JasonJ
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Ever have one of those periods of time when everything you touch turns to poo?
Well, here is how it started. Last week I received my B-day present in the mail, a radio controlled electric helicopter. Always wanted one, the wife bought one. This is not the little toy one, but the kind that flies upside down, does acrobatics and is horribly difficult to learn but super-cool once you do learn. I charge everything up, and spool it up in the living room just to check the systems. No flight yet. Next day (which was last Saturday), I hook everything up and the transmitter starts smoking and that's that. I ordered another transmitter and left it at that.
Got through the week okay until Wednesday after work. Went to get in my truck and the electric door locks went nuts and kept locking themselves. I could not get into the truck unless I turned the key and opened the door really fast. Pulled the fuse, figured I'd fix it later. Next morning, yesterday, my work truck died (chemical pump blew it's diaphragm, dumping chem on the ground). I went home early and my mom brought her car over for me to install a CD player. She said the sunroof acted funny the other day, so I opened it and it got stuck halfway, nothing I could do would get it to close. I had to gut the interior out of the car to remove the sunroof assembly (which is really awkward and heavy btw). The drive cable had broken and got wedged. And the CD player was not going to work until I track the wiring on the stupid Bose Premium sound (It's a Cadillac).
My nephew calls and tells me his water pump is weeping coolant out of the weep hole and asks if I can help him. Whatever. The owner of the boat that is sitting at my house calls and asks how it is coming. He was supposed to get the parts I needed, he thought I was going to buy the parts and install them. I don't think so. A fellow worker calls and tells me there is something wrong with his work truck and asks if I can look at it. The day was so bad yesterday, but at least I got the new transmitter for the heli. I hook up everything, and it does not work. They sent the wrong transmitter, so I have to send it back.
This morning the power steering pressure hose blew on the truck I was using (because I was still waiting on parts for the other truck that went down yesterday). I came home and nothing has gone wrong since. Yet...
Well, here is how it started. Last week I received my B-day present in the mail, a radio controlled electric helicopter. Always wanted one, the wife bought one. This is not the little toy one, but the kind that flies upside down, does acrobatics and is horribly difficult to learn but super-cool once you do learn. I charge everything up, and spool it up in the living room just to check the systems. No flight yet. Next day (which was last Saturday), I hook everything up and the transmitter starts smoking and that's that. I ordered another transmitter and left it at that.
Got through the week okay until Wednesday after work. Went to get in my truck and the electric door locks went nuts and kept locking themselves. I could not get into the truck unless I turned the key and opened the door really fast. Pulled the fuse, figured I'd fix it later. Next morning, yesterday, my work truck died (chemical pump blew it's diaphragm, dumping chem on the ground). I went home early and my mom brought her car over for me to install a CD player. She said the sunroof acted funny the other day, so I opened it and it got stuck halfway, nothing I could do would get it to close. I had to gut the interior out of the car to remove the sunroof assembly (which is really awkward and heavy btw). The drive cable had broken and got wedged. And the CD player was not going to work until I track the wiring on the stupid Bose Premium sound (It's a Cadillac).
My nephew calls and tells me his water pump is weeping coolant out of the weep hole and asks if I can help him. Whatever. The owner of the boat that is sitting at my house calls and asks how it is coming. He was supposed to get the parts I needed, he thought I was going to buy the parts and install them. I don't think so. A fellow worker calls and tells me there is something wrong with his work truck and asks if I can look at it. The day was so bad yesterday, but at least I got the new transmitter for the heli. I hook up everything, and it does not work. They sent the wrong transmitter, so I have to send it back.
This morning the power steering pressure hose blew on the truck I was using (because I was still waiting on parts for the other truck that went down yesterday). I came home and nothing has gone wrong since. Yet...
