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Allen_Wrench

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Not feelin' like ridin' the bike right now. Some days my lack of grace is legendary. Earlier today I stabbed - and drew blood on - my thumb and finger by picking up a sharp toast crumb.
As I clenched a bloody paper towel, suddenly everyone in my house wanted to know how I'd hurt myself. "Toast" I would answer. "You burned yourself?" they would ask. "No, I got stabbed" I would mumble. "You stabbed yourself with toast?" asked my wife, not disbelieving, just making sure she heard right. It could be a while before they let me live it down.
I have to hunt & peck because the Band-Aids are monumentally in-the-way. Yep, I think I'll skip riding, just for tonight.
 
2door

2door

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Okay, Allen, since you've confessed.
I was pruning juniper shrubs yesterday. I reached down to pull up a branch to snip, a needle stuck me in the thumb through my glove. I jerked my hand back and ran my arm into the sharp end of a branch I'd just cut off. I have this great, dark red hematoma on my arm that looks like something big and toothy bit me. Of course hematomas are a sign of age so now I'm carrying a badge that says, "Hey, look at me. I'm really old". Like they couldn't already see the wrinkles.
Rats!

Tom
 
rustycase

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AW, that sounds scary !!!
Gosh, be careful!

At least you know your limitations...
I am still learning.

And Tom... had to join in on the massacre???

my short story for the day, and I ain't got many short ones..

my little old granny stuck her finger on a rose thorn... them things HURT!
Well, fragile little old woman that she was, the pain sent her over the edge.
She actully died a day later.
...or so I was told... they was still searchin the cabbage patch for me back then.

Best
rc
 
2door

2door

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rustycase said:
AW, that sounds scary !!!
Gosh, be careful!

At least you know your limitations...
I am still learning.

And Tom... had to join in on the massacre???

my short story for the day, and I ain't got many short ones..

my little old granny stuck her finger on a rose thorn... them things HURT!
Well, fragile little old woman that she was, the pain sent her over the edge.
She actully died a day later.
...or so I was told... they was still searchin the cabbage patch for me back then.

Best
rc
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Darn, Rusty, don't let the news media hear that story. They'll report that rose bushes are hazardous to your health. Then some politician will try to get them banned.

Saw a news story a few days ago that said people who live near airports are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. Why? The didn't say. Just some 'researchers' said so. Good grief.

Tom
 
xseler

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More people that live near airports are likely to die of cardiovascular disease because these things usually go hand-n-hand.....

1) Property values are usually lower near airports
2) Lower property values usually mean less income per resident
3) Less income usually means less access to preventative health care
4) Less income and less preventative care usually means less healthy eating habits
5) Less healthy eating habits lead to more cardiovascular disease


They probably paid that 'researcher' thousands of dollars for that little chunk of 'science'.

I bet I could use this same type of circular logic to determine some very 'interesting facts' about the current congressional feud...........:D
 
rustycase

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lol

'near airports'

Way back when, GF had a small house up on the hillside, in Old Town, San Diego...
Directly in the flight landing pattern.
I was watering the bowl, looked up out the window...
DIRECTLY at a 747 heading right at me!
lol
rc
 
xseler

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On a heart-healthy note, I wished that they would return the 'good' prizes back into the bags of Cracker Jack............these lame pieces of paper are just plain pathetic!!


Also, I need to invent a proprietary finger coating that would allow folks to 'cleanly' eat Cheetos while tickling the computer keyboard.
 
MEASURE TWICE

MEASURE TWICE

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xseler said:
On a heart-healthy note, I wished that they would return the 'good' prizes back into the bags of Cracker Jack............these lame pieces of paper are just plain pathetic!!


Also, I need to invent a proprietary finger coating that would allow folks to 'cleanly' eat Cheetos while tickling the computer keyboard.
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I bought some of that Cracker Jacks, not that I eat a bunch of candy or often, but I took it to Burning Man for quick energy carousing the Playa a few months ago. Your absolutely right, where is the darn prize? They also say something to the effect more peanuts now. I was hard pressed to find a one. I guess we have hit on hard times when a national pass time is degraded.

Hey eating rocks if you can find them in the desert could be OK, the strange being I took a picture of while I was there looked to be doing this?

MT
 

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Dan

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rustycase said:
:)

..I guess the bounds of nano technology are so far, unknown...

Hey Dan !
Watcha workin on out in the shop?

Got one of these yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7lX_6OCtI

:)
rc
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Wow! That is incredible, Rusty. The attention to detail is awe inspiring. Even the little cuffs moving with the motion bringing it to a life like state.

The thing that really amazed me was how it moved in an asymmetrical motion. (not sure if I phrased that correctly) The way the actions seemed independent of other movements.

That is my definition of functional art. All with a Swiss watch like precision.
 
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