah sure, everything's seized up. Got bearings. Got the jackshaft apart, nope..6204's are different than 6204's. Apparently these are oddballs, have a 19.05mm bore where most 6204's have a 20mm. Book is wrong. Called Clausing, originals are no longer available and they told me just use 6204. Well 6204 wont' work!! That project is dead in the water til I can find some 6204-12-2rs. The -12 means they're oddballs. Well I guess I can service the boat while I'm waiting. Well nope because the boat is IN the race car trailer and it's like 10 degrees inside the trailer, no air to run the evacuator, then when it comes time to drain the lower unit? Let it sit about a week and maybe it'll all be drained out. Well I'm running out of ideas to keep me busy. Can't work on the trailer out in the cold/ice, everything's frozen. Door won't even open because it's frozen shut. Mustang needs 2 new mufflers and a header gasket. Can't do that because the shop is full of crap that don't run/move. Mom's Kubota also sitting in the shop, motor is off of it because dad had been using ether to start it for the last year, broke 2 pistons-those are ordered and apparently with the same fate as the wheels studs for the car, ain't showed up yet.
I can't fish, can't hunt in this cold my feet get frozen immediately and my fingers don't work once they're cold-which takes maybe 15 minutes with down gloves on. Can't go ride the utv cause it's too cold, fingers quit working, it's just not any fun when it's cold. Not at all. Tried the other day on the snow, got 15 miles and decided that's enough....didn't DARE turn the key off because I knew I couldn't turn it back on (fingers get cold and don't work).
So yeah when it's like this, I don't do anything but sit in the house and do work stuff (pt remote job) which also sucks.
when i was a kid I loved to play in the snow but i ain't a kid anymore. Everything hurts or doesn't work when it's cold out. Plus it's almost always cloudy and/or rainy, snowy, or icing this time of year. Depressing.
