Ash is in hospital

Ash, all of my tertiary educational qualifications have come from part-time study while working. In my life, I have had about ten career changes. When I hear 'technobabble', it does not daunt me - I can bullshit with the best of them. Each step-up involves a learning curve - I once even had management training in the Department Of Defence. Where you worked in the TAFE - did you ever attend any of their lectures ?
I have only ever taken my wife for a ride, on the back of a motorcycle once. She complained that she was being thrown around. You are lucky that your wife obviously actually loves you. With my wife, you would be as dead as a maggot.
'Life is a learning experience'?
 
acotrel said:
Ash, all of my tertiary educational qualifications have come from part-time study while working. In my life, I have had about ten career changes. When I hear 'technobabble', it does not daunt me - I can bullshit with the best of them. Each step-up involves a learning curve - I once even had management training in the Department Of Defence. Where you worked in the TAFE - did you ever attend any of their lectures ?
I have only ever taken my wife for a ride, on the back of a motorcycle once. She complained that she was being thrown around. You are lucky that your wife obviously actually loves you. With my wife, you would be as dead as a maggot.
'Life is a learning experience'?
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Al, that's fascinating! Tell us the kind of work that you've actually done with your hands yourself.
 
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Al my wife and i have known each other since childhood her dad and my dad were best mates so grew up with then, Debra is the oldest of 9 and the shortest lol, when we got together i was 30 and one thing i asked of her, well 2 things was the bikes were number 1 and taking off with the mates at short notice wothout questions was number 2, she knew my bikrs and mates meant everything to me as she said she has no problrms with that, silly girl lol, but she trusted me.
As for working at TAFE for 31 years at the early years i did a lot of night courses in the things i wanted to learn, all the welding courses, 3 machining courses using lathes and milling machines, doing pannel beating and using special toolings, things that i enjoyed doing and it helped me to get in as T/A to the maintenace Fitters work shop, doing everything from machines maintenance to installing new machines and set ups to just about everything, did that for 15+ years till they moved the machine shops to another college, my T/A job finished, then i became general hand and truck driver was another job i loved at TAFE delivering everything from bobcats to escervators and all sorts of machinery driving a asortment of trucks, love driving then a redudancy at 55 and early retirement, best thing that happened to me, i have a well set up workshop at home.
I don't look at my bikes, i work on them, i build a few Nortons over the years, i work with my hands, if something breaks i fix it, i fully restumped my house by myself, 2 stumps a day till all done, was a big job under a low house, i built my large shed/workshop and set it up all by myself, i try to do things myself but sometimes i ask for help, i am a doer not someone who talks about the old days of riding, everyday is a adventure to me and the same now while in recovery.
So Al instead of talking about it or what you use to do work or racing in classic bikes, do it fix your bike up and do it and don't listen to the wife or anyone else, do what you want, not what they want you to do.
If my wife told me what to do or under her thumb she would have been moved on a long time ago, but she has had a good life with me as she don't tell me what to do, if she did i wouldn't listen to her anyway lol.

Ash
 
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ashman said:
...As for working at TAFE for 31 years at the early years i did a lot of night courses in the things i wanted to learn, all the welding courses, 3 machining courses using lathes and milling machines, doing pannel beating and using special toolings, things that i enjoyed doing and it helped me to get in as T/A to the maintenace Fitters work shop, doing everything from machines maintenance to installing new machines and set ups to just about everything, did that for 15+ years till they moved the machine shops to another college, my T/A job finished, then i became general hand and truck driver was another job i loved at TAFE delivering everything from bobcats to escervators and all sorts of machinery driving a asortment of trucks, love driving then a redudancy at 55 and early retirement, best thing that happened to me, i have a well set up workshop at home.
I don't look at my bikes, i work on them, i build a few Nortons over the years, i work with my hands, if something breaks i fix it, i fully restumped my house by myself, 2 stumps a day till all done, was a big job under a low house, i built my large shed/workshop and set it up all by myself, i try to do things myself but sometimes i ask for help, i am a doer not someone who talks about the old days of riding, everyday is a adventure to me and the same now while in recovery.
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GOOD LIFE
 
Well day 32 since my right leg fell off and now a start to another weekend of boredom, nothing happens much on the weekends here only the nurses on patrol, the inmates are restless most just want out of here, if my mate comes today i want to go up the road new owners in the fish and chip shop i want some decent chips, had some with my meal last night, they were cold and tasted like sh it.
Our doctor who been dealing with us has moved on so a new doctor to train and a reveiw of our injuries and all the B S that goes with it, i might have too put the excape plan to use lol.

Ash
 
ashman said:
Well day 32 since my right leg fell off and now a start to another weekend of boredom, nothing happens much on the weekends here only the nurses on patrol, the inmates are restless most just want out of here, if my mate comes today i want to go up the road new owners in the fish and chip shop i want some decent chips, had some with my meal last night, they were cold and tasted like sh it.
Our doctor who been dealing with us has moved on so a new doctor to train and a reveiw of our injuries and all the B S that goes with it, i might have too put the excape plan to use lol.

Ash
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Change your name to Randall McMurphy and have fun! Just watch out for Nurse Ratched!!

Ash is in hospital
 
robs ss said:
Change your name to Randall McMurphy and have fun! Just watch out for Nurse Ratched!!

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A few electro shots will fix me up or the bay is just in front of me steal a boat and take a few inmates out crabing and fishing be good, my old fishing grounds and sand crabs a plenty as well the big whitting mmmm, fish and chips is looking good.

Ash
 
acotrel said:
My wife actually said 'you can race again, however if you are injured, I will not care for you'. Racing without a support base is not good. I would go insane in a nursing home. I think at some time you mentioned 'fear'. In my life, the only thing which makes me afraid is boredom. When something involves risk - the risk must be minimised to a tolerable level. Apprehension is not fear. When there is something which can kill me. I just do not go near it unless I have a reason to be there. I have been in places where I could have been instantaneously vaporised. My mate was the nitrations chemist, he was there every day. If I was asked to do that job, I would have done it. However I would have needed to be desperate to apply for it. My Ex never knew what I did in my job. My wife said that she would not have let me do that work. However she does not know that I would have also kept her in the dark.
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Ash, I suggest that before you begin talking to lawyers, you should read the Australian Standard on risk management which I referenced. Australia's workplace safety laws changed from prescriptive to risk-based in every jurisdiction in 1992. The words 'reasonably foreseeable' come into play. Most insurance is risk-based. When we use a motor vehicle on public road or a race track, we always have insurance cover. The NDIS is an insurance scheme. During my working life, I once spent two hours on a witness stand being questioned by a queen's counsel and endlessly repeating myself. It is the reason my second diploma is the Post Graduate Diploma of Occupational Hygiene.
 
I gave up a long time ago listening to Als advice and any 3rd party claims must go through solicitors/lawyers and must be put in play within 3 months after the accidents, can extend it but only from a legal advice, this is Queensland rules each state has different rules, there is a lot involved and too much for a comon person to understsnd like me, the solicitor we have he is a 3rd party expert and will get the best for us in time.
But we all know Al is a expert in everything, anyway papers are all sign and the ball is rolling, so Al go watch YouTube and forget about give advice.
Al the Ai man.

Ash
 
"My wife said that she would not have let me do that work."

"My wife actually said 'you can race again, however if you are injured, I will not care for you'"

Al, please elaborate on this phenomenon of a wife telling you what you can, and cannot do?
I'm not sure I understand how this works...
 
The word 'safe' can be defined as 'a condition or situation where risks are minimised to a tolerable level' - the question is then 'who are the stakeholders'. I actually treat the 5 women with whom I live, and most other people as equals. In Australia, if a passenger in a vehicle is injured, they can sue the driver. Women usually look tame, however they are all savages. A while back, my wife slipped and fell at our local swimming pool - she injured her spine. For a couple of months we were working with wheel-chairs and ramps it is not a pleasant experience. If my wife does not want me to race - I do not race. - She is a stakeholder. I suggest you should never underestimate your wife, all women are capable of bursting a man's thought bubble. I know a lot of motorcyclists, however I never do big men together bullshit. Most guys die in the bum when they are really confronted, my wife and the other four girls would go down fighting. Their problem is that I am mentally dominant, but that might be an illusion.
For any person involved in motorcycle racing, if your partner and dependents do not want you to race - do not race. The CEO of Winton Raceway was stunned when I told him motorcycle road racing is safe. It never makes me feel apprehensive. I cannot say that about many other things which I have experienced. I used to think about what it would be like to be instantantaneously vaporised, then I decided it was not worth even thinking about.
When I was working, I had several women working under my direction. I know what they are about, so I never had a problem - they are capable of eating you alive, at the slightest sign of weakness.
 
The last job I had was on contract. I was up here in Benalla making hand grenades. I was with the head of the design group inside the huge wall which surrounds the bomb-making facility. He waved towards the wall and said 'what to you think of this' as though it was threatening. It is all bullshit. In that situation, if an incident occurs - nothing is relevant. It just does not matter. All that happens is you were once here. Thinking subjectively is not relevant. I get a lot of laughs when I think about my working life, and the bullshit involved. My Ex never knew what I did in my job. When I told my wife, she said 'I would not have let you work there'. She does not know that If I was doing that work , she also would not have known about it.
 
One of my friends once said 'every time we fall off a motorcycle, we could be killed'. The same could be said about falling out of bed. He went out in a practice session ahead of me at Mount Gambier race circuit. As I came around a blind corner at speed, he and his bike were laying on the road, and I went between them.
 

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