[SEL] Tighten until you here the "chink", then back it off a quarter turn

[Rob Skinner]

I know you've been here:

You're working on an irreplaceable part, things are not quite working  
out, you decide it needs just a little more force, and then...  
PLINK!  What was once one part is now two parts.

The rage builds.  A tantrum seems like the only option, but you know  
it won't help the situation.  If only you had a time machine... but  
you don't.  So you stand there like the dolt your are, desperately  
weighing the options, trying to figure out how to repair the part  
that wouldn't be broken if you weren't impatient and dumb in the  
first place...

Not only have you guys been there, you'll probably find yourselves  
there in the future.  So the next time you find yourself in this  
boat, you can take solace in the knowledge that at least you're not  
Steve Wynn, standing before a group of dignitaries, who are sitting  
there, mouths agape, not believing that one guy can be such a spaz.


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Pablo Picasso's "dream" painting has turned into a $139 million  
nightmare for Steve Wynn.

In an accident witnessed by a group that included Barbara Walters and  
screenwriters Nora Ephron and Nicholas Pileggi, Wynn accidentally  
poked a hole in Picasso's 74-year-old painting, "Le Reve," French for  
"The Dream."

A day earlier, Wynn had finalized a record $139 million deal for the  
painting of Picasso's mistress, Wynn told The New Yorker magazine

The accident occurred as a gesturing Wynn, who suffers from retinitis  
pigmentosa, an eye disease that affects peripheral vision, struck the  
painting with his right elbow, leaving a hole the size of a silver  
dollar in the left forearm of Marie-Theresa Walter, Picasso's 21-year- 
old mistress.

"Oh shit, look what I've done," Wynn said, according to Ephron, who  
gave her account in a blog published on Monday.

Wynn paid $48.4 million for the Picasso in 1997 and had agreed to  
sell it to art collector Steven Cohen. The $139 million would have  
been $4 million higher than the previous high for a work of art,  
according to The New Yorker.

Cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder paid $135 million in July for Gustav  
Klimt's 1907 portrait "Adele Bloch-Bauer I."

Wynn plans to restore "Le Reve" and keep it.