Money Well Spent...

While eating my breakfast and watching Sports Center at 5:15 this morning, the power went out. The uneasy part about that was the loud popping noise that came from the area of the TV. Of course I thought, there goes the LCD. Nothing I could do so I went to work. I get to the corner and see why the power went out. Somebody ran into the pole on a dry deserted road.

I get home from work just after 2:00pm and find that the power is back on. I try to turn on the TV and nothing. I go to reset the surge protector, and find out it is fried. I plug the TV into a regular outlet and much to my relief it works. Next I check the computer, same thing, I check the TV down stairs, same thing.

3 dead surge protectors...

Not time to fix them because I have to meet Steve for a road ride. Two and a half hours later I take a trip to the Staples across the street, they are sold out of surge protectors, at least we weren't the only ones. I then make my way to Radio Shack.

Needless to say we are back up and running, and once again protected. I wonder if I can claim this on my home owners insurance?

Cheers,

Buddy

Soggy...

The weather has been pretty nice, except for yesterday. The problem is that now the trails are not frozen and fast, they are muddy and not ridable. I did manage one last hurrah on Saturday. Met up with Matt and Jay for some fire road fun. It was actually a good ride, we even managed some single track before the thaw. I was pretty beat after the ride, but still managed to meet some guys from work for a few hours of paintball. And, I was still home in time to catch the playoffs. Not a bad day.

Yesterday I worked on the other bathroom. Rachael did the painting, I put down the new floor when she was done. All I have left now is some trim and putting up a new medicine cabinet. Today was more work on the house. I installed a new storm door. I thought it would be a piece of cake, and it would have been if the house wasn't 40 years old. Whoever put up the old door did a pretty crappy job. So that made my job way more difficult. I would have finished it today, but I ran out of daylight. Tomorrow is another day. Of course we are going to replace the whole front door soon, so I get to take it back down and put it up again, Yippee.

Hopefully we can get the bedroom done next.
Cheers,
Buddy