Bloody Knuckles

Other possible titles:

Merely a Flesh Wound

You Took a Piece of Me

Walk it Off

There's No Crying in Baseball

This Could Have Been Worse

Ok, you get the idea.  Interestingly, most of the splinters and nuisance wounds seem to happen when I'm trying to do the right things like salvaging wood by removing nails or even removing wood in such a way as to be able to reuse it.  Other ways to hurt myself include sudden loss of control of the sawzall, and lets not forget using the line pliers on a wire the you think is dead but is in fact not.  The sawzall has provided some particular excitement, compared to cutting a live wire which is actually just startling as opposed to truly dangerous due to modern circuit breakers. Anyway, while sawzalling on top of a ladder, where one hand is occupied by the important task of hanging on, that leaves one hand to run the saw, which is fine, except that in this instance that one boyscout rule of always cutting away from yourself was completely ignored.   So the saw completes its cut only to continue on a path that is on a collision course with other said occupied hand. And gripping the sawzall in order to correct this path has the unfortunate side effect of squeezing the trigger all the way down.  So imagine if you will, the saw moving along at a reasonable pace, then all the sudden falling towards an arm that does not have the option to let go and then as the saw moves towards the arm, the blade actually starts going nuts, like its really hungry.  Well, luckily the saw hand in this case figures out that this is a bad move, and did in fact figure out how to release the saw trigger, just in time and still hold on to the saw, all the while the left arm thinking, man is this how it ends?  Taken out by the right?