On Feb 28, 5:58*pm, Neil Brooks wrote:
I'm just going to apologize, and promise to bow out of the ****-storm
I caused ... if not the woodworking portion of tonight's feature film.

While everything in my heart wishes that I *could* just snap my
fingers, and you'd all decide "that I was right," -- maybe in the
spirit of Steve Turner's post -- I've realized that I've had a rough
few weeks, and latched on with the foolish tenacity of a pitbull.

ON topic ... here's a little more insight ... AND some woodworking
content:

http://lumberjocks.com/NBeener/blog/14108

Life HAS piled up on me, lately.

I've faced more challenges than normal, and "normal" includes more
than a few.

Did I take that out on y'all?

I guess I did.

It *would have* been better if -- in the words of the Grateful Dead --
I had "State yer' piece and get out."

Would I be grateful if the *message* lingered a while, in the minds of
the Wreck's contributors? *Sure.

But I won't flog anybody ... or myself ... any more on this.

I have my wounds -- like most of us do -- and will vow to find
*better* ways to heal them.

If I'm *really* lucky ... part of that healing WILL be in my wood
shop ... where ... the SECOND one of these (this is #1)

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_WVVYjLCNo2w/S3...lQ/P-KRr2L0bVk...

Is in the works.

So ... please accept my apologies.

Rough roads ... usually don't lead me to take things out on others.
This was an unforeseen speed bump.

Neil


Good luck, Neil. Lost my dad whenever I was 39 and he was only 66.
He lost his father at a young age (25) and he was the one who drew the
short straw to tell my grandfather that he had terminal lung cancer.
He had a really rough time with that for the rest of his life--he
wanted to die of *anything* but lung cancer. So what did he die of?
Lung cancer.


Oh, and he and my mother lost two children: one still born and one
lived a couple hours. Although I did not lose them myself, I think I
know what it was (is) like.

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