[rollei_list] Re: Status Update
- From: Jon stanton <Jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:02:07 -0800
Marc, "Put a $20 gold piece on my watch chain" is from "St James Infirmary" not
"St Louis Blues"
Olympia, WA
On Dec 29, 2012, at 22:33, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to thank all of you for your good thoughts. My wife is a Master's
> level nurse who used to be an Emergency Room Nurse and who then was a Chief
> Nursing Officer at couple of small hopitals, and she sat by while the
> plastic surgeon stitched me up, and she approved of his work. She felt he
> did a nicer job of embroidery than she could do on a blanket used as a
> coverlet at picnics. <he grins> All is on the mend now, though the
> swelling and bruising has affected the visual acuity of my lleft eye, which
> ought to be back to normal within a ten-day. So, I e-mail only in bursts,
> when my eye feels up to it. (I am working on monocular vision at the moment,
> though I know can open my left eye and can actually see quite a bit with it.
>
> I will have a scar, but it shan't be a large one. And the Vitamin E
> suggestion is interesting.
>
> Again, thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers. All is well. I was
> drinking and unsteady on my feet and then I tripped over a Shop-Vac which
> really ought not to be in the room at all, and I could not recover my balance
> and so, wham, down I went. I have since shifted the accouterments of the
> Shop-Vac out of the passageway. I have no intention of repeating the
> experience. It itches quite a bit, of course.
>
> Just remember this: 'when I die, put a twenty-dollar gold piece in my vest,
> to let the boys know I died standing pat'. If you don't recognize the line,
> well, it is from THE ST. LOUIS BLUES, an almost unsingable song sung by most
> of the great US singers for the past seventy years or so. My vision comes
> and goes a bit, so, if I fail to answer a direct query, ask me again in three
> weeks. or so, when I should be back in battery. (This is a military term,
> meaning returned to full duty.)
>
> Be well, Rollei folks, and thank you for your kind thoughts.
>
> I am all right -- as I noted, I didn't dent the wood, so my head is not as
> hard as some of you believe it t to be and, no, I do not have a VERY thick
> skull and a VERY soft brain. That one is is an outright canard. But, then, I
> come from a line of carpenters,, and so I choose really hard wood to keep the
> tortoises penned. The larger of them decided the other year to go exploring
> and tried to break out. Well, he broke something -- he snapped a quarter
> inch bolt off cleanly. (6mm DIN or so) Sulcaatta Tortoises have been
> described as 'rammers and butters' and the term works. They are cold-bloods
> devoted to survival. They have a really impressive burst strength. Maybe it
> was a defective bolt, but I have the shards here, and he broke it. Coming
> from a line of carpenters, I detest nails and I dislike wood screws. So, I
> drill holes and use machine screws. And then my tortoise breaks one of these.
>
> Go figure. <he grrins>
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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