Picture of the Day

Mac haters unite in glee over this image.

This picture was take at work, where a Mac found it simply too tough to boot up.
This isn’t running an app, it’s just booting the OS.

pathetic…

Let the hate mail begin!

Blow out

I got home yesterday and began filling the spa with water. I had made arrangements for a spa guy to come clean the filter and check out the system. He said to go ahead and fill the spa with water.

After the spa was mostly full, I turned the switches on to get the jet/filter system primed with water. The system started chugging and whirring as usual. After about 5 minutes, the jets bagan to spurt and everything looked good. A bit of debis blew out of the jets, but that is normal for a startup after a long time off.

I looked over toward the pum/heater/filter gear and noticed a bunch of water coming from that direction. Suddenly, the jets sputtered and died away. More water came from the equipment that is usually dry.

Upon inspection, I found that the water was coming from the heater unit. To heat the water, there is a coil of tubing (kinda like a radiator) over large gas burners. Water is pumped through this tubing while the gas flame is on and the water is heated. It’s simple really. Well, it looks like the tubing broke and water was pouring down on the gas burners. Big mess.

This put me into a bit of a funk. I was going to do some work on geocaching stories, but instead watched some TV and went to bed early.

Hopefully today will be a better day.

Content

Yes, the site has lacked good content recently. Crappy pics and brief captions just don’t cut it…


An actual tourist wearing black socks and shorts.
Why won’t his wife tell him he looks like a fool?

I’m planning on better stuff to post, but you’ll have to wait.

Where in the world?

I decided I need a fanny pack of some sort to carry my gear when going geocaching. The only problem is I don’t know where you buy a fanny pack. Do I need to go to a sporting good store? Are there fanny pack stores?

Random

I was getting ready for work this morning and noticed this sight.

Let’s see here, there are four people in the house. My toothbrush is the one on the left. The rest are for the girls. Between Michele, Zoe, and Mira, they have SIX toothbrushes.

It is quite confusing to me since they seem to all use each others. I’ve looked for a pattern, but there is none. Pure girl confusion.

Ever since I began living with Michele, I’ve had to deal with sharing the bathroom space with her. I have a small shelf under the showerhead for my soap & razor. The rest of the space is filled with various lotions and potions she uses.

The countertop sees regular incursions of ‘her stuff’ onto my side. I agressively rearrange the countertop to regain my lost territory. For eight years of marriage, I have fought this battle with general success.

Here’s why this concerns me. Instead of facing one woman, I am now facing three. At first I thought it was triple the amount of stuff I would be dealing with, but now I see my foolishness.

The photo above shows the potential assualt these wily women are planning. I have 1 toothbrush, they have 6. This tells me to expect not a tripling of ‘girl stuff’ but truly an astounding SEXTUPLING (six times) of the amount I currently deal with.

Going from having one HALF of the counter to a probable one SEVENTH of the counter is terrifying in it’s implications.

Basically, I am doomed. Unless I build a secret bathroom for my own personal use, I risk being enveloped in a pit of creams, lotions, and strange plucking tools.