Going to be out of commission for a little while

[VintageMusclecar]

I should've known better after the week I've had...

I decided to set a few minutes aside today to get the Chevelle out so I could run down to the gas station for a little fuel, then I was going to drive over to a local park to grab some better pics of the car. The new Goodyear Polyglas' were just begging to be shown off!

Unfortunately it didn't quite work out that way.

Long story short: after fueling the car, the gas nozzle somehow got lodged in the filler neck on the tank. In the midst of twisting & pulling trying to free the nozzle, it came out unexpectedly, and in doing so the majority of the length of my right thumb lost the first couple of layers of skin to the bottom edge of the bumper by the license plate light.

To make matters worse, a friend (who is a local locksmith) just happened to be standing there talking to me when this happened. I stood up after my little mishap to find about a 3" long flap of bloody skin dangling from my thumb, to which Lockguy muttered "oh God" and turned and quickly shuffled away.

But wait!...it gets better!

<span style="font-style: italic">THANKFULLY</span> I had the foresight/intuition to have Rachel shadow me to the gas station in the Suburban. I walked over and she handed me a antibacterial wipe (I always keep a tube of them in the truck, never know when you're going to need them...like today!) which I placed over my hand to stop the bleeding. I hopped in the Chevelle to make a hasty retreat back home, turned the key, only to be greeted by the following sound;

<span style="font-style: italic">&quot;rrr.....rrrr......rrrrrr...click click click&quot;</span>

Naturally. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Luckily I also keep a set of jumper cables in the Suburban, so I grabbed them and quickly popped the hood on the Chevelle to hook them up...all the while trying to keep the wipe on my hand to contain the bleeding.

After a minute or so on the cables, the Chevelle fired back up, so I stashed the cables back in the `Burb and made my hasty retreat back home---trying not to bleed all over the shifter in the process.

So here I now sit with a giant bandage wrapped around my thumb, and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to manage to get anything done until this thing has a chance to heal up a bit. (the idea of getting grease, dirt and/or carb cleaner on this really doesn't appeal to me all that much)

SO!...I'll probably be running another week or so behind thanks to today, but I'll try to get caught back up a.s.a.p.

Sorry. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]