The random thought thread

[ZOOTECH]

Re: The random thought thread EFOY Blues.

So far, my Monday has consisted of laying out of work to crawl under the house to repair a water leak. After completing the task I was laying on my bed and my son comes in.

Are you working on the leak?
No, I am finished.
No you're not. There is water coming out of my bedroom wall.

I hope that by comparison that makes some of you feel good about your Monday.

You may want to limit repairs to office equipment. 😜, just kidding

[fixthecopier]

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Actually the two were not related. The first leak was a cross over from 1 side of the house to the other. Had been leaking a while.The second was on the other end of the house. The water in the wall was from the tub spicket in the boys bathroom. I guess the pressure from starting the pump back up, blew a badly coroded connection. Funny thing was, after fixing the first leak with 1 trip under the house and only 1 trip to the hardware store, I was laying on the bed thinking how my plumbing repairs never end with less than 3 trips to the hardware store when the boy walked in.

[Lagonda]

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................I guess the pressure from starting the pump back up, blew a badly corroded connection. .......

Similar thing happened at our warehouse recently. The mains water was turned off while the badly cracked concrete loading pad out the front was dug up and relaid and when the water was turned back on a rusty pipe in the toilets blew out. For once the damage was minimal and the only loss was a carton of toilet paper unlike when the river flooded 10 years ago and we lost $1.25 million worth of stock.

[Iowatech]

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Similar thing happened at our warehouse recently. The mains water was turned off while the badly cracked concrete loading pad out the front was dug up and relaid and when the water was turned back on a rusty pipe in the toilets blew out. For once the damage was minimal and the only loss was a carton of toilet paper unlike when the river flooded 10 years ago and we lost $1.25 million worth of stock.

River floods are the worst, I got to see the Mississippi overflow something like that back in '93.Theoretically I've still got video of a two story house floating downriver from somewhere near St. Louis and a river barge settling in against a convenience store in West Quincy MO on VHS from then. While it is probably a good thing that smart phones weren't available then, it still would have been kind of neat to take a video of driving across the thirty foot tall limestone gravel berm to get from Hamilton IL to Keokuk IA, as that was the only place to do so north of St. Louis and south of the Quad Cities then.

[fixthecopier]

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Did you know the fax was invented in the 1800's???

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[BLADE]

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Did you know the fax was invented in the 1800's???

the first fax call I went on I didn't know such a thing existed, took a few mindboggling minutes to absorb the concept then try and fix it.

[Iowatech]

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Don't just drive fast, look weird when you're doing it too!
Exhibit A
And while it has yet to live up to it's claimed potential, Exhibit B
Heh. If you haven't seen what the rat finks were doing back in the day this is actually pretty neat.

But be careful, as apparently beer kegs might attack out of the blue. Who wants that. Bleagh. Hope the people who filmed that are doing OK.

[Phil B.]

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Don't just drive fast, look weird when you're doing it too!
Exhibit A
And while it has yet to live up to it's claimed potential, Exhibit B
Heh. If you haven't seen what the rat finks were doing back in the day this is actually pretty neat.

But be careful, as apparently beer kegs might attack out of the blue. Who wants that. Bleagh. Hope the people who filmed that are doing OK.

Exhibit B
now HOW THE F*CK am I supposed to drink my beer @ that speed? smmfh That's the BEST part of mowing on the weekends... cooler strapped behind my seat.. 5gal bucket to catch the empty cans... earbuds in listening to Rush L.! and pistol on my hip for those " feral dogs"

[slimslob]

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Don't just drive fast, look weird when you're doing it too!
Exhibit A
And while it has yet to live up to it's claimed potential, Exhibit B
Heh. If you haven't seen what the rat finks were doing back in the day this is actually pretty neat.

But be careful, as apparently beer kegs might attack out of the blue. Who wants that. Bleagh. Hope the people who filmed that are doing OK.

Exhibit B
now HOW THE F*CK am I supposed to drink my beer @ that speed? smmfh That's the BEST part of mowing on the weekends... cooler strapped behind my seat.. 5gal bucket to catch the empty cans... earbuds in listening to Rush L.! and pistol on my hip for those " feral dogs"

That Honda Mean Machine won't last three laps against these boys. http://letsmow.com/

[Lagonda]

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Don't just drive fast, look weird when you're doing it too!
Exhibit A
And while it has yet to live up to it's claimed potential, Exhibit B
Heh. If you haven't seen what the rat finks were doing back in the day this is actually pretty neat.

But be careful, as apparently beer kegs might attack out of the blue. Who wants that. Bleagh. Hope the people who filmed that are doing OK.

[Iowatech]

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Beer kegs, I just hope that keg was XXXXGold, the worst commercial beer in Oz. The only beer 've never finished.

So that's guest beer. Meh, if it is free, who cares.

[Stormhammer]

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So that's guest beer. Meh, if it is free, who cares.

There's two kinds of beer I appreciate: cold and free.

[blackcat4866]

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There's two kinds of beer I appreciate: cold and free.

I think I'd prefer that it was served a little slower. =^..^=

[slimslob]

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There's two kinds of beer I appreciate: cold and free.

Correction, that should be 10 kinds of beer I appreciate: cold and free. But you might not have been here long enough to have known Debs but Lagonda, Iowatech and Blackcat know what I am talking about.

[NeoMatrix]

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Beer kegs, I just hope that keg was XXXXGold, the worst commercial beer in Oz. The only beer 've never finished.

Yep! that can happen when you're main office is just down the road from the XXXX (Fourex) brewery on Milton Rd...
It's a bit like working next to a donut shop; you begin to detest the smell of cooking donuts...
Trust me, my stomach has become queasy to the smell of cooking donuts.
I'll never look at a cinnamon coated donut the same ever again....