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Monday morning I realized that I had no clean jeans to wear for the rest work week so, like a good boy, I gathered up my clothes and and put a load of jeans and a few shirts in the washer.

Only, I forget to put them in the drier before I go to bed late Monday morning. Thankfully, I wake up early enough Monday night to put a pair of jeans and a shirt in the drier so they'll be dry for me to wear to work in an hour and a half.

I put the clothes in the drier, turn it on and do some cleaning.

It's 11:30 and I'm suddenly in a hurry. I'm mostly ready, just need to put on pants and shirt and I'm good to go. I open the drier and I find wet clothes.

Suddenly I can't remember if I had actually turned the drier on or not. Either way, it's too late. I grab the jeans, toss them on the back of a chair and go to my room and put on some shorts and a shirt. I grab the wet jeans and leave.

I get to work and put the wet jeans on the back of a chair hoping they'll be dry in a few hours.

time passes, and they dry a lot, but remain damp. I have a brilliant idea. I move them to right under an air conditioner vent...turn it on full blast and am the vent directly at them.

They seem to be drying a bit faster but not fast enough. thick parts stay damp. pockets stay damp.

I turn jeans inside out.

Anywho, it's about 5 minutes till seven. I expect the maid to come an clean my office any minute now...so I go and put on my jeans.

And they are mostly dry, thank goodness, except for the crotch area, which is still rather damp and now, ice cold.

So I'm sitting here for a half hour with half-frozen balls before they finally start to warm up a bit.

Not exactly my happiest moment.

Anyway, we fast forward.

I get home Tuesday morning, put the rest of my stuff in drier, turn it on. When it finishes, i turn it on some more for good measure. go to bed. Wake up, go to get some clothes.....and they're still wet.

Suddenly I have a flash back to freezing balls and shiver. There is no way i'm doing that again...so I turn drier on in hopes that they're not as wet as they feel, only a bit damp.

I let them go for 30 minutes (all the time I have), check them...still damp. not even a arm damp, but still cold.

then i realize...my friggin drier must be broke. so not only am I unhappy, but I'm thinking I'm gonna have to wear damp pants again in the morning...

when it dawns on me..

Wear the jeans you wore last night. they're good and dry now...

BRILLIANT, right?

so here i am wearing jeans i wore for a few hours yesterday....with a broke drier at home and every other pair of my jeans are wet.

yay.

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It's been ages and ages since I've updated.

Pretty much just as long since i've logged on and read my friends page. I need to fix that.

I think i'll start tomorrow. :D

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Well Played, Indeed
Fast Food | North Dakota, USA

(This is a friend’s experience while working at a popular fast food place on the overnight shift.)

Employee: “Thanks for calling, how may I help you?”

Customer: “Hi. I came through drive-thru earlier tonight, and there’s something wrong with my food.”

Employee: “Um, okay…what’s wrong exactly?”

Customer: “Well, I ordered ***, and there was a used condom on the sandwich.”

Employee, holding in a laugh: “Sir, that’s impossible. We don’t practice safe sex here.”

Customer: “Well played.” *hangs up*

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I haven't really posted in a while, but i tend to go through phases where i get hooked on something and then completely ignore it and then back to being hooked on it.

Unfortunately, lately its been lj i've not cared too much about and only log in once every few days and thats o0nly to see if certain people have updated, completely ignoring everything else.

I did finally get around to reading the latest Dresden book, and thought it was great. Tho, it seems the series is getting away from magic and is leaning towards brute force. Dresden used to perform spells and such...now he just blasts people with wind or fire and throws up a shield whenever something looks dangerous.

still, i enjoyed it. can't wait till the next...as usual.

I've been through a handful of books since then, however, and am now reading Odd Hours. This is another of the series that I really like. I'm not too far in it yet, which is great cause it'll last just that much longer...but also bad cause I want know what happens now!

Already have my online payments (mortgage, cell, credit card, etc) set to be paid on the 2nd of next month...which is great as now I don't have to think about it two weeks in and be pissed at myself for being late again.

Don't know if i mentioned this but I bought a steam vac last week....and it rocks. I didn't enjoy spending over 200 bucks for it, but now that I've used it a few times I'm really glad i did. Its amazing to see just how dirty your carpet really is, even in places that looks clean.

I was worried that I wouldn't have much use for it after i get rid of the puppies (yeah, those lil buggers are the real reason i had to buy it....and cause echo decided that now shes a mommy she doesn't have to follow all my rules when she doesn't want to)...but seeing what comes up in places that i thought was clean, i figure it's a good investment.

My den carpet looks pretty good too, actually. I was pretty rough on it last year and there were several stains....and i spilled more than a few glasses of tea or dr pepper on the carpet. so yay for that too.

what else...oh, i also bought 12 books off amazon earlier...yay new books.

damn, echo just farted again. I think she needs to go out..I'll do that in a minute..

I ordered some shoes online Monday or Tuesday...forget which. I was hoping they'd be in today but I haven't' had a delivery so far so guess I'll have to wait until Monday for those.

I gave echo a bath today...she smells a lot better...she smelled a lot like puppy breath.

speaking of the puppies, they found their way to the den yesterday. which was annoying...they've been confining themselves to the bathroom or the hallway. I had figured seeing the steps down would be a bit daunting for them and they'd turn around. But I didn't take their lack of coordination into account and three of them tumbled down all three steps....so they stayed a while. One of them surprised me by actually climbing back to the top...the first stair is almost as tall as he is.....but once he got there, he fell back down. wonder if he enjoyed it?

later i had taken them back up stairs and was gonna put them all in the bathroom so i could leave the house....one was missing, looked everywhere upstairs and couldn't find it. Finally found her down stairs...don't know how she got there without me seeing, or how long she had been there...

later last night i brought them all down here and let them play for a while..i even got down in the floor with them for a bit and let them gnaw on me. Was fun. One of them got a hold of an ear lobe and that tickled a lot...unbearably actually...and had to jerk my head away so i could quit laughing and breath again.

then he got my hair and started yanking on it.

after a while i got back on the couch and they all settled around my feet and when to sleep, which was annoying as I couldn't move my feet for fear of hurting one of them.

Cindi texted me last night...She and Red are back in town for a couple of days. he had went off to work...thought he went to Kansas but he hadn't made it there yet. Went somewhere else for a few weeks first. he dropped by today shortly after i finished bathing echo, showering and then steam vaccuing the house...

and now i'm typing this...and about to let echo outside...and then i need to change and go buy groceries. i'm tired of there not being a darn thing in this house to eat when I'm hungry. i lucked out and found a hot pocket in the freezer earlier..been there for months...didn't even know what flavor it is/was...but it wasn't bad so i ate it anyway.

oh, and gas prices are insane. yesterday i put gas in my truck..cost me 85 bucks...and thats with me stopping before it clicked off because i got bored and was ready to leave. if it keeps going i may have to disconnect my cable to keep my truck going pretty soon lol...

or change my cell package. I don't even use half the features it has anymore...and hardly use any 'any time' minutes....I use all the free mobile to mobile or night and weekend minutes.

I think I used 25 any time minutes last month..and i hardly use the internet at all. Just to check my email every now and again or hit TC....

anywho, i'm out. hope you enjoyed your updategasm.

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"Squawks" are problems noted by U. S. Air Force pilots
and left for maintenance crews to fix before the next flight.
Here are some actual maintenance complaints logged by those Air Force pilots and the replies from the maintenance crews.

(P) = Problem
(S) = Solution


(P) Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
(S) Almost replaced left inside main tire.

(P) Test flight OK, except auto land very rough.
(S) Auto land not installed on this aircraft.

(P) # 2 propeller seeping prop fluid.
(S) # 2 propeller seepage normal - # 1, # 3, and # 4 propellers lack normal seepage.

(P) Something loose in cockpit.
(S) Something tightened in cockpit.

(P) Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
(S) Evidence removed.

(P) DME volume unbelievably loud.
(S) Volume set to more believable level.

(P) Dead bugs on windshield.
(S) Live bugs on order.

(P) Autopilot in altitude hold model produces a 200 fpm descent.
(S) Cannot reproduce problems on ground.

(P) IFF inoperative.
(S) IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

(P) Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
(S) That's what they're there for.

(P) Number three engine missing.
(S) Engine found on right wing after brief search.

(P) Aircraft handles funny.
(S) Aircraft warned to straighten up, "fly right," and be serious.

(P) Target Radar hums.
(S) Reprogrammed Target Radar with words

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Came home this morning and saw my yard surrounded by city trucks. was all WTF MAN?

but then I got closer and saw that they were cutting down all the trees on my property that was in the power lines.

yay.


and I'm sitting here...puppy starts screaming.

i wait...echo doesn't go.

puppy keeps screaming

I look at echo..she just looks at me.

puppy keeps screaming

I curse...get up and go to check on it. the little bugger got stuck in her water bowl and couldn't get out.

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um...

okay..

Every since Echo had her puppies she has decided that she doesn't have to listen to me when ever I tell her something. Three time she has ran off to greet someone in or across the road, ignoring my telling her to come back

She's never done that before...when ever i call her she'd always come back (cept for that first week when she didn't know she had to listen lol)

I don't like her being so willful. It gets in the way of her being obedient.

hrm..now what.

Oh well, this morning I woke up after about six hours of sleep...decided to take echo out even though I didn't feel like getting up. I took her out and sat in a chair with my eyes closed as she did her business. we were out about five minutes..when I feel the wind really begin to pick up. Shes on the porch beside me so she had finished her business. About that time a huge drop of rain smacks me on the forehead. I feel a few more and get up and bring echo inside. about that time the bottom drops out. I actually lol'ed....i had dodged a bullet...or a soaking, rather. ten more seconds and I'd have been soaked.

in other news....great credit rocks ass. I know I've got good credit so I don't know why, every time I try to get something on credit, that I worry I won't get the financing/loan/etc.

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Bought these today...





When the delivery guy was brining the couch in he asked "Wheres the big screen?" in a joking manner.

I said "Its down in the Den."

he looked at me...blinked twice cocked his head and then started laughing when he realized I wasn't joking...

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I don't know how many times I've complained about ring backs. It urks me that I have to call someone and listen to music instead of a ring. Why? Because 9 times out of 10 I DO NOT LIKE the music I'm forced to listen to.

Well, a few minutes ago I call this customer and I hear this "Please enjoy this music while your party is being reached," and inwardly grown thinking "I most certainly will not.

And then i hear this

Daddy sang bass, Momma sang tenor, me and little brother would join right in there..

Now, I don't necessarily like the song but it was certainly a welcome change of pace from rap...

So not all ring backs are bad, just most all of them.

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NASA found water on Mars..

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html

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I had a question so I asked it in google, like I normally do...and one of the results are in yahoo answers. I've seen yahoo answers dozens of times, as a lot of times when I ask google a question, i get a yahoo answer as a result.

So I decide, what the heck, I'll join and see if I can't answer any questions.

So I start slowly in the pets/dogs section...and surprising enough, I know enough stuff to add my two cents to many of the questions...so I do my best to answer in a clear and conciser manner in hopes that it'll actually help someone.

blah blah...

I then decide to venture out of pets and just let it give me questions at random...

I begin answering questions...

it tells me "You're on a roll, answer another." so I answer another.

now, not all of these are serious...there are questions like

What is your favorite subject in high school?
If you saw me fall, would you laugh at me?
If you knew a big asteroid or comet was going to hit the earth in 1 month, what would you do?
Do you like having a sex drive?

You get the point...

And then all of a sudden I get this...

You have reached your daily limit for answering questions. For more information on daily participation limits, click here.

Seriously, what the heck is up with that? Why on earth would they put a limit on questions that you're allowed to answer?

And my limit is 20....but it gets better, you get to answer more depending on what level you are. I'm level 1...I have to earn 250 POINTS to get to level 2. You only get 2 points per question you answer....10 if its chosen as best answer..

And what does yahoo say about points?

"While you can't use points to buy or redeem anything, they do allow everyone to recognize how active and helpful you've been"

Um, no....it tells everyone how active and helpful you're allowed to be. Quite honestly, I feel that I can be much more helpful.

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First, why is it that most of the book that I find and really want aren't available for months yet? Why can't i just happen across a book that I really want and it be available today? :(

Anywho, as for the books I just ordered...

"Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10)" Jim Butcher
"Hal Spacejock: Second Course" Simon Haynes
"Destiny (Rogue Angel, Book 1)" Alex Archer
"Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3)" Patricia Briggs
"Dead To Me" Anton Strout
"Grimspace" Ann Aguirre


I can't believe I waited this long to order Small Favor. I've been wanting to read it forever and a half.

Anyway, I hope the books are good. I'm sure they will be. But it's getting harder and harder to pick out books lately. Maybe I should just give it up for a while so when I start again I'll have a whole new pile of them I'll enjoy. :D

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First, I absolutely had to buy this book on the name alone....but I was a bit disappointed. Not by the book, it was good and had several funny parts.

It basically takes place in a small Florida town in in the present with one of the two main characters being a police sergeant.

The other main Character is an office on a spaceship. They are quite a bit advanced, technologically speaking, which means they can't let their presence on earth be known by any of the locals...which does hinder their mission a bit.

The mission being that they have to kill all the zombies.

But when Jorrie (the spaceship officer) is forced to expose herself to Theo in order to save his life and recover a important piece of technology, things get a bit complicated. Especially for Theo, who is informed that he must be relocated to another planet in order to keep their existence quiet.

On the bright side, for him at least, their operative on the ground is dead and they have no one that knows the lay of the land, understands the primitive technology and no longer have any sort of base came. So Theo offers his services and his house, while simultaneously plotting his escape.

At the same time, Jori slowly comes to suspect that someone is behind the Zombies strange activities on earth and is getting aggravated because no one believes her so she takes matters into her own hands, which actually turns out to be for the best when not only her ship, but all her fellow aliens turn up missing, leaving her alone with Theo to thwart the zombies and save thousands of humans in the process.

The part that disappointed me was the zombies, to be honest. I expected..well, Zombies. but these weren't zombies. They were genetically engineered creatures who were not slow, not dead, not decaying, not zombies at all. They didn't even eat brains. They ate...well, your juices. They bit you and sucked out all your blood and life juices and whatever else was in you, leaving a dried out mummified body in its wake.

That didn't make the book any worse, as genetically enhanced monsters are always great....but it did throw me for a curve the first time one jumped through a portal and started thrashing around razor sharp tentacles...

Still, I can't say I've read a book by Linnea Sinclair yet that I haven't enjoyed.

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I realized early Friday (due to a few behaviors) that my dog was going to have puppies that day. I didn't realize at that time, however, that i had twelve hours before she started.

By about 11pm I was really tired...and wanting bed. by 11:30 I noticed her scratching at the couch cussions and trying to find somewhere comfortable while occasionally whining. So I knew it was finally time. I took her to the spare room, set her in the little kiddie pool i bought her and sat with her. She finally had the first about 12:00.

Fast forward several hours later, she's had five, each successive puppy coming out much easier than the first....By this time I think she's finally done.

And I was proud of myself...it's after 4am, I'm dead tired..(woke up at like 7 the previous morning)...and my dog has had all her puppies and I've managed to keep her and them in the tub, thus keeping my carpet clean and unstained.

I take Echo out to use the bathroom...we go, shes goes twice (number 1 and 2, not that you needed to know that)..and we come back in. I'm walking to her water bowl when i glance back and notice spots on the carpet under her. "Oh Crap," I think and start shouting NO NO NO...and she starts running to the bedroom leaving a trail of spots behind here...then i see it, she has another coming out.

DOUBLE CRAP.

Of course, in the hallway, it comes the rest of the way out and is left in the floor with a puddle around it. I quickly grab it up, take it to the pool and open the sack (had to do that with about 4 of them).

so we're finally done...i hope. 6 puppies...but now I've got gross looking stains on the carpet in three of my rooms (if you count the hallway as a room..which I normally don't, but it has carpet so I'll count it right this moment).

Aggravated, I check on Echo in the tub with her new pup...make sure they're all doing fine and then I close her up in the room, wash my hands REALLY good and make me something to drink and sit on the couch in the den resting. (I'm also on the phone with my aunt Janice at this point.)

About 4:30 I go to check on them....to discover that she has herself and all six of the puppies on the mattress i had in that room, her head playing on the pillow, effectively ruining the mattress.

So, since it was ruined, i let her stay on it for the night...i went to bed at 5am and she was nursing her six puppies like a good mother should...

I wake up Saturday afternoon and begin cleaning up the mess. Throw away towels, sheets, etc. This is where I get a surprise. I'm picking up puppies and moving them off the mattress onto the floor when i realize that I just moved an odd number of puppies. There should have been six so I'm confused. I count....stop, count again and and once more. Sure enough, there were seven.

And I was sure she was done at 5am with only six and her sleeping comfortably on my ruined mattress.

fast forward.

Saturday night around 8pm I notice her breathing sounds weird but pay little attention. I take her outside to use the bathroom and come back on. That's when i noticed her face is badly swollen. so I promptly panic....called my Aunt Janice to find out what to do, snap at her cause she doesn't give me the answer I want, call mom who suggests benadryl...and hop in the truck and drive rather recklessly to the store to get some, as I was out (if I've ever had any at all here, don't remember). On the way I call the Vet, who returns my call as I'm in the grocery story staring at it trying to decide which kind to get. He tells my the off brand in the 25 mg capsules should be fine. I buy, hurry home and try to feed her one...which she spits out.

Thankfully, I remembered how Janice showed me how to give her pills when i wormed her...so I was able to give her one easily...to my relief.

After that, Vet said there was nothing I could do but wait...and I had told Red I'd go to the Square with him that night so (some religious thing with singing and preaching and stuff) I went...but wasn't in too good of a mood....still being worried about my dog.

The thing lasted two and a half hours....and wasn't boring. I think the music was too loud and drowned out the singing in the fast songs but the preaching/testifying was, in most cases, entertaining. Red got up on state and spoke for several minutes....he did a good job I thought.

But we finally leave at half past 10, i come home, check on my dog and am relieved to see that the swelling has went down so me. She still looked a bit deformed but I felt a lot better. I gave her another pill this morning about 4:30 (after i woke up from sleeping on the couch and decided it was time i moved the show to my bed).

This morning she is mostly back to normal but her snout? is still a bit puffy looking.

I don't know what she got into that caused that reaction...no snake, maybe an insect but I don't know what? I believe what ever it was she had to get into inside the house. only thing I can think of that's different, besides having puppies, is i gave her a new kind of treat today (pumpkin spice flavored)...but that was hours before the swelling thing...so I don't know if thats related.

Bright side...Aunt Janice brought me her steam cleaner so I can, hopefully, clean my carpet..yay.

the end.

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I don't know the whole story, but I know enough to share this in a bit of detail...

It appears that tonight, my Aunt Janice and her 13 year old daughter, Jessie, were, for some reason, going around looking at campgrounds and boating docks, etc (odd because they had just gotten back from camping and I don't remember hearing anyone say that they had an exceptionally good time).

Well, they get to a boating ramp somewhere along the Conecuh river, park, get out and walk down the ramp to look at the river.

Then the van bumps into Jessie....which is about the point they realize the van is rolling down the boating ramp and about to plunge into the Conecuh River.

They grab the van, but that's an obviously flawed plan as the van weights quite a bit and is already going down hill with quite a bit of momentum...and they are just two females, neither exceptionally strong (and if they were pro wrestlers, I don't see how they could have stopped the van).

The van plunges into the water and, being full of air, floats quite a bit before it finally sinks.

Having left their cell phones in the Van, Janice and Jessie had to walk quite a distance to find a phone to call for help. Divers were called in but unable to locate the van tonight. They'll have to bring in more equipment tomorrow.

Janice was rather embarrassed by this event, understandably. What I don't understand is how this actually happens in real life? On Tv, sure....but to actually happen to someone I know is...well, funny as hell (In the nicest possible way) and sad at the same time (I'm not heartless).

Also, I don't know much about this either, but apparently the man whose phone they used to call the cops and her husband was intent on calling thew news because he wanted to be on TV.

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