Sporadic attendance notice

The overtime hitteth, like a torque wrench to the mouth!

Actually, both of those things happened: Monday I was installing a new engine in a Piper TurboArrow, my torque wrench slipped off an engine mount and caught me in the mouth. A foot/pound torque wrench is 18" (1/2 meter) long and weighs nearly a pound (sorry, don't know the Kg equiv). Didn't break any teeth, but did split my upper lip. Gash ran 1/2way to my nose with copious loss of life-fluid. Slapped on a band-aid and went back to work. 10 hours that day, 9 hours today and now I can't sleep.

In any case, the point is I won't be around as often as I'd like, possibly through FEB. Too many annual inspections, 3 more engine changes and whatever the school throws at us- oh and one of thier students forgot to put the landing gear down last week: no injuries but about $50 grand in damage, not counting our labor...

Will still get my stories in for the challenges and read everyone elses. Sniveling done, going to bed now. Will check in when I can (or if I have more insomnia).

Good luck - and keep a stiff upper lip!

BTW, there was sympathy in there! Don't over do it!

Yes, a good British stiff upper lip should help...

Get better soon WG, and keep working hard!

My boss picked up some sheet metal shears and asked if he needed to amputate, my co-worker asked me to please bleed in a different color (hates red), and the next morning, my wife told me not to lose an eye that day, so thanx for the sympathy! Certainly not getting any around here; least of all from myself. One should never be seated when applying any torque greater than 150 inch/pounds.
But the swelling has mostly gone down and the cut is healing... overall not as bad as the time I forgot to ensure the magnetos were off before I turned the prop- nearly lost a hand that day. At least this scar won't be 3 inches long...