View From the Bushes

It's interesting how you can do something every day for several months and still let it slip your mind. I was pretty busy today, and suddenly it was 10:30 and I realized that I hadn't made an entry in my blog. One imagines that on the scale of things people are upset about when the deadline is missed, that my blog is pretty low. Nevertheless I take some pride in putting something out there every day. In any case, one of the stories I've been following for the couple of weeks is the guy who fell on an 18-inch-long, 1 1/8-inch chip-auger drill bit and lived to tell - and joke - about it.

I think the one of the interesting items about this story and of course there are many is the x-ray. The first couple of times I saw it I wasn't sure what I was looking at because the skull just looked too small in relationship to the drill bit. At first, rather than a skull, you think that instead you may be looking at a thumb or something. It's mildly interesting that they even took an x-ray. With the ability to see both ends it might have seemed fairly obvious what had happened and fairly urgent to do something about. Certainly there are a lot of reasons for taking an x-ray, but hopefully one of them wasn't trying to figure out what had happened.

In any case, though the guy did not suffer any brain damage he was far from unscathed. It's pretty tough to have a big freaking drill bit go in your eye and come out the back of your head without having some problems. It's stories like that that make me whine just ever so slightly less about my life. Not that I don't have problems; I just think that most of them are a direct result of doing some really dumb things.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross