A Completely Unrelated Series of Thoughts... Part 6

[James]

They did. But it slipped out of the end in the post and got a bit bent. I had ordered something else with it, so it was sent in a large bubble bag but the actual gasket was wrapped in stiff cardboard.

The "invoice" from this morning turned out to be a Sales Order, confirming what was being "ordered". The invoice comes when they charge me, which they said they won't after I emailed them.

But they still haven't given me a returns number to be able to send the bent one back. Maybe they think it's not worth it for a sub £1 item. Or maybe they're still processing it all.

[captain_nintendo]

I have a 3 day weekend too! Hooray being a government employee!

 

I also have "half days" next Thursday and Friday. And I have put in for a vacation day for the "1/2 day" on Friday.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

It's hawt.

[NES_Rules]

Looks like we're going to have some interesting road conditions this winter. The County can't afford salt to put on the roads. They only received 1 bid for salt @ $68 per ton for 3,000 tons, but rejected it. That price seems reasonable to me, but the catch is, the supplier would require the County to pick up the salt and the County trucks only hold 10-12 tons. And the supplier is in Baltimore, so that would be about an 11 hour drive round trip, which would mean probably 5-6 hours of overtime per load, so it is definitely not cost effective to do that.

So here's to hoping the left over salt from last year will last all winter. 

[logical123]

Nuf said.

[Sirgin]

So here's to hoping the left over salt from last year will last all winter. 

Lol, time to hook up the snow chains I guess.

@logical: Awesome picture!

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

I'm a little bit abreibriated.

[James]

I got my replacement gasket this morning. This time they wrapped it in lots of bubble wrap and put it in a solid cardboard box. I still don't know what they want me to do with the other one, maybe nothing because it's cheaper to write it off than to pay for it to be posted it back.

[Sirgin]

I got my replacement gasket this morning.

Glad that worked out for you, and yeah, they'll probably won't ask for the other one back.

[James]

I fitted my new gasket. Turned the key... "chuchuchuchchuchu..." didn't start. So I tried again and it still wouldn't start. So I poked a torch down the fuel filler of the tank and there was nothing but a bit of dampness. >_< I bought a gallon of petrol in a jerry can then tried again. The first try drew some petrol through then with the second key turn it started straight away. The timing was still a bit forward so I set it to where it should be. It didn't cut out or splutter this time. I reset the idle to 800-900rpm and pushed the throttle a few times and it sounds so much nicer now.

I'll have to see how it is from cold in the morning.

[Sirgin]

I fitted my new gasket. Turned the key... "chuchuchuchchuchu..." didn't start. So I tried again and it still wouldn't start. So I poked a torch down the fuel filler of the tank and there was nothing but a bit of dampness. >_< I bought a gallon of petrol in a jerry can then tried again. The first try drew some petrol through then with the second key turn it started straight away. The timing was still a bit forward so I set it to where it should be. It didn't cut out or splutter this time. I reset the idle to 800-900rpm and pushed the throttle a few times and it sounds so much nicer now.

Sounds like you're becoming quite the mechanic, knowledge that'll always come in handy. I wish I knew that much about cars myself.

[Izret101]

So i have been using my moms laptop alot lately.

Apparently it is far more riddled with bad things than i had originally assumed.

I just had a popup warning from the MS Firewall asking me if i wanted to let Trojan.BankFraud.something or other access the internet.

Thank god i have already used eBay/PayPal/email/nearly every other password protected info i have on the web. :-/

Guess i am going to have to get on a protected PC and change passwords AGAIN.

[NES_Rules]

Garage sales sucked today. I only bought 2 things that are semi-game-related Hopefully the flea market will be great, if not, no Treasure Hunt Chronicles for this week. 

But I get to go put a roof on a garage today and tomorrow, so that should be fun

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

So i have been using my moms laptop alot lately.

Apparently it is far more riddled with bad things than i had originally assumed.

I just had a popup warning from the MS Firewall asking me if i wanted to let Trojan.BankFraud.something or other access the internet.

Thank god i have already used eBay/PayPal/email/nearly every other password protected info i have on the web. :-/

Guess i am going to have to get on a protected PC and change passwords AGAIN.

Might just be some protection program she has that MS reads as a trojan. Trojans usually don't call themselves "bank fraud."

[TraderJake]

I went to Ocean City today. A tourist town during the off season is interesting. Big ass boardwalk.