April 2014

As an aside, and pursuant to yesterdays comment thread:

If you have an old computer, and you don’t have any use for it, and you know that sometimes Og has old computers that he fixes up and gives to people who need them, it is a very awesome thing for you to give that old computer to Og.

Further, if you are kind enough to provide not only the computer but a nice computer bag and all the cables and cords and even an external hard drive, that is an awesome thing, and some young person (or for that matter old person) will be pleased with having a free device to use.

On the other hand, if you do give Og this computer, you might just want to remove all the picture and video files that are on it. While I’m into seeing naked women doing pole dances as much as anyone, I would be lying if I said that your 270 lb wife grasping the lally columns in your basement with her thighs was even remotely erotic. And the video montage of you and her- very creative. I will never use ketchup again, ever.

I have seen some very, very disturbing things in my life, and this is one of them.

Sometimes

It isn’t so much the being thrown under the bus that I object to, its the fact that they ask you to give it a lube job while you’re down there, and wonder why you don’t jump for joy at the chance.

So

Having spent all last week as sick as two dogs glued together with dog snot, and having spent Friday and Saturday with the Daughter getting her paperwork &etc all taken care of for her first semester of college this fall, Sunday, as much as I would have loved for it to be my day to attend the NRA show, was work day. The lawn needed mowing desperately, the wife’s car had had some issues on Thursday that needed to be rectified, and the kitchen project needed a badly needed boost.

So I drained the radiator on the wifes car and dismantled the overflow container to figure out why the radiator float switch doesn’t work (Turns out the float she no float so good) flushed it with distilled water, (They had put the wrong type of coolant in at the shop) put the correct coolant in, adjusted the battery terminals (they had not been tied down very well and the battery hadn’t charged) and test drove it a bit.

The I needed to mow the lawn lest it start raining and make that impossible, so I backed out the tractor- I needed to pull spring service on it and I didn’t have enough grease so I had to run and get grease, then I changed oil &etc and mowed, and then spent until almost eleven on my knees putting a Pergo floor in the kitchen.

It will be good to get back to work. I need the break.

I wish I had been able to attend NRA, I had planned to do so all year, but it is what it is. Maybe next year. At least I got the full SHOT show experience.

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