My hand, Shacknews
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Rather than throw this in my "dudes, ow" thread I thought I'd make a new one. This is a tiny update on my hand, but also just me pimping out another fun community - the guys and gals of Shacknews. Before my injury, I was playing Minecraft nightly with a group of people. One of them found out where I worked and sent me an awesome care package.
Skip to the 5 minute mark to see my hand as it is now, or watch the whole thing for sappy chatter.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gov1uaIPkk4[/ame]
Here's a direct copy/paste of what I had to say to the Shack community regarding this little package -
A while ago, I posted about a cooking fire my wife and I had at our apartment. The results were a destroyed kitchen and bathroom while the rest of the place was ruined by heavy grease smoke damage.
My wife had slight smoke inhalation while I received 3rd degree burns on my hand, and 2nd degree burns on my wrist and arm. You can see that thread here:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24441633
Prior to the burn, I was playing a lot of Minecraft on Merc’s server. I, along ArticFox, Xevo and a couple of others orchestrated the construction of that servers Waterpark. From this, I did a lot of talking over Teamspeak with those guys and got to know them outside of their Shack name/posts in latest chatty. As time went on, ArticFox and I got to know each other pretty well outside of what we were building next in Minecraft.
Today was my first day back at work. A few weeks ago, just after the fire, ArticFox had asked me via SM if he could send me a care package. Not really knowing many of you from Shack, nor really having someone I’ve never met before send me stuff, I thought my work address would be best. Well, that and my apartment was no longer my home (I now reside in a temporary condo until we find a new place to live.)
Since I had nearly 3 weeks of work, I just received the package today. And.. its amazing. There was a letter inside that was for my wife and I that really touched us. How could a ‘stranger’ be so kind and thoughtful to us? After all, we were doing nothing short of playing with Lego together.
What I received is very similar to a White Elephant - something we’re all familiar with. Rather than take photos of the unboxing, I thought I’d do a video as its easier for me to do then navigate this tiny Notebook.
As I will be for the next few weeks, please enjoy:
[YOUTUBERY]
I’ve been around Shack for a while now, a few years anyway, and a part of many communities in my 10+ years as an active INTERNET USER. Not once has something been so thoughtful to me and I really wanted to let you guys know about it. No one will appreciate this like you guys will.
ArticFox... Brett, from my wife and I we want to say thank you for these gifts. They’ve made our evening one of the best in the past few weeks. From me personally I wanted to say - You’re a hell of guy.
Skip to the 5 minute mark to see my hand as it is now, or watch the whole thing for sappy chatter.
[ame]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gov1uaIPkk4[/ame]Here's a direct copy/paste of what I had to say to the Shack community regarding this little package -
A while ago, I posted about a cooking fire my wife and I had at our apartment. The results were a destroyed kitchen and bathroom while the rest of the place was ruined by heavy grease smoke damage.
My wife had slight smoke inhalation while I received 3rd degree burns on my hand, and 2nd degree burns on my wrist and arm. You can see that thread here:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24441633
Prior to the burn, I was playing a lot of Minecraft on Merc’s server. I, along ArticFox, Xevo and a couple of others orchestrated the construction of that servers Waterpark. From this, I did a lot of talking over Teamspeak with those guys and got to know them outside of their Shack name/posts in latest chatty. As time went on, ArticFox and I got to know each other pretty well outside of what we were building next in Minecraft.
Today was my first day back at work. A few weeks ago, just after the fire, ArticFox had asked me via SM if he could send me a care package. Not really knowing many of you from Shack, nor really having someone I’ve never met before send me stuff, I thought my work address would be best. Well, that and my apartment was no longer my home (I now reside in a temporary condo until we find a new place to live.)
Since I had nearly 3 weeks of work, I just received the package today. And.. its amazing. There was a letter inside that was for my wife and I that really touched us. How could a ‘stranger’ be so kind and thoughtful to us? After all, we were doing nothing short of playing with Lego together.
What I received is very similar to a White Elephant - something we’re all familiar with. Rather than take photos of the unboxing, I thought I’d do a video as its easier for me to do then navigate this tiny Notebook.
As I will be for the next few weeks, please enjoy:
[YOUTUBERY]
I’ve been around Shack for a while now, a few years anyway, and a part of many communities in my 10+ years as an active INTERNET USER. Not once has something been so thoughtful to me and I really wanted to let you guys know about it. No one will appreciate this like you guys will.
ArticFox... Brett, from my wife and I we want to say thank you for these gifts. They’ve made our evening one of the best in the past few weeks. From me personally I wanted to say - You’re a hell of guy.
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It's nice to see games bringing people together rather than being blamed for the latest violence in the news. It looks like you've made a good friend.
But why didn't you post pictures of your other glove?
Awesome story though Adam. AF sounds like a cool guy indeed.
Nice to see your hand is healing up - looks remarkably well considering what happened. Glad that your range of motion has mostly come back.
Just kidding. Glad to hear you've been able to return to work.
And well done Articfox
Glad to hear you're back at work!!!!
this could have been you, now you have to be the handmodel for all those zombiefilms, seriously don't get that attitude, just because your hand gets famous now!
seriously damn nice job of the docs on your hand, thought it would end worse :thumbup:
Get well adam !
I think you mean this one.
Get well soon, adam!
Anyway, hope you continue to get better and long live the great white north!
It's awesome to hear about the kindness of "strangers."
I've gotta say, after seeing the pictures of your hand originally, it looks soooo much better. I'm shocked at how good it looks.
Wishing you a continued, speedy recovery!