At the Scratch & Dent store over in Tacoma. According to a sign they had on the fridge we got, if it hadn’t been “dinged and scratched” (which aren’t all that noticeable) then this would have cost $3200. Which I wouldn’t pay even if I had that kind of money. It’s a freakin’ fridge, for gosh sake.

They loaded it into the truck but I had to tie it down. Which I over did. Just because. When we got home I got the truck positioned just right at the front door and got the ramps out. Called the Mission Mormonaries over to help and these 2 little skinny guys show up. One with a hurt finger in a splint.

I did most of the heavy lifting for this one. Got half-way down the ramps and got caught on the screen door. Moving a bit to the other direction got us caught on the  door. Re-measuring I needed another 1.5 inches to get the fridge through the door; IF I took off the fridge door handles.

Ok. Fuck it. I’m tired. My back hurts. My leg hurts. Sent the Missionaries home with some freeze dried ice cream sandwiches for showing up, covered the fridge with a tarp, and quit for the night. Was so out of it that I even left the keys in the unlocked truck. Good thing I live out in the boonies.

Hurt too much to sleep well but, other than my every 2 hour pee trip, slept until 0700 this AM. You’d think I’d be rested.

Got hold of some friends and they all came over and we had the fridge in the house in less than 10 minutes. See what 5 guys can do when left alone.

Plugged it in and it works fine. Will have to get some longer water tubing tomorrow before I can get the ice thingie working. The layout is way different than the side-by-side we’re used to; but I think we’ll adapt.

So, for date day SWMBO and I went to Sheri’s for dinner then to WinCo where we tried, all at once, to replace the everyday stuff we lost with the old fridge. Damned near filled our cart (and we don’t usually do that).

Home. Everything put away. Convenience frozen foods in the new bottom freezer compartment (Ice Cream, Chicken Pot Pies, Burrito’s, etc) and everything else spread around topside. I think it’ll work.

Think I’ll do an hour in MS Flight Sim before going to bed. I want to learn how to use the A-10’s guns and missiles so I can do another video of me strafing the White House for YouTube to take down.

Contrary to popular beliefs and my sometimes gloomy outlook, life is mostly grand. I appreciate my friends that dropped what they were doing to come over and help me. I appreciate everyone that stops by and reads what is probably the most boring blog in the world; then stopping by to read this one.

 A GFI was popped. But it wasn’t popped out enough to just look at it and tell. My bad. When I pressed the button in all the electric came back on.

BUT, the GFI popped because the fridge we bought in 2009, when we moved in here, decided to go Tits Up and took out that one GFI on a completely different wall across the kitchen. The only thing working on it is the light (in the fridge, not the wall. Nevermind). Looked up “How to jump start a GE fridge” but they don’t really have anything for an OLD GE fridge. Tried a bunch of stuff; to no avail.

Took everything I felt I could (and wanted to) save and prepped it for the freeze dryer. That’s going now. Everything else got trashed.

But, you know, some of that stuff in the freezer was 4-5 years old anyway. If we ain’t used it by now…

We’re going to get up early (well, SWMBO will get up early) and head out for breakfast then the scratch & dent store in Tacoma for a ‘new’ fridge. I hate going across the Narrows bridge into Tacoma. When you hit the other side of the water, everyone who hasn’t already forgotten how to drive suddenly forgets.

You think I’m kidding.

Still cheaper than getting an electrician out to the house.

Went to PT yesterday then again today because it was the only slot open for the rest of the week. Monday they really made me hurt. Today they added to it. As we used to say in the Navy: Fuckin-A I Hurt.

Yesterday I made up my mind to pony up the $1100 for a box scraper for the tractor. I can really use it and it won’t take long for me to “pay off” if I make up my mind and stick to it. (I would. Both.)

THEN, just before bedtime last night I reached into the fridge for some cold water, and, no light.

Wait. What?

Turns out half my kitchen is dark. Checked the electric box and no circuit breakers are popped. None of the GFI’s are popped. WTH?

So I spent a good 10 minutes hunting down a short extension cable and pulling the fridge out from the wall and running the extension cord literally 2.5 ft to a working outlet. Fridge contents saved.

Calling around today I finally found an electrician that can come out EARLY Thursday morning to check it out. Oh, BTW, that’ll be $250 just for showing up. And it only goes UP from there!

I quit eating cereal (mostly Honey-Nut Cheerios or Frosted Shredded Wheat) and as much sugar as I was willing to let go last year and switched to having bacon & eggs for breakfast every day. Went from almost 260 lbs to 220 lbs in about 6 months.

So, last Thursday SWMBO and I went shopping at COSTCO ($130!!!) and WinCo, and I thought to get a couple of those single serving containers of Honey-Nut Cheerios (I don’t know why). Convenience? Laziness (cause I cook breakfast 99.9% of the time)?

Then, Saturday morning, usually a batch-it day cause SWMBO works the Genealogy Library and gets “something” on the way in, I had one of the containers for my breakfast.

I was NOT impressed. WAY too sweet. Mouth crinkling sweet. Got it all down and still felt hungry. Twenty minutes later I still felt hungry and wound up making some bacon & eggs anyway.

I’m ruined for cereal.

We actually did “date day” last Thursday. I managed to walk around COSTCO and mostly around WinCo before having to find a place to rest my leg a moment. Still aches a lot from the exercises I do all the time and our morning 1/2 mile walk. But I’ll get over it. At least I can now prop my left leg over my right knee to put socks on. Hurts, but I can do it.

Otherwise, not much going on.

Oh, Wx was REALLY nice yesterday so I got out on the tractor and turned the gravel on the upper driveway, dug out the bushes and small trees I wanted out of the “front” yard. Cleared some of the winter damage to the path around the back of our property.

Then the Dog and I took off all our clothes and just laid out in the sun for awhile. Take That Shiny White Ass Blinding All Your Satellites, NASA!

Today was nicer but I got busy doing Freeze Dryer stuff between getting X-Plane12 and MS Flight Sim up and running the way I want them to run. Lots of time downloading all my X-Plane 12 compatible stuff I’d already bought. And, of course, I HAD to load a flight (or two) to make sure it all worked. Everything worked pretty good until I tried loading the scenery files for the Grand Canyon West Rim that I bought last year. This computer just won’t handle it. CPU fan ramps up to about 90000k revolutions and sounds like an actual prop engine running out of control. Almost expected smoke …

So, I need a bigger computer to really run these right.

Damn.