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16 May 2008, 10:12 am

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Sleepy Dragon, my friend, the woman who has met my husband ......

Jim (other half) sets all our clocks. His big accomplishment after a blackout, is to reset all the clocks to the EXACT same time. It is a thing to be remarked upon and admired!

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Jim would have gotten on well with my dad. He was a clockmaker and our house was full of antique clocks. His ambition was to have all of them gonging and chiming and cuckooing at precisely the same time. A perseveration if ever there was a perseveration.



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16 May 2008, 10:17 am

sorry, but i'm STILL shaking my head in disbelief over the a/c having a remote control. i mean, that is the height of lazy - it's only to cool 650 sq ft, it's not like you have to scale mt. everest or anything to get to it!

i forgot to write down the serial number before they put it in the wall. :roll:
the warranty card requires the serial number.
sigh.



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16 May 2008, 10:19 am

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the repair guy came. the old a/c was rusted to the frame,but they got it out.
the new one is in.

it runs. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Very Happy


Dance of Joy.:bounce: :cheers: :wtg: 8) 8) 8)

Didn't hear anything about GITMO. What's going on with that?



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16 May 2008, 10:23 am

cosmiccat wrote:
Quoting Nan:
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the repair guy came. the old a/c was rusted to the frame,but they got it out.
the new one is in.

it runs. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Very Happy


Dance of Joy.:bounce: :cheers: :wtg: 8) 8) 8)

Didn't hear anything about GITMO. What's going on with that?


not sure. a little bird told me there was something really big happened there, they were gonna announce it yesterday. guess the little bird was wrong.....



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16 May 2008, 10:26 am

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What the heck, at least they're correct twice a day.


They've got me beat. :D :roll: Wrong Way Corrigan, that's me. :wink:

Douglas Corrigan (January 22, 1907–December 9, 1995) was an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas, wrongly nicknamed "Wrong Way". In 1938, after a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, even though he was supposed to be returning to Long Beach. He claimed that his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his compass. Corrigan, however, was a skilled aircraft mechanic (he was one of the builders of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis) and a habitual risk-taking maverick; he had made several modifications to his own plane, preparing it for transatlantic flight. Between 1935 and 1937, he applied several times, unsuccessfully, for permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland, and it is likely that his "navigational error" was a protest against government "red tape"; however, he never publicly acknowledged having flown to Ireland intentionally.



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16 May 2008, 11:59 am

well, I put in my little air conditioner. . the window in the front is too big and the only window in the bedroom I have to put it long ways. That means the little drip spout is not at the bottom but on it's side .

I got it in and it was purring along pretty well, I took a shower and dried my hair and looked out side for my cat. . .and noticed the condensation water was a long winding curl out on the patio cement. I followed it back to the source and it was dripping inside the apartment, falling on the rug and then running out under the wall to the seemingly continuious cement slab under the apt.

Now, I am not married to this place, and it is not in the best of repair. What could happen, the rug rot and they have to replace it? (woo hoo!) The dry wall might be the biggest issue.

I flipped the switch and it is off. Back to the drawing board, I gotta get to work.

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16 May 2008, 1:07 pm

Looks like they should have called him"I did it my way Corrigan".

Merle....arrrggg on air conditioners. MY BF is "problem solving challenged" so I always get to fix things around here. I like the challenge but it can lead to a few meltdowns when things don't go as I had visualized them or I don't have the right supplies to do the best job.(I "rig" alot of things rather then leave the house to get what I should be using). May save me money but I can spend 3 hours tweaking something I could have done in 30 min if I would just go get the right tools.


Like a fish in water, I had so gotten use to this other being that I forgot what it was like all those years living alone. He forces me out of my shell and gives me some time structure. I had forgotten all those years when I was always late getting ready for work, let the garbage or dishes pile up while lost in my interests. Even in college I would spend whole weekends holed up in my room reading unless some one dragged me out. Now I have a BF who doesn't want to leave the house either but actually has a sense of time....I'm nervous about readjusting but I'm sure I'll manage. I have noticed an increase in my hyper awareness of apartment sounds and a return of my paranoid thinking, (someone will break in a rob/rape/murder me). Logical or not, that is why I do better sleeping in the day, less scary.


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16 May 2008, 1:54 pm

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well, I put in my little air conditioner. . the window in the front is too big and the only window in the bedroom I have to put it long ways. That means the little drip spout is not at the bottom but on it's side .

I got it in and it was purring along pretty well, I took a shower and dried my hair and looked out side for my cat. . .and noticed the condensation water was a long winding curl out on the patio cement. I followed it back to the source and it was dripping inside the apartment, falling on the rug and then running out under the wall to the seemingly continuious cement slab under the apt.

Now, I am not married to this place, and it is not in the best of repair. What could happen, the rug rot and they have to replace it? (woo hoo!) The dry wall might be the biggest issue.

I flipped the switch and it is off. Back to the drawing board, I gotta get to work.

Merle


Ummm, Merle? I don't think it's good for the A/C to run it on its side.

How about putting it in the larger window and using like cardboard around it? (Oh, wait, it rains there. Sorry, nevermind)

Mechanically minded folks might could help, but I'm pretty sure running the a/c in a position for which it was not designed can honk it up.



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16 May 2008, 1:57 pm

Kid just called - is now on her way to "big job interview".... would be better than temping, for sure. At least, it pays a bit better and has health insurance.

[edit - frantic phone call 20 min before interview. seems the shuttle bus is not running today (nobody knew) because of a big campus festival. kid couldn't get to the interview in time without the shuttle. i get brownie points: was able to run out the door, get the car, get to where she was, come skidding into the parking lot of where she was supposed to interview, and she got in there in time. of course, because of the heat i had to leave the car there for her for after she's done and walk a mile cross-country back to work. damn, i'm out of shape. wheeeeze! why are things that are supposed to be straightforward always so freaking complicated??????]



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16 May 2008, 4:30 pm

Nan wrote:
... why are things that are supposed to be straightforward always so freaking complicated??????]



Murphy's laws (...at least a few of them):

* If anything can go wrong, it will
MacGillicuddy's Corollary: At the most inopportune time
* If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
Extreme version:
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the FIRST to go wrong
* If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop
* Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse
* If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something
* Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics
Things get worse under pressure.
* The Murphy Philosophy
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
* Quantization Revision of Murphy's Laws
Everything goes wrong all at once.
* Murphy's Constant
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value
* Murphy's Law of Research
Research supports a specific theory depending on the amount of funds dedicated to it.
* Addition to Murphy's Laws
In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
* Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.
Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.
* Nothing is as easy as it looks.
* Everything takes longer than you think.
* Everything takes longer than it takes.
* If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
* Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
* Every solution breeds new problems.
* The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.
* No matter how perfect things are made to appear, Murphy's law will take effect and screw it up
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16 May 2008, 5:25 pm

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Kid just called - is now on her way to "big job interview".... would be better than temping, for sure. At least, it pays a bit better and has health insurance.

[edit - frantic phone call 20 min before interview. seems the shuttle bus is not running today (nobody knew) because of a big campus festival. kid couldn't get to the interview in time without the shuttle. i get brownie points: was able to run out the door, get the car, get to where she was, come skidding into the parking lot of where she was supposed to interview, and she got in there in time. of course, because of the heat i had to leave the car there for her for after she's done and walk a mile cross-country back to work. damn, i'm out of shape. wheeeeze! why are things that are supposed to be straightforward always so freaking complicated??????]


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16 May 2008, 11:11 pm

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Nan wrote:
Kid just called - is now on her way to "big job interview".... would be better than temping, for sure. At least, it pays a bit better and has health insurance.

[edit - frantic phone call 20 min before interview. seems the shuttle bus is not running today (nobody knew) because of a big campus festival. kid couldn't get to the interview in time without the shuttle. i get brownie points: was able to run out the door, get the car, get to where she was, come skidding into the parking lot of where she was supposed to interview, and she got in there in time. of course, because of the heat i had to leave the car there for her for after she's done and walk a mile cross-country back to work. damn, i'm out of shape. wheeeeze! why are things that are supposed to be straightforward always so freaking complicated??????]


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i don't think i can do it again.

(the interview went well, apparently.)



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17 May 2008, 9:20 am

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17 May 2008, 9:30 am

Made my day with that one, Lau. I think I'll print it out and take it with me to the party I "must" go to today. When I feel I can't bear it a minute longer, I'll pull out the Dong with a luminous nose. Or perhaps, if asked one too many questions I'll reply with the quote below. :D

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--'What little sense I once possessed
'Has quite gone out of my head!'--



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17 May 2008, 10:31 am

cosmiccat wrote:
...I think I'll print it out...
Print? Click.


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17 May 2008, 11:30 am

lau wrote:
cosmiccat wrote:
...I think I'll print it out...
Print? Click.

Are you sure it's not: Click? Print. :wink: