Monday, February 12, 2007

All that and a side of WHY NOT!

And from there the day went downhill...
Couldn't sleep last night.
Vicious insomnia.
I got a bit of sleep first thing this morning on the couch Thanks to the better half. ;p
Today I had some pretty simple plans....

A day for the Boy and I...
Our special day.
Play video games and just hang out.
I had promised him I would.
Aaaaand I did..... for about 15 minutes... maybe a half hour.
when......."Murphy" decided he hadn't spent enough time with us.

So Murphy moves in... Again!
Well... things had been going along Pretty well lately.... especially when you have luck like mine. ;p
but as the boy and I were cuddled under the blanket playing Video games (well at that exact moment HE was playing and I was drowsily watching but my turn was about to start) when Julie said the furnace made a funny noise and stopped.
at this point I had a couple of hours before Hampden hardware closed so i threw on my work clothes and went to take a look.
so Long story short...
Replaced the Air filter, Oil filter, Nozzle.
Still .... Nothing.
My old man was playing poker at his place so i interrupted him as my experience inside of a furnace was not that extensive... He said he would be up to look the rest over after the game (7pm) So I was smelling of  fuel, Cold and none to freakin' happy to this point.
Needless to say I didn't get to spend anymore real quality time with the boy.... but a few minutes here and there ... and  between the better half and myself we tried to explain that things like that can't be controlled or helped and you have to do those things when the happen no matter what.
Still I didn't feel to good about it.
I will have to spend extra special time with him to get caught up  ;o)
So.... with all of the jumping through hoops we (my father and I) got the  ignition transformer replaced. so we had heat again.
I will be telling the story of that in the next blog as it will take a full blog to chronicle it accurately.
So as of this moment I have heat, and I have hooked the washer and dryer back up after having torn out a wall(Saturday) , insulated (Saturday), reinstalled & Hooked them up (tonight)... running some stuff through to make sure that everything is working fine.  

I'll Leave you with This...
In general... it has been one hell of a long day and I am going to swap the blankets over into the dryer and I am going to bed.
I have work in the morning and the details of the transformer to blog my way through.
It seems a bit slow with out Rick and Colleen here to blog back and forth with. I hope they are having an awesome time at Disney!
....And most of all Big hugs and cuddles to the wife and Son  for putting up with "Papa Bear" today. I really would rather have been working my way through a video game with Zack or snuggling with my wife! and great food baby!

That is all for now I guess.
~Later

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was a sucky day...I hated to see you leave this morning. Looking around at the chaos just about had me ready to throw the towel in before I began. I have the initial layer of black grim up off everything. My head hurts and I think I need to get some air in here. I was paniced thinking I gotta get all this done today..but fuck it. I have all week to get it cleaned up so we can start the whole process over again :) We were going to take it easy this weekend weren't we. In fact I said...You don't "have" to do anything this weekend. Glad you did fix the washing machine thank you. Tonight I will be going to the valentine's dance with our little guy. So that is from 6-8. I will have pictures taken. Well I am off to do my own blog. Love you!

Artistically Twisted said...

I know you looked pretty defeated this morning.
On the Plus side.... I have next Monday off for presidents day! :D
I hope your day gets better.

Anonymous said...

Oh Shit that means Zack will be home for vacation all that week. But it will be awesome to have you home.

Artistically Twisted said...

Yup... I will get to make up some lost time. ;p

Anonymous said...

I am sure we can come out and play this weekend. Got some beer to drink etc. LOL...Casino Night is going to rock we have about 15 people coming to it. That is a big ass party.