: Nay, I say, you've got me all wrong! Matterafack, age-wise I'm
: bound in the dread limbo that exists between supple youth and
: wise elder status. Retired, perhaps, but only to the extent that
: I got laid off one too many times, in Jan. 1999, and gave up on
: real jobs. Or in other words, I'm not really old and decrepit, I
: just act that way a lot.

: Very recently I was showing my boat to a group of folks and
: fielding the usual comments ("How long did it take?"
: "Do you ever sell them?" "How do you make it look
: so much like wood?!"). One of them observed "I don't
: think I'd have enough patience to do something like that"
: (another very familiar comment). My stock reply was "I
: don't have enough patience to watch TV."

>>"How do you make it look so much like wood?!").