How BAD is your TAD? Show Of your hoard!

Great lookin set up there mate!

Looks like there's plenty of room on the bottom shelf for some more baccy brutha.

How bout a close up of the shelf on the right? (I'm a bit of a bookworm, I guess I have B.A.D)

Great attitude Justin. I appreciate your candor and your willingness to consider other view points.

I too grew up modestly in a blue collar family, my dad was a mechanic. Folks weren't political so I grew up really without any preconceptions.

Stephen Covey, one of my favorite authors of books on leadership and management, wrote 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The first habit is "Be Proactive", the opposite of reactive. The second, and in my opinion one of the most important habits, is to "Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood".

I've read and heard far too many people that damn Rand's work without ever having read it or learning anything about her.

She grew up in Russia and was in high school around the time of the Bolshevik revolution. Her family owned a factory that was taken over by the new government. Her book We the Living, though not publicized as an autobiography is pretty close to what she and her family experienced after the revolution.

Anthem is a great start and a relatively quick read. You'll probably finish it in an evening.

PM me after you finish it and we'll discuss it if you like.


Dino



I hope I didn't come off as being presumptuous or over opinionated.  I tend to think out loud a lot. I also have a lack of a gate when typing.  I can turn a simple reply into a novel if not careful. haha  I feel as though my foot has a summer home in my mouth at times.  I could maybe benefit from reading some Steven Covey.  That second rule eloquently puts into words the approach I have always tried to use in life.  Whether it was an angry customer, a soldier in my squad who was not performing to task, or even an angry drunk in a bar- I found that simply showing a willingness to understand someone can often solve a problem or even diffuse a situation entirely. 

That is a good thing to have room to come into one's own when growing up.  My mother was big on explaining things from both sides objectively and intentionally withholding her opinions so that I could develop my own views.  And my father was a mechanic as well! In his good years, that is. When he wasn't a rolling stone.   

I have always been interested in Russian history.  Such a varied and turbulent place.  People always refer to America as a melting pot.  I feel like Russia held that title centuries before we acquired it.  I would love to read more on the subject.  I also need to read the celebrated Russian authors.  Tolstoy, Dostoyevski (had to google for spelling haha) etcetera.

Running at the mouth yet again. haha

It has been great talking with you, Dino and I look forward to many more conversations.

Justin    

My cellar is a little over 130 lbs these days. I’m not going to try and take pictures as it would just be of a couple piles of banker boxes.

Hey, I'm not a slob all the time!

Ok, ok, most of the time, but hey, it's a testosterone thing. 


I try to keep the place lookin like this all the time.....




But it did look like this not too long ago....