I figured it out, and it ain't good! EDITED TO ADD: something went right!

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

I wondered why this happened.

Then I looked at the calendar.

Now I know.

Here I was ready to go out on search-and-destroy, in search of that known troublemaker, Hoo Doo, the Witch Doctor.

I was just absolutely convinced that featered-rattle-shaker was casting maledictions and malevolence in my general direction!

First the heat exchanger on my furnace split (already addressed that here recently)

Parts were due in 7 to 10 days (should have asked if those were calendar days or business days) -- it's been a (calendar) week and nothing.

Grabbed the shovel and was going to scrape that fluffy white stuff off the driveway.

Garage door went 7/8 of the way up and hung.

I didn't pay attention, I was busy with snow, at least until brisk winds whipped light and fluffy across where I'd just cleared, a -4 wind chill burned into my knuckles and I gave it up for a bad job.

Hit the garage door closer.

It wouldn't.

Stripped two gears in the drive.

So now I'm waiting on furnace parts, and I'm running my garage door by hand (springs are still good so I can do that!)

If I see Hoo Doo skulking about I'll belt him a good one between the eyes (standing feud, you understand) but I found the case of this misfortune.

I looked at the calendar.

Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this month!

No wonder misfortune is mine!

Edited December 14, 2024 by Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103

[Calamity Kris]

Hope things improve for you.

[John Kloehr]

Well hell, now I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.

 

Had not noticed the Friday date but I ordered some bulbs from Amazon with E12 (Candelabra) base, and they sent me medium base bulbs so that cost an hour yesterday.

 

Did remember today was garbage day, so that was good.

 

Also figured out and did a possible redneck gunsmith fix for my lady's AK chambered in .22lr. Now with this new information, probably not a good idea to test it tomorrow...

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

I wondered why this happened.

Then I looked at the calendar.

Now I know.

Here I was ready to go out on search-and-destroy, in search of that known troublemaker, Hoo Doo, the Witch Doctor.

I was just absolutely convinced that featered-rattle-shaker was casting maledictions and malevolence in my general direction!

First the heat exchanger on my furnace split (already addressed that here recently)

Parts were due in 7 to 10 days (should have asked if those were calendar days or business days) -- it's been a (calendar) week and nothing.

Grabbed the shovel and was going to scrape that fluffy white stuff off the driveway.

Garage door went 7/8 of the way up and hung.

I didn't pay attention, I was busy with snow, at least until brisk winds whipped light and fluffy across where I'd just cleared, a -4 wind chill burned into my knuckles and I gave it up for a bad job.

Hit the garage door closer.

It wouldn't.

Stripped two gears in the drive.

So now I'm waiting on furnace parts, and I'm running my garage door by hand (springs are still good so I can do that!)

If I see Hoo Doo skulking about I'll belt him a good one between the eyes (standing feud, you understand) but I found the case of this misfortune.

I looked at the calendar.

Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this month!

No wonder misfortune is mine!

Hang in there pard, it’s only a man made number and calendar. Just stay away from black cats and don’t walk under any ladders!😳

Seriously hope all works out! 😎

[DeaconKC]

 

[Rip Snorter]

Don't do videos, but that takes me back in time! Thanks.

[Choctaw Jack]

This version is OK, but I like the Alvin and the Chipmunks' version better

Just sayin' .

[watab kid]

been having some of that muself - this unseasonably cpold weather is way early this year , but ............im supposed to see high 30s this weekend with rain soi i get to deal with ice next week , that should be fun ................not 

[Rye Miles #13621]

The original 1958 David Seville

 

 

Edited December 13, 2024 by Rye Miles #13621

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I don't believe in this hoodoo stuff. (Cross my fingers.)

 

I'll spend the day paying bills and watching videos on TV.  Nothing can go wrong there.  (Knock on wood.)  It should be a fairly common day with not too low temperatures. (Face east and spit on your right hand.)

 

I won't be wearing anything green so I'll report back tomorrow.

[Blackwater 53393]

6:30 am, nineteen years ago today, I was laying on a gurney being prepped for the surgery that did more to keep me alive than any other of the too many tuneups I have had.

 

It was a Monday and I had just come in off the road from a three night gig with the band!

 

Eleven hours later I woke up in a  hospital bed with a morphine drip running in my neck and a couple pounds of titanium screwed to my backbone!

 

I have celebrated December 13th, no matter what day it falls on, ever since!!

 

 

(Did I mention that I hate morphine??  Makes me itch in a way that I can’t scratch!)

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Blackwater, you absolutely DO have reason to celebrate the thirteenth!

[DeaconKC]

A man was sitting in his easy chair when his wife calls from the other room "Honey do you ever get a stabbing feeling like someone was putting a big pin in a voodoo doll?" He thinks for a second and then answers back "No, not really." A couple of seconds go by and she calls back "What about now?"

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

21 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Hang in there pard, it’s only a man made number and calendar. Just stay away from black cats and don’t walk under any ladders!😳

Seriously hope all works out! 😎

And avoid mirrors

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Cousin Jeff Maxwell offered his late uncle's firm belief that said landmark on ye Calendar, was a lucky one for him.

This lit up an ancient memory wherein my dear skinny little Mama (rest her red-headed soul!) said the same thing.

Maybe my ancestral Clan Maxwell luck is coming through for me ...

Turns out the garage door opener's cure came a week and a half faster than expected, in the form of replacing its nylon(!) gears.

Originals were barely lubricated from the factory and still lasted 25 years ... replacement gears are HEAVILY greased and I'm hoping to do as well for lifespan!

(When we got keys to the newly built house, I spent most of the day in the basement, looking around and planning. Part of my planning involved furnace-down events. My preps for such a possibility are keeping us warm today! I'm not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm not entirely unintelligent!)

[John Kloehr]

2 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

... Turns out the garage door opener's cure came a week and a half faster than expected, in the form of replacing its nylon(!) gears.

Mine was easier, I bumped one of the sensors which makes sure the bottom of the door opening is not blocked. It would move down a few inches and reverse back up. I'm just lucky I saw it and understood it as I was focused on the tracks above my head, not thinking it would be something at my ankle.

 

As to yesterday's calendar date, my lady and I did go test my redneck gunsmith repair. First verified with the original part to see the problem was still there and my thorough cleaning did not fix the problem; problem still there after thorough cleaning.

 

Put in my engineered part and got a wonderful extraction on the first round, then the weak extraction on the second, and a jam on the third round. Damn, looked good for a moment.

 

Opened it up and the part I "repurposed" got crushed. Hmm, going to chrono some rounds with the original part installed (possible chamber problem) and then likely improve my fix with thick steel instead of thin brass.

 

Anyway, we did get through yesterday with all our fingers and eyes intact.

Edited December 14, 2024 by John Kloehr

[watab kid]

On 12/12/2024 at 7:52 PM, DeaconKC said:

 

yup , this one and the purple people eater ............remember well 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 12/13/2024 at 5:20 AM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

I don't believe in this hoodoo stuff. (Cross my fingers.)

 

I'll spend the day paying bills and watching videos on TV.  Nothing can go wrong there.  (Knock on wood.)  It should be a fairly common day with not too low temperatures. (Face east and spit on your right hand.)

 

I won't be wearing anything green so I'll report back tomorrow.

Nothing happened.  As a Matter of fact the day was horribly boring.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 12/13/2024 at 4:00 PM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

And avoid mirrors

I never avoid mirrors.  First because it's a visual proof that I'm still here and then again, I'm so absolutely gorgeous I just can't help myself.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

14 minutes ago, watab kid said:

yup , this one and the purple people eater ............remember well 

Lord love a duck.  That takes me back about seventy years.  Thank you kindly, Deacon.

Edited December 15, 2024 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[watab kid]

aint that the truth , my twin aunts were cheerleaders in high school and with their boyfriends were taking care of me when my folks were out of town - i thought i was too old at 8 to need that oversight , but man did they educate me , the late 50s wasa a great time to be young 

[Blackwater 53393]

It WAS a great time to be a kid!!  I was living in Florida and my mom’s cousin owned a sign company in St. Pete, one that did big billboards and major art work!

 

He sponsored a few local stock car racers. One of them was the dominant driver in the area and he ran three cars in three separate classes. One of those cars was also sponsored by Sherwin Williams Paint company. When the Purple People Eater song hit the airwaves, we took the Sherwin Williams car, a 1932 Ford Victoria sedan, and painted it three  shades of purple in wide slanted vertical stripes. The cousin lettered it with the SW logo and the Hedrick Signs label and then, in a stroke of hilarious genius, he painted a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater on the sides and roof instead of a number!!

 

The track announcer liked to have lost it the first time he saw the car hit the track!

 

The first night after we painted the car, (us kids were in on it, taping off the stripes and sanding and such) the brakes failed going into turn one at the old Tampa Speedway and he dove the car out the gate and wound up in Tampa Bay. The car wasn’t hurt, but it took a couple of weeks to get the carbs fixed and all new brakes!

 

That’s my most vivid memory of that song!!  They’d call all the other cars by their numbers or the driver’s name, but the Purple People Eater was known all over the bay area and was a crowd favorite!!  
 

For those of you from that area and era, the driver was Jimmy Alvis.  He went on to drive a few times in the lower NASCAR classes, along with Emil, Buzzy, and later, David Reutimann who drove for a couple of years in Sprint Cup in Michael Waltrip’s team car. He won the Coca Cola 600 and another NASCAR race.

 

Yep!! Being a kid back then was pretty cool!!

 

 

Edited December 15, 2024 by Blackwater 53393