Silliness is everywhere...

What use is an F-call? Last week I shared my personal close encounter with a drill. If you missed it, the experience contained a particular act of stupidity on my part. So much so that I still cannot reconstruct in my mind which part of it I ever thought was a good idea. Walking around and sharing my silliness seemed to encourage others to share their own acts of foolhardiness, from holding an avocado in the left hand and prying the pit from the centre with a sharp knife, through using a chisel that managed to damage a large part of someone's thumb, with nails no longer growing properly, through to using a drill in the webbing of a hand, chopping off parts of people's anatomy, getting rings caught, you name it, I've heard so many first hand stories that frankly boggle the mind. Apart from resisting the urge to write down each of these stories, I found myself looking for a common denominator, mostly it turns out to be impatience. With that newly learnt lesson, I picked up my drill with a different eye this week. Of course when you're building things, often time it doesn't quite go as planned, but I noticed that once I started to become impatient with what ever was going on, I stopped what I was doing, took a breath, and had another look. I bought a vice, adding an essential tool to the mix and I hope that my new radar for impatience will stand me in good stead once I get myself into another pickle. Silliness is clearly not something new, it's everywhere. When was the last time you did something really silly? I'm Onno VK6FLAB