The dryer story part 1 1/2

"ok, what I am going to do is punch a 4 inch wide hole in the utility room to the outside of the house. Then I am going to put some flashing up and a rigid 4" tube with a vent cover w/flap outside and caulk it with silicon. All this should give us a modern dryer vent and fix our dryer problem." I say....mind you I have my hands on my hips, my right foot on rock about knee high, my face looking up into the sky, and my cape flapping in the wind as my theme song is playing in the back ground.

"I think the dryer is just dead" My wife is going for my throat on this one. I mean come on! I just said all this official sounding stuff and used all these ambiguous words in a long drawn out run on sentence. How could she just sit there and pronounce the dryer dead!?!?

"No no honey....its the heat. How else can you explain the intermittent drying"? I had her! She was busy with unpacking and taking care of the cute little girl. I could hear my theme music again! "Well hurry up, I need to dry the clothes in the washer"

Some where....a little hardware angel just got his wings

The dryer story

*Nuuuuuuuurrrrrrg*........."damn it"! I unplug the dryer and plug it back in and press the button to make it start...*nuuuuuuuurrrrrrg*. "Damn it"!

"Well it was working before the move" my mother is trying to rationalize that it should work. "Yes and it was working after the move too. I just watch Rebekah do a load of laundry but now it is crapping out" I reply. "It could be that the hot air is not venting well enough and causing the dryer to over heat" I say in a matter-of-fact way...it was enough to convince my mother that I was right. The dryer vent hose is snaked around the dryer and pointed at the side door to the house.

Why is the hose snaked like that? Cause I can't find the damn vent tube that leads outside. It is the damnedest thing I have ever seen

See folks my 10 year old dryer is crapping out...well my mothers dryer but lets not draw lines. Sometimes it will run about half way and then crap out with a pronounced *nuuuuuuuurrrrrrg* noise. Sometimes it willl work for an entire load. Lately though it just gives us the *nuuuuuuuurrrrrrg* and then flips us off.

The dryer is a son of a bi[censored by Al Sharpton]th....bastard dryer.

So begins the saga of the dryer

P-E-T-T-Y

Have you been paying attention this whole "Second Life" thing? It pops up here and there in the news. My local radio station, KLBJ, talks about it from time to time. I don't really follow it but its one of those things that kind of follows you.....good marketing I guess.

I came across an article a friend sent me about Second Life and a computer company. The company is planting trees "on-line" via this game to appease the Dark Lord Xenu or something....maybe it was global warming. Anywho, its seems that some green leaf got his panties in a twist. The author is claiming that this company is not helping the environment by accepting donations to plant trees with. Instead the company is killing the environment (not stated how) and is attacking the company for polluting (again not stated how) the environment.

pet·ty [pet-ee] –adjective,
1. of little or no importance or consequence: petty grievances.
2. of lesser or secondary importance, merit, etc.; minor: petty considerations.
3. having or showing narrow ideas, interests, etc.: petty minds.
4. mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things: a petty person.
5. showing or caused by meanness of spirit: a petty revenge.
6. of secondary rank, esp. in relation to others of the same class or kind: petty states; a petty tyrant.

What do I think of it? I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count! ;)

P.S. All hail the Dark Lord Xenu!

Loooooove shack

Its the simple things in life that make me happy, like my meth lab. NO! I do not have a real meth lab. My tool shed is this 10' x 15' shack that looks...very much like a meth lab on the outside.

Lawn mower, weed eater, and my grandfathers tool all go in there. I am even going to haul my grandfathers work bench out to El Rancho de Braco and set it up inside my little shack. I've never had my own tool shed or workshop and I am finding it to be a very enlightening experience.

P.S. The tool shack is on the left

Welcome to the Jungle....

Lord have mercy! This yard thing is a bear.

The yard at El Rancho de Braco is something of a nightmare. It is a mix of grass/weeds and rock. For example I have patches of grass that are just as easy to mow as clubbing a baby seal. Then you have small piles of brick or chiseled stone (previous owner left me presents) in little piles all over the yard. THEN I have areas of protruding rock or a collection of rough large stones. Both of which require the weed eater!

Icing on the cake: Anopheles gambiae!

It got so bad that I had six of them sucking on my arm when I was cleaning out my car last week.

My "solution"... The bug zapper! with the Mosquito bait. I'll admit that the bug zapper is pretty genocidal when it comes to "just the bugs" category, it has at least kept the Mosquito population at bay. I really should stop using it from what I read.

Which leds to my other less-than-ideal solution. Chemical spraying... yeah, I said it. *sigh*. I really really really hate to resort to this but I have got to break their breading cycle if I am ever going to be able to go outside.

UPDATE: I just found this: http://www.diyhappy.com/quick-and-dirty-mosquito-trap/

Rain! Rain! Come again!

WOW, we had one helluva rain storm last night! (4-17-2007)

It all started when I was driving home yesterday. I could see it waaaay off in the distance and I really wish I had my camera then. It had to be one of the most beautiful memories I will ever have. Imagen driving over the crest of a hill and having a rolling valley open up to you in a late afternoon light. Far off into the distance, just over a large line of hills is a thunderstorm cell moving towards you as it collects the sky in a very humbling moment of natures awesome power.

Anywho! I pulled into my "driveway", parked and just walked up the steps when thunder and lighting started. Not less than two minutes later we had a very very hard rain.

I have always been excited to see rain. Something about it makes me happy and I am so relaxed when it does rain. Its my zen time! Now that I am out in the Hill Country and it is raining its a pure zengasim.

P.S. This post is a week late. I have been busy with setting up stuff for the home and this has just been sitting in the edit box. Sorry :P

Posts from the other blog: Pre-April 2007

I think I have saved all the posts I want to save....or at least give and effort too.

If you see a post that you want saved just say so. I think after a period of time of no activity BlogSpot will delete a blog. Maybe or maybe not.

Popping the cherry

New start, new blog!



Most of my friends and family know that I moved from Round Rock, Texas to "Leander", Texas. I say "Leander" cause that is the closet major city to my house.



Yeah I said house! He he he, weeeeeeeeee I have my own little slice of paradise! My house is perched on top of a hill and I am surrounded by miles of beautiful hill country. Yeah, so I am pretty happy.



ok, yeah. So the intent of this blog is to move away from my old blog and establish this new blog. The idea is to log the goings-on in my new life away from Austin Major and Austin Minor.



But fear not! I will keep a few of the old goodies around, like "The Jesus Fish Chronicles" and a few other choice blogs. Stay tuned kiddos!

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