Strange Day Today

[WhyYou]

I woke up just fine this morning, took my meds, ate my prunes (yes...prunes), and then things started to go wrong. The first thing that happened was a bit frightening. I was sitting in my recliner breating my oxygen when all of a sudden...the oxygen stopped! This usually means a kink in the tube or something has fallen on the tube...but it wasn't either of those. I got up and followed the hose (it's 50 feet long and I drag it all over my apartment). In the kitchen I found my cat...chewing on the hose! She'd chewed it in several places puncturing several holes in it. I yelled at her then gathered up all of it and sat down to see how bad it was. The hose was ruined so I went to my bag of supplies...and found I didn't have a replacement hose!!! The medical equipment company is closed on the weekend so I had to figure out something quick. First I got on my oxygen bottle (I normally use the machine at home, the bottle is for when I'm out of my apartment). Then I checked the hose for punctures and tried to find some way of using the endpiece for connecting the nosepiece. But that didn't work. So I got a new nosepiece (which had an insertable end on it) and carved the end so that it was beveled a bit. Then I forced the cut end of the hose onto the insertable end. It wasn't easy but I finally managed to get it on. This took me most of the morning. Then I decided to install some new software that I wanted to use for computer maintainence. It took forever with my firewall defense popping up for each thing that the installer wanted to do. In the middle of it all I got an important update download that further complicated things. Then the updater and installer needed to restart my computer. I must have restarted my computer at least 10 times today just to update one thing and install 2 things. I nearly bashed the cpu a few times because it was running so slowly. But everything worked out in the end and now my computer is safer and a little faster than it was.

Ok...that's a long post...bored yet? LOL!

[tigger]

Sounds like kitty wanted some oxygen too. Boy if pouncer found a hose laying around, in his mind it would be wispering tear the living sh** out of me. And he would. If sarah leaves her bra's out where he can get them he chewes on them and gets the under wire out of them . Oh does she get pissed. And you cant get that dam wire back in i have tryed.

[DWM222]

Originally Posted by WhyYou

I woke up just fine this morning, took my meds, ate my prunes (yes...prunes), and then things started to go wrong. The first thing that happened was a bit frightening. I was sitting in my recliner breating my oxygen when all of a sudden...the oxygen stopped! This usually means a kink in the tube or something has fallen on the tube...but it wasn't either of those. I got up and followed the hose (it's 50 feet long and I drag it all over my apartment). In the kitchen I found my cat...chewing on the hose! She'd chewed it in several places puncturing several holes in it. I yelled at her then gathered up all of it and sat down to see how bad it was. The hose was ruined so I went to my bag of supplies...and found I didn't have a replacement hose!!! The medical equipment company is closed on the weekend so I had to figure out something quick. First I got on my oxygen bottle (I normally use the machine at home, the bottle is for when I'm out of my apartment). Then I checked the hose for punctures and tried to find some way of using the endpiece for connecting the nosepiece. But that didn't work. So I got a new nosepiece (which had an insertable end on it) and carved the end so that it was beveled a bit. Then I forced the cut end of the hose onto the insertable end. It wasn't easy but I finally managed to get it on. This took me most of the morning. Then I decided to install some new software that I wanted to use for computer maintainence. It took forever with my firewall defense popping up for each thing that the installer wanted to do. In the middle of it all I got an important update download that further complicated things. Then the updater and installer needed to restart my computer. I must have restarted my computer at least 10 times today just to update one thing and install 2 things. I nearly bashed the cpu a few times because it was running so slowly. But everything worked out in the end and now my computer is safer and a little faster than it was.

Ok...that's a long post...bored yet? LOL!

Sounds like more of a "bad" day than a strange one....Glad everything turned out ok.

[geolarson2]

I think I know what you mean, on both accounts. I've been feeling run down the past couple days, been having trouble with my blood sugar today, ran out of one med several days ago, went to get it refilled, only to find they can't refill it until Wed. My PC's been glitching all day, every minute or so for about 30 seconds each, even while writing this its glitched about 6 times. I've had to restart my computer a few times, too, thanks to my own updates here. One of those restarts took quite a while to actually go through, too, because Windows would not load. I've been upset personally after reading Danielle's post last night, and wrote a knee-jerk answer to it that when I'd slept on it (sort of--not a good night for sleep) I re-read it this AM and thought it was too prideful, too arrogant and so rewrote it. I'm still not happy with what I wrote--you folks are a lot better at summing things up than I (duh). If brevity is the soul of wit, then I'm the most witless person going. The whole day has just felt wrong though, kind of like swimming in a pool of Jell-O. And since this thing has glitched another half-dozen times, I think I'll call it quits. hope your day gets better, WhyYou

[tigger]

I just got a call from saras boyfriends dad. I was expecting somthing rilly bad. But she behaved her self, but he will be grounded for the rest of his life. He took his dads 07 silverodo 4x4 pickup back one of the logging roads up past my house this morning( with sarah) and slid it offthe trail and 150ft down the hill into a mud pit at the bottom. Broke the left front wheel off and scraped the hole drivers side of the truck. The towing company wants $1500 to try to get it out. No garentees. They want the money up front. Sarah told him i have rescued guys befor with the winch on my pickup. So she had him call me. Sarah sent me a photo of it on my phone from her phone. It wont be easy but i think i can get it out without too much more dammage. But i told him that boy is going to be climing up and down the hill draging cable not me. Ill be home wed. Ill have to put some photos up when i get back. I have pulled jeeps out all the time, but a full size truck ,that will pry take all day and that boy is in for a work out. I have a 100ft of cable on my winch bt pulling somthing as heavy as my own truck i will only put out about 25 ft at a time so to get the full puling power f the winch. With the block on it i can pull 1600 lbs but i will have to chain my truck to a tree so it dosent slide. And hope i can do a strate pull or i will have to keep pulling it out ad rewinding it on the drum so it dosent all wind on one side. So ill get to have a little fun when i get home. Sarah is upset because her boy friend is grounded. I told her she should be happy he is not dead. If that thing wuld have rolled they bolth could have been killed.

[WhyYou]

Teenagers...don't ya just love 'em?...LOL!

[Texasdrake]

I done some dumb things as a teenager myself.Took my mom's Chrysler and was showing off to my friend who had a 69 cuda.I was peeling off around a corner after my friend and lost control of it.Ran it over a curb and into the field in front of the High School.The car hit the curb and slid so smoothly across the grass I thought for sure I must have sheer off something underneath.Luckly everything was ok....drove it back home and was looking one last time before going into the house.At the same time my mom walk outside and seen me looking under her car and she asked if I had done something to her car.Tried to have a innocent look on my face and told her no I didn't do anything to her car. (LOL)
Boy I was very lucky that night.My mom was a single mother raising two teenage boys and last thing she needs is to be without a car.