Anyone else have times like this?

July 13, 1988. The day started out fine........then 1/2 hour later my life was changed forever when a new overhead industrial door that was in the open position collapsed on me. 1200 lbs falling from about 20 feet up can really ruin your day. 3 1/2 years in the hospital, 7 head,back,spine, and brain operations later I was deemed good enough to be transfered to a rehab hospital where I spent the next 1 1/2 years learning how walk, dress myself,feed myself and write my name.
During that time a thriving fabrication business building stock car products (roll cages,frames, sway bars, A-frames and various other items for Howe Racing Enterprises flushed it's way down the toilet.
Due to some spectacular doctors/surgeons, nurses and various health car givers, a wonderful wife(who is an angel if one ever walked the earth), and a benevolent Heavenly Father who dispensed just the right amount of grace to meet every crisis I'm now about 80% of what I had prior to the accident. I feel truly blessed as an incident like this can really straighten out your priorities.

Frank

 

Bad thing about Lisa, she has a pony in her house, dude, a pony in the house, must smell like hell on earth in there, that sort of nixed it for me. Who put the MF in pony, in the house? HaHaHa. And prison or not, we all could run around the block a lot more after we had that crazy guys gym class. He did seem to rock back and forth in the chair a lot, and was known to yell pop smoke at a kid every now and then, this was about '73 so I think he may have been still stalking demons. He may have had a bad couple of days himself old Mr. Sir Yes Sir. We did behave for him, I'll give him that.

 

^ And I have a wife in my house. A "here's an envelope full of cash, go buy a project car" kind of wife. A "hey, are these hubcaps cool?" kind of wife. I just like admiring Lisa's cuteness factor.

Well, screw my whining- guess what got rid of the last lingering trace of the headache?- GARAGE TIME!

Back on her feet!



I was expecting cutting a coil to lower it a bit more, but shot peening the springs probably took some of the sag out of them. Anyway, I'm not going to worry about perfecting the stance until I get some wheels and tires that aren't crap on it.



The freebie box of vixen files. I was going to wire brush the files, but decided on the vinegar bath instead. I did put a coat of poly on the wood



Oh, these are the hubcaps my wife found, wondered if they were cool or not

 

All of those sayings like "some days chicken and some days feathers" or "some days you take the elevator and some days you get the shaft" came from people musing their situations. It doesn't matter whether you are working on a car project or are the night manager at a busy Brothel there will be good and bad days to endure.

The trick is to just say WTF when it happens and get on with it.