Epic Fail

[PerpetualNoob]

I've been in the financial bidness for 18 years now. We get all the holidays off. If the Federal Reserve is closed, so are we.

Man, I had so many plans and ambitions for today, but an unseasonably warm and sunny afternoon and a good paperback totally sucked them all right out of me, like a, like a, like a... like a great huge sucky thing! Aside from a couple of meals and a couple loads of laundry, I basically didn't accomplish a damned thing all day, and you know what? It was every bit as awesome as it sounds. Oh, yeah, I may have accidentally torched a couple of cigars during all that.

[R10]

And the problem is??? Sounds like you had a pleasant "down day" - we all need them at times.

[DaReallyPoGigolo]

Man, I'm jealous. I'm convinced that the perfect life would be doing what you did, only every day!

[fiddlegrin]

Originally Posted by PerpetualNoob

......... a good paperback totally sucked them all right out of me, like a, like a, like a... like a great huge sucky thing!...............

Snahahahaahaahaaahaahaahaahaaahaahahaahahaaa!!!!




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[SMOKE20]

Dont you hate when that happens.

[commonsenseman]

Me = jealous! Sounds like a great day!

[fuente~fuente]

Hey.... Wait a minute!!! Your not complaining... YOUR RUBBING IT IN!!!

I'm @ work posting on my lunch break.............yay....

[rajuabju]

Originally Posted by fuente~fuente

Hey.... Wait a minute!!! Your not complaining... YOUR RUBBING IT IN!!!

I'm @ work posting on my lunch break.............yay....

Your avatar is a winner.

[fuente~fuente]

Originally Posted by rajuabju

Your avatar is a winner.

Thanks! Glad you like it.

[zeavran1]

I need an epic failure as well. Maybe one tomorrow too.

[Robudda723]

Would never call that an epic fail. More like hitting the lottery. Between work remodeling the house and kids sports. Do nothing days are few and far between. Glad you enjoyed it and try to make them happen if you can every once in a while.

Rob

[PerpetualNoob]

You know when you load up your dishwasher and turn it on, and it opens the water valve and starts pumping water in and washing your dishes? Well, mine did that on Wednesday evening, except instead of pumping itself full of water, it decided to pump my kitchen full of thick, acrid gray smoke. It hadn't actually burst into flames, when I discovered it and turned it off, but I'm sure it was only a matter of minutes.

Anyway, I'm off to the Sear's warehouse to pick up my new one and install it. The dead one is a Kenmore that has lasted for about 15 years, so I'm sticking with them for the replacement, as well. I don't have any family, and even when I had roommates it probably averaged about three loads a week, so it wasn't really a torture test, but why mess with success? I definitely got my money's worth out of it, especially since I didn't even pay for it in the first place. I took it in lieu of a rent payment from a long-gone roommate.

I haven't taken the old one out yet, so I imagine that I'm about to find out what 15 years of mouse poo looks like. Tons o' fun, right? If there's a bright side to all of this, at least it gives me a good excuse to shore up the counter-top enough that the new one will fit all the way under the counter, unlike the old one, which has been sticking out by about two inches the whole time. I tried pushing it all the way back, and the weight of the counter squished the top enough that the door wouldn't close properly.

[danmcmartin]

Originally Posted by PerpetualNoob

You know when you load up your dishwasher and turn it on, and it opens the water valve and starts pumping water in and washing your dishes? Well, mine did that on Wednesday evening, except instead of pumping itself full of water, it decided to pump my kitchen full of thick, acrid gray smoke. It hadn't actually burst into flames, when I discovered it and turned it off, but I'm sure it was only a matter of minutes.

Anyway, I'm off to the Sear's warehouse to pick up my new one and install it. The dead one is a Kenmore that has lasted for about 15 years, so I'm sticking with them for the replacement, as well. I don't have any family, and even when I had roommates it probably averaged about three loads a week, so it wasn't really a torture test, but why mess with success? I definitely got my money's worth out of it, especially since I didn't even pay for it in the first place. I took it in lieu of a rent payment from a long-gone roommate.

I haven't taken the old one out yet, so I imagine that I'm about to find out what 15 years of mouse poo looks like. Tons o' fun, right? If there's a bright side to all of this, at least it gives me a good excuse to shore up the counter-top enough that the new one will fit all the way under the counter, unlike the old one, which has been sticking out by about two inches the whole time. I tried pushing it all the way back, and the weight of the counter squished the top enough that the door wouldn't close properly.

At least it didn't pump your house full of water like my washing machine did. I replaced the dishwasher the day before the washing machine took a crap and my first thought was I screwed up the installation. Even though my house had a half inch of water in it, I was momentarily relieved when I saw it was the washer because I didn't cause it. Good luck with the new dishwasher.

[Depa]

Originally Posted by PerpetualNoob

an unseasonably warm and sunny afternoon

You're gonna' want to enjoy those while you still can, winter is looming over us ready to pounce like a bobcat with frigid days and unbearable nights of perpetual cloudiness and gloom...

[PerpetualNoob]

I know it's a weird thing, but one of the very few vanities I have is my vocabulary. It pleases me to have just the right word at my command to express whatever subtle nuance I have in mind, even if I have to make one up, but even I find it difficult to fully express how much I loathe plumbing jobs.

Sure, it's often nasty and disgusting, and it's easy to see why plumbers make $150 an hour. Especially when you're up to your ankles in sewage, and you're watching your house get destroyed right before your eyes. Much of it also happens in places where a 6-4/250 guy simply doesn't belong. Neither of those is as maddening as never, never having the right parts. You make your best guess, you talk to the guy at the home center, you bring your parts home, take everything apart, and, as always, you don't have what you need. So, like any rational human, you go back to the home store with parts in hand to get the right parts, and they don't have it either. Oh yeah, they carry it, but all you see is an empty peg, and you hear the two things that remind you of profanity in languages that you didn't even know you knew, "We had a bunch of them a few days ago. No, I don't know when we're due to get some more in."

So, what else can you do? You start looking at all those hundreds of little baggies, to see if you can cobble together something that will do what you need. You wind up with 12 pieces, just to get three that you can put together to do the job of the one part you actually needed in the first place. Only one of them isn't what you thought it was, and doesn't fit the others, so you still can't finish the job, and now it's 11:00 and everything is closed.

So I'm going to live at least one more day with no dishwasher. Tomorrow, I get to take everything apart again, and take all the parts down to an actual plumbing store, which is conveniently closed on weekends, and get the right part that I wanted in the first place.

Just to show you all what a humanitarian I am, I will now share with you a little morsel of my stunning vocabulary. "Universal" actually means, "fits everything in the world, except what you have".

By the way, I've also discovered that I'm not only going to have to take the wheels and feet off the dishwasher, but probably have to trim the lip off the edge of the counter-top, just to get it to fit right. And another thing, if mouse poo was worth anything, I would be able to retire, surf the Interweb thingie and smoke cigars all day, and pay someone to do all my plumbing for me.