Random thoughts III

[cowgirl836]

So CG....how's Mr. Cowgirl with the power tools and handyman stuff? Like...once you guys get this house built, will he be able to fix stuff, or will it be calling someone for everything? Even in a brand new house, there's things that need attention. Got thinking about this when I adjusted the garage door to stop a squeak and made a block to go under our flatscreen to raise it up above the soundbar so the remote worked better.

I wouldn't call either of us super handy - but DH is an engimuhneer. He likes to figure things out. He took his car home over Thanksgiving so he and his dad could change the battery in his car (placed in a very stupid spot) instead of pay the $100 in labor to take it in. Neither of them knew how, but he downloaded the manual and watched a Youtube video to figure it out. So I imagine it'll be lots of doing stuff like that. Our biggest problem will likely be figuring out what is wrong. If we know what it is, we can figure out how to fix it. Diagnosing will likely be what trips us up until we have enough experience, you know?

His dad helped build their own house so he'll be a good source of info. And my parents have a farm, so yeah. **** is always breaking on a farm. So we should have good sources to ask!

 

[CyArob]

I wouldn't call either of us super handy - but DH is an engimuhneer. He likes to figure things out. He took his car home over Thanksgiving so he and his dad could change the battery in his car (placed in a very stupid spot) instead of pay the $100 in labor to take it in. Neither of them knew how, but he downloaded the manual and watched a Youtube video to figure it out. So I imagine it'll be lots of doing stuff like that. Our biggest problem will likely be figuring out what is wrong. If we know what it is, we can figure out how to fix it. Diagnosing will likely be what trips us up until we have enough experience, you know?

His dad helped build their own house so he'll be a good source of info. And my parents have a farm, so yeah. **** is always breaking on a farm. So we should have good sources to ask!

He needs a manual, video, and help to replace a car battery? Good luck with fixing any home problems.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

He needs a manual, video, and help to replace a car battery? Good luck with fixing any home problems.

A flat will total that car out.

CG, thank you for making me feel better about myself this morning

 

[Cybirdy]

Heh...congrats. I just do a line across the front roof line. Last year was the first we did, I got better at it this year. Over our garage is a gable roof with an 8 or 10/12 pitch, so I'm pretty much 2 stories up. My wife asked if we could just run them across the front, but there's nothing there to use as a line, so it'd just be a line of lights across the garage in the middle of the siding...I told her no, and she said "But I get nervous when you're up there"...I'm like "Hey, I'm the one up there, you're on the ground!" Like I said, this year went way better than last year. I think my problem was I wore work boots last year, this year I wore tennis shoes...better traction. I saw the neighbor across the street has a double gable like ours, and he did a string up the second gable, but I only did the main one. For a second, I was kind of guilty/humble because I only did one, then realized he has a 4 or 6/12 pitch, so yeah, I'd be fine up there all day too.

Two houses ago we had two or three peaks to the roof. Hubby would usually wait until it was nice and icy to hang lights. I was helpful by usually going shopping while he was hanging lights--"Don't fall off the roof while I'm gone because I can't call the ambulance". Now our roof is pretty flat, he can reach the roofline with a step ladder. He is in charge of outside lights. He has it down to a science now--a couple remotes from inside turn on all outside lights.

 

[bigdaddykane]

I have to dissect a frog, this **** is discussing .

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I have to dissect a frog, this **** is discussing .

Really? What is it discussing, and with whom?

Side note...I thought most secondary schools stopped having individual students dissect animals?

 

[BoxsterCy]

He needs a manual, video, and help to replace a car battery? Good luck with fixing any home problems.

Spoken as a man who has never changed a battery in an Audi A4. More post-war German revenge on America disguised as "engineering". Don't forget the 6mm hex wrench and extension and make a chiropractor appt. before you start since the battery bay is about as accessible as the submarine batteries on Das Boot.

 

[bigdaddykane]

Really? What is it discussing, and with whom?

Side note...I thought most primary schools stopped having individual students dissect animals?

The frog grosses me out. We are doing it in a bio class, it is apart of our final.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

The frog grosses me out. We are doing it in a bio class, it is apart of our final.

*whoosh*

 

[cowgirl836]

He needs a manual, video, and help to replace a car battery? Good luck with fixing any home problems.

You have to access it through the wheel well or something. It wasn't placed like most car batteries are.

 

[NWICY]

I have to dissect a frog, this **** is discussing .

I hope this sentence was auto corrected. If not are you still high?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

You have to access it through the wheel well or something. It wasn't placed like most car batteries are.

Might make performing a jump-start problematic...

 

[cowgirl836]

Might make performing a jump-start problematic...

oh we've had to do that plenty of times. There's an air hose or something overtop of it that you can get around to jump it, but apparently actually getting it out is a pain. I think the recommended way is to go through the wheel well but the video they found showed how to avoid that. It's apparently something that a lot of people with Dodge's from that time frame get super annoyed with.

 

[cyrevkah]

I have to dissect a frog, this **** is discussing .[/QUOTE}

Cats are worse. I couldn't eat chicken for a month after that class.

 

[cowgirl836]

I have to dissect a frog, this **** is discussing .[/QUOTE}

Cats are worse. I couldn't eat chicken for a month after that class.

where is Cmjh? Though he didn't have chicken George for A&P. That particular lab was disturbing.

 

[wxman1]

I only took one bio class but we did baby pigs and worms. That was actually quite interesting.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Didn't do any actual dissecting until I took Zoology in college. We did seven or eight different critters in our lab, don't recall which ones tho, other than a large worm and a squid (iirc).

 

[00clone]

If 00 or Cooler fall off their roofs and die and don't have brothers, do I have to (as a Cyclone brother) promise to raise their kids and send them to ISU? I mean, I can do that but would prefer they stay off those roofs.

:wideeyed:

I WILL NOT die before my kids are both 18. Misogynistic BIL and his wife are currently listed as guardians on our will. Hoping that'll change in a few years when her younger sister has kids. My brother...IDK...he had to borrow money from M&D at age 31.

Spoken as a man who has never changed a battery in an Audi A4. More post-war German revenge on America disguised as "engineering". Don't forget the 6mm hex wrench and extension and make a chiropractor appt. before you start since the battery bay is about as accessible as the submarine batteries on Das Boot.

Had a late 90's Olds cutlass with a horizontally opposed 6 cylinder that you had to loosen the engine mounting bolts and roll the engine forward to get at the rear spark plugs. I did have a manual, but I didn't have to watch a video ...procedure involved a ratchet strap and a hole in a stud of my apartment's garage wall.

 

[bigdaddykane]

I only took one bio class but we did baby pigs and worms. That was actually quite interesting.

Baby pigs really? I would rather do a frog.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I sorta wish I had steered myself down the science road during college. I had 7 other brothers and sisters that graduated with various business degrees so I just followed suit. Biology and chemistry both always interested me, but I never made the jump.