Well last night was a bit of excitement. I got home around 5:30 and started working on the sunroom exterior. As I was finishing up I had been cutting a piece of plywood. Well I accidentally had my finger on the trigger and my other hand on the blade guard release… As I was setting it down I caught my left leg with the running blade. 8 inches long, 2 inch wide gash on my leg. I kept my cool and applied preasure as I got inside yelling for Susan to call an ambulance. Laid down in the sunroom and propped my leg on my right boot. I was extremely lucky that I did not cut an artery nor did I cut any major nerves. I can hobble around but with great pain.
I had quite a few nurses coming in to check it out… I guess they don’t get to see some idiot try to do a self amputation! I’m on bed rest for 24 hours, then I have to see the Dr tomorrow so they can check the swelling and see how it is mending. I got a nice pair of scrubs pants! These things are incredibly light.
33 and another frosty one here. Yesterday got a compost in the final bed of the yarden put on fertilizer 5-10-5 and the added lime so should be ready for spring.
88, gonna have to come down there and give you some safety lessons?[;)] Glad you’re OK. Those things bite so watch out.
BRUTUS,don’t overtighten those nuts, you might strain your ovaries?[;)]
Mornin’ WHOoooaaaa!!!Awwww man, 88, how cool would it be to have a peg leg…? [oX)]
Pssst…need to retie that thingie in the back a little…[:O]
SPMan- Got to ride that same route behind N&W 1218 back in the 80’s. Hey, in reference to that signal, how do you have that hing wired up? Probe is patiently trying to help me with mine…
RockIsland - All of our “crazies” go to Fells Point for Halloween…Number 1 princess was one of them.
Chief - Ok, describe what a Nawth Caroliner “super street” is…[D)]
Perhaps Buckeye or dbaker or even jonadel might know…
IIABSDISEI with temps near 50. Brent (88), omg! I am so glad you were not hurt. Flashbacks to my “snowblower manicure” flooded my mind as I read your story. (Shudder!) Good thing Suzie -Q was there to call 911. Perhaps I am overreacting, but this is one event I can definitely relate to. Just watch out for the painkillers. Take the bare minimum and get off them as fast as you can. I know why people can get addicted to them. Wow, this post took a turn that I did not expect. Prayers for sure going out to you as you recover.
Whew! Just goes to show how fast life can change! I went to the YMCA and did some weghts (at less than full strength) and some soccer juggling. I did some Second Life after I got the trash and recycling together, and I went to bed early. “V” is on tonight. I will definitely watch the first episode or so to see how they deal with it. I had bran muffins on the dining car before sending it to “Points East”. TBIL. I hope everyone has a good day.
NEW YORK – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. in a deal valuing the railroad at $34 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway already owns a stake of about 22 percent in Burlington Northern, and said it will pay $100 a share for the rest of the company.
The majority of the stock issued in the deal will be Berkshire’s “A” shares, but Berkshire’s board also approved a 50-for-1 split of its Class B common stock for holders of smaller amounts of Burlington shares who opt for a share exchange rather than cash. Berkshire’s Class B shares closed Monday at $3,265. With the split, each share will be worth $65.30. Burlington shares closed Monday at $76.07. The shares shot up over 29 percent to $98.25 in premarket trading.
The deal has been approved by the boards of both companies. It would be the biggest acquisition ever for Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Berkshire also owns MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which controls power companies in the Midwest and
Morning. Fifey, thought I would have a news link to show you one.* Seems there were four people murdered in Fayetteville and the truck suddenly packed up and headed south to cover that story [four people in a nice neighborhood and not a home invasion. Police not saying much including names]. Story ran last night was a very short one and did not even cover the topic DOT was meeting with us about. I’ll try and find a diagram.
Sunny and warm. Had frosted some but sun has warmed fast. Its a pretty day in the neighborhood.
Got one meeting at noon. Hair cut and “suck” up leaves in the yard.
BRENT!!! You always call Dennis W. for the sleep meds before starting surgery. Hey, you are not suppose to operate on your self with a skill saw. YANKEES!!! Glad you are not hurt any more that you are. Could have been a bad thing cutting close to arteries and etc. I have some hydrocodone if you need it.
Jim, I have a lazer level [I have two] if you need to use one to straighten up your house.
PaPaD, I had the privilege of riding the NS Operation Lifesaver train in NC the other week. Great ride.
More coffee and donuts.
Later.
*Fife, this mornings news story is different from last night’s. Watch the link. Super streets is shown. You come to intersection, stop, turn right got up the street and merge left. There is a left turn lane in the median. You do a U turn to go left or U turn and merge right to turn right.
Chief - Median Turn-Around. We have some of those (EASERN SHORE), especially where 2 rural state routes intersect. Same idea- take away from misjudging oncoming traffic during a left turn. BTW, looks like a house-divided at the Jones’ place…
OH, one more thing…why all the YANKEE reporters. I expexted to hear Southern Belles with honey-drippin’ dialects. Dissappointed…[V]
Aloha all. Sunny and cold here in Chicago. Long day with class tonight. Brent, glad you’re OK. Brutus, glad to hear things are finally moving. Just got a few nice emergency calls to start the day - this not working; the guys are here to look at X, we’re completely out of copy/printer paper… that sort of thing.
Looks like it takes the point of impact out of the intersection and moves it about 800 feet away. Sure looks challenging, can’t imagine anything like that here. “Were heading east, but need to go north, so take the south off ramp west” Got it !!
Buckeye, You need to take a trip south and discuss the concept of elevation. IF, more of the people understood an overpass, maybe they wouldn’t need the Super Street.Or, is this the redefinition of a Obama Bridge?
CA Nut, takes less property and cheaper than interchange. OH, that’s right. You live in the land of plenty of $$$$ and desert where land is nothing but to be used as highways. [:-^][(-D] Highways don’t burn too well [they BAKE] but will crack when they SHAKE. [}:)]
Brent, At least you didn’t get the same response from the nursing staff I got on my last trip to the ER after a close encounter with the table saw. Her comment “Power tools, right?”
Brent, you were lucky - I’m glad that you didn’t do more damage to yourself. And that you knew what to do after it happened. Take care of yourself.
Knee’s getting a bit better day by day. I can get around, but the whole leg is very stiff when I first get up. Lots of pain in various areas, but nothing I’m too worried about. Heard from the radiologist yesterday: they concurred with the doctor’s diagnosis of no tears or cartilage damage.
Didn’t think of taking a picture of Linda’s Halloween display until this morning - gotta try and do that tonight to show you guys.
Not much else to report. I continued working on the 302 last night, and I’ve never seen as much grease in one place like this. Everything is covered. It doesn’t help matters that the grease that Gilbert used looks like earwax.[:)] I can’t do anything else until the smoke unit parts get here.
Fifey, I hooked up the MTH scale semaphore signal per the instructions that came with it. There are three terminals. One is for common (Black wire) and the other two are for normally open and normally closed. They are the red and green wires. I forget which goes where without looking at it but I just followed the instructions and hooked it all up to a MTH ITAD. I’m just using the track power option. You can use fixed voltage if you want to. There is a switch on the side of the ITAD to select which source of power you want.
Re 1218, wish I had been able to see that one run too. I had a chance to ride an excursion with it from Lexington Kentucky to Chattanooga one time but declined. I never had another chance after that as it was pulled out of service before I could go again.
Brent, that was scary! My God!, you could have cut your leg off. Get well soon and stay away from power saws for a while.
Another nice day here in the Ol’ Pueblo. Just finished breakfast w/ an old friend from school. He and his wife bought a house recently in the same neighborhood. I may be “leaning” on them a bit depending on how quick I can get around after this foot thing. Pre-op visit w/ the Podiatrist today.
Jack - wish I did know where this came from in my foot. Would have be worth it to keep someone away from Jim’s car.
Jim S. - thoughts and prayers for your daughter
Doug - glad to hear the test went ok. Not sure if I’d rather do the treadmill test or not, but the chemicals were somethin’ weird. And I thought the Navy gave me some crazy stuff, but they never made me radioactive!
Brent - glad your “event” wasn’t as bad as it could be. Even after being trained as a carpenter in the Navy, I have a healthy respect for saws of any kind.
Brutus - Sounds like good news! Hopefully next year will be better for everyone. BTW, I once saw a professional electrician who didn’t twist his wires first. Was putting everything back in after the inspection and several nuts just fell off w/ slight movement. Sounds like you are doing just fine.
Don…For someone living in California, you need to see the latest and greatest intersection heading your way. http://www.abmb.com/cfi-testdrive.html Needless to say, they just built one of these things is in the SOUTH. Us Northerners thought this intersection up to control the population in the South. We figure that this will put an end to Billy Bob getting in his truck and driving over to see Peggy Sue.
Buckeye, One of the simpler interchanges, two freeways with car pool lanes. The second roadway from the lower left, is elevated for a distance of 2 miles.
Looks like it takes the point of impact out of the intersection and moves it about 800 feet away. Sure looks challenging, can’t imagine anything like that here. “Were heading east, but need to go north, so take the south off ramp west” Got it !!