@Scrabbleman
Your Significant Other?
No judgement about that from me - I dated a BUNCH of my professors. But, 17 days to hook up with someone is basically finding your soul mate. If you find one, let me know, I’ll perform the solemnization for you for travel expenses :). Let me know which religion or Sci Fi series you want your marriage based in at least a couple months in advance so I can get right by it.
Last one I did was a Battlestar Galactica wedding. It went better than expected.
SO SAY WE ALL.
And now, my rant.
Just woke up with the whole house smelling like sulfur. Acidic sulfur to be exact, like a chem lab gone right, or a battery gone wrong.
After going through every room, I checked the mudroom and almost gagged. It’s where we collect recycling, and tomorrow’s recycling day, so I went through everything in there looking for the source, assuming something had crawled in through a crack in the foundation and died.
Then I remembered I was charging a dead car battery.
Yup.
The battery was hot but not yet blistered or changed in size, but it had been putting out hydrogen sulfide for at least an hour or two.
Never had that happen before.
That was an hour ago, and even after putting the battery in the middle of the driveway so it’s away from everything and in the open, and opening all the doors and some windows the house still smells like a battery gone wrong.
Very, very wrong.
But we’re not dead, so that’s something to cheer I think.
But my battery problem just went from “I’ll charge it, no problem” to “hey Costco, got one of THESE?” (They do).
So, yay for smells that tell you that you are being asphyxiated, but boo for batteries that die and the whole “you gonna die” bullshit of adulting.