So...It's Friday evening, I'm heading into the Master Bathroom to run through my Pre-Bedtime Checklist. The Checklist itself isn't all that long, but it does have some actions on it that forgetting would be problematic.
No, Beans, I'm not going to go into detail, just setting the stage.
With the implementation of the 6 Dog Housing policy, the house has been segregated into three distinct zones. First is the main part of the House. All dogs, and cats if they wish (they haven't yet) may wander about. Second is the master bedroom. All the Black Dogs are allowed, the cats rule there and the new dogs are not allowed. (6 dogs in the bed would force the two humans to move elsewhere). Third section is the Master Bath. Only Cats are allowed as the dogs have a disgusting habit of eating things left behind by the Cats. (I know....EWWWWW!)
Implementation of the latter zone involves an 18 inch high barrier across the entrance. The Black Dogs can't jump it, but the Cats can. Mrs J and I are expected to step over the barrier to enter the Cat Zone. Yes, they rule it, we just shower, dress and a few other things in that area.
In any case, I am about to ready myself and call it a night. I step over the barrier and somehow catch my trailing foot on the barrier. I've got just enough forward momentum that my center of gravity moves forward, while the rest of the body stops. (Picture a jet landing on an AirCraft Carrier)
I now have a large bruise on the left side of my chest and breathing is a tad painful also. So...
I'm a bit cranky.
Which brings me to the stupidest quote stated by someone in the "News" industry in my lifetime, if not the history of Mankind.
“One day, our children’s children will read American history, and can you imagine our reading that James Madison or Thomas Jefferson tried to overthrow the government so they could stay in power? That’s what we’re looking at. We’re looking at American history, and how it will play out is going to be very important.”
The statement was made by Al Sharpton.
YGBSM! Thomas Jefferson WROTE the Declaration of Independence. James Madison had key roles in the political aspects of the revolution and the writing of the Constitution.
So, my blood pressure is up, my side hurts and I decided I hadn't read the Declaration of Independence verbatim in quite a while.
What a wonderful Document! Relevant then, still relevant now.
So, for a specific group's (D) enlightenment about the founding of this country here it is (as is, original spelling and verbiage included. Bold face were things I found still relevant today.)
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
And...Just Because.
Ahhh, Well...Life goes on.
Peace out, y'all!
I call it tripping on thick air, or sudden gravitational shifts. Happens. Walking in a parking lot, suddenly the right ankle goes wonky. Flat parking lot, good shoes, no bumps, must be thick air or gravitational shifts. Same with walking, suddenly the body starts leaning one way or another, must be gravity shifts, thick air, maybe even a phanthom breeze in the house...
ReplyDeleteMostly I come out unscathed but...
Then there's the hazards of walking with bare feet and unusually long toes. The pinky toes have a habit of reaching out and grabbing things. Happens so often the joints just pop instead of breaking, usually...
And Sharpton? Never been a sharp one. Rather dull. Race baiting male prostitute is what he is. Dumb as a supersized box of Maxine Waters and Hank Johnsons. And yet people like him are considered 'the elite.' Oy vey! It's mashugana! (and, Blogspot? I spelled it correctly, or at least one of the accepted English versions of the original Yiddish...)
Ya know, a nice set of bruised ribs goes a long way. If it gets worse or stays equally painful, get thee to a doctor post haste. Especially if you're on blood thinners.
Have had bruised ribs and other big bruises. And went to the doctors because they're less painful than having Mrs. Andrew go "Have you made an appointment yet?" while pokig said bruise. She's rather fierce that way. Gets her point across, sometimes painfully. Only because I have been known to be a tad thick headed at times (like when I mistook the facial shingles for bad poison ivy reaction, they started about the same... slightly different end results....)
Beans,
DeleteGravitational Shifts? Yep, THAT'S the ticket! Couldn't have been me, nope! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
As to the ribs, (I prefer pork, but will do beef if requested) Alleve has been my friend and am weaning myself from it over the last day. Bruising is subsiding as is the pain, so I might very well be on the rebound. I do now keep an eye on the gate to make sure it doesn't reach up and grab me, frickin' commie!
Mrs J and Mrs Andrew (I suspect Mrs Sarge and Mrs Tuna also) have a lot in common. Tough on the ego, but correct in the long run. Gotta love 'em1
Thanks
juvat
Over the last two nights Mrs. Andrew has wanted to watch Clint Eastwood spagetti westerns. She's totally cool. Of course, last night we watched "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and I never realized how much better it was cut to fit tv movie lengths. Yawn.
DeleteBut a lady who lives Clint Eastwood, Keanu Reeves, Nicolas Cage, Michael York (early years) and great action movies, gotta love them.
As to tough on ego, yeah, keeps us humble it does.
Hoping you heal quickly. Your experience motivates me to get off my butt today and finish that project of putting warning tape on those places where the step isn't as obvious as we would want it to be.
ReplyDeleteBeans. Yes to all.
I'm sure that saying, "Doggie six pack." in Latin would be neat, but I don't speak Latin.
JiP,
DeleteThanks, Warning tape would be good. A laser trip wire that activates a robotic voice saying "Lift your frickin' feet, ya moron!" would probably be more effective. Even better if it just worked for me. Mrs. J might take offense unless version two could detect which of us is crossing and speak the appropriate warning. "Mrs J, please be advised there is a barrier in front of you, use caution in crossing, My Dear" perhaps.
Thanks
juvat
Hah. Get a bitching betty to yell at you, "Pull Up! Pull Up!" I'm sure one of the electronic techs here at The Chant could rig you up something.
DeleteBecause of there usual, sudden onset, I've always called them gravity storms. At 72, I have extensive experience with them. Working in the ship yards in San Diego as a crane rigger introduced me to professional grade gravity storms. After about 5 years of that, I went into Tree service as a climber/owner, upgraded storms. That, after being a fighter crew chief in the Chair Force. Life ls like a....never mind.
DeleteThose gate things are treacherous, I've had a couple try to upend me. So far, they haven't scored.
ReplyDeleteAl Sharpton is an ass, a corrupt, lying race-baiter. Foxtrot Hotel and all who follow him.
Fixed your video (wouldn't play on my machine), using Blogger's embed video feature is a crap shoot at best, it's easier (for me) to just do it in html.
Sarge,
DeleteAgreed on both para 1 and 2. Thanks for para 3. I do the same thing, but my saved code must have gotten corrupted in the cut and paste portion. I like your code better, but to confirm, is the operative code just the iframe tag? That seems much easier than the code I've been using since forever.
Thanks
juvat
Pretty much, here is what I use: (I replaced the "<>" with "()" because otherwise the comment thinks it's actual html.)
Delete(div style="text-align: center;")
(iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="712" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/BGLGzRXY5Bw" width="1100">(/iframe)(/div)
I keep a copy of that saved off and just replace the YouTube code (BGLGzRXY5Bw in this case) for the video. Hasn't failed yet.
Sarge,
DeleteYeah, Blogger is pretty good, until you make her mad, then she makes your life miserable, except for the IFrame tag, that's the system I've been using. I think somewhere in the Greek, I accidentally added/subtracted/multiplied or divided some code. I've got that code saved in the file now. Thanks
juvat
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DeleteIn the early 1900s a wise gentlemen wrote about Sharpton and other professional racists: "I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
ReplyDeleteBooker T. Washington, My Larger Education
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
Joe,
DeleteI had read that quite a while ago. A very wise man, Mr. Washington, and quite prescient in his predictions. I'd add that the methods that are being used to prevent "lose his grievances" are extraordinarily well camouflaged to appear as trying to help. That "help" while effective at preventing the loss is also extraordinarily well suited to keeping the purveyors of that "help" in power. Almost as if that was the plan all along.
juvat
Joe,
DeleteIn 2002 my employer sent me to school for my Engineering degree. Roger was assigned as my mentor. Roger was an Electrical Engineer who went to the school that I was attending. Many evenings I sat at his kitchen table while he pounded theory through my head. He was and still is a good friend. Roger is Black. He refused to take his kids to visit his parents, who lived in the neighborhood where he grew up. He offered to get his parents a hose near his, but, they didn't want to leave the one they had, so he would bring his parents to his place to see the kids. The reason that he wouldn't take his kids was that his old neighborhood considered him a "sell out". Their belief was that if you were successful, but, you were not an athlete, musician, actor, politician or artist, then you "sold out to whitey".
Juvat, completely remaking our lives for pets (and children) seems to be a thing. I sympathize; the amount of times I have almost been taken down by an X-pen for the rabbits or went to open a bathroom door that was secured so the kitten could not get out (and almost brained myself in the process) is...well, it happened more than once.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, I do like when people actively and openly display their ignorance, especially when it is so easy to refute.
THBB,
DeleteUnfortunately, the three new additions are two Great Pyrenees and are large. The youngest is 4 months old. I was making Chef Salads for dinner the other night (It's hot down here, cool meals are required) and had the cubed ham on the counter in a bowl. I had put that bowl at least 18" from the edge.
You know what's coming doncha?
Turned my back to get something out of the Fridge. Turned back around and about half the ham was gone. Maybe 10 seconds.
Ahh...Life, live and learn!
Agreed, I just wish they'd either learn from their errors or STFU! But I think. Joe's comment above is completely accurate.
juvat
Fortunately in my galley kitchen (only one way in) I have installed a baby gate. Which I leave the door open because Kegan the wonder dog knows not to cross the line of the gate. And he won't snarf stuff off the floor unless I give him permission to. The one time he sharked some fries off my plate on the table ended up with his nose bonked hard and me hollering at him full voice. He wisely has decided to only eye stuff on the table now.
DeleteBut 3 large dogs when you're used to ankle height ones? Heh. Sounds like it's time for Mrs. Juvat's obedience course.
... while evils are sufferable ...
ReplyDeleteEvil has been stretching and dancing on that line for a long time. It's going to be very ugly.
HTom,
DeleteYeah, I think they've gone over it quite a few times.
juvat
Ah, time to make human pinatas?
DeleteMaybe time for a few high-stepping exercises juvat......... :) As to Sharpton, that race baiter and tax delinquent, ever since the Brawley case I've paid little attention to his antics.
ReplyDelete"As to Sharpton, that race baiter and tax delinquent, ever since the Brawley case I've paid little attention to his antics."
DeleteI pay attention to what the professional racists say. For whatever reason they carry vast political power and what they demand one day seems to become law a few years down the pike.
Nylon,
DeleteHigh Stepping Exercises...Aye, Mon Capitan!
juvat
Joe,
DeleteAgreed.
juvat
You have to pay attention to them, if only to throw their own words right back at them and their followers. And to see where the horrors and evils are coming from.
DeleteAn astute comment about Al Sharpton I ran across once "He finds a parade and gets in front of it".
DeleteWell, John in Philly got me to wondering, too. And truthfully, non quod expectavi..... Doggie six pack turned out to be "canem sex pack". I guess that fits... È tutto greco per me!
ReplyDeleteMan, I hate the home confidence course. Not a happy place. Rest easy and heal up.
As to the Founding Document, "consent of the governed" is a much overlooked principle.
STxAR,
DeleteThank you for the translation. I think I'm going to pass over using that in conversation however....for some reason! ;-)
As to the last, Absolutely correct and "Forced Consent" is an entirely different thing and is why the Declaration was written.
juvat
Questions with no answer. How many elected officials, and "influencers of all stripes", have ever read the Constitution? Of that handful, how many have bothered to study that period in history? As an example, 2nd Amendment, what was the militia then and what was meant by 'well regulated'?
ReplyDeleteEspecially since, with the 2A, the whole 'militia' and 'well regulated' are supporting statements to the primary statement of 'The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.' It's all due to the type of English grammar and composition used in the 1780's.
DeleteLike that 'arms' thingy. Does not mean guns exclusively. Means 'weapons, armor, ammo, fortifications, the whole mish-mash.' So brass knuckles, switchblades, axes, maces and mace, guns of any variety (would love to have a punt gun set up pointing at my front door just to scare people, but I don't have the room, the money nor the gun...) and body armor, cases and barrels of ammo and explosives (suck it, BATFE!) and knives of all varieties and, yes, even a fighter jet fully armed...
The 'militia' and 'well regulated' are just examples of what RTKABA means.
In a sane and proper world, if BATFE even existed (which it shouldn't,) said BATFE would raid one's home, find all the guns, ammo, explosives, blades and other instruments of death... and sit you down and help you design safe storage and explain proper cleaning and loading procedures, how to sharpen and maintain hand weapons and so forth. That's what 'well regulated' means in 1780's speak, clean, functioning, properly stored so as to actually work (not locked away behind three levels of security so it takes you half an hour to access them.)
This has stirred old memories of the late Sixties. Supposedly, a group of hippies disguised as normals wandered the Halls of Congress with a typewritten copy of the Declaration of Independence trying to collect signatures. Supposedly, they got only two: Hubert Humphrey and Barry Goldwater.
ReplyDeleteAnother 60's story was that Abbie Hoffman (a radical that had a sense of humor) was summoned before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. He showed up in a Revolutionary War Minuteman uniform. A red-to-purple faced Chairman was so incensed that he ordered Hoffman to leave immediately (completely forgetting why they had summoned him in the first place). Which was just what Abby wanted and expected to happen.
DeleteBoth stories are interesting. Thanks.
Deletejuvat
Juvat, you have my sympathy for the bruised side and trying to breathe. Rascal at 6 months, our Labrador, taught me a thing or two about learning to take short shallow breaths for a while, after he wrapped the lead around my ankles. Being 6'1" I thought it'd take a bit longer to hit terra firma. Short, shallow breaths and praying for a quick recovery are the temporary solution.
ReplyDeleteI've run out of words you can use in polite company to describe our current vile administration and it's minions.
Cletus
Cletus, Thanks.
Deletejuvat
and then there comes a time in one's life (may you not see it for another 100 yrs) when short rotational stops using one's torso become ill-recommended (used to do this as an entry into a sets of [10] double-clap push-ups 60 years ago - but not landing on my chest).
ReplyDeletetoday I find the need (yes! even around the house at times) for one of those four-wheeled contraptons that I take so much joy folding into the trunk (G-d help anyone who offers to help me!)
Beans: in this instance I don't think the word "meshugas" is truly fitting; for the most part educated Jews use meshug---, like a meshuga to mean a person who's weirdly eccentric (sorta in the British sense), but not really crazy (and not in the first stages of dementia like the "pResident"). I think this elevation of "truly non-persons with a big mouth" by the "elite" is more medieval in nature, sorta like crowning the Town Idiot for a day so the other town morons can throw garbage at him.
Years ago, I was hit in the chest by a heavy pipe. It was due to my error, but that didn't change the fact the pain when I breathed was something that led me to the emergency room. The doctor told me our chest has joints, and like a finger pushed too far back, there will be pain and lingering pain.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I read the Declaration of Independence I am always amazed at the parallel nature of the events that led to the declaration when compared to the events of today.
I was in SAR school at NAS North Island. We were doing practice jumps and I was waiting for my turn on the hoist. We had a couple of dolphins in the area (they liked the rotor wash for some reason). I had one come up and I pushed him away. Well he pushed back, hitting me in the chest. It was fun breathing after that and I don't want to talk about the hoist ride. Turned out Flipper cracked two ribs.
DeleteI am sending deep sympathies re puppy gates/barriers. I decided to go camping with my cousins up in VT 2 weeks ago...my cousin said "you will never get a site, you can stay on ours", but I looked on line and lo and behold there were 2 left, so I called the nice lady in the ranger station and was able to reserve one of them after finding out which end of the lake the family was going to be at--wanted to be close by, not a mile away. So Friday night I'm up til 2AM Saturday finishing up work stuff, get my butt into bed, back up at 6:30AM, and get packing/loading/sorting out my camping stuff as I haven't been in 2 years. When I bought the house, and moved in, I was smart enough to put camping stuff kinda in one spot, but it has been sitting in the garage for about 2 years, and got kinda grubby, so I'm cleaning/washing etc. Get everything cleaned up, decide what I'm taking, and leaving behind and get it organized into a couple of small totes--don't want to take one big one as that will block my sight driving...like to see all sides of the car. So I have the car 3/4's loaded, and I grab the last small tote and head for the breezeway...Now, about a month ago, a friend was here and built me a step from the breezeway up on the landing that is inside my back door, as according to everyone else that step up is "just too high". The landing leads either into the kitchen, up one step, or down to the cellar which is down about 12 steps.
ReplyDeleteSo I step down from the kitchen onto the landing, then one step out into the breezeway...and caught my heel on the edge of the nice new wooden step and went right down on all fours with my hands hanging onto the tote. Just missed bonking my head on the buffet that is in the breezeway, no idea how I didn't hit it. My back immediately started to spasm, my knees were scuffed from the rug rash (industrial carpet over concrete floor) and, mercy of mercies, the tote didn't bust. I came down hard on it, it should have! I took a second to gather myself, and then thought, "well, hell, this is gonna be embarrassing if I can't get up". I was able to get up, carried the tote out to the car, the knees stung like a sonofagun, then went back inside and washed up my knees. And took guff all weekend for my scuffed knees since all I had packed was shorts...a bit sore for the past couple of days but I blame that on sleeping in the tent...riiight!
Easy high stepping exercise is to sit up straight on the edge of the couch, or a chair while watching TV, and when a commercial comes on, just pick up your feet like you are marching in place. Don't have to high step, or go wicked fast, just nice steady up and down pace. Go for the length of the commercials, then stop and watch the show. You will have gotten 20 min of exercise if you chair march to all the commercials, you can do it in your jammies, no special equipment needed, except for a TV, which most folks have, and you are strengthening your quadriceps muscles, which are important to prevent falls...as well as helping you get up from chairs easily.
But I do like Bean's theory of gravitational shifts...it makes sense to me!
And, yes, if ya don't start feeling better, go see your friendly neighborhood doctor person...especially since ya aren't as youthful as ya once was...none of us are any more...sigh...
Suz
Suz,
DeleteGlad you got through the Olympic tumbling competition successfully. I was eliminated from the thumb wrestling event yesterday by my opponent from Russia Tabul Sawski. He used an illegal downward thrust, but the judge didn't rule against it, My quick jerk and clean prevented complete loss. The team Doctor said I'd probably need to get re-fingerprinted, but I should be back in competition soon.
In less sarcastic English, I cut my thumb om the table saw yesterday. Several stitches, and stings like all get out, but, I should be ok.
Several lessons learned from the episode.
Hopefully #1 lesson: use a wooden (or plastic) pusher to avoid having body parts go ANYWHERE near rapidly rotating metal discs!!
DeleteLesson #2: keep a well equipped first aid kit IN the workshop---cause yours is so well insulated no one will ever hear ya yell in the house.... ;) Check out Refuge Medical.com--they have good stuff at reasonable prices made in America type company. And the desk kit is on sale this week I see---$125ish.
Suz
Suz,
DeleteYeah , I know. The NP that bandaged me up had been a student of mine. The look on his face conveyed that message quite well. Even I knew better, but "just this once..." My Guardian Angel kept the damage at the "very painful but not permanent" level while sending a strong message of "Dumass!"
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!
OUCH... and always nice to read both the Declaration and the Bill of Rights. I do so every year.
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