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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging

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Welu:
Hey there, Patrick.

Carl-E:
Hit a little snag in my heating system repairs...



//www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mmrF-4rUE
Don't know my own strength...

I was using a 3 foot piece of pipe as an extension for leverage.  When the wrench snapped, I went flying across the basement, landed on the stairs.  My butt, two spots in my back, my right shoulder and left knee are all in considerable pain. 

The pipe didn't budge. 


I'm gonna need a bigger wrench.

Grognard:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Oct 2014, 11:36 ---I'm gonna need a bigger wrench.

--- End quote ---

spoken like a true redneck.  :thumbsup:

94ssd:
So I spent entirely too much money this weekend, which was actually a wonderful four-day weekend thanks to Fall Break. I know these numbers aren't going to sound huge to you adults with your real-world jobs, but imagine them in the context of a college student with a part-time minimum-wage job.

The previous weekend I unfortunately had to contribute a good bit of my own money in order to get condoms and batteries (yes, I did get a strange look from the CVS cashier) for the wireless microphones used in our student-produced musical. It was one of my favorite shows, Urinetown. The supplies ended up being almost $200, mostly thanks to the batteries, and I can only be partially reimbursed. In fairness the costume designer spent her own money on clothes and fabric and the set designer spent his own money on paint and lumber, so it's not like I'm alone in this boat.

This weekend I decided to go to two plays (one with friends and one all by my lonesome) at two different cities, each about an hour away. Tickets for each were about $30, plus about $20 of gas for my solo trip. I ate almost my meals out. Yesterday I bought about $200 of groceries. As part of my ongoing "I was so busy the past two weeks that I had no time to do normal people things" saga I had absolutely no food in my apartment except ramen and poptarts. And as I mentioned in another thread, I was sick on Thursday and slept instead of having the 12-hour workday I planned upon, but decided not to cancel my plans and live it up as if I had that extra money anyway. So this upcoming week I plan to hopefully make up for some of it by trying to spend no money. No meals out, no tickets. I'll make my own coffee in the morning and bring my own lunch to campus. We'll see how it goes.

On a slightly related note: one of the plays I saw was called Duck Hunter Shoots Angel (yes, all my favorite plays have dumbshit titles). It was an okay production but one thing was really pissing me off the whole show: If a script has constant references to a character being from New York City and having a "Yankee accent," you could make SOME kind of attempt to mask the actor's extremely obvious southern drawl. I'm not a dialects coach and I wasn't expecting a perfect New York accent, but for fuck's sake the play is set in Alabama and that guy had the thickest accent on the stage.

Carl-E:
[explain hat]

For those wondering, the point of the condoms is to cover the transmitter pack for the actor's microphone, which is usually strapped to the small of their back under their costume.  The amount of sweat worked up in a musical (heck, in almost any play) will short out the transmitter pack in pretty short order; covering it with a condom (water-tight, yet stretchy enough to fit) is actually one of the cheapest solutions. 

[/explain hat]

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