I'm icing my back. I know my daughter doesn't watch Portland Wrestling. She can't, we only get four channels of OPB on our digital TV, so I have no idea where she got the idea to do a flying W on her father. But Monday night when we were in the midst of a knock down and drag out tickle fight on the living room floor she did and she cracked two of my ribs. I did not move fast enough. I doubled up in pain while laughing and she burst into tears. I suppose this makes up for me nearly breaking her finger during a light saber fight a few years ago. I heard the rib pop.
So, I lived with the pain for two days and decided I was going to the Chiropractor. Sometimes it works. He popped my back with his little popper gun and stretched me around a bit and I left feeling a lot better. He told me to ice my back and said that 32 degrees outside didn't count. I felt pretty good till I installed new glass in the rear window of my White 2-155. I was able to chip a nearly $200 piece of glass.
Anyway, I'm setting in the old Lazy-Boy my Uncle gave me a decade or so ago and I'm listening to Jimmy Rodgers on my Dual 1019 record player through headphones. I went to GoodWill on my way home from the Chiropractor and found a little Optimus preamp. I was in a hurry and didn't look very close at it. Not close enough to see the "Made in China" writing. I just saw a switch for magnetic and ceramic cartridges and I figured it was one of the old one. It is newer than I thought. I've been looking for the little Realistic preamp for making computer recordings. This one is lacking in frequency response but that was I don't hear the pops and clicks and turntable rumble.
This evening I made a base for my turntable out of scrap wood left over from my shed repair project. I roughed it out with the chainsaw and then did the final fit with a little saber saw. It kind of looks like crap but it only took me 15 minutes. Perhaps I'll post a photo tomorrow. My wife just laughed.
Dadgummit, I've got to get up and turn the record over...
sounds as if you have as much luck working with glass as i do.
ReplyDeleteand hope that little fight taught you a valouable lesson in life. it doesn't pay for a man to fight with the female half of the species. its a guaranteed losing effort.
A guy who works on electronic equipment with a chainsaw - no wonder I like your style!
ReplyDeleteAt least you didn't get into a fight with the chainsaw. They break more than ribs.
ReplyDeleteFound this. http://www.chainsawcollectors.se/phpbb3/index.php. Maybe yours is a collectible and your suddenly rich.
Just a thought.
A chainsaw carpenter, thats pretty good Budde. A true artisan can create great work no matter what kind of tools he uses. And the reverse applies. Give me the finest wood working tools and I could still produce nothing but expensive firewood and sawdust. Good luck with your recovery.
ReplyDeleteGriper, installing a rear window in a tractor is not the worst job I've ever done but it was a challenge and if I should break it again it is going to the glass shop for repair.
ReplyDeleteGorges, it drives my wife crazy as it is such a local hillbilly thing to do.
Bobby, I didn't get your link to work, but of course we do have a couple 1960's Homelites out here. I used an almost new Shindawa (sp?) It is a nice saw.
Ralph "Give me the finest wood working tools and I could still produce nothing but expensive firewood and sawdust," I am in the same category and that is why often make use of the chainsaw. It is going to end up looking crude and not quite square no matter how hard I try. So why not just get it done.
This plywood and scrap 2x6 thing is getting a pattern made to attempt to make a nice base.