Oooof. That could have been really, really bad!Last Friday night I was using a squeegee on the sliding door in our bathroom having just showered when it popped off the track as I moved it and got stuck in the lower guide rail. I tried lifting it back up from the mounted handle and Kabash! The entire door shattered all over my legs. A dinner size plate of shattered safety glass cut my foot before it could crumble apart. Blood everywhere. Glass everywhere. I got small gash 1 inch long and not too deep. It was probably worth 2 or 3 stitches. When it happened, I was trapped in my birthday suit yelling every safe word I could think of to get my wife to help me. Oaklahoma! Pineapple! and so on. Pissed it happened. The safety glass did its job. Maybe there is something to be learned here.
I shuddered reading this!Last Friday night I was using a squeegee on the sliding door in our bathroom having just showered when it popped off the track as I moved it and got stuck in the lower guide rail. I tried lifting it back up from the mounted handle and Kabash! The entire door shattered all over my legs. A dinner size plate of shattered safety glass cut my foot before it could crumble apart. Blood everywhere. Glass everywhere. I got small gash 1 inch long and not too deep. It was probably worth 2 or 3 stitches. When it happened, I was trapped in my birthday suit yelling every safe word I could think of to get my wife to help me. Oaklahoma! Pineapple! and so on. Pissed it happened. The safety glass did its job. Maybe there is something to be learned here.
This is our previous house, the morning of buyer’s inspection when we were in escrow to sell.Last Friday night I was using a squeegee on the sliding door in our bathroom having just showered when it popped off the track as I moved it and got stuck in the lower guide rail. I tried lifting it back up from the mounted handle and Kabash! The entire door shattered all over my legs. A dinner size plate of shattered safety glass cut my foot before it could crumble apart. Blood everywhere. Glass everywhere. I got small gash 1 inch long and not too deep. It was probably worth 2 or 3 stitches. When it happened, I was trapped in my birthday suit yelling every safe word I could think of to get my wife to help me. Oaklahoma! Pineapple! and so on. Pissed it happened. The safety glass did its job. Maybe there is something to be learned here.
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I have the same cellphone pic! Think of that. I took the time to take a pic while she was finding bath mats for me to get out on while trying to come up with a good story to tell. My photo has a lot more blood, shows me standing in the glass and the cut on my foot. I don't think I should post it but would send it privately.This is our previous house, the morning of buyer’s inspection when we were in escrow to sell.
Yes I am quoting myself. This forecast turned out to be way off. It was actually in the 90s in Laguna this weekend.
You had it easy there bud. We had a two or three days of 110s along the base of the San Gabes. Today, it's ONLY 104.Yes I am quoting myself. This forecast turned out to be way off. It was actually in the 90s in Laguna this weekend.
I was at the beach where it was in the 80s and the water was in the 70s. Surprisingly few people at San Onofre or any other beach today, and fairly empty freeways at 3 pm - unheard of. People must have hunkered down instead of flocking to the beach.You had it easy there bud. We had a two or three days of 110s along the base of the San Gabes. Today, it's ONLY 104.
Of course, I was up in Big bear during the worst of it but Steve was texting screen shots of temps readings around him.
Yes I am quoting myself. This forecast turned out to be way off. It was actually in the 90s in Laguna this weekend.
I have bronchitis but the weather today is purrfect so I may need to cough out an easy climb
Sorry. I just had to post that.
I actually had a great drive home considering all the construction going on above and below Santa Barbara. Safe travels...Knee was sore enough that I thought if I needed to drop my left leg down on the side of a cliff it might give way and send me atumblin'. So I rescued my wife from mtb widowhood and scouted out El Chorro Regional Park. Walked to the top of the Discovery trail above the botanical gardens and scoped out the view. Then went to Pismo Preserve. This looks like it is likely legit mtb riding habitat. New dirt for next time. Early out tomorrow to beat the traffic - estimated time to vacate SLO: 2:30 - 3:00 am. Enough with the stinking 101 at any normal time.
Just got home from Huntington Beach. Soooo glad to be back in the mountains.I actually had a great drive home considering all the construction going on above and below Santa Barbara. Safe travels...
We lit out at 3 am this morning, 101 all the way to the 60 and made it home in 3 hrs 10 min. Just escaped rush hour around LA.I actually had a great drive home considering all the construction going on above and below Santa Barbara. Safe travels...
Finished. Just waiting for it to dry.Set up the bullet puller in the press (had to fix an error), pulled the handle, and this:
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So of course my inner Boy Scout kicked in and I proceeded to make a new workbench top that WON"T do that.
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2 x 6 tongue & groove; it's now wider and deeper than it was, and much stronger. Now all I have to do is put a coat of urethane on it, drill for the vise attachment bolts, and I'll never have to do that again.
Husky has much to answer for. Wimpy stuff is not good.