New Years Resolutions - What is/are yours?

[egg]

Get shit done.

 

That's it really. This forum is ace as it is, think how much better it would be if more of us turned plans into action.

[primeradoner]

That Volvo is fucking ace

 They are all  fucking ace. 

[I_am_Diesel]

1. Win the National Lottery

 

2. Shag loads of super models

 

3. Get an honours degree in applied mathematics

 

4. Finish my Land Rover 90 project

[Parky]

Buy something old and shit that everyone moans about and make it look darn good.

 

Sit back afterwards and pull this move

[Zelandeth]

1. Actually sell the damn Lada.

 

2. Finish reconstructing the living area in the van.

 

3. Force myself to find time to sit down and learn to actually play this.

 

That's about it I think.

[captain_70s]

Get shit done.

This.

 

I seem to end most years feeling I've not achieved enough, my health and relative youth will not last forever, need to get moving...

[The Moog]

Lose weight and get back running a bit more.

 

Car wise - I think it is going to be one boring daily and then an mx5 track weapon. Means I can focus money and costs on one project rather than continually chasing issues on multiple Cars. Oh and fixed the Rover 800.

[sierraman]

Stoppe trawling E-Baye for fuck'd conveyances in the 500-shilling-or-less categorye

 

Learne to play sweet airs upon mine lute

 

Stoppe attendyng publick executions, as mine goodwyfe is grievous tired of getting blood-splashs scrubb'd from mine collars

Are all your posts written in old English?

[Justin Case]

Are all your posts written in old English?

It wasn't old English in 1671.

[Wingz123]

^ made me laugh

[sierraman]

I ought to know this as my daughter was doing about the great fire of London before Xmas at school.

[Fumbler]

1. Actually sell the damn Lada.

 

2. Finish reconstructing the living area in the van.

 

3. Force myself to find time to sit down and learn to actually play this.

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That's about it I think.

PLAY IT.

 

 

Resolutions are to buy Lada

 

And Buy Micra

 

And to be approved for empoyment at EDF.

[AnthonyG]

To buy some shite. This will be facilitated by (all being well) owning a property with a garage from mid January onwards. Said garage, being built in 2002, will be too small for a Jaguar XF but perfectly sized for an early MX5/MGF/Spitfire 1500/rubber bumper Midget or other small soft top tat.

[lanciamatt]

I need to buy a few more lancias and possibly talk myself into buying a maserati 4.24v.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Spend less time at work and more time in my workshop...

[Marm Toastsmith]

Stop saying "no" to people's requests and doing it anyway. Instead say "yes" and don't bother.

 

Learn some knots.

[robinmasters]

If you can't do it the rest of the year, you're going to fail.

[paulplom]

1. Actually sell the damn Lada.

 

2. Finish reconstructing the living area in the van.

 

3. Force myself to find time to sit down and learn to actually play this.

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That's about it I think.

4. Get away in your caravan more

[Mrcento]

Buy another Land Rover

 

Start my own business, with own premises.

 

See which one bankrupts me first

 

Smart Money is on the Land Rover.

[pandamonium]

I'm giving up all gambling this year. That means no lotto, no roffles, nothing. I've spent far too much in the past and don't know when to say no. I've got what people call an 'addictive personality', which means my self control is shit.

Hence why I don't drink, wouldn't touch drugs, and now I'm giving up gambling. I didn't have a problem as such, but I could see one starting to develop.

[Burnside]

Declutter as I keep far too much stuff.

 

Find some decent paid work.

 

Undo the first two by buying more Chod I don't need.

[Sheefag]

Start building and selling stuff like this..

 

[vulgalour]

Don't break down.  Psychologically, or mechanically.

 

 

Resolutions are supposed to be unrealistic, right?  I mean, it's not like I intend to keep this one.

[Roobarb]

Sheefag. I built something similar as a coffe table / monster escape hatch for my sons 8th birthday (from mostly scrap).

The brief was a fun coffee table he and his friends were allowed to put their feet on.

A storm light with LED bulb and some painted plastic water pipe later...

Nothing as magnificent as that wall version though!

I always though a kids Minecraft version (with Minecraft torches) would be fun.

 

My New Years - Finish the set of steps I started in the garden two years ago... and try and become one car lighter and focus on a single car project.

[Junkman]

You do if it’s a TL automatic on Nankangs and you live in a place that has hills, rain and corners.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m fond of it, but there’s still a place for the other dogs in my little litter.

 

You are in a parallel universe though!

 

Time and space have an entirely different relevance and relation. You are miffed when a journey doesn't take long enough. Road surface conditions are no longer an insult for any taxpayer, they completely lose their significance. From the moment you close the door until you disembark, you feel like you are the main protagonist in an old French film and try to emulate their cool nonchalanceness. The engine is like a slide guitar, everything is in perfect harmony. No space between the notes. You are actually welcoming the visit of a petrol station, because it happens so rarely. You enjoy the refuelling process, because you can just pull the trigger full blast and let it flow. You shake your head in disbelief at how low a monetary figure the shut off kicks in, appreciating that so much pleasure and fulfillment can be had for so little money.

 

I find it quite challenging meanwhile to return to the harsh conditions of this universe, with all its artificial hectic and stupid competitiveness, the insignificance of which having revealed itself in an impressive way while being in the parallel one. Look at the number of people in this universe suffering from syndromes and ailments, all of which caused by artificially created requirements the unimportance of which they simply fail to understand. They are even grateful when then an entire industry enriches itself by selling them placebo treatments in form of snake oils, wellness weekends and other courses of treatment, despite the parallel universe of R16ness can do so much more so much better and cheaper.

[Sheefag]

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The brief was a fun coffee table he and his friends were allowed to put their feet on.

A storm light with LED bulb and some painted plastic water pipe later...

Nothing as magnificent as that wall version though!

I always though a kids Minecraft version (with Minecraft torches) would be fun.

 

My New Years - Finish the set of steps I started in the garden two years ago... and try and become one car lighter and focus on a single car project.

 

That's a fabulous example of some lateral thinking right there, with a brilliant result. I bet his mates are envious of his unique room.

 

I've had some involvement in backlighting translucent marble which has been surprisingly lucrative. I'll post up a lighting thread to share ideas once I get my arse into gear.

 

[xtriple]

Get a Lexus with a V8.

Get rid of everything else.

Get rid of the garage.

Find one woman who makes me forget about wife (much missed etc - sob!)

Try to stay alive (maybe).