Saturday, January 17, 2026

I gotta buy a lottery ticket

At 4:00 this afternoon, I went out to clear my driveway. I dragged The Beast out of its cubby hole, fired it up and started down the driveway.

I managed to make two passes down the driveway when the snowblowers fuel tank suddenly decided to fall off.

I looked all around for the two bolts that hold the fuel tank onto the engine. My wife even came out and looked around. No such luck.

So there I am standing there looking a perfectly good snowblower and a perfectly good fuel tank with no way to make the two play nice.

After looking around for a few more minutes, I went into my basement and started going through my stash of fasteners. I came across two that I thought might fit but it was a wild-ass guess on my part.

I took the two bolts outside and wouldn't you know it, they were the perfect fit. Perfect length, perfect width, perfect thread pitch, perfect head size.

I'm going to buy me a lottery ticket.


Yes, my head is still all jammed up. I've got a pretty good sinus infection going on and they put my on mega-dose of amoxicillin.

Hopefully this causes things to calm down because to be honest with you, being mostly deaf kinda sucks. I can't head anything in my left ear and my right ear has some serious tinnitus going on.

This ends my "I'm sick!" whine for the day.


I was watching the Broncos beat up the Bills but that was until Josh I love the 4th quarter! Allen came along. At the end of the first half, it was 20-10 Broncos. At the end of the 3rd quarter it was 23-17 Broncos.

Right now, it is 18 minutes into the 4th quarter and the score is 27-23 Bills.


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