There’s some things you really should be embarassed for liking…

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Actually I should be worried that something like this even exsists… but since it’s already out there lets just all have a good laugh. What am I talking about? Get ready for it.. I mean really prepare your mind for the awesomeness that’s about to be dropped on it… CATS THAT LOOK LIKE HITLER .COM.

I dont think you were ready for that.

well get ready for this… they call them KITLERS!

Oh YEAH! THAT JUST HAPPENED!

Later!

Ever seen that guy.

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Oh I’ve seen that guy. He had a tribal armband tattoo. He might as well have been wearing a popped color polo shirt, he was that guy. He spent the night reciting funny things other people thought of.

Are you Will Ferrell doing Harry Carray? Hey Funny Guy, are you passing off Pablo Fransisco routines as your own? Hey little tortilla boy? Your only orignial thought all night was… wait for it…

“why would sonic the hedgehog like chili dogs?”

Then you decided to use logic to decipher this mysterious riddle. But yet you seemed to convienently overlook the fact that hedgehogs are slow rodents who do not collect rings in an immaginary land with a flying two tailed fox as their best friend. Not to mention that the stupidest thing about the damn cartoon was that the voice of sonic was… was… Jaleel White… ERKEL. Or the unique nugget of knowledge that there were in fact 2 cartoons, one cheap and funny and one serious-ish and on ABC. But both Erkel.

So you had to have spent a fucking hour trying to prove to us that sonic couldn’t have eaten chilidogs because they make you fart… huh farts are funny.

I’ll give you credit that you can do a mean movie guy voice, but you sir are no Jaleel White.

Later!

Schumaker, Mark Schumaker.

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Not quite the same ring as Bond, but turns out I have the same car. You know that car in “From Russia with Love” that turns into a submarine. Well I figured out last night that My Scion does the same thing.

Jesse and I had been down in Stafford working on the Cardboard boat all day. (which is going to be amazing!) It had been raining all weekend so everything is totally soaked. On the way back Virginia drivers were being VA drivers. ANything out of the ordinary and they freak out, well, they pretty much freak out anyway. But they were actually pulling over on the side of the road cause it was raining too hard. So we decided to get off on Rt 123 and take that all the way to the house. Well after we got around the slow people it was smooth sailing.

that is until…

We were just passing the Mason campus when I saw some lights up ahead. First thing I thought was “What the hell are these people doing?” but just about then we hit a wall of water going 45 mph. SPHLOOOOOOOOOOSH!!! water was going over the hood and onto the windshield! I just kept on the gas and hoped that I wouldn’t stall out. It must have been 300 feet of water that had to be 2-3 ft deep. After we passed the other cars on the other side of the water I was so excited that we were screaming an honking the horn. It was really one of the coolest things that’s happened while I was driving.

When I got out there this morning I noticed that my liscense plate is sticking straight out from the bumper. The water must have gotten unter it and bent it up! Looks like I’m going to need a new GMU Alumni frame for it. Still awesome though.

Later!

New Intern time

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In my ongoing theme about women on the Orange line metro I mentioned that they’re getting better looking. Well that is definatley true the last couple of weeks. And they’re staying on past Federal Center SW (my stop) which can only mean that they’re going to the capitol. That or there’s some kind of hot young cult in Southwest Maryland. This new crop is looking mighty fine and having me hope for some kind of sex scandal on the Hill.

Later!

MacGyver is a god amongst men.

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Why you ask? Not because of the best mullet in the free world, but because his stuff always worked the first time. I guess he wasn’t trying to fix anything long term with that kind of haywire stuff. I think he’s the kind of guy that would want to fix something the right way. But no I senor.

So when we last left our heroes they were shoe sole deep in water in the basement trying to fix the AC unit with some sheet metal and lots of glue. Well that seemed to be a good idea. So after we sealed the new pan and coil back in the unit we crossed our fingers and flipped the switch… bwaaawwwwwwwwww. (that’s the good AC noise) yah! High fives all around. lets go have a beer… well that lasted for about 2 days. The house instantly got 10 degrees cooler and we assumed success. But 2 days later the house was back to it’s sweaty self despite the AC constantly running. I decided to investigate.

I put my hand on the side… “what’s cooler than being cold”… ICE COLD. I knew this was a bad thing. So I took to the task of dismantling the sheet metal box that the coil was held in and what did I find inside? Oh just a 2 foot ice cube. The unit had completely iced over and the ice had taken the shape of the vent. I turned it off and went off to sulk while it deiced. The next morning I had an epiphany… we had sealed off the airflow with the sheet metal we glued to the bottom of the pan. (the pan is shaped like a donut) so the next day we took it out again and used tin snips to cut out the middle of the pan. We put it back in and hoped for the best. It was sure to work this time.

but…

After a few days Charlie noticed that the laundry room was full of water… again. So after a few days of depressing shop-vac-ing water I decided that it was time to give it another go. So this time instead of gently popping open the sides of the vent, I grabbed the hammer and ripped of the side like Superman. (opening June 30th) And I see there that we’ve done something right, the pan isn’t leaking! It’s spilling over! I knew that the drainpipe had to be blocked somewhere. so I poked it a little bit with a coat hanger. That didn’t work, so frustration set in and I hulked-out and ripped off the pipe. water spilled everywhere… and what was the problem you ask… to answer that you have to know this. You see we had already done this once, so getting the coil out took half the time, getting it back in went smoother, but we only had enough plumbers epoxy to do this one time. So to re-attach the drain pipe to the pan Jesse used a LOT of some kind of industrial model glue. Which like all of our well thought out plans involved some string and duct tape.

Well, back to me holding this pipe in my hand getting dirty rusty water spilled on me. You see this model glue stuff was really flexible when it dried and it dried slowly. Well it had formed some kind a booger-like shield over the inside of the pipe, completely sealing it off. So after I removed all the gunk I was ready to reseal it and get this party started. again.

This is where I should have stopped…

but…

I decided to do things the right way and screw this plastic pipe joiner back in there the right way (something we didn’t do the first time because it was stripped out. Well I got one end back in.. but then I couldn’t rotate the other end because it was attached to the wall. We had some extra pipe corners laying around so I thought I’d just cut the pipe, rotate it, then slip these on and whammo, done. So I hack off the pipe, with a large serrated kitchen knife cause that’s the only cutting instrument we had. That’s when I realize that the corners don’t fit, then trying to unscrew the end of the pipe I break it with my kung fu grip. Everything is going swimmingly at this point. So I have to race to the hardware store 5 minutes before they close and look for these larger corner pieces to fix this whole contraption. AHHHHHH.

So anyway…

I THINK we’ve finally done it. I THINK the seals will hold. Everything is screwed in the “right” way and I THINK it’s working properly… of course I’m going to wait a week for final judgment.

Pheww. Longest Post Evar.

Later!