Cuatro de Mayo
Posted: May 4 08, 11:18 pm
The 2008 version of May 4th will not go down in history as one of my finer days.
We're heading to the store, and it's a beautiful day. We get behind a diesel truck that is spewing all kinds of black crap out of it's tailpipe, so I decide to close the windows. Unfortunately, Mrs. Rad has her fingers in the way and they get crunched. Not broken, but the middle finger swells badly. Then we get to the store and run into someone she knows, so we spend 20 minutes awkwardly blocking the aisle while they chat (reminds me of another rant).
We get home and open the house up because, as I said, it's a beautiful day. I leave the back door open and both of our indoor cats escape. We spend the next hour finding them (they get a little freaked out and are too stupid to find their way home. Plus it doesn't help when our wiener dogs decide to chase them).
We secure the cats, and I prepare a pork tenderloin roast for dinner and pop it in the oven. Next, it's time to turn on the sprinkler system. I go to the basement and turn the valves on, go out to check and see if everything is working okay, and come back in to find my basement is taking on a significant amount of water. My finished, carpeted, home entertainment system basement. Where I planned to watch the game tonight. I spend the next 3 hours wet vac'ing water from the carpet, then ripping it up and carrying the waterlogged crap out to the dumpster. Then coming back to a severely overcooked roast which I forgot about.
I make some popcorn and decide to just try and forget about things and watch the game. Mrs. Rad decides to ice the finger that I crunched, and the ice dispenser in the frig jams. I open the door and ice spills out all over the floor. 45 minutes and 3 innings later, the dispenser is fixed and I tune into the game, fully expecting a Cubs blowout considering how the day was progressing. When we got to the 9th, I fully expected a fatal Izzy meltdown to top the day off.
Thanks, Izzy.
(And to add to all this, my big screen suddenly has vertical stripes screwing up what used to be a beautiful HD picture. Blue and yellow vertical stripes. It's one of those big box, rear projection Mitsubishi sets we bought just before flat screens became somewhat affordable, but it has (or had) a great picture.)
(Oh, and one more thing - I may be dealing with basement and sprinkler system related issues the next few days instead of being at Coors Field rooting on the Redbirds during their only trip of the season....<<deep sigh>>...)
We're heading to the store, and it's a beautiful day. We get behind a diesel truck that is spewing all kinds of black crap out of it's tailpipe, so I decide to close the windows. Unfortunately, Mrs. Rad has her fingers in the way and they get crunched. Not broken, but the middle finger swells badly. Then we get to the store and run into someone she knows, so we spend 20 minutes awkwardly blocking the aisle while they chat (reminds me of another rant).
We get home and open the house up because, as I said, it's a beautiful day. I leave the back door open and both of our indoor cats escape. We spend the next hour finding them (they get a little freaked out and are too stupid to find their way home. Plus it doesn't help when our wiener dogs decide to chase them).
We secure the cats, and I prepare a pork tenderloin roast for dinner and pop it in the oven. Next, it's time to turn on the sprinkler system. I go to the basement and turn the valves on, go out to check and see if everything is working okay, and come back in to find my basement is taking on a significant amount of water. My finished, carpeted, home entertainment system basement. Where I planned to watch the game tonight. I spend the next 3 hours wet vac'ing water from the carpet, then ripping it up and carrying the waterlogged crap out to the dumpster. Then coming back to a severely overcooked roast which I forgot about.
I make some popcorn and decide to just try and forget about things and watch the game. Mrs. Rad decides to ice the finger that I crunched, and the ice dispenser in the frig jams. I open the door and ice spills out all over the floor. 45 minutes and 3 innings later, the dispenser is fixed and I tune into the game, fully expecting a Cubs blowout considering how the day was progressing. When we got to the 9th, I fully expected a fatal Izzy meltdown to top the day off.
Thanks, Izzy.
(And to add to all this, my big screen suddenly has vertical stripes screwing up what used to be a beautiful HD picture. Blue and yellow vertical stripes. It's one of those big box, rear projection Mitsubishi sets we bought just before flat screens became somewhat affordable, but it has (or had) a great picture.)
(Oh, and one more thing - I may be dealing with basement and sprinkler system related issues the next few days instead of being at Coors Field rooting on the Redbirds during their only trip of the season....<<deep sigh>>...)
