Chase, do you want to go to Jason's to watch the finals on TV?
No, I'd much rather go down into the crawlspace and try to fix my leaky pipes, but you go along and have a good time.

In trying to tighten pipe A into pipe B, I had two pipewrenches (one on each pipe) and was turning them in opposite directions. When they stopped turning, I kept pushing/pulling, to get it "really, really tight". I pushed/pulled so hard that one wrench flew off the pipe and smacked me in the forehead. It was quite scary to be underneath an empty house, thinking "hmm...I'm about to pass out". Luckily, I didn't, and promptly left the plumbing for the next day.

Another time, I was replacing a hose spigot outside my house. I got angry, at a point in the process where there was just a pipe coming out of the house, with no spigot on. I was sitting facing the pipe, and I laid back and kicked the @#$@# thing as hard as I could. A stomping-type motion, not a punting-type motion. I was wearing sandals. The sandal somehow slid away, so I ended up hitting the pipe with the bare sole of my foot, which then proceeded to turn a nice purple color and stay that way for a week.

I have also made the white part of my eye bleed due to not wearing goggles while chopping wood. This winter I cut my thumb while working on the car, and didn't clean the oil/grease off of it well enough, so even though the cut has healed you can still see a black mark under the skin that will probably give me cancer and make me die someday.

But, on the plus side I have also installed a water softener, stripped my shed down to studs and rebuilt it, replaced one wall of my screened porch, built two fences, laid a few tile floors, done lots of electrical work, and changed my car's timing belt and brake rotors+pads, with no major problems.
(chase, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 21:17, 2 replies)

argia is my favourite disease
that's when you get silver dust into cuts or enough in your blood. It goes blue/black. I have many scars like this on my hands from working with silver. It's completely harmless, Hope the oil/grease is as well. Does make for some mighty impressive scarring.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 5 Apr 2008, 1:17, closed)

Yay, then maybe I won't die of thumb-cancer after all!
Thanks for that :)
(chase, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 13:49, closed)