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Just spent a good amount of time with both hands deep in a pig's butt
pulling and spreading and pulling

...should be some good BBQ

Fixed - I hope.
Yes, it's another post about my damn air cleaner.

The JB-STIK didn't work; it's too rigid and brittle to hold on the flexible polypropylene impeller, as it turns out.

So I resorted to a primarily mechanical fix: I used a piece of wire to "tie" the break together, then used some silicone glue to cover that - on the off chance the wire breaks, the glue should keep the wire from slinging off and becoming a problem of its own even though the glue's adhesion to the polypropylene is nowhere near enough to repair it by itself. Wire, of course, is easily measured, so it was simple to create a proper counterweight.

The air cleaner's been running for hours now on "turbo" speed - far longer than any of the other repairs have held, so here's hoping this will last. Of course, it'll take a while for the unit to re-clean the air in here, and it'll take a while after that for my allergy symptoms to improve, but at least things are headed in the right direction.

If this doesn't hold - I think I'm going to have to take

henare's idea and figure out what Whirlpool (the apparent OEM) model is the equivalent, and see if they offer this as a repair part.

Current Mood: relieved

Upcoming dinner

Upcoming dinner
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I've had a Crock Pot for about 3 years, and I've never used it. Until today.

There's a pot roast in there, that I got on super discount. I haven't cooked a pot roast in forever, and definitely never in a Crock Pot. Let's hope it tastes as good as it's been smelling since 9AM.

Current Mood: hungry

Sasha wants to be outside

Sasha wants to be outside
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"Maybe he won't see me if I hide here."

Current Mood: content

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Coming out of my closet……
I have needed to attack my closet for some time now. There is just way too much unmitigated STUFF in there. I have heard a 4 year rule; if your haven't worn it in 4 years you should get rid of it. It's a bloody walk-in closet which unfortunately has allowed me to channel Fibber Magee.

Well I now have three trash bags to go to Goodwill tomorrow, & another huge arm load of things to put on eBay. I spent the day going in & out of the closet, sorting, discarding, laundering, folding, reorganizing and putting things away. Sarah spent the day helping me, though not before my husband checked to see if she'd gone spelunking in the past. I continued on my own after she headed home. Five loads of laundry later and I am off to bed.

This is a very good thing.

Current Mood: tired

Um... delusional, much?

Someone please tell me that this is a horrendous joke...!

Some bozos have started a "real" motorcycle club, using the name - and the patch - from the FX tv show?! I love the show, but this is freakin' ridiculous!

There's already been incidents with bozo fans of the show wearing either full patch sets or "soft colors" (the full patch set design printed on the back of a t-shirt so as to strongly resemble proper patches) who encounter ... real M/C members.

If these dimwits are lucky, they'll just be sent home without their patches after an encounter with real bikers someday.

Current Mood: amazed

Police Custody
So tonight started off with going to Mark L.'s birthday party and ended up with us carless and in police custody.

( Wait, what??? )

Today's Tweets

16:59 Apparently Toronto I'd playing the role of Philly today downtown. Queen & Bay is now Locust & St. Clair. #
20:18 I'm debating flying vs. driving to NJ & DE next weekend. #

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HR 3962 (the Health Care Bill) passes US House 220-215

For crying out loud....
A number of people have posted this photo behind an LJ-cut as if it's something naughty:

Yes, it's suggestive - but it actually IS a frozen banana, dipped in chocolate and dredged in sprinkles - NOT a penis. Any fucktard at any company who'd give an employee hell for encountering such a photo while web-browsing on their lunch break, or whatever needs to simply grow the hell up.

It's no worse than the photos they use on the boxes for "Fruit-A-Freeze" bars showing a woman with pursed, bright red glossed lips looking longingly at the product in question.

[Sorry, I couldn't find a bigger, clearer version online.]
Now, if someone put it behind a cut because of the size of the original - fine, but on the examples I've seen, the text has suggested that it's behind the cut because it's "NSFW". This example has been put on a digital diet - the original is over half a meg, which is admittedly rather porky for web use of a JPEG of its pixel dimensions.

Current Mood: annoyed

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I Feel for the Kids of the Anti-Vax Crowd - They're the Ones Who'll Suffer

LA Times:

A new poll confirms that the Obama administration and federal health officials have failed to convince Americans -- at least those in the most populous state of California -- of the seriousness of a H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

A majority of those registered voters polled by a new survey team involving The Times and the University of Southern California said they believed the new, delayed vaccine was safe.

But a majority also said they had no intention of getting it.

Well, that should ease those long lines. But shortages seem to be spurring interest in the rest of the country. And you need to know the baseline for comparison - 20-30% of the country gets the seasonal flu vax. The numbers:

Only 5% of those polled said they already had been inoculated. Of the rest, 52% said they did not plan to get vaccinated. Of the 40% who said they wanted the vaccine, 12% said they already had attempted to find it but failed.

Of those polled, 70% said they think the H1N1 vaccine is safe for most people, while only 17% said there was a strong chance the vaccine is unsafe.

"Win" on the safety message, "incomplete" on the need, though more people are asking for the vax than usual. The losers are the anti-vax people.

We ALWAYS Knew They Were HAWT
Hattip to Shannon (

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Wallpaper!

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Bleah.
Sears doesn't have a replacement impeller for my HEPA air filter.

The impeller is made of polypropylene (I found the plastic recycling type-mark) which is apparently close to impossible to glue. However, I'm giving JB-STIK (a kneadable plastic-clay type epoxy) a try, figuring that even if I can't get the epoxy to actually bond to the polypropylene - it might work as a tight-tolerance mechanical "restraint" around the fracture. I've also applied a like quantity in a like fashion on the exact opposite side of the impeller, to (I hope) avoid unbalancing it when it's spinning.

Here's hoping THIS works... I really don't want to have to buy a whole new air cleaner.

Hey Dallas Guys
Recall the late '80s up until '96, when KERA-90.1FM did the World Music thing with Chris Douridas, Liza Richardson (before both landed at KCRW), Abby Goldstein, Paul Slavens,..?

The programming on 91.7 FM will be within the public radio "Triple A" (Adult Album Alternative) music format with diverse, adult-oriented playlists covering a broad spectrum of music such as folk, acoustic, world music, alternative and indie rock and country. Among the programs under consideration for the new station are World Café (distributed by NPR), Echoes (from Public Radio International), Undercurrents (from Native Voice One), American Routes (from American Public Media), plus music specials. NPR news headlines will be broadcast at the top of the hour. KERA's own local programs will include interviews, studio performances and arts-related news and commentary.

Oh my!
Those of you who regularly watch The Colbert Report already know this, but I was just alerted to this by my friend Tim Barela.

It seems the other night, in his coverage of the recent Repugnican ~~rally~~press conference whining about health care reform, he pointed out that they held this event - not on a weekend, when one might expect to draw a larger crowd - but on Guy Fawkes Day. And thus, it's time to abandon childish "teabagger" jokes and move on to a more serious appellation for these people.

They are now ... GUY FAWKERS! (Say it out loud if you don't get it.... ;)

Current Mood: amused

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Today's Tweets

18:27 @BobInBstn "Claire and Present Danger" was better. #
18:57 @brunorepublic Are you a cold-hearted snake? Should I look into your eyes? #

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Turtles And Bears
Carl and I went to Steak 'n Shake for a quick bite, and after we got seated we noticed a man across the room. He was adorable -- a little taller than myself, hefty, nice beard ... and wearing pajama bottoms.

"... is it late enough to be in your PJs???" I asked Carl.
"I'm sure it is SOMEWHERE, yes."

So Cute Pajama Man gets up to go to the bathroom, and comes out a few minutes later without buttoning his fly up, and this was immediately noticed by Carl.

"Oh my, did you see that?? His fly was completely undone. I saw a 'turtle'!" he said while doing his trademark cackle.

The rest of the meal went without incident (or eye candy), and we went to pay the bill. The lady doing drive-thru started to ring us up and started to eye the both of us.

"My son would adore the BOTH of you!" she remarked.
"... excuse me???"
"He's one, and he LOVES facial hair, so he'd love just tugging at both of your beards!"

She continued on about her son's beard fixation (including with Santa!) before finishing ringing us up, and I couldn't help but give Carl some uncomfortable looks. I mean, wow, this totally sounds like the beginnings of a fetish. ^^;;;