You will not believe my Day.

It started out bad enough. I woke up at 6am. Hit the snooze to get a few- or not. Up, shower, collect my snowboard gear. Out the door and the truck is buried under 6" of snow. Roads are covered in ****, and I get stuck behind no less than three different snow plows on the way to work. Max speed on the interstate is 55mph. Get to work five minutes late. No big deal, school's canceled, so no one is going to give me chit. WRONG. Today was inventory- Joy! I was supposed to be there an hour earlier than normal. Drag through work and head to the slope. Bro was supposed to go with, but his dumb @$$ didn't bring his cold weather gear or board up from NC, and neither did his girl. So I go alone- alright, but boring. It's COLD and they're running every damn snow jet on the mountain, but I brought all the right stuff. Couple runs in and I break the high-back on my binding!! Snapped off clean, and the only thing holding it on is my high-back pack. Take it to the shop in the lodge, and they say "We can't fix it." I know I can fix it, but not sure how well it will hold. So I start looking at bindings- $160+. Bright Spot! A tech brings out a set for $60 (camo, won't sell). WRONG SIZE! He brings out another set- $50 (last season's model). So I ask if I can mount them before I buy. Sit there and tool with the new bindings, and damned if I can't get my foot out!? Really strange release mechanism. Poor tech had to show me three times how to get out- they don't like to work at the tension I used before. So I fiddle for a while, and he goes back to work. I finally pay for them and leave. Take my old stuff to the truck and realize I lost my hat!! Back to the shop. Look around everywhere I went. Nothing. Finally ask at the front counter and the chick pulls it out before I can say what it looks like. That's not even the end of it! I start home, and smell burning plastic. Fxck!! Make sure my boots and gear aren't against the heater- nope. No wires pinched that I can tell. Stop to get gas, and take my flashlight to look under the dash. No burnt wire. Ammeter goes back down to normal. Drive another 6 miles, and the ammeter shoots up again. Flashes and arcs start coming from six inches away from my boot! Mother Fxcker!! The ammeter found a way to arc to all the exterior lights except the headlights!?!? Stop the truck on the side of the road in a town and start digging. Have to unhook the battery, unhook the ammeter from the battery and alternator, then hook the alternator to the original wiring. Of course when I added the ammeter, I taped around the connections under the hood. Took me twenty minutes to cut through the chit! Lost my 12mm socket trying to put everything back together. Fingers and toes are numb- hypothermia, here I come! Pick up all my tools and equally curse the truck and pray that everything works. I would have been just as happy to take a 50 cal hand cannon and blow it's brains out. Finally drag my @$$ into the house two hours after I left the slope. Not a good night. All I want is to be warm, take a leak, and sleep for a week. Guess what? Gotta get up at 6am tomorrow!!

Dang man I feel for ya. Day like that suck :nonod:

Congrats on the slope time! Sux about the bs inbetween!

yeah, that blows.

$50 for bindings sure beats $160. And the old ones were probably 6 years old, so I got my mileage out of them. Doesn't matter to me that the new ones are last year's model- who sees them anyway? Having my truck pull more stupid chit when I know I wired it right pisses me off.

Ouch my man.

Not gunna lie, that sucks. Hope today is better.

The other day I broke a piece of instrumentation that costs several thousand dollars. That help at all?

The other day I broke a piece of instrumentation that costs several thousand dollars. That help at all? :lol: That's everyday where I work. Someone is breaking some expensive chit. Place still has some 20 year old meters/scopes around though. I design stuff that costs from $1,500 to $250,000, and that's the small end of the business. Several recent orders are $1,000,000+

:lol: That's everyday where I work. Someone is breaking some expensive chit. Place still has some 20 year old meters/scopes around though. I design stuff that costs from $1,500 to $250,000, and that's the small end of the business. Several recent orders are $1,000,000+ Yeah... the problem was more that my experiments were halted since the unit needed to be shipped out for repair. :cursin:

Yeah... the problem was more that my experiments were halted since the unit needed to be shipped out for repair. :cursin: Not good sir... not good. ETR? How far is that gonna set back your chit?

Not good sir... not good. ETR? How far is that gonna set back your chit? I overnighted it to wisconsin, repair shouldn't take more than 3-4 days, then ship back... :idk: I think i've gotten a regional sales manager to loan me his demo version for a few weeks though, so that will help. The whole reason this is so time sensitive is because we have a big deadline in a few weeks.