Many Thanks

[Lizzy]

sah, I did that too!! Ian, where is your normal wall?! I don't use fun or super, they are too complicated for me lol

[surfy_sah]

glad I'm not the only one!! xx

[Dixonhill]

Update on finger, i'm now down to just a plaster, still in a bit of pain. Went to get my dressing changed today and the nurse said it looks ok. Off tot he fracture clinic on Wed for a final check up.

 

Ian xx

[roxy]

Great news

 

(the girls are right btw, couldn't post on your FB the other day, return the normal wall! )

[sparks]

YAY I do come in useful with the hugs then ive been lucky and never broke anything but i have fractured/chipped my cheek bone and fractured my skull (dont ask how i did it lol) but lucky never any of my limbs or digits, drive me crazy sitting about even though work is busyyyy id rather be doing something.

Got your text hun, yeah chat later or over wkend I still have no access to internet at home at the moment

Be texting a few people later re Dec/Jan as its my dreaded birthday coming up and seeing what everyones upto.

Also unsure if i told you ive got some interviews lined up eeeeeek, two are P.A. like im doing just now but the other two are fresh jobs where i will be in charge of my own possy of assistants woohoo and im still awaitng to hear back from another six jobs, no harm in trying for them in my eyes but over 8 yrs of being assistant to same person has been a tad draining now, fresh start for 2008, you got any new plans for 2008?

 

as a kid i once broke my funny bone.....it wasn't

 

 

Update on finger, i'm now down to just a plaster, still in a bit of pain. Went to get my dressing changed today and the nurse said it looks ok. Off tot he fracture clinic on Wed for a final check up.

 

Ian xx

 

 

Good to hear...good luck at the clinic

[Too Tall]

Glad to hear it's all going well

[sparks]

 

 

 

I once melted the tip of my finger with electricity....don't ask!

WHAT DID YOU DOOO?

 

COUGH.....

 

I had an earthing problem with my bass amp. As I said we were recording a demo album for Sony the next day and I wanted to see if I could find the fault (which was causing a bit of hum from the amp) My guitarist offered to help. He has a PhD specialising in building lasers and of course I'm a qualified radar technician....so you would think we would be ok.... Unfortunately we took the amp to bits and at some point we needed to listen and see if we could get it to hum so we had it powered up. The hum was there and I decided to take the amp circuitry out of the casing since I thought I knew what was causing the problem. (a small solder job should have fixed it { actually I was right and when we did finally get round to fixing the problem it only took a couple of minutes with a soldering iron}) I went to get the tools and Philip unscrewed the front of the amp. We had to push the ciruit chassis through the body towards the back to get it out. Now it's quite common to have equipment live when you are trying to fix it but there are obvious times when you need to switch it off. taking a chassis with a suspected earthing fault out of the case is one of them....Phil thought I'd unplugged the amp....I thought he had....it was late at night when Idiscovered that the chassis was live...

I had a hold of it with both hands and of course the electricity was going accross my chest...I remember trying to let go and failing I remember smelling the rather unpleasant smell of burning flesh and thinking there might be a problem. Philip just thought I'd caught my finger in the case. and I couldn't speak to tell him; so the only thing I could do was try and dive over the top of the amp and wrench the cable out of the socket or rip the cables out of the amp. this did work except I caught my head on the side of a cymbal on the drum kit and cut it quite badly....here it gets more surreal Philip sees the head wound and the blood pumping everywhere (head cuts look worse than they are) and faints. I've just had a major electric shock and am suffering for burns and a head wound and I have top give first aid to him for shock! I ended up removing my wedding ring as fast as possible then sticking my finger in a cup of cold water (which probably safed the finger) and phoned our vocalist to come to the studio and take us both to hospital!

 

There are two things that are ironic here. I worked for several years with SERIOUSLY high voltages and never got a shock and Kat had just gone to Isreal to visit her parents and the last words out of my mouth as she left were that she wasn't to worry since I'd managed to look after myself before we married and I wasn't as if I was going to do something stupid and kill myself when she was away.

 

so don't tell anyone since it's a bit embarrassing!

Edited December 12, 2007 by sparks