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My last marriage probably went sour because of my over the top approach to astronomy..
We needed a new fridge and I used the money to buy a 12 inch... I know that may have been the last straw but it's hard to know as they can overreact so easy.
It was winter the galaxies were there and heck in winter you can get by without a fridge.
Anyways we are still good friends..I gave her this place, and the other place and ironically the 12 inch is taking up space in her garage ( with a crook mirror) and she asks me at least once a month if I can move it out of there..she never did like it I feel.
So I get to live in a caravan all the time and even the most sucessfull people only get to live in their van for two or three weeks a year...me all year..how good is that...and little house work ..much more efficient and with my crook legs I always can grab hold of something...the shower is outside which is a bit tuff in this cold but it's different so different is luxury the way I see things.
But the astro tends to be my main interest and I now have a small observatory ( 8 x 4 ft) currently empty but only while I am sorting out the big one..the big one is 3.8 mtrs square and has my 80 mm on eq5, my 115 mm on EQ 6 , my rasa 11 on eq8 and my 8 inch Newtonian on an eq 6 ( although it is off at the moment for mirror cleaning)...
Future plans..the small observatory will house the 12 inch when refurbished for visual and the 80 mm binos on a dedicated mount...
At the moment it is not possible to run all imaging scopes at once as I am waiting on an Asiair plus to step around getting another lap top and to make things a little less cluttered...happy days I just now while typing this received an email from ZWO saying it has been shipped..lucky lucky lucky boy...timing is perfect...but having the email as I started this paragraph is extrodinary.
I don't think any of this is extreme particularly having gone thru the cancer scare and three close calls with death..mmm moreactually..plus I have more health issues that I don't want to clutter my head with.... but my point is life is very short and you really need to do what you want to do and stuff everything else..I won't go to weddings or funerals or do a damn thing that does not suit me and sure you can call it selfish but I call it "have your head together and your priorities in order"..folk waste so much time on all sorts of things ..I waste time here it can be said but this place saves having friends in the real world and I get all the socialising I need here...so I can see it as not actually wasting time..plus I come here while between jobs or if I can't walk that particular day.
I do like it here.
You only get out of life what you grab with both and run off with...
Alex
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