In order to save time (like 2 hours disassembling some machinery, the the same reassembling) I used an old fashioned method of fixing something….Which included turning a piece of tooling with a 24″ pipe wrench about 2 foot over my head. (with the help of a piece of pipe for additional leverage)

The result? I did indeed save 3+ hours.  I impressed myself and my helper with the amount of force I could exert..

And I appear to have damaged the deltoid and top of the bicep in my right arm.

That was 2 weeks ago. 

Now when I was 18, and had an injury like that? It’d heal in a day or three, 5 tops. Not too sore after a day or two.

Not so much today……now that I am on the downhill side of the half century mark. It has been getting more and more painful. Not healing at all.
Tiger Balm and massage, and if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to hold a 1911 up at shoulder level for 60 seconds in a day or two…. ‘Cause right now, I have to shoot as soon as the sights are on target, ’cause I can’t hold the gun up long.

Aging sucks.

fighting for the country since 1775…..

are telling me they are hoping the Ferguson/Brown/Wilson Grand Jury decision (which by all accounts if is anything resembling fair, will exonerate Officer Wilson) happens later in the week, as then the weather will be cold and somewhat windy, and the protests in major urban areas will be less motivated to stay out and make trouble….In other words, they’ll fizzle out fairly quickly, if they happen at all. 

Seems that they all believe that these folks will only protest when it is convenient, and they’ll protest only because they don’t have anything better to do. and won’t when they might get uncomfortable doing it.

I hope they are right about this.

Who says they have any authority, anyway?

What right does the “Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission” have telling any business that they can’t refuse to provide goods or services to anyone?

A privately owned business should be able to choose who, when, where and how they do business. If they don’t want to do business with someone, then that is their choice. Not up to the government, be it state, local or federal. If they want to discriminate based on religion, or race, or gender or whatever, that is between them and their customers….Not any government entity…Iif the Human Rights Commission is actually a government entity)

I would have issues were this a publicly funded entity such as a school or a government office, but it isn’t. It is a private business.

I’d contribute to a legal defense fund, if he goes to court and needs help.

To Loretta Lynch.

She is as racist as Eric Holder, if not worse.

I expected as much from Barry, but still. Let us hope all those white folks in the Senate say “No” as well.

HT

That things are gonna get all…exciting…in Ferguson and surrounding areas very soon.

Were I a business owner, I’d have tried to find a way to secure my business better.

Or I’da closed it down already, or sold it.  

The local Sheriff has told me they expect sympathy riots in the South Side of Chicago and Gary.

Oughta be interesting.

If yer in, or work in, or must pass through a “minority area” then I’d stay frosty.

Out of CorningWare too….

Inventor of CorningWare dies.

Lots and lots of stuff became possible because of his accidental discovery of PyroCeram, (glass ceramics).

And lots of people ate meals that could only have been made in CorningWare dishes. Especially the square ones with the ears….

Nope, I’m not talking about Pyrex…that is an entirely different subject .