Not a good day... take it in stride....

[-CB-]

First I get up early, get my cat Benjamin-Tyree ready for the vet.  He's itchy, biting his hair off... so down to the vet.  Ben cries like a little kid.  A very mournful "nooooooo".  Get him weighed and all at the vet, he's gained back the 1-1/2 lbs he lost when his leg was bad.  I take him out of the carrier and hold him in the examination room and....

He pees all over me.  I guess either he was tellin me how much he loved the vet, or he had a nice warm fuzzy feeling and wanted me to have one too.  The vet and his asst walks in, I'm drench.  They held back their laughter.

Get home, go to change plugs on my truck and... find that one of the exhaust manifold studs is busted.  Wunnerful.  Its not getting fixed until the manifold leaks.  Its not leaking, I'm not fixin it.

Take out the plugs... one at a time... seeing that the threads on the head are... not gonna stand too many more plug changes, but... the engine has 140k on it, so... if it goes to say 175k on these plugs... I really cant complain. 

Then I'm down to the last plug... and I go to gap it, and the electrode breaks off the side.  Like nothin... just poof with a slight pressure it.  If it were a screw, I'd write a whole post to myself, kicking my own butt for using the wrong pilot hole drill.  But in this case, the weld let loose that holds the electrode.  Crank up the Harley, go down to the autoparts, and get a replacement.  Back home, I go to put in the replacement and it spins in the hole.  Holy crap... heads all stripped.  Wait... no... I look at the plug.  The BOX says 401C but the plug says 401Q.  This plug has a seal ring, the one I need is taper fit.  Back on the Harley, go down and get the right plug... it works.

I'm afraid to even leave the house any more today.

 

[Mor Paul]

Well... I reheated my pizza a bit too long, and my computer's sound didn't work, so I had to restart it.

 

[NLD09]

Well... I woke up around 15 minutes ago, and I'm still in bed on my laptop.

 

[kboman]

I got a full night's sleep for the first time in weeks, had to run moderately fast to catch the bus into town and spent the day with my sister: eating excellent pasta and having excellent coffee (I haven't eaten there for a year and everyone was happy to see me back!), checking out iPhone and surround receiver prices, giving the sister advice on shoes etc.

Come to think of it, this may very well be the best day I've had in months. I'm not sure if this reply is helpful, but hey.

 

[JaySwear]

i'm going to have about 3 feet of snow to shovel whenever it finally stops. it's been snowing for a nonstop 48 hours now. the good news is that it should stop in about 2 or 3 hours.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Think for the good side... the cat could have poo on you instead of peeing... and it could be liquid poo... :tard:

:laughing7:

 

[Mor Paul]

Well, I just got some chip dip on my shirt.

 

[tfarny]

I've been racing around all day in the early sore-muscle stages of the flu, testing around 200 ESL students. Wonder how much virus I've transmitted today...

 

[Nando Vallart]

Yesterday I had the day off (Saturday) and thought, great, I can go to the Football. But the weather closed in, rained cats and dogs for a few hours solid, and the pitch was like a swimming pool. Game postponed til Monday, when I will again be back at work, grrr.

This is a sign of God!!!

He wants to say: "you live in Australia, dumb boy! You shall watch proper men's sport: Rugby"   :laughing7:

 

[Dan025]

today's been great, it was the week that preceeding that was a saab story, yes i mean saab. if you own one and it breaks you know what i mean!

last wednsday i took a trip to buffalo to see friend's i chose that week because one friend in particular lives in austrailia and was back home for several days. i get to buffalo and it starts snowing, no biggie. i spend the night with my buddy pat and go out for breakfast, get to a stopsign and the clutch pedal goes to the floor and stays there, broken cable!. i put it in neutral and turn off the engine. put it in first and start'er up, no problem. next stopsign i'm startin it up and some dumb kids dont see my car moving and just walk out in front of me, sure they have right of way but i was moving first, i kill the engine and wait, then i get no start. we push into the college parking lot i try again and now she starts but wont hold an idle. i won't let that ruin my day so we walk for food. come back and no start so i have it towed. saab dealer wants rediculous labor for the cable and said the engine shows a number of trouble codes. they clear it and recheck and think it is the CPS which is in the distibutor on that car. they want $351 for a distributor + 1 hour labor to change it but it is literally a 5 min job. i say fix the cable and i'll take the car. i find a used distributor, they pull it and it's no good. i try to find the sensor and it is only available on line through untrusted locations. so i ask my friend to leave the car at his place, i get it running and the cat starts glowing, i drive it to friends place and cut out the cat, parts store gives me the wrong pipe and it still wont hold an idle. i figured it wasn't a CPS when the cat was glowing because that code can trip from excessive cranking. this whole process took 8 days as i had no transportation, no more money, no tools, and no help. i only wanted to be there 4 days as i was expecting an important package with paperwork for a new job. i never fixed the car instead my dad wired money and i took the train. i still need to go back with a scan tool and a multi meter and tools and maybe a distributor and maybe i'll be on the right track.

i never made it to see my friend from austrailia. i owe my dad money, i don't have a car, and i spent a week banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to make it work out in the end.

 

[Dan025]

BTW. is that a ford truck? triton? 5.4? i see that alot, i make an insert for it. there are also comercially available inserts but it is hard to find the second oversize and the first oversize isn't usually big enough.

 

[OzziePete]

Yesterday I had the day off (Saturday) and thought, great, I can go to the Football. But the weather closed in, rained cats and dogs for a few hours solid, and the pitch was like a swimming pool. Game postponed til Monday, when I will again be back at work, grrr.

This is a sign of God!!!

He wants to say: "you live in Australia, dumb boy! You shall watch proper men's sport: Rugby"   :laughing7:

Half right, Nando.....

More likely that God was saying, "You really don't want to see this match". :toothy11:

My team hasn't been playing well in the second half of the season and for the first time in 5 years we have not made the finals series (we have first-past-thepost [premiers]and then a finals series for champion). the annoying thing about the match being postponed is that I can't go to the match and one of the guys in the team is retiring, so it would have been my last chance to see him play. This player (Andrew Clark) is a bit of a local legend, I have spoken to him a few times and he's a great guy, so I wanted to be there to see him off  in his last game... :sad:

 

[Nando Vallart]

That is a good reason, no way to watch it? will be on your shift time?

 

[OzziePete]

That is a good reason, no way to watch it? will be on your shift time?

Yes, I will be working and no way can I ring up sick, because my roster clerk knows I follow Football and would put 1 + 1 together and realise I wasn't really sick ( the term we use in Australia is 'chucking a sickie' for that sort of absence! One of the great Australian pasttimes  :toothy12.

Really though, the match wasn't going to be pretty to watch. A number of our players have been released and on loan to other Football clubs, a couple so they could press their claims for a World Cup Squad berth for their National Teams & one to continue longer than our team will be playing this season for fitness & we were going to put a couple of young player son to see how they went too. It has the potential to be a disaster for us! And this is a match up against our closest rival and there is a lot of feeling in these matches (they call them 'derbies').

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

Sounds like a fun day.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Too bad!

It's really a shame to say so, but here in Brazil there are some doctors that gives "medical license" saying you're sick and can't go to work and you're paid for this absence...
But I doubt that in serious countries this things happen :icon_thumright:

 

[stubhead]

Our power went out at 2:20am, didn't come back till 11, meanwhile we got 12 inches of super-soggy snow and sleet that's going to freeze up solid when it hits 14 degrees tonight. Maryland is locked down tight... I just hope the power stays on through the hard freeze, or people will be dying, cause the whole state is gonna be one big sheet of ice come Sunday morn. I have food. :hello2:

 

[Alfang]

So ya got home from the vet, and started changing spark plugs, did you change clothes first?  you know that cat pee can be real pungent real quick, I'm guessing you know this by now.

 

[Nando Vallart]

I have food. :hello2:

Well, if it's freezing the food won't deteriorate :laughing7:

 

[OzziePete]

Too bad!

It's really a shame to say so, but here in Brazil there are some doctors that gives "medical license" saying you're sick and can't go to work and you're paid for this absence...
But I doubt that in serious countries this things happen :icon_thumright:

Don't bet on it, 'Nando!

All I have to do is get to the Dr. in the morning, complain of lack of sleep and a headache, or inappropriately allege I'm still suffering grief from the loss of my mother ,and I could get a Medical Certificate, no worries! But I would rather save my sick days for when I really need them. I have 'chucked sickies' in past years only to be short of sick day leave when I did need it & lost pay. But all that would be tempting karma to bite me on the bum big time I reckon...