Friday, November 4, 2011

hot pockets for lunch

I bought some hot pockets for lunch today.  I like hot pockets but I don't think they are very healthy for you.  My kids will say that I'm not very healthy oriented but you have to try when you can don't you?  This last week has been killer.  Almost literally...  Work has been stressful and fast paced.  It seems that when one problem comes up it is accompanied by brothers and sisters.  The next thing you know there is a family reunion on your desk.  And to top it all off my boss wants to talk to me after lunch.  Nothing good ever comes from talking to my boss.  he's a nice guy and I don't have any problems with him but I get so nervous about the whole thing that I can't hardly think straight til it's over.  Then afterwards I wonder why I got so nervous.  Its a cycle my crazy what the heck is wrong with me cycle. 

I have been working on our hot tub for what seems like years but has only been this summer.  I have replaced fittings and hoses a control panel, jets and Cameron sanded and stained the outside 4 times.  We got it filled a couple weeks ago and life was good....  then the concrete under it started getting wet.  Now that just drives me crazy because I have filled it and ran the jets for a week before I put chemical in it.  I even put it up on blocks to see if it was leaking before I really got serious about using it.  I had no leaks and everything looked good but while I was testing it it wasn't heated due to a bad breaker that needed a ground wire.   Long story short, I am assuming that when the tub was heated up the crack opened up even more and started leaking.  I bought some blue dye a couple days ago and ran that through the tub for a day then yesterday afternoon I had Keaton and Cameron drain it and when I got home I disconnected all the electrical and we slid it out onto the lawn and lifted it up to work on it again.  It is presently on it's side with the bottom exposed and we dug out the foam where the blue dye was showing.  The weather was good yesterday but it's supposed to get real cold this weekend so we blew all the lines out with my compressor and vaccumed everything out we could.  I don't think that it will freeze at all but we did find the leak.  I had already replaced one of the fittings on the other side of the tub but this one is not going to be easy.  I have to order parts today and hopefully we can fix it quickly. 

Another problem that I haven't mentioned is the alternator on my wife's 4 runner.  She was in the parking lot at work and her alternator gave up the ghost.  I didn't know that alternators could go so quickly.  I thought that they were like an alkaline battery you know, just kind of peter out.  Checker Auto has a new one in stock so tomorrow that's my project.
 

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