I only read the Hitchhiker series once, but enjoyed it. I bought it for my 17 year old son for his birthday a few years ago.
I finally broke down and had a guy come out and look at my refrigerator. I wouldn't have done it if I had more time and the skills and tools to troubleshoot it. My microwave quit working too, so I had him look at both appliances. I am pretty much anti-extended/after market warranties, but I have a home warranty. It came with the house when we bought it (a foreclosure) and we kept it after the first year and believe it or not, it has payed to have it. It will cost me 90 dollars for the visit and the warranty will cover anything over that. The refrigerator was the defroster switch as expected and there was a relay that wasn't working in the microwave. I could have fixed the fridge, but not the microwave.
http://youtu.be/EP8v33dKhF8
You should have posted here. I've fixed my fridge and mike many times. In fact, I'm replacing the magnetron in my mike this weekend.
Cheers Dan! Good to hear from you. Take care friend!
Dan,
No worries. Be the cellphone or computer, the message come through loud and clear. You mention earlier that your dog was making the trip ahead of you. Did he travel ok?
Safe travels and best of luck Dan! I think it will be a great new experience for you.
Keep in touch as much as you can, and when you can't just know that your friends here will be thinking of you!
Good luck Dan
Good luck Dan. I hope to see you on the island(s) someday. I haven't made it there yet, but you never know. HI has a nice public library system and very good wifi access everywhere, so no excuses for not posting (btw I just made that up, but its paradise so it seems probable). Have fun and hug your wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwFpRnOeGg
It sounds like you're doing things right then. If everything always goes right, you never learn anything.
About two months ago my furnace fan started making a horrible noise. It's an old furnace so I figured it was bye bye fan bearings. It was still working, so I didn't immediately call anybody.
After work today I decided to pull the service panel off and take a look, in case there was a grease zerk or something and I could get it to quite down for a while until it was replaced.
It turns out that some random piece of insulation had gotten sucked into the fan and was smacking the side of the ducting when the fan turned. Nothing at all was wrong with the actual fan. Wish I'd looked at it earlier. It's a load off my mind to have that resolved.
Dan, Good luck with the transition to Hawaii. We will be here to translate the cryptic phone posts, chuckling to ourselves. Friends always. When I win the next big lottery I'll bring all of us over to visit, have a few home brews on the beach.
Dan and Bobbi are tied with most posts in this thread. One more post Dan before you move.
You know you always have an open invite Ischiavo. Well, give me 6-12 months to get established first.Count me in when you win the lottery. I'd like to drink homebrew on the beach and visiting Dan would be nice too
Congrats on your one year annisversary! I'm just over 4 and a half years retired from the Navy. Was transferred to the Fleet Reserve in November 2009 and officially retired May 2013.. The time has flown by but I definitely miss the comaraderie thats for sure.I will be looking for your posts from Paradise, Dan. I went to REFTRA in Honoruru a couple of times in a prior life. I enjoyed my time there.
Today is the one year anniversary of my retirement from the Coast Guard. I miss the comradery.
Sounds like an exciting time for you Dan. Ending some chapters, starting some new ones. And what better way to do it than island style. Before you know it you'll be speaking pidgin Hope you have a safe journey you lucky bastard
Good luck Mr. Dan.
How's the HBT crowd tonight?
Pappy!Just fine Mr. Bberg. How are you?
Here's some traveling music for Dan, and anyone else deciding to hit the road soon. Hope life is treating you fairly, late nite crowd. Love this movie, and any time I hit the road I think of Hoffman in that little MG. Love that movie, and especially Katherine Ross.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y_EMhWIcy4
Dan,
No worries. Be the cellphone or computer, the message come through loud and clear. You mention earlier that your dog was making the trip ahead of you. Did he travel ok?
Yep, there is a quarantine on animals coming into Hawaii. 120 days but it isn't as bad as it used to be. Years ago the animal had to wait in a kennel at the Hawaii Quarantine center for 120 days and very very expensiive kennel fees, in the thousands.Indeed.
I believe that there is a thirty day quarantine on dogs coming into Hawaii?
and then wait 120 days, at your own house stateside. After 120 days all that is needed is a health certificate from the vet (good for up to ten days) and Frontline application within a certain time frame. I think the fee was around $80 for processing with Hawaii quarantine center.a blood test that measures your pets immune system response to the rabies vaccine, to see if enough antibodies are being produced after vaccination
Oh man Dan, your life is changing!
I think back about the changes I've made in my life. So scary, the unknown future. But every time, without exception, change brought a better life. Every time.
I don't think that's because I made good choices. I think that change is innately good. It's like changing your underwear: no matter the brand, getting some clean tight-whitey's on is a good thing.
You're going to be OK Dan. We'll all be wormfood in the near future, so let's focus on having fun and enjoy this blink of time we have here, and ignore the negative.
For your late nite soundtrack, late niters, the incomparable Johnny Merc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jdbFOidds
No trophy in the pinewood derby Saturday. My son proved a very gracious looser. I am proud.
I went to my best friends father's funeral this weekend. It is hard to see such good people hurting.
I learned a bit about open marriages and cheating wives this weekend too (neither are mine). I do my best to not judge others but I cannot relate and I just feel so sad for it all. I am a lucky husband and father and that is where I will try to focus myself.
No need to reply. I am just sharing feelings with my friends here.
One for Ollie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu-yrLC---s
Sorry, replied bro.
Your style of life and theirs weren't the same but were in many ways; love, friendship, life. You're a good person, Ischiavo, if you weren't you probably wouldn't have even brought this up.....or something like that.
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Sorry for your loss. At times like this it is not good to justify. Just remember the goodness in people. As what PP said, we'll all be wormfood someday. And what I comment is trivialities are just insecurities sort of. A man who believes in himself believes in others and that is strength needed.
lschiavo, Sorry for your loss.
Sounds like your have taught your sons well. They will always look up to you.
Dan,
Wondering how you didn't loose your sanity shipping Dasher. Just all that would have pissed me off and probably got security interested. Your a cool cucumber. Good to hear that Dasher is safe with your wife. Sounds like to have a well planned departure\arrival to Hawaii. Wonder if your wonderful lady will greet you with fanfare and flowers? Or maybe you should take the flowers to her?
Anyone want to guess what's going on in my garage yesterday afternoon?
Anyone want to guess what's going on in my garage yesterday afternoon?
The birth of the Microwave Brewery.
Anyone want to guess what's going on in my garage yesterday afternoon?
Replacing a magnetron?You should have posted here. *I've fixed my fridge and mike many times. *In fact, I'm replacing the magnetron in my mike this weekend.
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