Well today I was asked a very odd question.

Sn: what days do you have off?
Sn: if any
SuicideTheCat: why do you ask?
Sn: we can all hang out and stuff get some food and chat

That is from the person who ripped my heart out.

Every time I had asked about getting together she was always busy or something, so this comes to be as being very odd indeed.

And last night someone was in the chat room that I didn't want to talk to, even aknowlage. They said something to me in there. I didn't reply so the IMed me. Block. Then they said they were blocked and other people in the room IMed me. One telling me to unblock them and the other sent me the message they had put in the room. I really didn't appreciate that. Quite OBVIOUSLY I did not want to have contact with that person. Then yet another one piped up about how "rude" it was of me to have done that. Personally I think it was rude of THEM to interfere.

So today I started working on the boat. This weekends project is removing the engine and transmission. I started by taking the intercooler off the engine, because the water feed into it is right up against the flange on the transmission coupling. That required removing a metal pipe. To get that off I removed a hose going from the heat exchanger to the exhaust mixer. I yanked the shaft tube water feed off as well as the exhaust hose. I took the mixer off, being careful not to mess up the gasket. After all that I shut off the hydraulic valves and went into the bilge and took the steering like out of the pump off and drained that. Then after waiting for that line to drain I took off the line that fed the steering pump and drained that one. The line going to the helm was a dribbler so I tied that one up and out of the way while putting the feed line behind the fuel line so it was contained. The main hydraulic pump hose that feeds the solenoid was next, slowly taking that one off and draining it. That was taking a while so I took it off the solenoid and stuck a gallon jug onto the fitting and just let it dribble into that. The main feed for the hydraulic pump came next, being a 3/4 inch hose it drained quite quickly. Then it shot out another glob and it almost got me. So I drained that one again and shoved it under the fuel lines too. I took the transmission cable off and undid the four nuts that hold the pump assemblies on and pulled that back off the PTO of the transmission. I had a bucket out on the deck so I carefully lifted the pumps up, but the oil hiding inside the hydraulic pump shot out and covered my arm with a wonderful oily mess. I got that damn thing up away from where I was working and took all but two of the bolts holding the transmission on, off. That is about 17 of them. I crawled out, snapped my back into place, and got the 2 foot ratchet and a wrench to break the shaft coupling loose. Six bolts later that was done. I took the throttle cable off, since it is connected to the transmission cable and draped over it, and put that away. Then I got to set up the I-beam and the frame to hold it in place. The I-beam is a 20 foot section of aluminum I-beam, so while it isn't impossible to move, it sucks. After all that was in place and supported by the chain falls and bracing I put the cars on it and found the come-along. threw a shackle on the transmission, took up a strain, unbolted the remaining two bolts and yanked the transmission up out of the hole. Tomorrow will be the engine removal. Oh joy oh joy.

Anyways going back to the start of the post, the days she would prefer me to go would be weekdays. That just happens to be when I work. Normally it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it is during the day. And it is a four hour trip. Both ways. That is eight hours of driving just to get there and come back! Probably worth it...

Needless to say I don't know what to do about that.

I don't have an opinion of that yet.

I am downloading the Devo music video of Whip It.

*glee*


posted by Suicide at 5:39 PM

You are the mysterious night and all its sounds. No
one knows much about you or what and how you
think, unless they're really close. You prefer
the peace and solitude. You are quiet and don't
express many of your feelings. If you had the
ability to be invisible, you would love it, and
take advantage. You are more of a nocturnal
person and don't really like going out much,
but the thing about you is that you may know
how to have a good time. Hmm. Anyway, have a
Happy Halloween, Shadowy One.


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posted by Suicide at 6:55 AM

Yeah. So I got fed up with Internet Explorer. And all the shit that gets added onto it if you don't shut down pop-ups fast enough. It was getting bogged down and slow as ass. Now I have FireFox. I must admit. I am impressed. It does everything that IE did for me, plus it automaticly blocks pop-ups. So I am happy. WHEEE

It is halloween. Whoopdie do. I hope no trick or treaters come here this year. If they do, it will surprise me. The last, well it must be ten years or so, no trick or treaters. So that is good, I don't have to put up with the lil fuckers. That is one good thing about living in a spooky location. One bad thing about the times we live in now is having the parents drive them everywhere, so a long dark secluded driveway through the woods isn't all that challenging. And so much crap about "safety" now these days too. Oh little Johnny needs to bring his flash light, along with his bright colored costume with reflectors on it, and he can't wear a full face mask because he won't be able to see and those little nose holes aren't big enough, so he might suffocate. And we have to go through his candy that he gets, just to be sure no one puts a razorblade in it or something. Oh comeon! Like we would go through the time and trouble of putting razorblades into bitesized butterfingers. Don't these people think? And I think we are getting away from the original focus of halloween, or all hallows eve. It isn't the fun festival that it once was. Now it is all about candy. And scaring people, or at least trying to scare them. And if you don't give treats then you run the risk of getting TP'ed or the such. It is all very troubling. I am going back to my movie now. The Dawn of the Dead. At least it's daylight this time :-p
posted by Suicide at 10:23 AM