 Ultimate Dreams, and the impact on your reality |
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Posted: 19-Jul-2004, 07:54 PM
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This topic is very deep for General Discussion. 
When I was moving up the career path, every year we would have a review of goals. My long term goal was to be "Recognized as an expert in my field". In the mid-eighties, I achieved that goal in being part of a development team that designed an computer interface that was used in many computers built by many manufacturers. After that, I changed jobs a couple of times and attained the expert recognition in other fields. What made this goal effective was that it could be attained more than once with equal levels of satisfaction.
Now, in retirement, my goals are more personal and family oriented. My current goal is to recover the physical flexibility, strength and endurance that I lost when my shoulder was replaced. I would like to be able to hike the Appalachian Trail, canoe the Boundary Waters and climb various mountains that I didn't have time for when I was working, but the shoulder prevents me now. I have found that the alternative medicine of massage therapy has done wonders on relieving the pain in the shoulder, while fitness therapy restores the strength and endurance. It may be a multiyear program, but I have time.
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| Aaediwen |
Posted: 19-Jul-2004, 07:55 PM
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I've been milling over my ultimate dream since Middle school. A large mansion on 10 square miles or more, with a private railroad, and sections designed to emulate periods from today back to 1000 AD, and a nice forested area for horseback riding and a walled garden on part of the roof with arrow slits in the walls, and a path down toward the back to the edge of the woods... And the walls made to seem to deteriorate to ruin as you near the bottom walking out to the woods....
There are so many elements of my dream home it's not funny, like a basement home theatre with all the equipment centrally controlled via computer console and all built into the walls with a passage in the wall for matinance....
A writing office with track lighting....
Between this and wanting to take the trips, I had plenty of dreams. Then in ~y2k, my tape deck died in the old SounDesign system I was using. I had a job, and was able to start thinking about a replacement. I wanted to do it right, so I shopped around and didn't worry about price while shopping. Wouldn't you know it! I found a cassette deck with almost all of the same features I wanted in the deck for the system I mentioned above! (except only one deck is remotely controlled, asside from both computer controlled per my dream) I spent the money and got it. It still blows me away. What scared me even more was when I compared it with my dream above. Indeed a module could probably be built to comtrol one deck of it from a computer. Same think with both decks controlled like that would be exactly as mounted in the walls of my dream room above.
Realising how close I'd gotten, and how well I was in position to do, I decided to go ahead and work on building a home theatre. I knew I wasn't going to get exactly as my dream, but I wanted to do it right and I will say that several elements of the system I'm using today would be right at home in those walls.
This experience had me realising, I have an element of a dream I thought would always be just that. I had part of my dream, and could still do more. I'm currently trying to plan for a trip to Ireland, and the numbers look doable for repeats to other places. A lot cheaper than I had figured (3-5K instead of 10-15K).
In light of these experiences, I'm trying to be careful and not mess up. I can see how fragile my position is, and I thank the Devine and my family for their assistance. It's interesting that I'm sitting here thinking seriously about things that so many dream of. I still couldn't build the Mansion of the Ages, and I've questioned if I would if I could. Perhaps the dream should remain just that, the ultimate dream. Because as such it gives me something to work toward! I can look at that, and work toward making certain elements of it a reality. I'll post more of it here over time; although a lot of it is blurry and incomplete. No telling how many issues there are built into my ultimate dream home. I never have gotten all of the details or very much of a floor plan drawn out. Although I've tried several times.
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| Dreamer1 |
Posted: 20-Jul-2004, 08:36 PM
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Ivory,
That's so incredible! I'm so happy for you, and I also hope it's everything you want it to be. Let us all know where your concerts will be once you've gotten your schedule worked out, okay? I'll look forward to coming!
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| Aaediwen |
Posted: 21-Jul-2004, 04:17 AM
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Sounds great  And cheers to you all! Here's to all of us making our dreams a reality!
Keep up the posts, and I'll post more elements of my own dream home over time. here's one I've done some math on:
A room where the floors, ceiling, and walls are computer controlled video displays. on one side, about half way up the wall, it slants inward at an angle. I imagine some sort of ventalation system to let in outside air and redirect environmental sounds from outside into the room as well. That way I could either simulate an environment or enjoy a rainstorm while inside, yet surrounded by it. I've also wonderd what it would be like to be in such a room with morphing fractals on all the surfaces while listening to music with a spectrum analyser on the afore mentioned slanted section. Not quite sure where I'd get the tech for it tho, given if the room were 14x14x10, I'd need to put something like 15 Terrabytes of data to the surfaces in any given second. That's not counting the bandwith required in transferring and processing it all to generate the fractals or whatnot. To put this in perspective for some of you, Most people are still hard pressed to get one Terabyte of hard drive space online in a home PC.
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