TAN 202: A bunch of rotTAN apples (Page 42)

this reminds me of the time i stopped at the 7-11 about a mile from my house on the way in from a ride and bought a bottle of gatorade to refill my water bottle and a bud light tallboy and threw the beer in my bottle cage for the ride home.  i felt so classy...spandex, bike shoes, cheap beer.

Drinking and driving is frowned upon outside of Texas.

Also - have you ever tried to drink a fizzy drink through a bike bottle?  All foam.  Bad news bears.

Yes, I have heard a pregnant woman say that baby showers are so the parents can get help stocking up on baby items. 

that is why i ONLY give diapers and wipes at baby showers.

Ugh. I hate baby showers. And wedding showers. It's like a little kid's birthday party with an emphasis on gift-giving. 

If I ever get married/have kids, there is ZERO CHANCE of me opening all of my presents in front of everyone. Seriously. 

I'm getting a PowerTap today AMAZING deal on a gently used unit. So excited!

I'm not a fan of showers either - and opening up presents in front of a bunch of your mom's friends just so they can ooooh and aaaaaah and pat themselves on the back for what they gave you... Yay - thank you ever so much for this super duper table cloth that I'm never going to use!...  ugh.  

WOOT!  

Did your dog ask for it on Amazon?  

Yup. It's because if I have a power meter, I will better utilize my trainer. 

When I ride inside, he gets a rawhide bone to chew. And we bond. 

Wow, today started of with a roaring start.

5am restless so went downstairs to get some water and get the last 2 hours of sleep on the couch. 

5:20 the father in law's phone (which is on full blast since his hearing is declining) goes off and he doesn't answer.  Calls back and talks at 5:30. 

5:45 he comes downstairs get meds so I go back upstairs. 

6am, dog thinks everyone is up and wants to play so starts barking since no one was moving.  Wife puts him on the bed and we won't settle and also closes bedroom door (which we always leave open). 

6:20 dog jumps off the bed and I hear him sniffing and exploring.  

6:30 hear a new and VERY interesting sound - like someone stepping on a toothpaste tube.  I investigate and find a HUGE B-day gift in the form of a steaming pile on the floor. 

6:35 wife yells at me to clean it up.  I yell back and say why did she lock him in the room. 

6:45 lay down for 10 more minutes after almost dry heaving cleaning up the fresh pile and 10 minutes later, my alarm goes off for work.

YAY.

And it keeps going.  Pool guy calls and says he will be at the house around 10.  Call and call and call the wife to let  him in.  No answer.  Called the FIL as well with no answer.  Finally had to get in the car and start driving home.  She calls me back halfway there after just waking up.  It could have been worse.  I was expecting her to be in her PJ's sipping on coffee in the breakfast nook and say "oh, hi honey, what brings you home so early?" - BECAUSE YOU WON"T ANSWER YOUR FREAKING PHONE!!!!

A spring broke on our garage door the other day and that sucker shot across the garage, knocking things off walls!  So glad my wife and kids were not in the garage when it snapped! So today, I get to replace that spring!

There should be a steel braided cable inside of the spring that doesn't allow that to happen.  I have had two spring break on my doors, otherwise I wouldn't have known that the steel cable should be inside the spring.

I have never had to repair one before so I did not know the cable went in the spring, makes a lot of sense though. I bouight a new spring and noticed it had a cable with it. THe cable and the roller thing look fine. I will definately have to read up on how to install it correctly. Thanks for the heads up

(Or as Brad might understand, that makes scents)

I was guessing it was an extension style spring if it broke and went flying across the room.

Yeah, those ones that act as counterweights can get pretty tight.  They have to hold up the entire door.  I had to wind one up once.  I thought there was a series of holes or something you couple put in the bar it wraps around and wind it like a watch spring by inserting a heavy duty screwdriver or something.  Need two, one to hold it in place and the other to get to the other hole...

none of that probably made any sense.

WWBTTAN do?

I can 1-Go for a swim after work as I can't swim another day this week (traveling holiday etc) although I swam yesterday  OR

2-Go get a Christmas tree and put it up.  I don't normally put up a tree til after thanksgiving but I won't get back til late sunday night and I have call the whole week I get back which makes life unpredictable. 

And Hope all of you have a wonderful thanksgiving with friends and loved ones!!

NOT the tree.

Swim.

I'm to the point that a tree is too much of a PITA that time I get to enjoy it with travel and such doesn't make it worth it.

It's buying, setting up, decorating, watering, lighting, then take everything down, disposal, repack all the decorations and lights, and the dead pine needles are a beyotch.

reading some of the posts above I realize you are not a Christmas fan. I on the other hand LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas.  Plus living in FL I like to get the tree early and get it into some water so its not sitting in a parking lot getting all dried out for a few weeks before I set it up and then I get maximum tree enjoyment. 

What will make you happier???  

1) the pool will always be there, and if you miss one swim - no biggie

2) there will still be trees when you get back, and if it takes a week to get it done because of being on-call, then it takes a week.  Also no biggie

Therefore... what will put a bigger smile on your face?   

Happy Thanksgiving!!