Off to a "Bad" start.

Unfortunate trailering accident 2.

rparigoris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:18:50 +0000

Unfortunate trailering accident 2.
Kind of looks like Europa was struck from behind by another car?
Or perhaps trailer was backed up into something?
Y9-05-04

Unfortunate trailering accident 1.

rparigoris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:19:17 +0000

Unfortunate trailering accident 1.
You can see more pictures @:
http://www.aircraftersllc.com/projects/lreuropa/index.htm
Y9-05-04

How long does it take?

rparigoris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:21:42 +0000

And keep a few house laws in mind.

Wayne and I have been working on "for Work" and "for Fun" projects since 1992 when my wife was pregnant with son 1 of 2. Her boss at the time introduced us, (nice guy, help supplement salary). That is long enough to have well established 2 house laws:

* For the majority of folks, a second set of hands allows the task at hand to take 1/4 the time compared to doing it yourself. Perhaps for the minority there is a very specific task for which this may be true, but for the majority of tasks for us, it takes twice as long! Not because of incompetence, but we manage to dream up eight times as much stuff that needs to be done in the process to do it right! Wait a second perhaps that is incompetence? Guess so, I just looked it up and our faces are right beside the definition!

* OK enough for esoteric estimates. "THIS IS NO JOKE" We came up with a remarkable and effective way of estimating how long something will take. We, independently of each other, make our best attempt to come up with an hour estimate for the project. Then we add the two estimates together. >>>>> now instead of dividing by two, we "Multiply" by four! That, for the most part, gets us just about half done!

Now that we have a foundation of "House Rules" and "House Laws" HERE WE GO forward to build a Europa >>>> ^^^^^

Albert Einstein

rparigoris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:23:06 +0000

Now that the decision to move on has been made, will keep a few house rules in mind.

* Albert's quote:
"Keep things as simple as possible, NOT SIMPLER"
To be kept in mind at all times. If you are not already bored with our album, it won't take long to figure out which half of the quote we tend towards. This is far better than "Bliss" where you don't pay attention, or even worse, you don't know the second half exists!

* Will strive for a Quality Europa. "Quality" being the synergistic harmonization of "Classic" and "Romantic" as defined in "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance". (Looks and Feels good, Works Good and Reliable). Remember if you pass "Quality Assurance", it does not mean you have "Quality", you just have something as per print!

* When trying to live by the above house rules, it may not always be the cheapest way to go. It can always comfort you just a little knowing that anything and everything ever purchased enjoys a genuine 50% discount, after due diligence in shopping.
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