On Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 7:06:30 PM UTC-4, G Ross wrote:
I was about to put up a magnet over my lathe to hold small items.
Walking over to where the screws live, with my mind 82 miles away, I
walked into a 1 cubic foot box full of wood blocks. I went down like
the Titanic--but a little faster. No harm done other than debarking
my elbow and knee.

Note to self: If you insist on leaving boxes where they don't belong,
maybe you should invest in some good elbow and knee protectors. Maybe
a rubber floor.

It won't be long before I may need a room at the nursery rhyme home.
--
GW Ross

My worst "mind 82 miles away" mishap occurred when I was building my deck.
Actually, it was more like "mind 36 inches away".

I was working on the railing for the stairs (8 steps) and I used bar clamps
to hold the railing to the posts. I used a 36" bar clamp on the upper portion,
with the bar sticking out into the yard. I walked away from the stairs to grab
some tools and then started walking back.

~36" from the stairs my head snapped back, my safety glasses cracked and
were pushed up towards my forehead and blood started running down my nose.

My vision had been concentrated on the railing and the 1/2" end of the bar
clamp completely disappeared from view. It caught me square in the center
of the left lens of my *safety glasses*, which cracked, but luckily deflected
the sharp end of the bar clamp up towards my forehead where it took out a
pretty big chunk of skin.

If I hadn't have been wearing the safety glasses, I probably would have
lost my left eye. I almost fainted, not from the impact, but from the shock
of realizing how close I came to a very serious injury.