Knife party

[hirez]

For reasons of carelessness described below, I've just had to perform my ablutions while wearing a rubber glove.

It was nowhere near as much fun as one might imagine. In fact, the only thing going through my head (other than 'that was the wrong hand with which to make a dive for the bathplug') was 'This is the sort of thing that steer would do.'

The carelessness was in accidentally launching the breadknife off a worksurface while there was a ferret below. Like a pillock I tried to catch the thing (knife, not ferret) on the way down and got a palmful of sharp end. It was one of those cuts that you can stare stupidly at and think 'You know, that's going to hurt like a bastard any second now... Here it comes... And... Ow fuck.'

Earlier in the day, I was able to fondle and indeed pilot round the station carpark a Giant SCR2. Very fine. The damn thing weighs nothing, and given it's at the cheap end of road bikes, that can only mean the expensive end is lighter still.

Before that we discover that the previously mentioned 'Noise and electronic music' CD collection cheerfully stretches the definition of 'music'. As the liner-notes mention, Russolo wasn't much of a composer. However Survival Research f-ing shred and Pauline Oliveros tries the patience of the listener splendidly. Ideal stuff for getting rid of people at parties. Unless they're all intransigent Peelites, of course.

Comments

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

[expresses sympathy whilst laughing like the proverbial drain]

This reminds me of the time when Iggy (http://www.jordan-cats.org/iggy) decided to fall^H^H make an unorthodox descent from the top of the fridge freezer. Like a fool, I put my hand out to catch him, and two tons worth of fully grown Bengal cat forced my wrist into a position which was not entirely natural, and hurt like buggery.

That split second between "oh fuck" and "fucking OUCH" is one to be savoured. Hope you mend soon.

[snigger - sorry]

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Owitty ow. How far through did it get ?

[steer.livejournal.com]

Hey hey hey, when did I become the poster boy for cack-handedness eh?

I'm 90% ept.

Hope your hand isn't too bad.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Long, rather than deep. Although worryingly close to a vein.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Eeew. Hope it heals happily.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It wasn't so much the cack-handery (I can manage that well enough on my own) as the unorthodox solution to a problem which involves something that those with more pedestrian lives might consider a bit smutty.

But if the shit fits... [/Donald 'Duck' Dunn]

[steer.livejournal.com]

In a curious inversion, last night I was had to dye my hair with my hand in a plastic bag because the supplied gloves had just vanished. I only had one plastic bag too. Made it hard to do both sides of my head I can tell you.

[krylyr.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. That sounds painful. Did you have to get stitches or anything?

Hope it heals quick.

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

Yow! I winced just reading that.

Still, at least you used your hand to try and catch the knife. That's not what happens in most of steer's stories.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nah, wasn't deep enough to need sewing up.

(Although that's the sort of tiresome stoicism that cost pater an ear, so it's not really big or clever)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Using an arm would have been far too emo.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Ouch, ouch, ouch!

Stitches? I hope note.

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should have checked upthread first! No stitches, good. I hope you don't lose an ear over it!

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

It's a classic reflex. I've done the same with a soldering iron once or twice before I learned to catch it by the cord.

Anyhow ... hope you're healing well ...

... and not considering a sideline as a freelance rubber glove reviewer.

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

Still negotiating the contact with the Health and Safety Executive? ;)

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

Ow! I felt that! You have my sympathies - saving ferrets from probable knifey doom sounds both extremely painful yet bizzarely honorable...

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

Why do you have a ferret in your kitchen? Or should I not ask?
-Barbara

[hirez.livejournal.com]

girfan keeps a pair (brace? couple?) of them and they were being exercised.

[bmlg.livejournal.com]

Ah. One for each trouser-leg, then.
-Barbara