Out of Plumb

The finger is healing well but I have to relearn how to use it. If you curl your fingers in with the palm up you will notice that they all curl in more or less a straight line. Mine don’t any more. I have to learn to bring that finger down farther to make up the difference. It is a little red and angry in the picture because I whacked it when splitting wood today. The bloody speck you see is the fingernail growing back in. What fun. No wonder it was spouting puss a while back. The nail has to grow its way back up through the skin, if you have had a bad ingrown nail you can relate. If it was a normal nail sure fine, but it’s a freakish ¼ inch wide dog’s toenail of a nail and I think it is growing off at an angle before coming through. A few days back I used a razor blade to make some room for it. Trust me doing that hurt a lot less than letting it tear through on its own. I would love to simply not have it, which is what the doctor said he had done on the day of the event. The insurance has stopped covering it so until I can fight and convince them otherwise the ‘dew-claw’ as I call it has to stay. I do wonder if I was to use the tooth fairy method and just rip it out if it will grow back. I know if you peel them back they will, but this has no nail bed and is only attached at the end. Its one of those “how tough are you” decisions.

Oh and I also got this done today:
I’m not satisfied with how they turned out but the wife loves them. I had never made cupboard doors before and well I did an inexperienced and quite crappy job. They look fine closed so I am sure in a few days I will simply fail to see them, like all men. It does lack a motor after all. One shiny spot is the handles, which I doubt you can see. I had tossed these paint caked knobs into the solvent tank weeks ago thinking that under the crust was a cheap metal door puller doodad. I checked on them yesterday for an unrelated reason and my ugly duckling had turned into vintage facetted clear glass knobs. The wife hasn’t seen them yet but will be thrilled.