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Poor John Denver ski'd into a tree. Oh wait...That was Sonny Bono. I always get those two mixed up because one is short and Italian and the other is completely different. Poor Sonny.  John Denver hang glided into the side of a mountain.  They're both a couple of saps if you ask me. Sonny must be from Michigan. I was friends with his cousin Aldo.

I saw Sonny and Cher at the Astrodome during the rodeo years ago. Even then she was a bitch. They had a place on stage they would go into to change costumes and you could hear her cursing him out inside.

The only way to make a good living as a solo contractor is to have a steady pipeline of work. Subbing for one of the big box stores or hooking up with builders. I think I lasted two years doing tile for Home Depot before that just turned into a vicious world of  hate and loathing.  Then I did two years as the backsplash king for Lowe's until the inevitable explosion. They are hateful toward their contractors and they have no idea what they are doing. It's just a ticking time bomb. And the way way over-charge the customers. It makes you hate life. Doing new builds is bliss...and it's just straight-up money for work, no drama. Everyone's real professional and knows what they're doing.

I don't really have sympathy for people that ski into trees, fly into the surface of the ocean or get hit by trains. It's all so easily preventable.

  I watch people getting hit and killed by trains on YouTube. Guess you were one of the lucky ones. Most of them look like a piece of wet spaghetti when it's over. With extra tomato sauce.

How do you not see that coming? Right off the bat there's train tracks and you're on them. Trains are like as big as buildings and a mile long. The ground shakes, they have a horn. There's like a rush of wind generated by them. In short, they are one of the most noticeable moving man-made object you will ever encounter during a normal lifetime.