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Random Stream of Consciousness

Damn bro, glad to heat you're ok. A little banged up maybe, but still ok. It could have gone a LOT worse. I know what you mean about trying to impress the Mrs. We all do stuff like that from time to time.

Keep us posted on that foot..
 
Will do man!!!

Honestly dont care about the foot, Jenny totally digs what I did and thinks I'm the toughest SOB that ever was! :D
 
:lol: Dude, she was totally makin eyes at me today!

Uhh, I just cant keep injurying stuff though.
 
Awe, that's the sweetest thing in the world!!.... Not the broken metatarsals but the whole wifey thing :) hopefully you've been following Dr's orders now, ice or heat or whatever they told you! Glad you aren't hurt even worse, Harvey is HSE (health, safety, & environmental) at an oil company... He's seen some pretty harsh things happen at work that don't always end up on the better side. I'd think your Dr told you not to return to work this week and if so.... No trying to be a badass anymore for your honey, just do what the dr says and stay off of it! ;)
 
I got my BS in electrical engineering almost 2 years ago. Thanks to the laws in CA and the economy, nobody cared. I'd sent out applications by the THOUSANDS with no luck. I even had a manager-level contact who said he'd put me in line for an entry job at a major aerospace firm (let's call it Bong)... he got outranked, a higher executive had a child who needed a job.

So, I got used to the idea of grad school, started teaching, started thinking I might like to become a teacher... and today I get a call from the same contact asking if I'm still available.

I swear, all I ever need to do is stop trying and find something else to do. ;-(
 
BFG... Thats so true sometimes. Sux. I went through alot of the same stuff, sent apps out all over the country and wanted to get on with an oil rig out west or in a mine somewhere, just chasing dollars man. After I got the job i have now, I got a few replies from the oil rigs asking if i was available. I'm not in a position to move now.

Michelle, I'll try and follow orders, but I really just wanna get back to work. I've already asked the doc to ammend my return to work date and instructions. I want to go back monday... not in 2 weeks. Hopefully he'll facs that over today with some sort of "light duty" instructions.

I bet Harvey has seen alot of bad things happen!
 
BFG.. Come to TX!! There are plenty of jobs here :) we have a huge oil industry and electrical engineers are always needed! Hang in there! One day that schooling will pay off, and really, regardless it's always good to invest in yourself. Things will work out eventually the way they are supposed to, keep your faith!

Rossignol... Luckily he keeps a pretty safe environment at work most of the time other than the occasional cut off finger and some heart attacks. Last year was the worst one though... A 28 year old got sucked up in some crane part or something like that and it broke his back and paralyzed him. He has 3 kids. It's really sad. He was working there contract for another company but he still tried to sue my husbands company. Harvey had to go to deposition thru court for the company over it since he's Safety. Anyway, my husband has remote access from his work laptoP and showed it to me on camera... It was pretty scary seeing the medical response and my husband going up so high to get him down. It's really true... Safety first at work is most important! There wasn't a guard on the contract machine where there was supposed to be. Very unfortunate. Ok. Sorry for rambling :)

Hope you're feeling better!
 
Its a random thread so ramble away!!!

I too have seen some crazy stuff and was very into the safety practices and had alot of OSHA schooling at one time when I was running steel erection, crane, and rigging crews. Saw a guy loose a finger, one guy died from heart attack and emphysema on site, another wrenched his arm in the rigging but made it out ok...

Crazy stuff happens... You always wish and want to have done differently, to have been there to make things go differently. In retrospect, you see where things went wrong and vow to not let it happen again, but as one person you have to rely on support staff to help and enforce what people dont always want to do cuz its often viewed as a hassle. Some will comply, and some will fight it.

At the end of the day, you hope you made a difference in someones life and were able to send the crew home safely.
 
Yea, he has his CHSO and SSH... Certified Safety & Health Official and Specialist in Safety & Health. He also trains rigging, fall protection, train the trainer for multiple things, and a ton of other stuff that I can't remember! Oh and can teach CPR. Can you tell I'm proud? :) for no college degree, it's a pretty big deal!
 
Thats awesome! It doesnt take a college degree, just a driven individual to want to be more! It takes ambition and character, drive and desire!!!

Those certs are a big deal in the construction field, so to Harvey! Well done!
 
brad..are harnesses feasible to use when you are that high? maybe even a scissor lift to bring you up and extend the platform to the tank....well..if the area the tank is on is asphalt or concrete it would an idea to bring up at the next safety meeting (or tailgate meeting) cuz you know there's going to one..... well at least where i work if that happens we have a meeting the next day to go over the rules again :roll: and try to figure out why it happened and how it will be avoided in the future....

when i'm working above 6' it's mandatory to have a harness. at pratt & whitney we have to use a harness inside the scissor lift, yet at hamilton sunstrand you don't have to. weird. same company (united technologies) but different rules.

i used to work on houses when i was in my 20's doing roofing. after almost falling off a 3 story i decided to not to do that anymore. thank god i had my hammer in my hand, i drove it into the roof as i was sliding down and stopped just in time. my feet had just went passed the edge. :shock:

i've seen a guy fall off some trusses and tumble down 2 floors hitting everything on his way. he wasn't paying attention to what he was doing.... he went into convulsions and i stuffed my wallet into his mouth. after about 5 minutes he settled down and came to, but couldn't remember anything about that whole week! well we were only on wednesday, but still..the whole week? gone.
the medics came after about 10 minutes and took him away. last i heard he was back doing the same thing for work...

i've seen a guy get squished by a lull forklift when he rolled it. he had to big of a load for the machine and was on unstable ground with the boom up all the way and extended out. he had his chest crushed by the cab. osha said if he had his seat belt on he'd have been safe.

it's weird seeing someone get hurt at work, and all the looky-lou's that gather round after gossiping just piss me off. move along...nothing to see here.



i know you feel about going back to work early. i went and had my acl replaced in 2000, and went back to work a month early. dumbest thing i could have did. it didn't heal right, so i have a crunching noise in there when i bend it. not to mention the pain. i deal with it. men...we're mostly all alike. some better than others...(that's the group we like to be in) ;)

i wish you well and hope you don't hurt to much.....we need you here!!!! :D
 
RipJack, Thank You!

Yeah, we're guys. We're mostly kinda caveman dumb when it comes to stuff like this. I spoke with the medical assistant handling my paperwork with BWC and return to work restrictions. I asked her to help me out with an early Christmas present and to lessen my light duty restrictions. She hooked me up. All I'm sayin about that. I just wanna work...

I'm familiar with everything you mentioned, and I have tons of fall protection/prevention training with fall arrest systems and with designing systems.

Thing is, the company I work for ... They dont have much nor do they offer much. I am taking the initiative on my own time using my contacts to get some safety stuff goin on. I am able to hook up with old contacts for some "undocumented" evaluations and consultation. I have yet to bring it up to my employers yet, but I have to get the free stuff in order first.

Where I used to work, there would have been a meeting almost immediately to review the cause and identify the corrective action.

Anyway, I'm goin back to work on monday with some light duty and its at my discretion ("as I'm able") Like I said, I'm a guy. I'm not a genius. I take care of my family and I make money.

My name is Brad and I'm a hunter-gatherer.

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Well it's raining out, blah, figured I'd strip my PK380 to clean it since I didn't take it all the way down the last time I fired it (about 2 weeks ago) and I realized I lost the little key thing to be able to remove the slide. Grrr! Why Walther would you have to make us use a special key to take our guns apart?!?! Called all my LGS's and nobody has one. Come to find out I guess they're hard to find. Researched a little online for an alternative and some people use a tire valve tool... Whatever that is! Hubby ran out to buy one at Auto Zone. Wish me luck. Walther, for future reference, please come up with another way to field strip! I'm obviously not the only idiot that can't keep up with the tiny tool! :)
 
Dang! That sux!

I have a small field kit with the necessary things (tools) needed to break down all my guns... I still manage to have a difficult time finding the right parts!

My 1911 has the ILS lockout safety thingy in the mainspring housing. The tool for that was lost long before I ever got the gun... To the best of my knowledge, its needed to open up the mainspring housing should I ever wanna replace MS.

However, I can almost break it down without tools, cept I need an allen key to remove the guide rod which I think is dumb. I plan to fix that with a one-piece though...
 
Just got thinkin, which is sometimes advised against by my wife. I like livin where the rubber meets the pavement though and she doesnt scare me.

So, what if there were some sort of economic and/or govt. collapse? What if gas cant be pumped, grocery stores cant be stocked, people cant make doctor appt. and get prescriptions filled...

In like a week, there are gonna be so many people missin their Prozac, Zoloft, and Xanax. Thats messed up.

I take Celexa to counteract the steroids (sometimes short fused and angry) which I take for my lungs. I tried to go off that stuff. After two weeks the withdrawal symptoms almost seemed to be getting worse. It was weird and almost cerebral, surrealistic... I would get this sort of jolt like an electrical shock through my body. Things seemed to move or vibrate before my eyes and I would steady myself to be certain it wasnt me. Things would shift kinda sideways. I sometimes heard noises or even halucinated mildly. Headaches, but more like being hungover. So weird...

So imagine a whole bunch of people walkin around like that! THOSE are the zombies... a bunch of people deprived of their psyche meds! Walkin around moanin like theyre stoned and hungover, shuffling because they cant balance, their depth perception is whacked and they think everything is movin around. Theyll look like crap, not cuz theyre dead, but because they cant sleep. All kinds of cranky, and bitin peoples heads off over the smallest thing. Really though... biting peoples heads off.

Theyll turn on eachother though...
 
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