And It All Went Downhill FAST!

Some days you win, some days you break even and some days you just keep going downhill with no end in sight.   My bad luck is stacking up quite nicely!!

The nice refrigerator repairman I called showed up right on time.  Not single, I checked.  It took less than two minutes to discover this big hole in the mechanism on the door.  You are looking UP the ice dispenser which should have a flap that closes and shuts out all the 85 degree weather in my kitchen.  That's why he gets paid the big bucks ... to discover things like this.

So when all that hot air went up, it melted all the ice, causing it to run out this front door.  The funny part is that I rarely EVER use this dispenser.  The not so funny part is that the entire thing will have to be replaced, if he can even find one, for a NOT so nominal fee.  C'est la vie. 

The current fix was to stuff a towel inside the freezer into the hole to keep the hot air out, which was now much hotter from my sniveling.  He will call back in a week or two.

This is the bottom of my ice dispenser bin.  The entire piece on the right fell out and neither of us could figure out how in the world to get it back.  A replacement bin is $180 plus shipping.  I may never have ice again!!

I went outside to catch my breath.  What should I find, but the results of my spraying an entire can of ant spray on all the hills in the yard.  It's weird because you can't see all the sand piled up under the grass.  That's not a shadow ... the ant killer killed the grass instead.  Big sigh ......... and now there are six big soon to be dead spots!

Upon further inspection, I found two of these condos which the ants have piled up.  I've never had anything so bad as these.  I got out my Amdro Fire Ant killer and sprinkled it on top, kind of like sprinklers on a sugar cookie.  They went for it like it was cotton candy!!  I placed a big bucket over the top to be sure Cooper didn't get close.  If it works, I'll do the same on the other five mounds I now have.

There's more, but it can wait until tomorrow.  It all went downhill so FAST .... because last night was BINGO at the Magic Kingdom!!  I acquired a new victim .... I mean helper .... to count cards while I tapped away on the infernal machine.  Too bad she can't help EVERY Tuesday night.  A fast learner, she did a great job, even if she did call a 649 "that double thing", which is something else altogether!  I was watching and knew what she meant.  It's hard to figure out the names of all those cards.

I think we had a record number of credit cards, but the Mini Infernal Machine (M.I.M.) just kept on truck'n and didn't let me down.  It was a night of epic coinage, since it appears everyone spent their money over the holiday weekend and now had to break into their kids piggy banks to get their bingo fix.

There was only one snafu.  There is an order to the many boxes of bingo packets.  Get them OUT of order and you're in trouble when six people win that $200 payout.  It requires us to count on our fingers and toes.  You see, there are only so many winners every six boxes we order.  Use a box from another order and you get multiple winners.  That doesn't make the Castle peasants happy at all.  Payouts were as low as $33 per person.  Not your traditional Bingo fare.

They will at times gang up on you like a mob with pitchforks heading for the Frankenstein Castle.  That last call by the Handler of the Numbered Balls led to screams they could hear a block away.  The King was called to make a ruling akin to Solomon in the Bible cutting the baby in half.  Only one will come out the winner!!  As that was happening, I snuck out the back door.  No use getting caught by a pitchfork in the butt!!

As for the big California recall, it came out just as expected.  California is pretty much a homeless community with well over 10,000,000 Newsom fans who don't want their welfare checks cut.  The other voters who are tired of paying twice the taxes, only amount to about 5,000,000 and so Newsom was not recalled.  I'm sure we can now expect retribution for the miscreants.

I'll finish up the rest of this story tomorrow, as I'm in dire need of shut eye time, otherwise I tend to drift off in ..... to ..............   zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.