Streak of bad luck

[slngsht]

As Arya and I frantically work on the car to not lose to Bob, we have had some serious setbacks the last couple of days. First, just as we are about to start working on axle brackets and body panels, the Plasma stops working.

 

Last night I smashed my pinky pretty good while drilling a 3/4" hole. Drill caught, and slammed my hand into the axle, trapping my pinky. The way it turned, i couldn't get my point finger off the trigger.

 

So, I get up with my swollen finger this morning, and have a temp :banghead:

 

It's been raining almost everyday too.

 

Sigh

[sporqster]

I feel your pain, Maz. I'm working on a reupholstery project for the wife's project 'budget Porsche' (is there such a thing?) and stapled the leather for the bolsters on the rear jumper seats through the 1/2" thick piece of wood with a 5/8" staple... and into my 3/8" thick thumb....:cry:

[locost7018]

When was your last TDP shot???

[Arya Ebrahimi]

Let's not forget my multiple burn incidents, but who's counting anyway?

[Mandurath]

Heh Must be a bad week for all. Get home, and discover that the bad storms we had this week blew the cover off my boat (that I apperently did not secure well enough), turning it into a giant bathtub. Heh it took about an hour or two to drain, and is full of leaves. Icing on the cake, I think my neighbors cat pee'd in it, as it smells like cat spray. So instead of catching fish, I am cleaning today. Yay.

[lowflyer]

 

Here, maybe this will make you feel a little better!

 

 

 

 

I LOVE MY JOB . . . .

. This is even funnier when you realize it's real!

Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy. Rob is a

commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs

underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent

to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 on FM dial in

Ft.Wayne, Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.

Needless to say, she won.

 

'Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling

brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been

feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you

to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

 

Before I can tell yo u what happened to

me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you

know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office.

It's a wetsuit.

 

This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to

keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater.

This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It

heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the

diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now

this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with

no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working,

is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This

floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a

jacuzzi.

 

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to

itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.

Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out

from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I

realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a

jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair

on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it . However, the crack of my

butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an

itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

 

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator.

His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with

five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say

I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing

in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I

could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When

I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my

brass helmet.

 

As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of

laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to

rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the

fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was

swollen shut.

 

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much

worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now

repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job,I love my job.'

Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this

a jellyfish bad day?'

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

 

[slngsht]

:lol: Reading that helped.

 

I just got back from worshiping the porcelain god

[Mandurath]

Heheheh Yes, that did work. I feel better.

[locostv8]

I did similar trying to drill holes to reatach spring hangers on the Jeep BJ. I have a nice big Bosch 1/2 hammer drill with lots of torque, the bit would catch and the drill continued spinning nearly breaking my wrist. This happened two times, didn't get smart the first time. I went on a search for a plug in drill with a torque setting, all cordless have this but a cordless would die halfway thru drilling. I finaly found one at Home Depot I think it is also Bosch, problem solved back off torque and the drill just clicks instead of trying to break something. The best fix was sharpning the drill bit, shich I suck at so Henry sharpened it so the hole was being cut instead of being worn thru. Any hole over .5 is now dirlled with the clutch drill problem solved.

 

This dosn't help much with the plasma cutter but since I can't afford one of those that is a non problem here.

 

I'm in Orlando for another month. You could send some of that rain down this way it's mid 90 here and way too dry.