Garage door springs and weekend plans

[tnf]

One broke today when I was closing the damn door today. Ever been in a garage when one of those things goes? Just about killed me but unfortunately missed.

So tomorrow I will be putting new springs on the door and running new steel cable through the pulleys and all that fun stuff. Hopefully nobody will lose a finger, eye, nut, or penis from a flying metal spring of death. There's my exciting weekend. That and toddler proofing my house for my 2 year old nephew's visit all next week.
Was going to play in a golf tournament, but have a pinched nerve in my lower back causing pain and numbness to shoot down from my left asscheek to my foot.

What's on your weekend agenda?

[Grandpa Stu]

i was going to do some cleaning but as it just so happens i finished all that BS today
so instead i'll probably be playing some rock band/guitar hero at a buddies place. oh, and me and my friend's little bro will most likely be building boats out of balsa wood and putting rockets (fireworks) on them and then pitting them against each other. crazy fun, i know.

[GONNAFISTYA]

If it's shit weather maybe it'll be chillin, gamin, bongin and maybe the new Batman movie.

If it's nice weather prolly do some rapin, chillin and killin.

[Wabbit]

Work tomorrow. Last day of a six day work week for me so I'm sure on Sunday I'm only going to do the minimum I need to get ready for next week. Laundry--one load so that's not too bad. I'll take care of the cats and bunnies, water my deck garden and vacuum. For some reason this year, the Morning Glories need to be watered everyday or they start to wither.

Edit: Does anyone else do this: get on a kick watching one movie and watch it over and over--maybe 6 to 10 times--before moving to another movie? I've gotten hooked on the movie Hoodwinked which is really quite a gem. I saw it in the movies and didn't think it was all that great, but I bought the DVD anyway. Even on the sixth go through, there's parts that make me laugh.

[Tsakali]

I'm going to start laying down the tile that came in a few days ago. I'm doing the entire house with it, hopefully I wont fuck it up.

[+JuggerNaut+]

sat: coffee, qualifying for GP of Germany, order my iphone, get some new dress shoes and a tie or two, then bbq with some friends.

Sun: coffee, GP of Germany, work remotely, maybe see a flick with the g/f

[Transient]

I'm helping friends move into a new apartment on Saturday and hanging out with them and a few others until Sunday night.

[megami]

Today: After chilling the whole day, will be attending a birthday party for my flatmate.. in my flat (good thing I won't have to clean up the mess)

Tomorrow: Reading some travel books, having lunch with friends at a korean BBQ, perhaps buying bug repellent if the weather clears up. Living in the Roaring Forties (New Zealand) really puts a damper on your outdoor plans sometimes.

[Scourge]

Saturday: Fucking resting. Put in a lot of hours in the last couple of weeks.

Sunday: Probably painting the outside of the house.

[creep]

Toys for Tots fundraiser golf tourney at 8am.

Probably mow the lawn after, then have some drinks, harass the puppy, and do basically nothing till Monday.

[obsidian]

I have a huge rack of ribs that I'm going to toss on the grill with some meat skewers with Malay/Thai style satay sauce. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to do the ribs, I kind of want to do them Flintstones style and drop the whole rack on there and let it cook, but I want to keep it moist and juicy. If anyone has any favourite recipes for ribs, let me know.

[Fender]

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[Big Kahuna Burger]

Tomorrow: driving to Duluth for a rehearsal, doing some fishing, then back late night.

Sunday: going trap shooting with a friend. Never shot before, should be interesting, uh, I hope.

[andyman]

saturday: redbull flugtag thing or whatever... http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/games#flugtag

[Tormentius]

Saturday: finishing the draft for a paper that's due next week and then drinking, watching Affliction and UFC, and probably playing some GoW or Forza with some friends.

Sunday: recovering and studying until the gf gets back from her roadtrip.

[Grudge]

Today: take it easy, maybe do some clothes shopping (summer sales), gonna book a rental car, have a nice dinner with the gf
Tomorrow: take it easy, maybe start packing for our London trip

[tnf]

Another project has arisen - I have a scrap heap next to the garage with stuff I ripped out from the basement. Last night my wife discovered that there are about a billion or so yellowjackets living under the pile. Luckily she was only stung twice while making this discovery. I need to deal with them today. That should be exciting.

[hate]

10 bux says you can't re-coil that new spring


wicked tension...

[tnf]

We've replaced them before. Mine is an old door that has the springs hooked to a pulley with steel cable that runs to the bottom of the door. Just have to buy the right spring...we got one with too much tension once and the door couldn't close.

My garage has 2 single car doors instead of one big door.

[Foo]

I'll be spending the usual 9 bazillion hours tomorrow cleaning my car only to get it shit-up again halfway to work on Monday morning. I actually bothered to polish it last week, lols pointlessness.

Also repairing rust on my old car so I can finally sell it, and packing stuff to move to a new flat in Leeds \o/

[Therac-25]

we just had our whole door replaced not to long ago. it was wooden and started to rot and fall apart. got it replaced by something that's actually insulated.

as for this weekend, just took the kids out to some city park festival thing where they ran around and narrowly avoided heat stroke.

now i get to go try and find some pest control supplies for all the damn flies that seem to have taken up residence in our kitchen the last week.

[tnf]

Reminds me of our old dt teammate pestman.

[Ryoki]

Edit: Does anyone else do this: get on a kick watching one movie and watch it over and over--maybe 6 to 10 times--before moving to another movie? I've gotten hooked on the movie Hoodwinked which is really quite a gem. I saw it in the movies and didn't think it was all that great, but I bought the DVD anyway. Even on the sixth go through, there's parts that make me laugh.

Yes, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is absolutely brilliant. Saw it ten times and every time i saw something i hadn't noticed before.

Gilliam = quite possibly god.

Having said that, i can't imagine why anyone would watch any other movie over and over again, unless you lack certain critical memory functions, or have no life.

[werldhed]

Spent the weekend here:
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47°23'32"N 94°55'34"S
Kayaking, fishing, jelluz?, etc...

[plained]

nice werldheld!

yea those springs a danger city they'll fucking kill you , ditch the whole thing and get the modern door setup with no springs.

or i think you can get a bag or a band or someshit to contain the spring in the event that it breaks.