Note the tie-downs to secure his load...of gravel.

According to a story on USAToday.com  a guy in India was killed when he entered a room with an MRI machine while carrying an oxygen tank. The powerful magnets used in an MRI machine sucked the tank into the machine and the poor guy along with it. The tank valve ruptured releasing all the oxygen and the guy died from O.D.ing on pure oxygen.
I've been told that I must never have an MRI because I have a pacemaker that's metal. I've been told that the magnets in an MRI machine are powerful enough to suck that thing right out of my chest leaving a gaping hole in its wake. I always took those warnings as less than reliable but now I'm wondering if they're not accurate.
I also can't go through the standard metal detectors at airports, many stadiums, and some other places, but I don't know why. I'm guessing that something in that walk-through archway puts off frequencies that might interfere with my device.
When I'm at the airport security check I just tap my chest where the pacemaker is located and they understand. I get directed to that line where the "hands over your head" scanner is used. They've seen the situation enough to respond easily and quickly.
When I went to the ASU hockey game with the kids a week ago the gal running the scanner was not used to this scenario. I tapped my chest and she looked at me like I was trying to ... I'm not sure, but she seemed a bit uneasy. I explained I had a pacemaker and with an almost alarmist tone she said, "Well you can NOT go through the machine!"
I went around the side and an 80-year old guy gave me a pat-down.

Stella comes into heat this weekend so I contacted Marta about hosting an overnight (or three) with one of her bucks. This will be Stella's first breeding so I had the birds-and-bees talk with her yesterday. This look of horror and disbelief came over her followed by "you think I'm going to go along with THAT?!"
But I'm pretty sure once her biological drive kicks in she'll be all grins and giggles.
First breedings often produce a single kid and birth complications aren't uncommon. So we're both a little nervous about this.

We just got home from our weekly small group meeting. That means I missed the SOTU so I'm reading about it online. But I'm too tired to do much more than read the headlines and guess what the article says. (It's not hard)
Another reason for not spending much time on it tonight: I finished rekeying the first book!! Finished about five minutes before it was time to leave. Now I have to get it formatted and all the diagrams scanned and inserted into the document.
Kim is coming over tomorrow to take the picture that will be used on the cover and if I can have the basic formatting done by then it will make that a lot easier.

So yeah, I'm going to stop typing this and work on formatting.