thumbnailed pic, lol Tuesday, May 13 2008
Uncategorized 5:59 pm
here is my injury a day later. it’s only a dull ache and throbbs when I grab something, but I work anyways, lol
Grinder injuries hurt less then the treatment Monday, May 12 2008
my day 9:20 pm
I was at work, putting a 45 bevel on a large piece of c-channel, the last piece mind you. as i moved the grinder along the surface I must have caught the thumbof the leather glove I wore. thus causing it to bite in through the glove and right into my thumb. I shook my hand by reflex and pulled the glove off, it didn’t really hurt, just felt weird. and that is when I saw how bad it was. right along the nail was a trench that was over 3/16″ wide, at the deepest part about 3/16″ deep, and traveling about an inch. the grinder cauterized most of the blood vessels luckly. so off to the hospital I went.
the occupational clinic sent me to the ER for them to look at it first to see if it needed stitches. it did, so as I waited in the ounge I found no good magazines.
they gave me a light up pager/coaster thing you see at some restaurants, lol. when I was finally checked out initially and a room opened i sat back and watched the Sci-fi channel in between the nurses and the doctors as the preped me, waited for my thumb to go numb and give me a TB shot.
now as a side note, just this morning I made the stupid mistake of thinking to myself “with all this rust coated iron I am working with and getting occasional nicks, I should really get a TB shot” just shoot me.
the only part with the hospital visit that sucked was getting the injections to numb my thumb. the doctor made several injections around the base of my thumb to numb the whole thing. the initial stick hurt, mut when she patially pulled it out and angled it and pushed it back in to hit a different section hurt and freaked me out a bit as much as the needle was bending around. after an hour and a pre-stitch second injection into the wound itself since I could feel a little bit still we were ready to go. one of the stitches they had to go through the nail to get it.
pictures will be posted in a couple of days. only after surgery pics, my camer was at home, and I didn’t think about my phone at the time. the really bad thing is I have an optic trackball mouse and the gauze covered thumb has no grip to roll the ball, lol
sweet toolbox Friday, Apr 25 2008
my day 10:03 pm
I recently purchased a tool box and some more much needed tools for my trade in a sheetmetal shop
I decided to spray paint the chrome trim metalic red. I lightly coated the whole box, so it’ll have a slight red tint to the black. what can i say, i was bored, the paint was here not being used, and it looks sweet, lol. this is only the new tools. the rest of them will fill the box up nicely
the truth about me Sunday, Apr 13 2008
my day 8:24 am
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Dan!
- Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into Dan.
- California is the biggest exporter of Dan in the world!
- Japan provides over thirty percent of the world’s Dan supply!
- A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for Dan, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.
- Dan can clean his ears with his tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long.
- Devoid of his cells and proteins, Dan has the same chemical makeup as sea water.
- A thimbleful of Dan would weigh over 100 million tons!
- Dan is 1500 years older than the pyramids.
- If you lace Dan from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
- Julius Caesar wore a laurel wreath to cover up Dan.
Just what I wanted Tuesday, Apr 8 2008
my day 10:25 pm
well today is my b-day. Cylithria called to wish me a happy birthday. Ray wished me a happy birthday when i got home from my running around all day, his daughter also made me a card earlier in the week and asked him to deliver it to me today.
I had a great dinner of pork steak and shrimp salad and a pineapple upside-down cake at my parents house with my sister.
and to top it off, my sheetmetal buisness rep called with a job opening starting tomorrow, W00t!!!!!!!!1
so true Sunday, Mar 23 2008
my day 8:39 pm
You are 3:15 p.m.
You are the moment when the last bell rings and school lets out for the day. You are resistant to schedules and obligations, so you love feeling like you’re in control of your life again. You are the very moment when the second hand hits the 12, and the halls fill with noise and motion. Even if your after-school time is packed with activities, lessons, or a job, somehow, you just feel freer in the late afternoon than you do earlier in the day. Maybe it’s all that blue sky and afternoon sunshine? Nah — even on rainy days, 3:15 is always a beautiful time.
no can haz job Friday, Mar 14 2008
my day 3:26 pm
well I was there two weeks and they laid me and 6 other guys off due to work slow down, oh well, that’s how it goes these days I guess. so that is now 6 jobs total I have had over 10 1/2 years.
first was as a BSA summer camp merit bage counselor. reason for termination= parent heard their boy telling a dirty joke at home after the campout I was in charge of, stating that is where he heard it from.
second was working for a estimators firm for contractors, pulling details off prints to typing up reports. reason for termination= it was a summer job with a set leave date before I started.
third was a part time working at a machine shop that manufatures and refurbishes ball-screws and ball-nuts, pullo=ing print details off of physical pieces or hand drawn scetches and putting in a cad file. reason for termination = hired into another company full time.
forth was working for a company called Glastender working in their engineering department drefting, designing and actually buinding prototypes and fix program errors. reason for termination= they felt 1-2% error on custom designed parts on average based on monthly information was too much, but get this, in their “scorecard” for monthly goals, 2% error was the goal for custom programs. I knew they wanted to get rid of me since this job was another workers and they could use this to get a paper trail to fire me. they way they were treating me the month or two before termination I was planning to quit anyways. when I call in to start unemployment again I will still be pulling off of them for about 10 weeks still, LOL
the fifith was my first union job at a sheetmetal shop that specialized in siding and ductwork. the reason for termination= I was not working fast enough ” even though all I was doing was use part fed machines that can only be feed so fast”, the real reason was becaused I messed up a big duct that was expensive for a job that was later cancelled and not for my duct being late, the buisness rep told me he chewed them out for leaving a pre-apprentice alone to work on a $8,000 duct.
the six was the latest helping the insulators by getting them materials and supplies they need. reson for termination= project coming to and end and work needed was slowing down. I spent most of my time walking the stairs trying to find something to do so I figured it wasn’t going to be long anyways.
on a plus note, I just got off the phone with the buisness rep and he may have another job for me soon, possibly with sheetmetal workers going to the same facility for siding work, LOL.
maybe I can haz job, woot!!!1
chillidogs, mmmmmm….. Sunday, Mar 9 2008
my day 5:19 pm
wanting something hot at work I decided to make chilli dogs at home to warm up there. it works out to about $0.60 a piece, instead of 2.50 at the job site lunch wagon.
hot, cheap, and bad for my health. mmmmmmmmm
paper blog Saturday, Mar 8 2008
my day 5:01 pm
paper blogged due to no time
3/8/08 ”I have laundry and daylight savings time occuring the same night , no time for pc.”
