Thanks to the Admin Chris for resurrecting my account from 2018. Have been turning for a few years and always look to challenge myself. Recently retired three years ago, wow time flies, to pursue my life pleasures.As past president of the Chesapeake Woodturners looking forward to contributing in the bigger concepts. Love attending symposiums as my ADHD wouldn't allow me to attend week long classes.
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Skip Slomski
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Welcome fellow ADHD'r Skip 
Look forward to seeing some pictures of your projects. It's a great crew here and I suspect you will find a lot of inspiration for your next project.
Look forward to seeing some pictures of your projects. It's a great crew here and I suspect you will find a lot of inspiration for your next project.
Mark Hepburn
Artist & Chef
And another ADHD'r checking in to say welcome back Skip! I'm looking forward to 2026 in Raleigh too.
Hello Skip! (oops!) I love the symposiums too - so many wonderful things to bounce between. I have had a couple of week-long classes but they were mostly unstructured, great ideas and examples presented, then every one followed their own direction. Wonderful times!
I tell people I have ADDHHHD. Only half kidding. If diagnoses had been common in rural PA in the early '50s I suspect I would have been heavily medicated. Both I and one sister in our family with seven kids. Probably the reason my posts and emails often drift off on tangents and zig-zags.
I was at John Lucas's place for the 2017 eclipse, had a couple of telescopes set up, solar filters, projection, running back and forth aligning, adjusting, triple checking.
I told the guys there sorry, I have ADDHHHD. One said, no, you have ADOS. What?
He said "Attention-Deficit... Oooo!, Shiny!"
I think most of the active and productive people I know have tints of the same condition.
And it doesn't seem to change much with age (75 now).
Distractions are curbed only with great effort...
BTW, a friend drove down from MD just (more or less) to take this eclipse photo.
(It was the same gentleman from whom I bought my PM3520b!)
And Sir Lucas made a commemorative hand mirror for me.
It's on my Shelf of Honor in the display cabinet in my shop.
JKJ
I tell people I have ADDHHHD. Only half kidding. If diagnoses had been common in rural PA in the early '50s I suspect I would have been heavily medicated. Both I and one sister in our family with seven kids. Probably the reason my posts and emails often drift off on tangents and zig-zags.
I was at John Lucas's place for the 2017 eclipse, had a couple of telescopes set up, solar filters, projection, running back and forth aligning, adjusting, triple checking.
I told the guys there sorry, I have ADDHHHD. One said, no, you have ADOS. What?
He said "Attention-Deficit... Oooo!, Shiny!"
I think most of the active and productive people I know have tints of the same condition.
And it doesn't seem to change much with age (75 now).
Distractions are curbed only with great effort...
BTW, a friend drove down from MD just (more or less) to take this eclipse photo.
(It was the same gentleman from whom I bought my PM3520b!)
And Sir Lucas made a commemorative hand mirror for me.
It's on my Shelf of Honor in the display cabinet in my shop.
JKJ
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