ESPN Sucks

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It's finally happened. ESPN should stand for "Extreme Sports for the Prissy Network". Today they actually had jump rope on today, JUMP ROPE. I almost couldn't stand that for another second. I tried to divert my attention to just about anything else. I got lucky and only got on the last 30 minutes then they had a little X-Games to try and gain some of their lost respect back.

$@#&!!!!

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So we had ANOTHER weekend with out A/C. Right about now if you are an A/C technition, you are NOT my friend and if I were you I wouldn't make any kind of contact with me in any way, shape or form. Throw that on top of having a really crappy day at work and yup... You guessed it, PMS! That would be permenant man syndrome. I don't even think going to outback and getting the outback style prime rib would help me today. Normally that's a sure fix for anything. Anyway, back to sweating.... I've got to log onto work and get a few things done. My job is never done. :-P~

Kids today are spoiled

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Don't you hate it when you pull up behind a escalade or something and there a couple of kids in the back with there flip down screen going at it playing Madden 2004 on the Xbox or something. I do! I want that, I never had anything even close to that when I was a kid. I mean these kids should be sitting back there bitching about things. I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I gotta go to the bathroom, he keeps looking at me, he is sweating on me, she crossed the imaginary line we drew on the seat, she is still looking at me, Dad, tell him to stop doing that, when are we going to be there, what's in that truck, Dad, close your window, the air is blowing on me, I wanna sit in front, I don't like the middle, he's still touching me. But, noooooooo.... They are sitting still quietly getting carpel tunnel while upping their stats with there nice little headphones on. I don't like that. Kids need to be a little more miserable if you ask me.

Summer

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The pool has cooled to a chilly 72 degrees, the grass has slowed in it's growth, my tan has faded (yes I have a tan), I realized all the things I wanted to do over the summer weren't done, it's dark when I get home from work, it's dark when I get up in the morning, on Sundays I have to choose between football and NASCAR, the wasp that harass me daily have gone back to hell or where ever they are from. Summer is over.

A/C Sucks

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My Air Conditioning really sucks bad. It wasn't more than a month ago and it went out. Now it's been not more than 4 weeks and it's gone out again. They came out and found that I had a leak in the coil up in the attic. I'm going to head up there and check out their work later tonight. It cost me $175 even with my home warranty. I guess the warranty doesn't cover disposal of the coil or the used freon. I told the guy "I have a place I can take that" to try and save a few bucks, but he said he had to take it. Bastards, I think that's just a way for them to make money. I'm thinking I just buy the parts and change it myself and then call them back out and say whoops, I think it leaked out. Maybe you should recharge it. How hard can a coil be to change out. Hell if an A/C guy can do it then it must not be too tuff. Not that I'm bitter or anything. :P~

As the Toe Turns!

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So, I know many of you are wondering "What ever happened to your toe injury?". No, really, many of you are wondering that! Well It still hurts like hell. It doesn't hurt to just sit there any more, and I can walk pretty much normal now, but if I do anything that is toe intensive I can sure tell it in a hurry. Anyway, that's the scoop. Now you can say you know!

Slight Mishap

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So there was a slight issue on the ole RC Airplane last night. I had it out in the back alley trying to trim out the engine. Normally to do this you hold the plane between your feet and you run up the engine to full power. Then you can turn this little mixture knob that is located about 1 inch from the propeller to set it for optimum performance. Keep in mind that this engine at power runs at about 15,000 rpm. So I get the thing started and everything seems normal. What I didn't realize is that during the start, the prop nut/nose cone came off in the starter cone. Not two minutes prior I had tightened this nut so I'm sure it was tight. Well needless to say I had no idea this had happen so I continued with my trim run. With the engine at full throttle, my hand a mere ass hair from the prop and my face someplace in the plane of rotation I'm sure, the prop retaining washer came off which let the prop turn free and come off. The washer went flying off into the field behind our house. The prop came off and luckily bounced off the ground prior to it coming directly at my face. Good thing it scrubbed off a little speed, cuz it was hauling ass. Of course at this point there is no resistance on the engine since the prop is no long there pushing any air. Now that 15,000 rpm is upwards of I'd guess 18,000 - 20,000. I'm pretty sure I bounced the piston off the top of the cylinder. I'll have to break it down and take a look tonight. I was luckily able to get it started again after a quick refuel and a new glow plug but I still wanna check it out. I do enough dead stick landings on my own, I don't need any more caused by engine failure.

Evil Plot

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If you had your mail stopped or something, say you went on vacation or something like that, you'd expect that when you came home and turned it on they would bring all your mail. Maybe it would have been all bundled up maybe with some big rubber bands or string maybe. Well the other day the mail person brought me my mail all bundled up in multiple rubber bands. It was like ten pounds of mail. What sucked was NONE of it was for me. It was all catalogs. Many of you know my ongoing catalog issue. Well this was like twenty in one day. And it's not like they had been saving them up or anything cuz the flow hasn't slowed one little bit. I'm thinking that it's some sort of evil plot against me or something by the catalogs themselves. You guess is as good as mine at this point.

All work and no play

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I can't believe I have to go to work today. I sooo need a three day weekend. Well ya know since I really only had a 1.5 day weekend. I did a 12 hour day on Saturday and about 3 or 4 on Sunday. Here's the before and after pics. I don't mind it so much if I get comp time to maybe leave a early a couple of days to make up for it, but I don't think they believe in comp time here. I guess I'll just have to be a bit sneakier about it. I'll get my time back one way or another. Anyway, back to surfin while I should be workin!!! :)

I need a robot monkey maid!

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So I thought that sparkly chandelier and those divided light glass door where really cool and would add a lot to my house. Ya, chick magnet! Well that was until I had to clean them. Holy crap!!! I haven't even gotten to the crazy hard chandelier. This is just the easy one. Course I still have to get out the ole 8 ft ladder just to reach them. These are just some of the MANY reasons I need a robot monkey maid or at least somebody to perform those duties for me. ;)

BTW, grrrrr!

Ahhhhh Friday!

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I so look forward to Friday's. It's not that it's just the last day of the work week. It's the fact that I get to wear casual clothes to work. I'm back in my element so to speak. All week long I wear pretty dressy clothes.

I don't really have any business casual so I look like I'm going out on a night on the town. I don't think ppl mind. I get told I look pretty good a lot so that's a good feeling. The dry cleaning bill just about kills me but it is pretty nice to put on a nice starched shirt and a pair of pressed Dockers.

On Fridays I'm back to my natural habitat. My white Reeboks, blue jeans, gray T-shirt, red plaid over shirt and my OK State hat. NOW I can work. I won't, but I could. :) I'm way too comfortable to work, hence the reason I'm here writing this.