Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***********Mandrake Household*********



SG I: Dryer's broken again. Had a load in for 3 hrs.[:-][:@]

<Time out. First of all it probably isn't broken and secondly, if it isn't working after the first couple of hours perhaps a change of plan is required>

FAM: OK, does it have power?

SG I: How do you tell that? [8|]

FAM: Is the drum turning?

SG I: Yes.

FAM: Good. Is the gas on?

SG I: How do you tell that? [8|]

FAM: Is there heat. The heat comes from the gas.

SG I: Oh, yes.

FAM: OK, so the exhaust line or lint trap is obstructed. Did you clean the lint trap?

SG I: Where is that? [:@]

[FAM: The little screen inside the dryer.

SG I: Oh, yeah.

FAM: Right, then check the exhaust port on the side of the house. Free up the little louvre flaps and remove any lint.

SG I: Where is that?


Anyway. You get the point. Turns out SG II has been doing the same thing. I go downstairs and there is a freaking K2 of laundry piled up with stuff laid out on the ******* pool table to dry.
[:@][:@] They have been fighting over taking each other's stuff out of the dryer "before it's dry". DUH! FIX THE ******* THING!

Here is my point. Was anyone here that helpless when you were 21 and 25? It doesn't have twin carburetors. It's a ******* dryer! Just clean out he damn hose!

Also, do you really need college physics to understand the concept of humidity?

Sounds more like 12 and 15 and not 21 and 25. They don't know that they are supposed to clean out the lint filter every time you use it. I am surprised your house hasn't burned down.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

***********Mandrake Household*********



SG I: Dryer's broken again. Had a load in for 3 hrs.[:-][:@]

<Time out. First of all it probably isn't broken and secondly, if it isn't working after the first couple of hours perhaps a change of plan is required>

FAM: OK, does it have power?

SG I: How do you tell that? [8|]

FAM: Is the drum turning?

SG I: Yes.

FAM: Good. Is the gas on?

SG I: How do you tell that? [8|]

FAM: Is there heat. The heat comes from the gas.

SG I: Oh, yes.

FAM: OK, so the exhaust line or lint trap is obstructed. Did you clean the lint trap?

SG I: Where is that? [:@]

[FAM: The little screen inside the dryer.

SG I: Oh, yeah.

FAM: Right, then check the exhaust port on the side of the house. Free up the little louvre flaps and remove any lint.

SG I: Where is that?


Anyway. You get the point. Turns out SG II has been doing the same thing. I go downstairs and there is a freaking K2 of laundry piled up with stuff laid out on the ******* pool table to dry.
[:@][:@] They have been fighting over taking each other's stuff out of the dryer "before it's dry". DUH! FIX THE ******* THING!

Here is my point. Was anyone here that helpless when you were 21 and 25? It doesn't have twin carburetors. It's a ******* dryer! Just clean out he damn hose!

Also, do you really need college physics to understand the concept of humidity?

It must have been a monumental row getting them to figure out how to put their clothes into the washer, apply the proper amount of detergent and / or fabric softener, close the door, select the proper cycle and press the start button. I imagine that discussion was something similar.

You probably want to keep them away from the bleach for the time being. Not only for the safety of their garments ("oh, I thought you added the whole bottle for every load.") and their dermis ("Dad, why does my skin burn after spilling bleach on it?") but for what parts of their external anatomy they may wish to surreptitiously bleach.

[Cap Mandrake]

Crap, when I was 17 my dad would give me 20 dollars and tell me "Go down to the hardware store and get a new thermostat for the water heater and put in in"

I turned off the gas, took out the old part, asked the old guy at the hardware store how to do it and read the little plaque on the water heater on how to relight the pilot light....et voila!

Is it just that the expectations are different or is this the result of too much video games and not enough real world? (These are stepkids you understand)

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
Is it just that the expectations are different or is this the result of too much video games and not enough real world? (These are stepkids you understand)

One from column "A" and one from column "B"?

[poodlebrain]

What sort of HOA restrictions are there regarding clothes lines and ecologically friendly clothes drying techniques? Splurge and buy separate lines for SGI and SGII since cooperation does not appear to be their modus operandi. The savings in pool table wear and tear alone will justify the cost of the additional clothes line.

[Lecivius]

I had a new sprinkler system put in last week. Both momma & I work, but momma volunteered to take the day off "just in case".

At 2pm I get a text "Done, where do we turn on the water?"

Reply "Valve at bottom of stairs"

"Which one?"

"Blue one"

"Which one?"

"Blue one on the right"

"Thingie broke! Water everywhere! What do I do?!?"

"Turn off water, call a plumber asap, I'll pay any OT"

"Which one?"

Seriously, one of the reasons I married her was she was independent. Now sometimes I feel like a bug in a bottle

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Crap, when I was 17 my dad would give me 20 dollars and tell me "Go down to the hardware store and get a new thermostat for the water heater and put in in"

I turned off the gas, took out the old part, asked the old guy at the hardware store how to do it and read the little plaque on the water heater on how to relight the pilot light....et voila!

Is it just that the expectations are different or is this the result of too much video games and not enough real world? (These are stepkids you understand)

It is because you are male and they are female. [:D][:D][:D]

[Lecivius]

"It is because you are mail"

I knew the postal service was in trouble, I had no idea! [:D][:D][:D]

[sprior]

I cut my finger at work today putting a server into a rack

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I cut my finger at work today putting a server into a rack

Have no fear - there'll be a woman along any minute to tell you how stupid you are! [:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: sprior

I cut my finger at work today putting a server into a rack

Was she serving you at a restaurant and you tried to get her in 'the rack'? If so, you got off lucky with just a finger scratch, mate.

[Chickenboy]

Horry crap! A UNP! Clean livin' folks...clean livin'...

[erstad]

25 years ago, early in my marriage...

I'm on business travel in California. Wife back home in Minnesota.

I get a call in the hotel, 5AM (What's a timezone?)

LW (Lovely wife) "The furnace isn't working. The house is getting cold." (This is MN, after all)

REH (Remote engineering husband) "Check the thermostat. See what temperature it is set to."

LW: <Some value that seemed reasonable>

REH: OK. Is the switch on "cold, off, or heat?"

LW: "Heat"

REH: Is the other switch on "Auto" or "On"?

LW: "Auto"

REH: "OK, turn it to On. Anything happen?"

LW: "No"

REH: "OK, go down to the circuit breaker box. Any switches look like they aren't lined up with the others?"

LW: "No"

REH: "OK, go to the furnace. There's some kind of switch on a conduit by the furnace. Flip that, see if anything happens, wait a bit, if nothing happens, switch it back and see if anything happens."

LW: "OK, I did that, and nothing happens."

REH: "I can't do anything else from California, you're going to have to call a furnace guy and have him come out. Good luck."

LW: "OK, I'll call the furnace guy. By the way, the power is out too."

[Chickenboy]

Awesome! That's like complaining about water damage in the upstairs hallway and leaving out the tornado that ripped the roof off. Do you think there may be a relationship? [&:]

[Cap Mandrake]

Have decamped to 223,76 to a dude ranch.


So we are lining up for a trail ride and the trail boss, who looks exactly like Charlie Daniels, is lining kids up with responsible adults...and he gets to SG...and he looks at me behind her...

"Your father?" [:D][:@]

Objectively, that was pretty ******* funny but still pretty bold talk for someone working for tips. [:D]

Nice ride though. A canyon with oaks and sycamores and then ocean views. My horse, Muffin, kept biting at my right foot. The cowhand was trying to bull shit me that she "had an itch". I think the poor thing was pissed they named him "Muffin". Tried to brush my off of every tree we passed too. I declined to allow that. [:)]

[Cap Mandrake]

Oddly, we have not seen any SeeBees.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oddly, we have not seen any SeeBees.

Or offshore I-boats furtively shelling oil installations?

[poodlebrain]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Oddly, we have not seen any SeeBees.

I think they are off making Afghanistan safe for Burger King.

[Cap Mandrake]

Have returned from deep recon mission up the coast and have suffered greatly from wine tasting stops.

Interestingly, several of the wineries with medal-winning cabernets, for example, are making really good
Bordeaux style blends but they can't call them like that so they don't market well because there is no place to put
them in stores. They only sell them at the winery.

Have applied for purple heart for trying to keep up with a the nieces and nephews at parents wedding anniversary celebration at a dude ranch. Sweet Baby Jesus, those kids can drink.

I am also going for a purple heart cluster for the Fanny Bay oyster SG made me eat. They were on special for $11.99 a dozen and they tasted superb..very fresh. I'm just not sure what was fresh.

Now, as for map errors.

1) There are no SeeBees around Port Hueneme. Based on the stack there, I should have hit several strays on the 101 freeway.

2) Camp San Luis Obispo (221,75) is pretty much gone too.

3) There is a naval station at Big Sur (219,73) just in case the Japan-mens try to land with rearry, rearry big radders.

4) Fort Ord is just Egrets and bike trails now.

[Cap Mandrake]

Kyushu: