How's your day? January 2016

I met a woman who would wait until her boyfriend passed out on a drunk, then put a bar of soap in a tube sock and beat him with it. He would wake up sore all over, but not have any bruises. Needless to say, I wasn't interested in trying to develop a relationship with her.

 

How evil and funny!

 

I'm tired with Intex's cheap crap. But, not having enough "extra" money to afford better brand, it's been the go-to. Problems in the past have been few, but majorly inconvenient. Bad pool pumps, but once I upgraded to the sand filter pump, it's been a champ. The cheap underpowered ones that come with the pool, not so much.
The first salt generator I bought was bad out of the box, but since I test things before I put them in production, it wasn't a big deal, just headache dealing with support and waiting on slow shipping. (That turned out to be a bit of a blessing though, they didn't request the unit be sent back, so I put it up for later, hey spare parts. Ended up using the titanium plates once the new ones were used up. And, when that unit decided to have problems, I opened up the original and discovered a loose wire - Yahtzee!)
But, this Pure Spa hot tub - been waiting nearly four weeks for the fourth (yes, FOURTH, as in 4th) water pump inside a year.
But, being of the hacker/tinkerer type, I took apart all the other ones and discovered the shaft on the impeller being broken. And plastic. Uggh. Found some 1/8 inch brass rod, cut it to length, installed, it fits, it should work.... Now the base unit is wonky. Grrrrrrrrr. It's giving E95 error, which is supposed to say the water is too hot - it's 48 degrees, too hot is supposed to be 104. Ugggh.

 

Unfortunately, my sister slipped & broke her foot (in 3 places) a few days ago. She needs surgery on it, so later today, I will be taking her to the hospital.

 

I'm sorry to hear that Sara.

 

I am looking forward to a weekend trip. My wife and I are going to Atlanta this afternoon and will see a show at the Fox Theater tonight. Tomorrow morning we are driving to Asheville, North Carolina for two nights. We are going to see the sights (Biltmore Estate) and visit some of the many successful breweries.

 

Have fun @PLAla and have a safe trip.

 

Is @Slow Joe a long-lost brother?

Anyhow... I hope she's doing better soon.

 

I was a little bit down today. My health hasn't been that great recently. I've had a little bit of a cold lately and all the running around to the hospital yesterday seems have taken a lot out of me. Then a package arrived. I traded soaps with Tuxxdk and the P.160 he sent arrived today.
But there was a lovely suprise. A Proraso shaving brush!! I have really wanted one of these so it was a lovely and generous suprise. Thanks Tuxxdk. That really cheered me up.

 

Very generous P.I.F. @tuxxdk Joe I hope you feel better buddy but in the meantime enjoy your new soap and brush!

 

That's what I call a clean hit. How did he finally figure it out ? Put 2 and 2 together and noticed that every time he passed out and woke up sore he smelled like Ivory soap !!

 

So the shaving brush I got was delivered by Tuxxdk but was a present from Omelmad. So thanks Omar it's a great brush.

 

Haha yeah it wasn't from me. @Omelmad was the Santa in this event

Happy to have sent it!

 

Morning coffee in Norway...

 

I'm glad you have the patience for it. After 30 years in IT, the worst part of my day is when the phone rings. Nothing good ever comes from it.

 

Just gonna drop this here

 

My dentist told me to brush with this stuff

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, but I keep getting more cavities. I must be doing something wrong.

 

Just makin' more hidey holes to save the flavor for later.

 

Thank you Martin for delivering it =) Joe, I hope you like your new brush. I think you will love it