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Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 5:59 pm
by oldwrench
Major disaster in Fairax this morning, an oil pipeline ruptured!! Oilo all over the place, people screaming and cursing. A huge black slick running down the pavement.




Alright, maybe it's not quite that bad....... I'm the one cussing, cause it's the feed pipe to my waste oil furnace. A hose section blew off, but not completely, it was leaking badly, but still feeding enough to the burner to keep it lit, so the safety system didn't shut the furnace down. The pump kept pumping and I now have a shop full of waste oil. So far I've soaked up and recovered about 15 gallons, and I have quite a bit to go. On top of that, Jason is home with a sick daughter so I don't have any help. Sigh, lots of work to do.......... I hope I get this place sold soon.

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 9:13 pm
by Hiki
I hope things get better soon!! :kiss:

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 9:24 pm
by JHawkNH
I am sure it would clean up alot faster if you used a match.

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 18th, 2010, 9:45 pm
by oldwrench
Don't tempt me.......

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 25th, 2010, 4:34 pm
by oldwrench
So, another monday, and another crisis............. this time my shop computer lost it's magic smoke. Not good, I was in the middle of looking up information in AllData, the auto service manuals on the computer. I had to go home and take a power supply out of my old computer and install it in this one. At least I'm back up and running again. You litterally can do nothing without the service information for the newer cars.

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 3:19 pm
by oldwrench
Ok, yesterday continued in it's usual evil vein....... a good old Minnesota blizzard. most of the afternoon, you couldn't see 50 feet. The highways were closed, everything was at a standstill. Now the wind has died down, but we're back in the freezer, below 0F again.

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 3:39 pm
by Sakura
At least it's not 0° Kelvin

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 4:08 pm
by JHawkNH
Sakura wrote:At least it's not 0° Kelvin
No, it doesn't get that cold here during the day. It only gets that cold over night... :gg:

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 26th, 2010, 4:19 pm
by Sakura
JHawkNH wrote:No, it doesn't get that cold here during the day. It only gets that cold over night... :gg:
Big cut in your energy cost when everything becomes superconductive? Makes your old Pentium a supercomputer which runs using just a cheap battery?

Re: The Crap Shooter

Posted: January 28th, 2010, 4:43 pm
by oldwrench
Well, it got so cold my computer quit!.......... No, wait..... the dog ate the monitor cable. Darn dog. I had to go home and get my old 17inch crt. tiny pict.