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[saveliberty]

Not at all. It's completely painless and takes half a second. Much quicker and less pressure than using a drill bit.

You are correct. Plus the drill bit can get squirrely and dance across the nail.

 

[007]

METAL IN THE EYE is the NO FUN stuff. But since I've worked with so much metal in my different careers, cutting, grinding, welding, grind some more, some drilling, if you're not careful you WILL get some in your eye. I had to learn the hard way. I needed to be told to wear my safety glasses. Ya... stupid... I know. Get some metal in your eyes a few times though and you learn. And now, even though no one is around to tell me to put on my safety glasses when I'm drilling or grinding or such, I PUT THEM ON.

 

[007]

Not at all. It's completely painless and takes half a second. Much quicker and less pressure than using a drill bit.

You are correct. Plus the drill bit can get squirrely and dance across the nail.

The one the doctor used on me was a tiny little thing that he just rolled back and forth in his fingers. Went through my finger nail like butter.

 

[Ringel05]

But why did you need to regrow the wheelbarrow? You could have easily picked up a new one in the time it took you to go to the hardware store........

I liked that wheelbarrow. Plus good ones are expensive. I finished the job that day.

I have a high pain threadhold. Cut my knee with a chain saw once. Went to the drug store and bought gauze, ace bandage, hydrogen proxide and butterfly bandages. Pried the cut open, it went down to the tendons and washed it out. Put it back together and returned to work the next day.

That never happened but if it did, you are cray cray.. FFS, saveliberty

My kids still tell the story and I have the scar to prove it. Did I mention I don't like hospitals?

They wouldn't do anything like that to you in ER without numbing you up first. You guys need to let the pros handle these things. Jeezus, I am freaking.

You do realize that ERs and clinics are a relatively "new" invention and people used to do this for themselves or others all the time. You can buy suture packets online to place in a first aide kit and some of the better personal "trauma" kits come with pretty much everything one needs in case of an emergency. Butterfly bandages are a dime a dozen and peroxide and rubbing alcohol are cheap.

 

[saveliberty]

MRIs will rip those right out of your eye. Safety glasses are definitely one protective device I recommend. I go through leather work gloves regularly too.

 

[saveliberty]

My knee repair cost $7.

 

[Sarah G]

Never, ever had a bad Halloween night.

We went as a group of five, and we carried ball bats in case the older boys thought they could take our candy.

Never had a problem.

The older girls tried that with us too (stealing our candy). They didn't realize what street kids we were..

 

[Foxfyre]

Good morning everybody. I guess Hobbes is still in the tree?

And Happy Halloween all. In true procrastinator's fashion, we still don't have any treats for the trick or treaters tonight, but that will be remedied in an hour or two. Glad to see everybody is gearing up for the scary invasion. The way our family room is positioned in the house, you can't see the lights on from the street and we could easily hole up in the house and pretend to be gone tonight. And sometimes that is tempting, but neither Hombre or I can do it.

Good to see Ollie stopped by. Wish he would post his Halloween display photos for us again.

Today is office cleaning day too--IF I get around to it. This one is pretty much used up.

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Okay, more coffee. . . . .

 

[peach174]

For Halloween I'm gonna make the house look empty. Soooo, where can we go........?

The basement?

The hotel........

Oh, so that's what you call it.

In this house the basement is the dungeon....... Someone partially dug out a section of the crawl space under the house mainly for the utilities so it's all earthen walls though they did cement the floor.

I hope you know that I was just having a bit of fun with you. I just couldn't help myself.
We don't have a basement either and there is nothing but a cement foundation under our house.

 

[R.D.]

 

[Nosmo King]

Eleven years ago I installed a new track lighting system in the Great Hall of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate. I lamped them with halogen bulbs (with the two straight pin base. They worked great!

Then my brother convinced me to relamp them with LED bulbs. Okay. But I found that my dimmer would not really dim the LEDs. So, I bought a new dimmer, which STILL did not dim those LEDs. Now I see that one of the light fixtures is not functioning properly.

So, I bought all new track light heads! But I came to discover that these new heads take a bulb with the wee barrel shaped attachments (a GU10 they call them). And that called for another trip to the hardware store to buy new bulbs. I have four new track light heads. Bulbs are sold in three or six packs. Remember when if you bought a package of hot dogs, the package of hot dog buns did not match the quantity of the wieners? Comedians made careers out of that.

Today, I bought two more bulbs than I need. Altogether, this track lighting system is really wearing a blister on my credit card!

 

[Ringel05]

Eleven years ago I installed a new track lighting system in the Great Hall of the Luxurious Pimplebutt Estate. I lamped them with halogen bulbs (with the two straight pin base. They worked great!

Then my brother convinced me to relamp them with LED bulbs. Okay. But I found that my dimmer would not really dim the LEDs. So, I bought a new dimmer, which STILL did not dim those LEDs. Now I see that one of the light fixtures is not functioning properly.

So, I bought all new track light heads! But I came to discover that these new heads take a bulb with the wee barrel shaped attachments (a GU10 they call them). And that called for another trip to the hardware store to buy new bulbs. I have four new track light heads. Bulbs are sold in three or six packs. Remember when if you bought a package of hot dogs, the package of hot dog buns did not match the quantity of the wieners? Comedians made careers out of that.

Today, I bought two more bulbs than I need. Altogether, this track lighting system is really wearing a blister on my credit card!

That's what ya get for owning a home.......
Yesterday went up to the Springs, my brother was in town taking care of the final distribution of the estate. The truck now officially belongs to us and I now have some good money to put in the bank.
Speaking of buying a house, Albuquerque is looking more and more appealing as there are more actions, foreclosures inexpensive sales and distressed properties to be had. Phoenix AZ has double that number........
Waiting now for the SSDI to be approved, once that happens we have a constant income stream.

 

[Ava]

Good morning everybody. I guess Hobbes is still in the tree?

And Happy Halloween all. In true procrastinator's fashion, we still don't have any treats for the trick or treaters tonight, but that will be remedied in an hour or two. Glad to see everybody is gearing up for the scary invasion. The way our family room is positioned in the house, you can't see the lights on from the street and we could easily hole up in the house and pretend to be gone tonight. And sometimes that is tempting, but neither Hombre or I can do it.

Good to see Ollie stopped by. Wish he would post his Halloween display photos for us again.

Today is office cleaning day too--IF I get around to it. This one is pretty much used up.

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Okay, more coffee. . . . .

Hobbes still in the tree?!?!?!?!!??! Someone tell me NOOOO, please???

 

[Ava]

Never, ever had a bad Halloween night.

We went as a group of five, and we carried ball bats in case the older boys thought they could take our candy.

Never had a problem.

SMART!!!

 

[Ava]

For Halloween I'm gonna make the house look empty. Soooo, where can we go........?

I usually turn off my back yard light so it's pretty dark around here. I shut everything off in the house and retreat to the shop with just the tv on.

Not much to worry about out here on this dead end road.

I've done that, too.

 

[Sarah G]

 

[WelfareQueen]

 

[Ernie S.]

Well, Gotta head for Doc's Huge Halloween Bash tonight with a band in costume, some spooky drink specials, costume contest and a couple birthday celebrations.
My son Greg is here for a visit and will learn how us rednecks party.

 

[Pogo]

Good morning everybody. I guess Hobbes is still in the tree?

And Happy Halloween all. In true procrastinator's fashion, we still don't have any treats for the trick or treaters tonight, but that will be remedied in an hour or two. Glad to see everybody is gearing up for the scary invasion. The way our family room is positioned in the house, you can't see the lights on from the street and we could easily hole up in the house and pretend to be gone tonight. And sometimes that is tempting, but neither Hombre or I can do it.

Good to see Ollie stopped by. Wish he would post his Halloween display photos for us again.

Today is office cleaning day too--IF I get around to it. This one is pretty much used up.

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Okay, more coffee. . . . .

Hobbes still in the tree?!?!?!?!!??! Someone tell me NOOOO, please???

Far as I know, he is. He's just gonna have to figure it out. I cajoled him as long as I could yesterday until sundown. Didn't want to encourage him down in the dark, although I'm sure he can see better than I can. I had to get on the road before dawn, it was still dark, and he was still there. I'm hoping he just gets tired of his own game and figures it out as he did last time.

After I was already on the road I found out we're not only getting snow tomorrow -- we may get a lot. That may either help or hinder his descent if he's not down before then.

I've had cats around all my life but never saw one like this.

 

[Nosmo King]

It's beginning to look as if the weather is going against the Trick-or-Treaters. Our Halloween is scheduled for tomorrow night to accommodate the 'crowds' at the high school football game. The team is 0-9, but tonight's game is thankfully the last of the season, Senior's Night.

So, the little kids will have their costumes obscured by parkas and mittens and scarves. It's supposed to rain/snow tomorrow night with lows in the low 30's.

I think I bought too much candy this year given the forecast.

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