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 CS>> Not a good thing to have in my job!  Thats ok though, some of the
 CS>> as well so we give them the other jobs to make up for it.  Lots of the
 CS>> antennas are at no more than 20 feet up and quite a few you can r
 CS>> standing on a chair.

 People I know afraid of heights can't even do that without fear.
 One of my co-workers is acrophobic, and sometimes we have to
 work 40 feet up in a cherry picker.

BF>> I do paint the house and fix the antennas on the roof but not with a s

 CS> Not to worry.  I really do understand such.  I might regale
 CS> folks with my escapades 'on high' but I do go up because I
 CS> just am the stubborn type who thinks it's wrong to 'order'
 CS> one of my junior guys to do something they are genuinely
 CS> scared to do.  You can tell when you see the 'stiff upper

 I used to not mind almost anything up high. I was young and
 foolish once, as the tagline says.

 CS> I get scared on a 40ft ladder just propped against a wall.

 Ladders propped up against almost anything scare me. But I've
 seen to much go wrong. You actually have to know how to use a
 ladder. There are rules. Too many people think you hold onto the
 side rails. Here's a hint, fellas, you hold onto the rungs.

 CS> I do _not_ get scared suspended upside down from a rope 20
 CS> feet from a yardarm that is 200ft up or more (but i do

 Damn! Kinky lady!

 CS> check the rope and attachment first like any sane person
 CS> would!).

 And sane is???

BF>> Now a tunnel on E18 in Norway have collapsed. 25 m of the 1.7 km long
BF>> at the town Drammen south west of Oslo caved-in.
BF>> They still don't know if someone is dead and today it's 2 years since
BF>> the Tsunami.

 Hadn't heard of that. Seems to be happening these days.

 ...

 CS> Western ethic is 'have to find a body'.  Eastern isnt quite
 CS> the same.  They move on, not that there is much choice in
 CS> the matter.

 That last is the fact. Millenia of not having a choice in the
 matter. Tsunami's have that effect. Just watching a TV show on a
 nature channel about a Tsunami that hit Hawaii about 50 years
 ago. Hit a school just as the students were assembled in the
 school yard. There's a marker for the students and adults who
 were never found.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Critical thinking hell! Fox News tells me what to think!!!
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