: If you keep putting it off, I'm going to build it for you.

And that's my master plan - get Tom to build my next kayak. Upsides: The boat will be elegant, sturdy, will perform well, will fold, completed before deadline, etc. Downsides: Uh, um, well, uh. . . none? Sure, some would say that I'd not have the pleasure of knowing I'd done it myself, but I would have the pleasure of building it vicariously. I could truly be a virtual boat builder, the next step in boat building evolution. I grant you that Tom Sawyer didn't have the pleasure of painting the fence himself, but he didn't seem to lose any sleep over it.

And then, if I get really good at it, I could start my own forum, the Getting Someone Else To Build Your Kayak Bulletin Board.

Say Tom, how did you like the skin on that nifty kayak?

ad delirium,
Wayne