Clocks go ahead 1 hour tonight. :P
Good thing I'm unemployed or I'd have missed work this morning ;D Plus, I'm still getting over the loss of fingertip you caused me :o ;D
Was a short night... ;)
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Duck, now I have my monitor screen coated with coffee.
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For all those that don't know, I was talking to HCT on the phone the other day while I was preparing dinner. My wife loves potatoes, so I was making a potato cake. You simply slice some potatoes about 1/4 inch thin and place them in a frying pan in layers. Between each layer, I drizzle some olive oil and then sprinkle fresh grated parmesan, sea salt and pepper and just keep building layers that way. Fry it up about 15 minutes so it's browned on the bottom and then place in a 400 degree oven for 20-25 minutes. Take them out, dump out any oil and then using a lid, flip the potato cake so that the bottom is now the top. Put it back in the oven for about 15 minutes and you have a delicious potatoe cake that you can slice up like a cake or pie.
Anyways, as I was cutting the potatoes with a mandolin slicer and talking to HCT at the same time, I somehow, sliced the tip of my finger off. I tried to get it to stop bleeding the rest of the night but was unsuccessful and finally broke down and had to go to the doctor's office. The way it was cut, I couldn't get stitches, so the coctor had to cauterize it (man, I hate the smell of burning flesh) and now I have this gaping type of hole in my finger. Fortunately, I was able to separate the finger from potatoes and I saved the dish. ;D
Man, that is what they make super glue for - it only stings a little! ;D
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Fortunately, I was able to separate the finger from potatoes and I saved the dish. ;D
At least you have something to be thankful for.
Quote from: HCT on March 07, 2009, 12:40:27 PM
Clocks go ahead 1 hour tonight. :P
After explaining Daylight Savings Time to a Native Indian Chief, he responded by saying "Only a white man can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it on the bottom of a blanket and say its now a better blanket." ;D :D Gotta agree...
I've always loved finger foods.
Quote from: sodak on March 09, 2009, 09:05:38 AMI've always loved finger foods.
Now there's coffee on my monitor!
Quote from: sodak on March 09, 2009, 09:05:38 AM
I've always loved finger foods.
Ohhh that's a good line! :D ;D
Mike
Well; at least you were able to keep the dish meatless. :-\
You have convinced me to purchase a metal mesh glove.
On a positive side, I haven't had to do dishes for a couple of days now ;D
Oh, man. I just love coming here.... sorry you got hurt SD but I cannot stop laughing at the finger food crack.... ;D ;D ;D ;D
Don't be sorry, Pens........my pain is often the cause of many a laugh. Least that's how the wife feels ;D
I'm making your tater cake tonight.......without the finger (I hope) ;D
C
I normally get mad at myself when I do something like that, but it does feel better to laugh about it afterwards. ;D
Quote from: westexasmoker on March 09, 2009, 03:34:29 PM
I'm making your tater cake tonight.......without the finger (I hope) ;D
C
Make sure you pack the taters down with each layer. Also, use a non-stick pan if you have one and put a layer of oil on the bottom.
If you have to use the finger, don't use the middle one.....that comes in handy when you're driving ;D
Quote from: pensrock on March 09, 2009, 03:40:17 PM
I normally get mad at myself when I do something like that, but it does feel better to laugh about it afterwards. ;D
Yea, I was more worried about the taters than I was my finger. And then I was mad that I couldn't get it to stop. Heck, I even tried sticking my finger in a bowl of salt.............I would, however, recommend against trying that. My kids heard more and worse words than they would at midnight on cinemax :o ;D
SD, I was seriously thinking of asking for a mandolin for my next birthday; after reading your story though, I think I will pass....
I am Mrs. Grace & Dignity -NOT!.
Mrs.
I'm sorry folks, but I gotta jump in here. I'd have done it earlier but I've been in stitches (so to speak) from sodak's finger food line.
Please, do not ever attempt to slice anything with a mandolin. You'll ruin it's ability to ever carry a tune again! You also should never try to play music by strumming a mandoline or you'll make SD's mishap look like a paper cut.
Very, very funny Ka honu!!! :D
Sorry about your finger Giggles....about a month ago...I dropped a very shap knife and tried to pin it against the counter with my thigh (as a dog was standing at my feet "crumbming")...have a very expensive scar on my thigh...good news...it's hardly noticeable now....
Quote from: Ka Honu on March 09, 2009, 07:53:04 PM
Please, do not ever attempt to slice anything with a mandolin. You'll ruin it's ability to ever carry a tune again! You also should never try to play music by strumming a mandoline or you'll make SD's mishap look like a paper cut.
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SD I am sorry for your loss, just don't try to point me in the right direction. ;D
Gotta tell you. Had a long, bad day at work today and I really needed the laugh. This helped SOOOO :o much :D
Thank you
SD
I wasn't going to tell this one...
I had ordered a couple of nice fillet knives. I always get stuff I order delivered to my office, mainly because I'm always there. Anyway the delivery truck arrives and drops my knives off so of course I have to open the new toys... I mean tools. So, I get one knife out the packaging after a big fight with it. Next I take this razor sharp fillet knife and cut the other package open... knife slips and slashes the front of my dress pants open! :o Let me tell ya... I had the "deer in the headlights look"! :o No "equipment" damage but scared the crap outs me! :D
Ahhh yes... Life's stupid moments! :D
Mike
Duck, I have one of those mandolins and I am so afraid of it I throw stuff away when it gets close to finger time! It's the best for taters!
There's a reason many mandoline slicers come with food holders. I think SD (and by extension, the rest of us) now know why.
The real lesson here may be that multitasking ain't as easy as it used to be (and is probably never a good thing when one of the tasks involves blades and/or moving parts). I certainly speak from plenty of (often painful) experience on that point.
Quote from: La Quinta on March 09, 2009, 08:06:45 PM
Very, very funny Ka honu!!! :D
Sorry about your finger Giggles....about a month ago...I dropped a very shap knife and tried to pin it against the counter with my thigh (as a dog was standing at my feet "crumbming")...have a very expensive scar on my thigh...good news...it's hardly noticeable now....
LQ;
I feel your pain. I learn about a year ago, no matter how expensive your knife is, never attempt to catch it in mid-air after it fall off the counter. OUCH!!!
SD,
I hope your finger "feels" better soon.
I never realized how many comedians we had here on the site. ;D ;D
The finger is feeling much better, however, because it's not stiched, it's just a gaping wound so I have to be careful to keep it really clean. Like I said, I haven't done dishes now since it happened and quite frankly, my hands have never looked better (with the exception of the one finger, of course ;D).
I blame HCT for all of this mainly. If he wasn't so darned interesting, I would not have been so caught up in the conversation and would have realized that the dang thing had just sliced a portion of my finger clean off.
Thanks Duck, I think??? ??? ???
I've been meaning to call but I don't know what you'll be holding in your hands, or hand. :D :D
Ya know, it could have been a chainsaw.
It's all good, Mike ;)
I will let everyone know that the potatoes were really finger licking good ;D
And dang, the wife went out and bought gloves so I could do the dishes now. I swear that gal is not happy unless she has me working every waking moment!
SD - tell the wife that mittens are cheaper than gloves (and since you seem to be losing fingers at an alarming rate, you probably won't know the difference).
Ok, Ka Honu, everytime you say something I hear the "rimshot" in my head! Stop it!
Ba-da-bum!
i have got a really good joke but i am afraid i will be banned from this forum forever,
Thanks Habs....I'm not very smart!!!
Quote from: La Quinta on March 10, 2009, 09:08:16 PM
Thanks Habs....I'm not very smart!!!
It's just instinct. I forgot how many stitches I needed. The next time I'll make sure all my body parts are out of the way and let the knife hit the floor.
I had nineteen....it was an ugly mess!!! Just didn't want the pup to get hurt I guess...and I'm ok with that!! :)
Hey there stumpy...... Errr I mean SD, I hope yer finger heels up soon. ;) I have one of those nail clipper machines too and I get a bit nervous toward the end of the tater myself !!! :o
Hey Ice,
Back from the oil fields? Gonna have to go back to the doc soon. It looks like it's infected. I keep trying to push all the crap out of it and then dunk it in a salt solution to kill anything but all that does is make me curse and cry :o
Quote from: Smoking Duck on March 13, 2009, 05:17:22 AM
Hey Ice,
Back from the oil fields? Gonna have to go back to the doc soon. It looks like it's infected. I keep trying to push all the crap out of it and then dunk it in a salt solution to kill anything but all that does is make me curse and cry :o
Duck, A salt solution? One would think they would want you to use a peroxide solution.
Just read the post of SD slicing off the tip of his finger with a mandolin slicer. I don't know whether to be honored or ashamed that I did almost precisely the same thing with the exact same type of slicer. The tip of mine was still barely attached. As I absolutely hate hospitals, I glued mine back together with this stuff called NuSkin and slapped on about 3 bandaids to hold it in place. NuSkin really helps hold cuts together but man oh man does that stuff burn.
SD, I can sympathize with you my brother.
KyNola
Looks like it's time for a new "club" here at the Bradley forum - The Knights of the Detached Digit.
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Hey Ice,
Back from the oil fields? Gonna have to go back to the doc soon. It looks like it's infected. I keep trying to push all the crap out of it and then dunk it in a salt solution to kill anything but all that does is make me curse and cry :o
Duck, A salt solution? One would think they would want you to use a peroxide solution.
I've always thought that salt can cure anything. Heck, just look what it does to all the different meats on this forum. If it can get rid of the nasties in chicken, pork and beef, surely my finger would fit in that spectrum, somewhere ;D But, holy mother of God, does it hurt!
Are you using cure #1 or cure #2? ;)
Quote from: Smoking Duck on March 13, 2009, 07:30:49 AMI've always thought that salt can cure anything. Heck, just look what it does to all the different meats on this forum. If it can get rid of the nasties in chicken, pork and beef, surely my finger would fit in that spectrum, somewhere ;D But, holy mother of God, does it hurt!
Now that brings back some memories... About 30 years ago when I lived on the Big Island (Hawaii), I was fooling around (chasing my girlfriend down the beach) and took a header off a lava wall. Scraped the hell out of my foot. Alcohol was involved and it seemed to us that soaking the foot in an Epsom salt solution would be the right thing to do. It wasn't. I still have psychic and physical scars from that incident.
Duck, sorry about the finger and infection. Not fun.
But honestly. I done that before. A small slice with the same tool, no blood. Then years later, about the same type of slice, but not all done on the motorized meat slicer. Did the NuSkin thing (its about the same as superglue).
But what keeps getting me is my table saw in the shop. A burn by rubbing the blade (yes when moving). And once I had a sanding disk on it and sanded a few fingers, one bleed. Used peroxide for that one. Did it a few more times and I finally got smart and bought these great shop gloved. They were sanded a couple times, no damage. Gloves are now used more often when sanding. But I still get myself using a sanding block from time to time.
The ones that hurt are when slicing small wood pieces on the table saw, had a block hit my on my forhead once real hard. small gash. But once I was cutting long thin strips for doing some inlay, and I pushed wrong and snap, I was hit by about 20 small projectiles. three stuck into by torso and one in bicep. and many others made pin pricks. Man that hurt. I did that one weekend when wife was away. I stopped working and cleanup and bandaged myself and hoped bleeding would stop. It did. I did not tell wife. It was one of the more stupid things I did. Last time I did that!
IKW - It would seem that you do indeed "know wood" - far more intimately than most of us would prefer.
SD, been there done that with power tools - or tin can lids. Man those things can be sharp. Peroxide is the ticket. Try that and then use an antibotic AND keep covered - bet that cleans it up. Unless you have a lot of redness extending up into the hand or above, then I'd go pretty soon.
IKW - sure glad someone else has done some of that. I like the 2 x 6 that kicked back into my stomach off the table saw. That was fun. Didn't know bruises could be so big and so full of colors and it is amazing how little air you actually need for a few minutes. Ditto on the sanding. There are times it would be hard for the FBI to get fingerprints. And tell you what is a lot of fun also - a wire wheel on a 4" grinder meeting up with your thigh - on the bright side, I found another way to make hamburger. Oh and lets not forget the fun when a 35 pound block of wood rotating at 2000 rpm decides that it doesn't want to be attached to your lathe anymore. Ever played the game Battling Tops - picture that with 35 pounds of wood!! Just hope it doesn't want to play with you especially after it has caught on something and if flying through the air!
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Caney - we indeed have our experienced with wood. Wire and such, not so much. I am scared to use a lathe outside of my time in High School. I already had a bad experience of a bat in the head when I was a kid, the fear is prevented me from going back there.
My only recent issues are breaking in piles of Walnut sawdust to the point I am spitting it up and wearing it. There is a toxic response if its persistent so I am spreading exposure time a bit so I don't get the Walnut Condition. Pretty Nasty from what I hear.
Quote from: IKnowWood on March 13, 2009, 05:20:43 PM... toxic response if its persistent so I am spreading exposure time a bit so I don't get the Walnut Condition.
Who knew? Some walnut trees (especially Balck Walnut) and similar species release a compound (juglone) which may inhibit some other plant growth in the area but I never heard it affected humans and other animals.
I learn something every day - I only wish I'd known more of it years ago.
Ka Honu
I just did a bit of research and check this:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Black_Walnut.asp?sitearea=ETO
The nasty response may actually be due to nut allergies. As well as possible side affects. I am interested in the Cancer Possible response. Course the task of the saw-dust does not appeal to me. Believe me I tasted it.
Quote from: Smoking Duck on March 13, 2009, 05:17:22 AM
Gonna have to go back to the doc soon. It looks like it's infected. I keep trying to push all the crap out of it and then dunk it in a salt solution to kill anything but all that does is make me curse and cry :o
Duck,
You need to go to the Doc and get on antibiotics before you lose the whole finger and then some. If there is bacteria in the wound, you don't want to put ointment on it and bandage it up as that will seal the bacteria in.
For small cuts on fingers, I wrap it with a piece of Masking (paper) Tape and get the tape damp. Don't know why but it usually draws out any infection. You might give that a try until you get to the doctors.
Frankly, I am with Gizmo - todays infections are nasty stuff and a lot cheaper to beat sooner than later. The cheap path is the right treatment.
Thanks, guys. I think I've got the infection under control. The salt seemed to have killed a lot of it. Still a little sore but nothing I can't live with. I think even Mother Theresa would let slip a cuss word if she were to dip an open sore in a salt solution that would make the Dead Sea seem potable. ;D But, it's a lot cheaper than the doc's office.
Quote from: IKnowWood on March 13, 2009, 05:20:43 PM
Caney - we indeed have our experienced with wood. Wire and such, not so much. I am scared to use a lathe outside of my time in High School. I already had a bad experience of a bat in the head when I was a kid, the fear is prevented me from going back there.
My only recent issues are breaking in piles of Walnut sawdust to the point I am spitting it up and wearing it. There is a toxic response if its persistent so I am spreading exposure time a bit so I don't get the Walnut Condition. Pretty Nasty from what I hear.
I worry about that lung stuff also! To the point that unless I am just roughing out something and making chips - on goes the respirator. I tend to work on spalted woods often, and don't want those bacteria taking residence in my lungs if I can help it! I think one could get a sensitivity to almost any wood dust, but some are worse than others. Of the domestics, I here cedar (juniper) is particularly nasty. The more of something that goes where it shouldn't I guess the greater chance of sensitivity. I had to quit raising bees a couple of years ago just because of that! Usually one developes an immunity to the bee stings, but apparently after a few years I developed a sensitivity. While mowing a couple of my girls decided to get intimate with my scalp and on my upper cheek. Knowing those were sensitive places and likely to swell, I immediately went in and took a couple of Benadryl. Glad I did, because just after the pills I started showing advanced signs of Anaphylactic shock. Scared the Pee Wally Squat outta me. Gave my girls and my equipment to a fellow bee brethren. They are now enjoying life in the country!!
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Caney...dang ;D...you can pontificate :D...very interesting, I must admit!!! But...then again...I'm not very bright...as anyone on here can attest to... ???
I got hung up on the "Pee Wally Squat" thing.
Yes...uh...I'm glad the kids have the bees now...I did tend bees when I was younger...the buzz always scared me...but the honey making was way kool!!! I did enjoy spinning the combs and watching the honey just fly off!!! It was kool I must admit... :)