I may have cut my finger a little bit with the carpet knife, but I'm all good.
This shit is way harder than turking.
It is hard work! I used to love to work around the house when I was younger but would rather not now that I'm older.
I was in a hurry when I posted my safety message earlier but there's a reason I said that. The last time I did a big flooring project it was a bunch of Pergo here. I'm always careful but on one of the last cuts of the Pergo I lapsed and came within inches of losing all of the fingers on my left hand with a DeWalt double-bevel sliding compound miter saw. Instead of locking the blade and work in position I just tried to freehand a small cut, and the blade caught the Pergo and came right at me while sucking the flooring backwards.
Instead of getting a new piece, I finished the cut safely and installed that piece with the big cut across it to remind me to be safe! It helped that it went in the closet at the end of the hallway too. Not too obvious but I still see it every time I get in the closet.