So last week we had the repairman out to "fix" the washer. $129 later he said it needed a new motor which would cost $500, but since the unit was 11 years old, it hardly seemed worth doing. Off to Best Buy for a new washer and dryer (why bother with a 11 year old dryer?)
I could have had about 30 things. Don't worry there will be more. One of my personal favorites since I've worked there is "with enough lubricant you can stick a bowling ball up a gnat's ass".
What effort to put an appliance in eh? I'm not handy at all, I would have had no clue what to do in that situation.
One of the things I think I missed not having a dad growing up was how to fix a lot of things. I mean, give me a book, I'll figure it out, but just random handyman jobs I never really got to do.
We had the washing machine repair man out today and paid $129 to find out it would be better to buy a new one. Then there's no point keeping the old dryer and waiting for it to die.
He said their home office is in Chicago and they were out at 2pm today and off tomorrow. This storm sounds like the real deal. I think... Read More
Oh, to be certain they will be fine. I feel more sad that they cannot help, and that the state of things is devolving. I do hope that the situation will be resolved in good time - whatever that even means. My brain is a bit low today.
Wishing you better electronic luck and quick healing to the tattoos, love.
Another year has passed, and I have a bunch of new SG friends since I wrote this. Sorry about the "rerun", but most of you haven't seen this.
A sense of humor and optimism.
Bad news...
It all started back in November 2006, just before Thanksgiving. I had this "thing" on my right arm. It had been there for quite a while, and it wouldn't... Read More
I agree, that's what I always say. I remember being up in Virginia for Thanksgiving and it was -17, and i was in shorts and a t-shirt and felt fine, but when a breeze came by I was like, ok, now it's a little bit cold.
Problem is here its really windy. Where I'm at now which is basically off a major highway exit with fuck all to block the wind it can be pretty bad and drifts can develop.
Apparently if we get a "Level 3" warning tomorrow then I don't go to work. People may work themselves into such a lather that happens, otherwise I'm expecting a quiet Wednesday as most businesses have already called it off, so we won't have a ton to do.
Well, you know if Chicago is shutting down, it's the real deal. Then again, they get this shit PLUS all of the lake effect. Unlike where I am. I just get extra wind for being in the middle of nowhere off the main highway.
They are Minnesotans, just get Paul Bunyan and Babe to pull the new Washer/Dryer in and it'll all be sorted.
Let me just throw this tidbit about the Canucks game at you in case you already haven't heard it and jumped for joy.
4 goals for the Wild, and a shutout for their 4th string goaltender in the Canucks first division loss.
Worse shutout loss in 2+ years too for them and.....Wild are 4-0 in the past four home games against Vancouver, outscoring the Canucks 21-6 with nine power-play goals.
Visiting depends on my aunt really. I'm trying to get two birds with one stone, she's planning on visiting my Gramps up in "The Queen City" of Virginia, so I want to get out there at the same time.
Not sure when she is going yet, but if I plan it right I'll have some days down south near the cities and then go up north.
When I do visit, I'll bring you and your wife some Walleye swag.
Ah! Russo the beat writer has his facts wrong then!
Sad to hear its still been a trying time, but I would expect it to be especially when everything isn't all sorted out yet. When my Dad died they sorted shit out for what seemed ages, as he didn't have a will and at the time I think everything went to the son...and I was six. So....you had all that to deal with.
Did she leave a will? I hope she did to help you guys sift through things, otherwise it'll just take a bigger toll on your wife if she's the one that has to deal with all of it.
I tease Electrohead about being a reason for our insane losing streak at the beginning of the season.
Every game he wore his Nabokov jersey to (he's a sharks fan), they lost and one night I just told him "dude, its the jersey".
Now he doesn't wear it and I believe has 4 wins under his belt, not so bad eh?
My Torpedo Yaroslavl 2002 jersey is 2-0...part of me never wants to wear it again in fear its undefeated streak will be broken.
I still need to get a new wild jersey, I have the first one they ever put out but its wayyyyy too small, and I have a Kuba one (the old green one found it on ebay in college for 30 bucks) but its tight and all the new ones cost eleventy billion dollars.
So, unless I have a spare almost 200 bucks lying around (which at the moment I don't) no jersey for me.
Plus, Boogaard left and that's who I would have wanted, but with NHL.com you can't get old players on your jersey, which makes no sense.
Right now it would probably be between Brunette, Clutterbuck, Koivu and Cullen because he's from Virginia.
My wife and I have been married for 2 years today. Under normal circumstances we would go out to dinner. However today's snow is not normal circumstances.
Our plow guy came and did the driveway just before 7 AM and it is totally drifted over already. I guess we've only had 6 inches, but the drifts are up to 2 feet, and it's still coming... Read More
Do you regret not finishing college? Do you want to go back?
At many points I wasn't going to finish college, especially with that last class being the worst I've ever taken in my educational career and also if I didn't get at least a C, my GPA would be too low to ever graduate.
So, the pressure and the fact it sucked so much made it take essentially two years to finish it or maybe 1 1/2 and in a way, regardless of how I played it college would be "over". Degree or no degree.
Well, at least right now it turns out that a college degree means absolutely fuck all. It's really completely useless unless it seems you are doing more school or have a degree in something that you need to study to become -- doctor, lawyer etc.
Hey, just remember you could be watching a shit team in Toledo who never wins when we go (except when certain friends aren't there it seems...haha). Actually you and your wife would probably have a blast sitting with us, despite the hockey not being NHL caliber and all the losing.
I guess with the Wild we have expectations. It's hard to with Toledo because any time a player shows promise they leave or get pulled up. Those two wins I recently saw? Yeah, they brought down 3 players who they then took right back up after that weekend.
As for the Wild, another year of not making the playoffs and it seems that investment (which for season tickets is quite a bit more for you than me) almost not worth it. Although, if I were you, I'd probably still get tickets every year to see the Gophs and Wild just because I haven't been able to do so living as a Minnesotan abroad.
How much can you see your team lose? How much can you stomach? We as Minnesotans I think are probably right up there with the highest tolerance for being complete shit in terms of sports and sticking by them.
I just wonder what the team would be like if Gaborik wasn't a big pussy and stayed and became the first player to have his jersey retired as a member of this team.
Would someone else have wanted to play with him? Likely. If he stays healthy he's the 3rd best scorer in the GAME. Shame he has no heart.
Havlat just isn't good enough, and the team itself seems to only have world class goaltending, although Backstrom seems a bit down, and the defense is good enough, but they have no one to play with Koivu, as Havlat can't do it, and the rest of the team seems to be seasoned vets (like Brunette who you need) or role players.
In the west how is a team ever going to win like that? I'm putting some hopes that Granlund when he comes over will be the business.
At least we know the team can get actual free agents this time and has past that expansion stage.
Nah mate, wasn't you. I really wasn't consciously thinking of anything. Really I think it's because I haven't been working out like I normally do to get rid of all the "demons" so to speak.
Just spiked then for no apparent reason. When I had hardcore anxiety before there was no trigger, I just had it and all its physical manifestations. Then I got on medication and then there were triggers, and sometimes there wasn't.
If its the same stalled out bullshit, then its happening regardless as I've momentarily stalled out in Toledo, yet with no outlet i.e. boxing or working out.
Tomorrow morning I think I shall begin my strongman training and see if that changes things.
With the death of my sister-in-law comes the need to settle her estate (what little there is). She told my wife she had a will. We spent Saturday afternoon at her house cleaning and searching. There was a safe in the closet, but we couldn't find the combination. Assuming we would find the will inside, we brought it home.
LOL. Not sure how many people are going to get the Geraldo reference.
No more dealing with this power vent nonsense. My plumber friend's cost on the heater was $800. We're getting a good name brand electric heater for less than half the price and being done with it. I'll update my blog with the gory details.
My wife tried calling her sister, like she does every day. When there was no answer, she said she was going over there to check on her. I tried to talk her out of it, thinking she went to the store or something. If she was really that worried she should have the cops check on her, but no.
I've been known to have a cigar once in a blue moon when out drinking, but that's about it. Cigarette smoke has never bothered me, but I've never really had the urge to light up, either.
I was actually the trigger to get both of my parents to quit cold turkey from two packs a day, too... mom caught me dangerously close to working a lighter at about 18 months, and they both dropped it right then
That's a bummer you drove all the way out to meet everyone and didn't manage to, hopefully next time we'll be a bit more organized!
What little family I have (with the exception of my own kids) got together for dinner and bingo tonight. Our table kicked some ass. One of my nephews won the first game. His grandmother split the prize for the second game.
The final game was a coverall for $100. So everyone at the table is counting down how many more they need. I caught... Read More
I don't go to too many movies playing in theaters anymore... Today was one of the exceptions. Been waiting a long time for Harry Potter 7.1. I got turned on to the series by the woman who used to do my ex-wife's hair about 12 years ago. Back then the third book was just about to come out.
No kidding! I don't do anything that I am trying to hide, so I don't mind the surveillance. Theoretically, and ideologically, I understand the deep flaws in a panopticon system of disciplinary control, but as an everyday practice it does not harm me personally. Except in ways that I have internalized to the point of naturalizing. EEK! Anyway - nerd tangent.
I enjoy discussing my ink as well! I don't want to be touched, unless asked, but talking about them is fun. I've received mostly positive feedback, so that helps. I'm sure the other guy was stoked on the exchange as well!
I never saw Avatar in the theater... I blew it off as populist tripe. After all, it was the highest grossing film of all time. I figured they didn't need my 8 bucks.
Now that it's on cable, I can't stop watching it. I realize that the theater experience is a bit grander, but I don't mind. I have a pretty nice HDTV.
They, being the several people from Enterprise who made this a slow process.
Really, I should have gone for UPS, got it, been doing what I'd rather do for now and then applied at Enterprise, so I'd have a job in hand.
That's what angers me with the whole experience, the fact I pretty much missed the boat with UPS because I thought it would be bad if I worked at UPS for say two weeks and then switched over.
Now, hindsight being 20/20, everyone says I should have done that in the first place, when UPS is what I wanted to do to begin with, since Enterprise really doesn't interest me.
C'est la vie.
Yeah, I may have your Twins curse. Seriously though, this team has been screwed of three legitimate goals in the last two games we've been too, but they have no goal camera and they have no "Toronto" so they get fucked.
Wild how they can beat a team who we watched them lose to 7-2 at home, 8-0 away last Saturday, and then lose Sunday.
What is fun is the fact our section brings the team to life in the end of the 3rd period, its our heckling and yelling that gets them all jacked up, and its nice to know that the team are feeding off it, even if they can't shoot and lose all the time.
I have a great time at every game because (unlike our Twins) I have no expectations. They are shit, they do get screwed over, so sitting with my friends yelling shit at the goalie, standing up getting the opposition players to look at me as I heckle them makes it all worthwhile.
Plus our section is hilarious. This lady next to me hands me her phone saying this guy in the suite across the rink is saying Minnesota sucks. I was like tell him to come down here, and I started talking trash on the phone, to find out it was Chris (who is an OSU/Canucks fan) who sits right next to us. He was with his work buddies who got a suite rather than sitting where he usually does. Hysterical.
We are, and the feeling of making the game better for everyone around us makes the experience better. I've got the A-OK for season tickets (I've just bought them every game so far) so I'll be there 34 more times.
The best is when you get the goalie to shake his head because he's listening to all the stuff we say everything to "You're a Siv", "Ya GAHBAGE!" to clean insults like "You have no facebook friends", "You love your family", "You kiss your brother", "You live in a boring town". We also specialize them to whoever it is and where they are from.
We've also got the Gopher - "Always were" and "That's debatable" going, although I think the "and they still suck" is the best (MSU hockey).
We also throw out hockey pop culture references: Swingers, slapshot, the old nike commercials.
Btw, the Walleye's captain is a Vikes fan, not from Minnesota though, Brampton Ontario. He's a fighter, small by scrappy. So last game someone smashes him against the boards I get up scream and point "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO A VIKINGS FAN". It was amazing.
Yeah, people in Detroit won't talk shit to you really at any sporting event, especially since you are rooting for a team when there are tons of fans in that area.
I think one time out of the 18 years I lived up there did a kid say anything to me, and it was in passing after the Twins just won and I didn't even hear it, my friend did. The kid didn't have the balls to say it to my face or say it loudly.
What effort to put an appliance in eh? I'm not handy at all, I would have had no clue what to do in that situation.
One of the things I think I missed not having a dad growing up was how to fix a lot of things. I mean, give me a book, I'll figure it out, but just random handyman jobs I never really got to do.