A bit of sound advice!

[pumba]

Never leave you screw gun lying on the living room floor. If you insist on this anyway, never leave the room for a moment, and come running back into the room to answer the phone and in your rush kick your screw gun. Further more, If you still find it absolutely necessary to run in and kick your screw gun, Never, Never, kick it utilizing your pinky toe and kicking it right on the end of the bit...OUCH!!!DANG!!!!AND MUCH WORSE things will come forth from the hole under your nose followed by a very urgent sick fealing. Of course then there is the cleanup of the rug, and explaining to your mother (Who is on the phone you rushed to answer) why you are saying all these colorfull things just before hanging up on her to stop the bleeding.

This is my day in a nutshell. Of course this was preceeded by hanging a new celing fan. As I was compleeting the very last thing, finding a problem with the fan that required it to be replaced. Of course this means I get to reverse engineer the fan, and then since it was soo much fun putting it up the first time, put it up again. (Of course the second time with a freshly punctured pinky toe.) SO how was everyone's 4th?

Cheers
Ray

[Ken]

You know what makes that ceiling fan job go a lot easier? A good screw gun!

Sorry about your pain.

K

[frankykeno]

Ken....Ray....laffing so hard I nearly inhaled my morning cup of coffee up my nose is NOT fun either.....more fun tho then installing a ceiling fan which are instruments of the devil himself LOL.


~~Jo~~

[tigerlily]

We've just replaced two ceiling fans and they are definitely horrible instruments of torture. We thought about replacing a couple others, but have absolutely no desire to do so after finishing the installation on the first two.

That poor little toe. Ouch! Hope it's doing better!!!

[Merchant]

No ceiling fans. The one in my dining room has a bad switch for the fan part. At least I’m hoping it’s just the switch. (The switch is broken doesn’t click anymore and it’s stuck) and the light works so for now its just sitting there as a big light. I’ve been hoping that it will go away but I’m sure it won’t. So this weekend I will be playing electrical person hopefully not electrocuted person. and yep will have to use a screw gun.....

[pumba]

Just don't kick the darn thing. And remember to cut off the power. I did that once as well. Not a smart thing, but then again, I am not the smartest person in the world. I have realized there is a fine line between several things including "Brave/Dumb" "enginuitive/lazy" and "Confadence/The emergency room" lol.

Another thing I learned in Atlanta at my sisters house, Is just because you shut off the switch, does not mean that the power is off. I learned about back feeds, and the reasoning behind shutting the power off at the breaker box. "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, Pop" is kind of what that sounded like.

And I will leave yall with this. I can remember as a kid getting very frustrated with my dad always doing stuff himslef rather than getting professional help, wether it be building a room on the house, fixing the car, or whatever. I always sat back in amazement watching him go off, throw stuff, cuss, and fineally after 4 or 5 times longer than it would take a proffesional, and spending just as much money, he would fineally get his mission accomplished. Now I just look in the mirror and shake my head. I have turned into the "Old Man". Gee wiz, what will happen to the world. The really funny thing, is when I am doing something that I really should seek professional assistance with, and I look at my son, I can't help but snicker because I know what that look on his face is from...lol. Aint life funny.

May you all have a great day!
and for all the hip folks out there "Peace out" or whatever is the new saying,
Ray

[Ginevive]

OWch.. hope you're doing better today.
I know that feeling of turning into the "old man".. (in my case, it's turning into my mom, lol.) When you find yourself shopping for a lawnmower, you know yer gettin up there in age. Although, somehow I finangled with my boyfriend that if we bought a four wheeler now, we can always get the lawn attachment thingy when our current (Reagen-era) lawnmower dies.
Peace out, see ya on the flipside, etc.

[frankykeno]

When I knew I was finally and "adult" in other words....*gasp*...just like one of my parents:

1. Getting up at 6 a.m., rather than rolling in at 6 a.m. from a party, just so I could have time to myself before the 4 kids rolled out of bed. (Though I still stand firm on the rule that "getting up at 4 a.m. is only for fishing or giving birth!)

2. I first said "when I was your age...".

3. When I bought into the theory that it's only fun until you poke out an eye (in Canada actually then we just call it hockey).

4. W/o any scientific reasoning I've come to believe that a) not wearing a hat gives you the flu...b) swimming after eating gives you cramps....c) boys that drive motorcycles are only after "one thing"

5. The first time I let one of my babies throw up on me instead of the carpet because after all I'm easier to clean then the carpet!


*sigh* I have become my mom LOL (that's okay....she was a wonderful lady)

I remember the days before kids....vaguely


~~Joanna~~

[wendyhoo9]

5. The first time I let one of my babies throw up on me instead of the carpet because after all I'm easier to clean then the carpet!

I have done that!! The things that run through your head in a split second!!

Mothers are a species unto themselves, I can't wait to see what wisdom I gain (or lose) in the next 18 years!

[Strider]

ok i dont really agree with with the motorcycle statement after owning a motorcycle for some time now i have more than one reason for owning it after more than one thing.