Tech note first: Jim ... Forum speed and responce has been extremely spotty.

I've been burning the candle at both ends.







Laying out for carving ...





Preparing parts and machining ... and sanding, and sanding, and sanding.









Getting ready for bluing. And then, I realize that some of the stuff I've prepared, is too long for my bluing tanks. Just never occured to me. I've run into very close calls before ... decided there was nothing for it ...



Early one morning, I was at the steel supply place ... and ordered some sheet steel sheared. I had to be in town to make the prescription and pill run too. That muscle I'd pulled last Sunday a week ago ... was just not healing. The Monday previously scheduled appt. with the pain Doc for a regular appt., was goot timing. He decided to put me on an oral steriod to knock the back thing. I started taking them, but it just wasn't working. It was getting worse, as I was doing all this work. Breaks, Tens machine, muscle rubs, steriod, pain pills ... it was going down.



I got the end caps welded onto these new bluing room tanks, and the back said ...

Last night was one of the worst I've spent in many years. Couldn't sit of stand. No way to get away from the pain. Started early this morning on the phone. And, all day today was trying to get treatment, or meds, and ice, and intense pain. Guess there's been too much talk about feeling better. At any rate ... it will heal, I suspect. This is what I've been doing, on the way to the wall.

Hope you all have a fine 4th of July.

Gary



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Hope you find some relief.

So what's the longest pan. Doesn't look like you got a 48 incher yet. Dory

Hi Dory,

Yep - they are 48" inside.

Gary

Awweee GB. I sincerely hope you feel better man. I still love seeing your work in progress. i love it.

Thanks Faz,

I've been "on ice" all evening. It's helped enough to hobble upstairs. Progress.

Tony,

That's your clipping from your 60 year old cactus on the patio right there. Thanks again. It's doing fine.

Jim ... had to have a long tank to prepare for your Godzilla project ya know. Check off another progress point towards the eventual destruction of your right shoulder!

Gary

Hi Gary:

Cool . . . embedded mercury tubes in the buttstock Rigby-style, eh?

The pain thing sucks, man. You were doing better, for longer than I can ever remember before. Must've over-done it.

P.S. I'll keep an eye on the forum re: performance etc. . . . seems fine so far. Deleted another Chinese "user" this AM.

-- Jim

Yeah Jim,

I don't know what's worse ... the pain, or watching eight hours of Swamp Loggers and Ax Men on the History Channel. Most of the sound track seemed to consist of "bleep", "bleep" ... "bleeped bleep" . Near as I could tell, they'd find a frayed cable attached to a tree they'd been using as an anchor. The cable looked like it was ready to snap. The tree was being pulled up by the roots from the stress. The equipment was all belching smoke and valve stems, and sounding like it was flying apart. One timid person would suggest that they may want to replace that cable and move to a new tree before everything blew apart and killed everyone. To which the rest would say ... "bleep" ... BLEEPeddeeBLEEP ... can't stop now. Oddly, the camera would be there to watch the tree roots pulling up and the cable fraying. Amazing timing and all. When the whole thing exploded in splinters, cables, rusty bolts, and falling timber ... everyone would dive for cover. The camera caught all of them doing it. Then, they'd start calling for the one missing guy ... and that particular show was over. Next episode would start with replaying half of the last show, for review and to achieve an appropriate stress level. Some guy would be found unhurt ... and the whole thing would start again.

Paul Senior certainly has left a lasting mark on fine TV.

The only other thing I've tought about watching is a CD I have of the Yule Log burning on a grate, that we play at Christmas.

Man - resting is quite a task. Kelly went to pick up a prescription for me, and the Pharmacy closed three minutes before. I think this is going well ... don't you?



Gary

Dude, that'll rot your head. TV sucks. Read something, or even surf the internet . . . anything but 8 hours of TV.

I recommend E. Porter Alexander's "Fighting for the Confederacy" . . . best single book on the Civil War I've ever read. It's a memoir, but he originally wrote it for his kids, so it's very informal and quite enlightening. If you're interested, you can borrow my copy . . . we'll be up your way next weekend for Gettysburg Bike Week.

-- Jim



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Nothing worse than hitting the wall, especially when you were on a roll by the looks of things!
Get well soon
Neil

Hang in there! Even if you have to watch some crappy TV, it's bound to be better than doing more damage.

Thanks Neil,

You're right ... I'd just shifted into fifth, and accelerated ... when ... there it was ....

Gary

Hello Jim,

Fine ... just don't tell me how it turns out. I hate that.

When you are in non-stop pain, you really don't have much in the way of concentration to offer. This has been the worst bout for quite a few years. Mornings are simply agony. All day, on ice, and I can sit here for a few. Mostly I'm twisting and squirming, trying to find any position that turns off the pain. Best case is just to get it to a sickening ache that doesn't stop.

Got some new med in me today. Makes me dizzy as heck - if it cuts inflamation ... so good.

Gary

BTW Jim,

For me ... forum just won't download. You click a prompt ... it clicks .. and just does nothing. Might get a progress bar that just sits there. Over and over and over. I have to just keep dumping the whole forum, and bringing it up again. Eventually - maybe after five times of dumping the forum, and bringing up it's url again ... I'll get an entry where it will act normal. What's up with that?

Thanks,
Gary

Just did it three more times to answer Neil. Wouldn't download the smilies ... wouldn't take the post. This time ... just blinked on and worked.

gary

Hey Gary, sorry to hear the back's given out again. Damn things are a bum design. Built for knuckle dragging you know, not all this modern two-legged nonsense.

Discovery channel used to be decent TV, until they "deadly-ist-catched" the whole lineup. It's all gotta be dramatic music and sunburned rednecks doing dumb stuff 24-7 these days, preferably in an exotic location of doing something you've neve"r heard of. Every time I channel-surf across one of their shows these days, that line from from March of the Penguins (narrated by Morgan Freeman) keep popping into my head..."some of them may not survive" ...

we should be so lucky, it oughta be the producers.

Gary,

Never cared for reality TV, I have plenty of my own drama.

Amazing the way you don't let things stand in your way. Most people would complain that the government hadn't mandated longer tanks.

Hope you fell better dude. Happy Independence Day to all in the U.S.

Lon



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Thanks Lon,

Hanging by a thread.

God Bless those who have served. I hope the powers that be, and the high command, are strongly judged for what they have committed the troops to, and how they handled themselves. If they were honorable men, I hope they are richly blessed. If they used men as pawns, I hope they are severely judged.

Gary