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Hate to say it,

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Hate to say it,

Gerry D.

>but I think Santa is a Normite.

Right before my wife's annual Christmas boarding house, she decided that the first floor bath needed to be redone. New paint, commode, vanity, fixtures, etc. While hammering the baseboard into an inside corner, I popped my right shoulder. (Rotator cuff tendinitis. What I found interesting is that it wasn't that painful when the doc stuck the needle up into the shoulder socket. When he hit the plunger and injected the cortisone, well, that's another story.)

Now, I admit, I had been bitching about how hard the oak baseboard was. But I didn't think it was loud enough to reach his ears.

Christmas morning comes round, and the old gent in red had left a compressor, finish nailer and brad nailer for me.

Makes me wonder, have I been that bad?

Gerry

I guess if I had really messed up, he would have left me a biscuit joiner.

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Re: It's tough, getting old...

Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

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That is true Glen

John in Kerrville TX

>but facing those long needles takes a lot of courage...

john

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as much as I

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's

>getting a thrill of working with hand tools. they will have to pry my nail guns from my dead hands.

that is the very last power tool I would ever give up, especially for trim work.

enjoy the tool. pretty soon you will need a stapler and a pin nailer. I just got a pin nailer for some tiny trim and it is awesome!

my thumbs have never looked so nice :)

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Re: as much as I

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Well Gerry, if it will make you feel a bit better, I'll comreserate a little with ya'.

A few weeks ago just before my vacation started I decided to empty the trash cans in the weld shop that I work in. I wheeled them out on a two wheeled dolly, and than hoisted them up over my head and dumped them into the dumpster. Well, one of them was a little heavy and when I got it up I felt my right knee want to go backwards, but I finished the job and thought no more about it. Well, sir, for the past few weeks it's been annoying me. Not painful or nothing, it just feels like there is a bubble of water floating around in my kneecap.

When telling my buddy about this this, he asked me if the dumpster had a door on it, and I replied "Door"? Come to think of it they do have doors, but I'm so used to climbing them that I didn't even think about opening the door to empty the trash cans.

I'm just one month over 45 now, and it seems to me that I'm noticing a few changes. Old age may get me, but brother it's going to be one heck of a fight!

Hope you heal up well, and I'm sure you'll find much use for that compressor. My newest angle is to start @itching now about filing/cutting metal in hopes to find a water jet under the tress next year.

Todd O.

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