Storm'sa comin'!!
Allegedly.
We're supposed to get around six inches or so, topped with sleet. Whom thinks of this shit? I've already started my "be ready for it and it won't happen" campaign for this one by going grocery shopping. Got more shit than I could even fit back in the cart after it was bagged.They're having a "buy one get one free" sale on so much stuff....
I got twenty bucks worth of pork loin for ten.
Now, all I need to do is figger out how to cook it.
Don't think I've made this before, or, if I have, I don't remember it. I got a buncha meat, including pork chops, and dog, cat and Tyler food, all the guy's sodas, shit to make homemade tacos... it was a large load of crap. $78 bucks. Bread, milk, butter... just all kindsa shit... $78. Then, as I was walking past my (stupid) bank, the teller person I don't trust worth a damn said, "Whadya do? Buy out the whole store?", with a (pseudo) smile... I held up the two bags that wouldn't fit, gestured toward the full cart and said, "Can ya believe all this stuff for $78? This place is GREAT!", then waved and kept on truckin'. Got back, put most of the shit away, had to remove the ham from the fridge to make room, so I cut off most of the meat and made Buford the happiest puppy you've ever seen by giving him his first ever ham bone. He LOVED it. Now, what I'm HOPING to do is clean. the. HOUSE. I'm gonna throw together a roast in the crockpot and cee-ell-ee-ay-en, damn it. I'm hoping that by the time the guys get in tonight, I'll have the house done and filled with the scent of roast AND that I'll be asleep. This, of course, is if the Bossman gets the heating element for the hot water heater quick enough. It's seemed lately like we've been running out of hot water quicker than normal.
But, I wasn't sure if it was the hot water heater or me doing warm water loads of wash and dishes and shit anywhere near the time a shower would be run and run outta hot water. I know what it is NOW. Last night I went to do some dishes and there was no hot at all.
I go down into the basement and checked the breaker box.
Yep.
Big one, popped.
I reset it, it trips again.
I reset it and... it works. For a while. Around 5am, I'm sittin' here, talkin' to George and all of a sudden, the lights all get brighter for a second and, at the same time, there's this HUGE electrical arcing noise under the living room. Now, ya know how they say that the sound of a round being chambered, especially in the dark, will freeze yer blood? So does that electrical noise, to me. That noise is NEVER a harbinger of good things. To me, it's the sound of lightening striking a telephone pole RIGHT in the backyard of our house when I was a kid.
The dude we bought it from had been a ham radio operator and so there was a pole about three feet from the house.
I was sitting next to the picture window which was next to the pole when it got struck. Scared da fuck outta me. Then, I not only heard it another time, I SAW it and that time, it was a dude hitting a pole about twenty feet past his own house, in his car, speeding, then dying. I have several of the "Faces of Death" vids and, if you've ever seen them, you KNOW what that noise is then.
It's COOL, is what it is... or the result of it, anyway.
But, it's still also blood curdling. So, hearing it this morning in my own house pretty much melted all my legs muscles for a bit.
Then, had me shaking like a palsey victim for another while longer. Turns out the bottom heating element took a shit. So, I told Dan, who told his Dad, who told Jr. to tell me he'd get one today and fix it. Yay. Now... kinda need to know... "about when, do ya think?", 'cause it's kinda hard/gross to do dishes with no hot water. I get a timeline from him about that and then I can figure out how to get the other shit done and by when so I can be all the way done by the time I wanna be.
See? Meanwhile, I've gotta go offload some coffee and get started on... something. Back later. Peace *Update fourteen and a half seconds later... No sooner did I click "save", than did Sr. come in the door with the heating element.
He's installing it now.
So....
barring any more huge arcing noises, accompanied by a scream, I oughta be back in business real soon.
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