What's the stupidest thing you've done today? Well, so far.
I'll go first. I was absent-mindedly cleaning a cordless driver while surfing the site when I noticed that my new wireless mouse wasn't working right. The pointer was moving the exact OPPOSITE of where I wanted it to go. I briefly considered that somehow there was a switch or a software setting that would reverse it before I looked at it and saw that I was using it UPSIDE DOWN. Must be the paint fumes....
Accepted a tiny raise which locks me into my position for another year. Bad move.
Decided to check my e-mail before taking a scheduled day off.
5 hours later, I'm checking in here while my scanner completes a 40 page document that a client needs.
I was hoping to do some stupid stuff in the garage today....
I changed from snow tires to not-even-enough-tread-for-summer tires on my 323 last night. When I took off with the firstborn to drop her off at school today, I heard an all-too-familiar "klunk, klunk, klunk" noise.
Sorry kiddo, we need to stop so Dad can tighten up the lugnuts on the right rear (and right front). She handed me the 4 way that was still at her feet in the passenger floorboard ;).
One week ago (I know...not today), I pulled a boner by dropping my bike over in the back of my pickup truck. My new-to-me '82 XL500R now has a big crease in the right side of the tank. D'oh!
I'm not usually the guy to tear stuff up...but we all have our days.
Clem
Got out of bed.
ClemSparks wrote: I'm not usually the guy to tear stuff up...but we all have our days. Clem
BullE36 M3. 
Left for work this morning at 5:45AM on the Vespa. Couldn't figure out why every driver seemed to know I was there even less than normal.
Turns out I had forgotten to plug the lighting wire back in and was riding in the dark. I am sure they could hear the 2 stroke howling but I must have been completely invisible.
The lights are hardwired now.
I was shaving with my electric razor, when I noticed some annoying stray hairs at the edges of my eyebrows. Well, you can see where this is going. Sometimes judging your own movements in a mirror can be tricky.
Let's just say my right eyebrow is now 7/8 it's original length. . . . by my calculations.
Well, my staff let's me know that the company car(2011 impreza) has a broken wiper. I go out to find that the nut on the wiper arm was loose. Sadly the wiper arm got stripped and the shaft is stripped as well. Car has less than 4k on it. I intentionally toss the keys in a pocket I don't normally toss my keys in because I also have a subaru, and didn't want to confuse keys. Drive my personal car to town and back. Only to get back to the office and not able to find the company car keys. Check all around the parking lot, check lost and found, call the places I visited in town. Check in my car. I check everywhere(except my vest pocket). Any guesses where the the keys were?
Took a wizz without having my contacts in. Ugh.
I signed up here. And then I listened to Ben and bought an mx6 GT. And it's only gone downhill from there.
Attempted to ride the Speed Triple into work....well it was low 30s here and I couldn't find one of my winter gloves....I assume one of the cats decided it's a toy and hid it. Ended up taking the Suburban. Think about that...you're all geared up and ready to hop on a 130hp bike to work, can't find one piece of gear, so have to take your 23 year old 210HP Suburban. I was disappointed.
Once I got to work I sent a couple of e-mails to the wrong person, but that's about the extent of it so far....
mndsm wrote: I signed up here. And then I listened to Ben and bought an mx6 GT. And it's only gone downhill from there.
You did all of that today?
Wasn't today, but realized I put the engine/trans in a car and forgot the pilot bushing.
mndsm wrote: I signed up here. And then I listened to Ben and bought an mx6 GT. And it's only gone downhill from there.
I'm pretty sure the dumbest thing you've done today now is not read the OP correctly.
Oh, today? Um....hm. I did be dumb and start looking for wheels and found a set of Gotti J55C reps that would look KILLER on the mx6- and I did somewhat slide a 6th potential car purchase past the wife.....
Coworker got her Geo Prism imounded, again. But because she's too dumb and buys her boy-toy with no job an Xbox, she doesn't have the dough to fetch it. This thing is haggard, so guaranteed it'd be crushed. But it runs good and has a new clutch and a new AC. I told her if she can't go get it, give me the title and let me have it. Wife thought it was an ok idea.
oldtin wrote: Wasn't today, but realized I put the engine/trans in a car and forgot the pilot bushing.
I've done that...it hit me laying in bed at like 1:30 AM.....I was so pissed.
Nothing yet.....................but it's 1pm CST.
Plenty of time still. 
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:mndsm wrote: I signed up here. And then I listened to Ben and bought an mx6 GT. And it's only gone downhill from there.I'm pretty sure the dumbest thing you've done today now is not read the OP correctly.
When do I EVER read an entire thread before posting my insane ramblings? You know better than that.
Fired up GRM rather than looking at work I need to get done, several hours of web surfing later I'm back to GRM and the work hasn't been touched. The worst part is I'll probably wind up having to catch up on it on Sunday when it's going to be around 60 here and I have things to do to the track car, meanwhile it's 32 and snowing hard right now.
Happened yesterday:
I am sitting at my desk, typing away, when the HOT HR chick walks up to me and hands me my medical ID cards. She says "they are effective as of March 1st." I say "oh, so I have to wait to get sick after March 1st?" She says "WHUT?" I say again "So i gotta wait to get sick then, after March 1st....?" She says "It's March 8th."
uuuuugggghhhh..... Total idiot. hahahaha
I went today and bought a crapton of fruit, somehow completely forgetting that I'll probably be away for ~5 days next week. So between now and, say, Wednesday, I have to eat 2 avocados, 2 mangosteens, one mango, five tomatoes, a small-ish packet of tomatillos, and an entire kilo of kiwis. I consider it a challenge.
(I suppose I could ~shudder~ refrigerate some of it while I'm away, but that's just wrong!)
Jay wrote: I went today and bought a crapton of fruit, somehow completely forgetting that I'll probably be away for ~5 days next week. So between now and, say, Wednesday, I have to eat 2 avocados, 2 mangosteens, one mango, five tomatoes, a small-ish packet of tomatillos, and an entire kilo of kiwis. I consider it a challenge. (I suppose I could ~*shudder*~ refrigerate some of it while I'm away, but that's just wrong!)
That's easy man! Sounds yummy. I have a great avacado recipe for you:
Cut open one avacado, remove pit. Eat with spoon.
Yep, I don't think I'll have too much trouble... Fruit doesn't last too long around here normally. I'm still pretty close to our gorilla cousins in that way.
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Happened yesterday: I am sitting at my desk, typing away, when the HOT HR chick walks up to me and hands me my medical ID cards. She says "they are effective as of March 1st." I say "oh, so I have to wait to get sick after March 1st?" She says "WHUT?" I say again "So i gotta wait to get sick then, after March 1st....?" She says "It's March 8th." uuuuugggghhhh..... Total idiot. hahahaha
Need pics of the HR chick!
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