I actually did stuff yesterday.

[Stingray]

It all started out so slackworthy. The wife & I usually ride to work together, since I drive right past her place of employment on the way to work. She had something to do right after work yesterday, so I let her drive the "good" car and I drove my PoS, beat-all-to-smurfpoop truck. So I'm on my way to another day of doing nothing at the office, when the truck just shuts off. No amount of beating on the dash and cursing will get it started, so I'm all out of options.

It's really early, as a result, I am unable to get anyone on the phone. Left with no other options, I walk. Five miles. I live out in the middle of nowhere as you will recall, most people I know can't find my house without following me there, so probably even if I had been able to get ahold of someone, they wouldn't have been able to find me. Eventually I make it back to where my wife works, and I get the other car from her.

By this time it's about 8:00 am so I'm able to reach someone at work and let them know that I have to rescue the crapmobile so I won't be coming in. Okay, I now have the day off and have things to do. So I go home and watch cartoons for about an hour, no sense getting in a big rush.

Call a guy I know who drives a wrecker, he picks me up, and then we go get the truck. On the way he tells me that he has a projection TV with a bad transistor, but he can't get his big hamfists in there to replace it. Since I have little girly hands and am pretty decent with a soldering iron, I offer to fix the board for him, so we work out a trade. Just saved myself about $35 in wrecker bill.

Time to fix the truck. Discover it's the fuel pump. Further discover that in order to access the fuel pump, the bed of the truck has to come off, because the tank is under the bed and the pump is acessed through the top of the tank. Frack that says I. Ten minutes with some of dad's snazzy air tools and I've got a fuel pump access hole in the bed. Fuel pump is $200, but once I have the hole cut I discover that the problem is a bad ground. Saved another $200. Made a cover for the hole I just cut in the bed and I'm rolling again.

I even traded cars with the wife and took her car to get new tires, and a wheel alignment, then traded back so she could still have her car after work.

I actually did stuff yesterday, I knew you guys would be proud.

-S

[Bones]

Who is this and what have you done with Stingray?

[markrvp]

Everybody has a bad day every now and again.  Don't let it get you down.

You can be back to slacker bliss in no time if you just stop trying.

[Stingray]

Well, I'm back in the office doing nothing, with my feet up, so all is well today.

-S

[Harry Potter]

What a relief. I hope someone's standing over you with giant leaf fans and Cheesecakes are feeding you grapes.

[Stingray]

What a relief. I hope someone's standing over you with giant leaf fans and Cheesecakes are feeding you grapes.

In my own private world, anything is possible.

-S

[missioncontrol]

I thought you were just being so slack you forgot to tun on your PC yesterday

[Stingray]

I thought you were just being so slack you forgot to tun on your PC yesterday

That only happens on weekends. At work, I have to goof off and appear to be busy at the same time. That's what computers are best at.

-S

[ChadTower]

Sometimes I wish I had car repair skills, but I don't like cars and don't care to learn about them, so I never end up with car repair skills.

[missioncontrol]

Sometimes I wish I had car repair skills, but I don't like cars and don't care to learn about them, so I never end up with car repair skills.

I didn't want any car repair skills but because I am cheap I had to aquire them

[ChadTower]

It's hard to keep really old cars on the road here because anything with rust on it won't pass inspection.  Most cars end up with rust after 6-7 years here.

Don't you have to have a lot of expensive tools to work on cars?

[missioncontrol]

Don't you have to have a lot of expensive tools to work on cars?

not really a good set os socket wrenches (standard and metric) and a friend with more car knowledge than yourself. Alot of the expenses tools you can borrow from autozones loan a tool service

[Stingray]

Don't you have to have a lot of expensive tools to work on cars?

Like any other job, good tools make it easier, but if you're determined you can get by with a few basics. I'm very lucky in that regard, as I have free access to a professional auto shop and all of the tools contained therein.

-S

[missioncontrol]

I also have a good access to several tools and auto knowledge it's called my neighbor  .

if I boost his ego by saying suff like "I just can't fuigure it out so I thought I'd come over to see what the expert has to say" he'll gladely help

 

[ChadTower]

Bah, my neighbors are all either 85 years old or not terribly friendly.

Dude moved into the house across from us this summer.  Three times I walked over to introduce myself and all three he turned his back and walked away. 

[missioncontrol]

that's your problem you call them "old" I call the "well knowledged and experienced" and they buy into it.

[Stingray]

I don't have neighbors.

-S

[ChadTower]

that's your problem you call them "old" I call the "well knowledged and experienced" and they buy into it.

Well, when you hit that range, they use walkers, don't often leave their houses, and my particular neighbors did things like drive trucks for a living.  Not something I could call upon for wisdom.

[missioncontrol]

I don't have neighbors.

-S

sure you do you just got to drive to their house rather than walk.

[RetroJames]

Careful now....


Remember kids.....

[Stingray]

You tried and you failed. The lesson is, never try.

Homer Simpson, parent of the year.

-S

[missioncontrol]

Why woman are not mechanics

[Stingray]

She gets bonus points for giving it a go.

-S

[whammoed]

Why woman are not mechanics

I see the problem with that car...the airbags deployed.

[missioncontrol]

they aren't good at putting gas in the car either

[missioncontrol]

and they are no good at parking

[ChadTower]

What?  She's not in the water.

[Stingray]

If you owned that boat, how could you resist pulling slowly away from the dock while laughing like a maniac?

-S

[whammoed]

Fast enough to hang the front bumper on the boat yet slow enough not to push it so far that the rear bumber slides off the edge...WOW!

[ChadTower]

Seriously, I'd be sitting there with a broomstick, pushing against the wharf.

"I'm pushing my boat... it's going inch by inch."

[DarkKobold]

What?

[missioncontrol]

What?

[ChadTower]

He tried way too hard on that one, swung so hard he had to go back to the bench holding his lower back.

[DarkKobold]

Ok, so I didn't get it.

The canoe thing is still kinda funny. That reporter was hella embarrassed.

[ChadTower]

No one knows what you're talking about.

[missioncontrol]

[Stingray]

The sound you heard was the sonic boom made by the canoe joke as it soared over my head.

-S

[missioncontrol]

Ok, so I didn't get it.

The canoe thing is still kinda funny. That reporter was hella embarrassed.

still don't get it

[DarkKobold]

watch this. you will get it.

[missioncontrol]