>>First question is why are YOU doing the work? Painting, as I have pointed out to my wife, is "woman's work", and so is brick laying, pouring concrete, laying floor tile, etc. I could never get her to do roofing, but she has done all the aforementioned, and is actually pretty good at it. <g>
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>>You might need this to support your argument.
>>Proverbs 14:1
>>The wise woman builds her house,but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
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>Actually, I find it kind of therapeutic. The work I do all day, mainly as an electron pusher is ephemeral; I like to do something physical with my hands, resulting in something tangible I can look at 10 years from now and say, "I built that". I built a deck and fence behind my place in '03 - concreted in the fence posts, dug & poured deck piers, the whole nine yards - grunt work, sure, but satisfying to me, anyways. Getting too old to do that kind of stuff professionally, though - and pushing electrons pays better < g >
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>I'd ask about renting your wife to help out, but you might take that the wrong way - and I know you have guns < g >

I used to build houses and will build again in the near future (you wanna buy a 6000sft, 9 bedroom house). I see a lot of similarities between programming and building, except for the aches and pains and the sweating . . .

I don't think I could loan my wife out, she's much too valuable, and I'm told is also up for sainthood. I wonder what they mean by that?