Jump to content

Scheiss Meister

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    3460
  • Joined

Everything posted by Scheiss Meister

  1. I worked hanging overhead garage doors the summer before my senior year in high school. Mostly not too bad, but I was the one who was sent up in the attic of new homes to pull the wire for motorized door openers. Unfinished attics in July and August in Texas can get to 160° F, and I came close to heat exhaustion more than once. We once got an order for a couple dozen doors, and I got to be the one in the workshop moving the panels around by hand, drilling and cutting for hardware, and bolting on said hardware. That shed was damn hot, too. Reading water meters in January is only marginally more comfortable that reading them in July and August. Hot, cold, wet, you have to get them read on time. You learn how to handle people and dogs real fast. I had to change out a meter for a pharmacy once. The meter was about 80 years old and not reading correctly, so the pharmacy was being way under billed. I let the lady at the counter know that I was turning off the water to change the meter and that the water would be off for 5 to 15 minutes. As I reached to turn off the water the owner of the pharmacy comes screaming out of the door pointing a pistol at me, promising to shoot the shit out of me if I touched that meter. I backed off and called it in. Later that afternoon I was there with the Assistant Chief of Police and an officer who stood overwatch while I changed the meter. That was a pretty fucked up day.
  2. And it's always a 10mm socket. Or if you're a real old, 1/2" socket. When I buy a socket set, for me or others, I always get one each extra 10mm and 1/2" sockets. They still disappear, but it takes twice as long to get to the point of having none.
  3. Today is graduation for aggy. This weekend Colley Station will be busier than when Alabama plays them at Kyle tacklebox. Every restaurant will be overcrowded. If rooms were booked, they were booked months ago, and at sky high prices. It's difficult to get around town, and doubly so around campus. This isn't the weekend I'd pick to get a big group of recruits on campus.
  4. Yep, sure did. It looks like a clean, well run plant from the outside. I wish that I'd had time for a tour.
  5. My wife and I were visiting our daughter (no pics of either one, assholes) in Eugene and drove over to Florence for a day. That park is nice, but two things should be noted here: 1) It isn't at the site of the explosion, but about a half mile away across the dunes and the Siuslaw River, and 2) It's next door to the Florence wastewater treatment plant. There were no odors from the plant, but some from the rotting vegetation and sea life along the river. I think that the smiling whale on the sign is a nice, whimsical touch.
  6. Doomlet didn't fall far from the tree, I see.
  7. I believe that it was Lily Tomlin who observed that if you talk to God, that's praying, but if God talks to you, that's schizophrenia.
  8. I guess that's why it's called tissue.
  9. I apparently just start to bleed spontaneously now. My wife just asked me what I did to my arm and points out a small trickle of dried blood. It's obviously been dry for some time, but damned if I know what I did to open up the small laceration from which it proceeds. I don't remember any bumps or scrapes.
  10. Mix 1/3 cup of brown sugar, two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar, two tablespoons of soy sauce, one teaspoon of minced garlic, 1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes, and 1/2 teaspoon of paprika in a bowl. On pork, it's a delicious glaze. Knock the bowl off of the counter and it becomes very fragrant glue. Son of a bitch, what a mess.
  11. I used to work with a gal who had that and plushes of E. coli, Salmonella, and an amoeba for tours of our wastewater plant. They were a huge hit with kids.
  12. Hang in there, brother. Find an aggy coworker and brighten his day with reminders of how great the weekend was. It will help you over the hump.
  13. A troglodyte, a nazi, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon walk into a bar...
  14. That looks like something from a Monty Python skit, with a dummy flying through the air.
  15. I hope she kicks cancer's ass and Texas kicks Oklahoma State's.
  16. Yesterday's Mexican food doesn't prairie dog, and it doesn't wait.
  17. I think that most of the buildings in College Station were designed by Frank Lloyd Wrong. I'll see myself out, now.
  18. Is India saying that it was all an elaborate Kahn, perpetrated to make them look bad?
  19. If an oubliette is so horrible, how awful must a full sized oubli be? You left out hung. It's hung, drawn, and quartered, just like in Braveheart. Sometimes the victim was hung until unconscious two or three times before being moved to the rack.
  20. She's the one who was always paired with Fred, leaving Wilma to her own devices while Shaggy and Scooby toked up. I figured that she was a freak.
  21. Good old daphnia. If you run a wastewater plant, similar species are used to test the potential lethality of your effluent. A kid's disappointment when they won't reproduce or they die off is nothing compared to a wastewater operator's disappointment in the same situation.
×
×
  • Create New...