In keeping with the spirit of this thread, here is hoping that probe shorts out while in use, Uncle Flo. Put some spark in your life.

This thread can launch me into a rant. The long and short of it is that it seems like things do not work as I would think they are supposed to.

I could start with cell phone issues (replacement batteries not working properly and the UPS pickup service for a cell left in a motel not working as we thought) and continue thru getting an insurance license because I thought there might be some opportunities with the ACA which meant putting a couple of thousand miles on my truck and spending the equivalent of a few weeks sitting in a kiosk for a major and well thought of insurance company and a couple of thousand for classes, testing, licensing and all to earn not one penny. Then continue with a recent trip occasioned by a death in the family and flight delays causing us to land at DFW just as the onward flight was scheduled to depart, so we got a voucher for dinners and a night’s stay at a hotel which was an hour from the airport which meant we arrived after they quite serving dinner and their courtesy van did not begin until too late the next morning for our re-scheduled flight so we went back to DFW to find it closed and my kids and I slept on the tile floor at the security entrance. I have tried to volunteer on Tuesdays for a group an hour and a half away in the capital which prepares taxes for the poor, but every Tuesday like clockwork something happens (bad directions, death in family, kid sick, etc.) so I end up looking like a slug. My wife prints a paper weekly and I try to help with printing (after 2 AM) and folding. Often I can finish that between by early morning. I had an appointment for an insurance client at 9 AM and she got mad that I left without finishing the folding. So I planned nothing before our normal time of finishing about ten. Of course, the first time I scheduled an 11 AM appointment, the machine had pure paper jams all the time after midnight and I did not finish folding by 11. Pissed off wife again. OK. So I schedule my next appointment on press day for 3 PM. The printer then had issues with the toner distribution and had not finished folding by 3 pm, just to piss off wifey again.

It just seems like things do not work very well. Am I the only one?

I was beginning too think last night was a terrible night: first my fan died, then my new George Foreman Grill then my microwave.

However, it turned out that they were all working properly. I had done something that tripped the circuit breaker.

Oh well, crisis adverted.

Hey, I'm 67, for us old farts that was a crisis.

Yesterday I went on a 2 mile AIDS walk with my roommate/landlord and many others. I did the walk then stayed off my feet for the rest of the day they hurt so much. Today its better and I would love to go outside and work in the yard however its been raining all day, woke me up about 6 this morning, I think its rained at least 1 to 2 inches and the wind and rain just started again. The holding tank is full but the wind blew the tarp off it so that had to be reattached, normally windows are open but today closed because of rain coming in because of the wind. OH the problems living in paradise.

Aloha

River

Last night was the first I didn't need the furnace running.

It was sunny and didn't rain.

Tomorrow will be 83 deg F.

I've been training to become a pilot for the past seven months. However, today I could not control the plane. I screwed up contact with the tower, I was drawing a blank on how to do my maneuvers, and I my landings were very rough and off the center line of the runway. I quit the training halfway through the lessons because I was doing so terrible.

Paolo wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:08 pm It only gets worse.

Once cleaned and reloaded with new chemicals, the printer tore an uptake sleeve on the bottom of the rack, which will take a full day to fix, as the rack has to be totally disassembled.

My $300 flatbed scanner doesn't work with Windows 7, no driver exists.

And on top of that, it seems impossible to file state income taxes in Indiana.

I guess I'm going to jail soon.

Woo Hoo, we all get to go visit Paolo in the slammer and tell him bad jokes

and bad puns, OH where is Andrew when we need him????

River

Yesterday I tried to open bottle with antiseptic, and accidentally spilled it all over the hands. Now I look like I have murdered someone with my bare hands, and this thing goes off only with the skin.

fhunter wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:20 pm Yesterday I tried to open bottle with antiseptic, and accidentally spilled it all over the hands. Now I look like I have murdered someone with my bare hands, and this thing goes off only with the skin.

Try rubbing a wet aspirin on it. It takes all the dead skin off and anything staining it.

Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:37 pm A week and a half ago, my cheap computer went goofy and I have to buy a new one.

a) I didn't need that expense now because I owe $2900 in IRS and State taxes. Don't ask.

Then I had to update my modem on my cable service because the old modem didn't WIFI.

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Us, too. We are o

Paolo wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:08 pm n a 72 month re-payment plan. $42 bucks a month

...And on top of that, it see

ms impossible to file state income taxes in Indiana...

I guess I'm going to jail soon.

IT would be better to quickly incorporate.

Since you would then be a business, you would owe no taxes in Indiana and you could dine at the "TROUGH" with Mike "PIG" Pence as he attempts to take his "Hog Wallow" and "Hog Wash" to the Whitehouse...