Woke up at 8:00 am, went down to make breakfast, and realized there was no 2% milk for cereal. Now that makes for a horrific start for a new day. 
Woke up at 8:00 am, went down to make breakfast, and realized there was no 2% milk for cereal. Now that makes for a horrific start for a new day.
Woke up at 3, can't get back to sleep, start puttering around getting ready to leave tonight/tomorrow morning, eat some leftover fried rice, find a hard something in the rice (shell?), realize after done eating that I broke a tooth and had been trying to chew the chunk.
Lovely. Not sure if this is portentious or just serves to be The Worst Thing To Happen Today.
My mom was over yesterday, saw my downstairs bathroom faucet leaking/dripping and decided to help me out by breaking the shut off valve under the sink. So 2 hours later, two trips to the hardware store (for her) and a lot of wasted water and a huge mess later, I've installed a new quarter turn valve and it's not leaking. Faucet remains leaky as I'm still on the clock and cannot address it this day. All that just to end up back where we started. This morning I woke up and there's no hot water.
At least it was just the pilot light but the water heater looks like it's not long for this world.
DuctTape&Bondo wrote: At least it was just the pilot light but the water heater looks like it's not long for this world.
I'm hoping mine gives out soon. We have a home warranty for the next 12 months (included with sale of house) and the water heater is 22 years old.
In reply to mtn:
Well, if that does happen, good luck getting the 'warranty' company to do anything .... from my past experience, home owner warranties are seldom worth the one page flyer they are printed on. Especially when the A/C pukes out during the hottest part of summer a couple of months after buying the house. Funny how them playing the 'waiting game' under those circumstances motivates the home buyer (who was happy at the time to get the wonderful warranty as part of the deal) to buck up and fix the **** broken A/C out of his own pocket.
But I digress from the original theme of this thread ...
einy wrote: In reply to mtn: Well, if that does happen, good luck getting the 'warranty' company to do anything .... from my past experience, home owner warranties are seldom worth the one page flyer they are printed on. Especially when the A/C pukes out during the hottest part of summer a couple of months after buying the house. Funny how them playing the 'waiting game' under those circumstances motivates the home buyer (who was happy at the time to get the wonderful warranty as part of the deal) to buck up and fix the **** broken A/C out of his own pocket. But I digress from the original theme of this thread ...
Yeah, it looks like we'll be out one for a while when that day comes. Luckily we live 8 blocks from my inlaws, and I can play the waiting game.
Update: Worst thing to happen all day. Had an extremely productive day at work, was able to replace a sticky flex hose on my own car while also downing a pair of gas-station burritos on my lunch break (they lend themselves very well to eating on the go with dirty hands) and after I got my car packed up and trailer hitched and got home, I found out that my aunt made me like 8 beet pickled eggs! I mentioned this weekend that I wanted to make some for my RXNC trip and she just did it for the hell of it and surprised me with it when I got home. Today turned out to be the opposite of a bad day!
I even stopped cutting the inside of my cheek on my more-broken tooth!
tl;dr: Borken tooth made miniscule problem by the awesome power of beet pickled eggs, which are the munchin' food of the Gods.
This may turn out to be a "you know you're going to have a bad day when" for anybody who has to share a hotel room with me this weekend, admittedly.
Knurled wrote: This may turn out to be a "you know you're going to have a bad day when" for anybody who has to share a hotel room with me this weekend, admittedly.
Thanks for the warning.
In reply to EvanB:
Could be worse. I could have bought a 2 liter bottle of Baltika "9". The finest $2.99 9%abv beer sold in a plastic bottle ever, brewed in Russia!
You know its going to be a bad day when one of your vendors sends a text saying 'fridge took a dump last night and waiting for repair guy to come this am, will be late this am.'
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