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It never rains but it pours - Bob Schroeck - 11-18-2008
Okay, no sooner do I drop off the car at the body shop and get the rental, than the furnace suddenly starts misbehaving. The tech is here now, the repair is
going to cost $425.
I can haz skreem of despare now?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Wiregeek - 11-18-2008
WHARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG
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"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
- jpub - 11-18-2008
Yeah, I know how it feels. I'm trying to save up so I have enough of a nest egg to afford to move, and things keep on coming up every time I get about $1k
in the bank.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-18-2008
Well, it was fixed about 15 minutes after my original post. We were warm last night, fortunately. And fortunately, we do have a sizable emergency fund for just
this kind of thing. I just don't like it when they all coordinate their schedules so as to take up as little of my time as possible.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- WengFook - 11-18-2008
My sympathies, but yeah bad luck always seems to come with friends :S
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Take Your Candle, Go Light Your World.
- robkelk - 11-19-2008
I had heard that as "trouble always comes in threes", but there's a strong Celtic tradition to the superstitions in my family. (Can't imagine why... )
Here's hoping you don't have a third problem to worry about, Bob; that would really ruin Christmas for you this year.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 11-19-2008
Thanks -- I've been hoping the exact same thing.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ECSNorway - 11-19-2008
Mrrr. I'll take your third slot, Bob: I just found two of my Dresden Files compilations in the garage. With mold growing on them.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-19-2008
Actually, my third slot was in fact taken -- I just had kind of forgotten it at the time. A sixty-inch water main broke about five miles from where I live yesterday, putting us and about 100,000 other households under a boil-water alert.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ECSNorway - 11-19-2008
Ooooh, narsty.
I left home this morning at 7:15 for my expected 35-minute commute. Got to work at 8:30.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-19-2008
Norway, are you implying the break delayed you, and that you are in our area?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ECSNorway - 11-19-2008
I fraggin' WISH.
No, we just have crummy weather in the mornings.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-20-2008
Ah, okay.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-22-2008
I have the car back. It is green, it is in one piece, it stinks of paint. The boil water alert was lifted last night. And so far the furnace has stayed fixed.
All in all, my week is ending a bit better than it started. Now if I could only shake this headache...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Logan Darklighter - 11-22-2008
Gah... Somehow I missed this thread. Late to it but you have my sympathies.
- Bob Schroeck - 11-22-2008
Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.