Carpentry can be hazardous to your health -- but I'm DONE!

I don't think my hands could take much more of this. Three rooms and a hallway painted (two coats), new laminate flooring laid and then quarter round trim put up. The old fashioned way - by hand (mostly). No chop saw. No nail gun. No assistant to cut my pieces. But done. And I don't think anyone can look at my work and say, "This is his first floor."

But my poor hands! I have hammered my forefinger several times. I still have a blood blister from one event. Just this morning I pulled yet another tiny splinter out of my pinkie. The most painful injury is the slice across the other forefinger from a piece of threshold I was trimming. (Think paper cut - OUCH!)

And the scariest was when I jammed the drill bit into my wrist. I was using a very small bit to drill pilot holes in the moulding prior to nailing. I am on hands and knees crawling along the wall and had just drilled several holes leaving the drill on it's side in front of me. As I inched along, I swung my arm .... well you get the picture. Fortunately it went into a fatty area and, being so tiny, hardly bled. Scared the S*@# out of me though. But I'm DONE!

Today is a 'Vitamin D' day. I'm headed to the beach in an hour or so - let the sun get up a little bit more. Lookin' pretty nice out my kitchen window!

And I'm looking for work. I did a search this morning and there's one trip I'm calling on. But it's a west coast broker and they are still sleeping out there. See If I can find something to get me out tomorrow or Friday and do some more traveling. I think I'll take my bike this time and see if I can work my way toward Boise, ID. Been promising Uncle Mel I'd come visit for more than a year now. But I think now is a good time to visit the Rockies.