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Offline 10KPete

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The gremlins have struck again.....
« on: August 13, 2016, 02:59:15 AM »
Ever have one of those days where things are going just below average? When it takes three tries to do what two should do? Then the finish line approaches..... the end of the job is in sight.... just one last part to fit up.....


And the 2-3 mic can't be found.   Anywhere!!! Or the box.

I spent an hour and a half in the shop searching.... even looked in the wash tank... and behind the bandsaw...and under the work bench....and all the drawers in the benches and toolboxes and.....everywhere!!

Then I came in the house and spent another 40 minutes.....

The sucker just ain't here!  I swear it isn't here....

Called my friend who I doing the job for to see if it landed in a box of parts that went back with him. A half hour later..... no joy.....

Done for the day.    :cussing: :Mad: :'(

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2016, 04:22:17 AM »
Ever have one of those days where things are going just below average? When it takes three tries to do what two should do? Then the finish line approaches..... the end of the job is in sight.... just one last part to fit up.....


And the 2-3 mic can't be found.   Anywhere!!! Or the box.

I spent an hour and a half in the shop searching.... even looked in the wash tank... and behind the bandsaw...and under the work bench....and all the drawers in the benches and toolboxes and.....everywhere!!

Then I came in the house and spent another 40 minutes.....

The sucker just ain't here!  I swear it isn't here....

Called my friend who I doing the job for to see if it landed in a box of parts that went back with him. A half hour later..... no joy.....

Done for the day.    :cussing: :Mad: :'(

Pete

Pete,

It's my prediction that you're going find it in the last place you look!  ;D

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Offline 10KPete

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2016, 04:37:47 AM »
 :ROFL: :cussing: :ROFL: :cussing: :shrug: :shrug: :'( :'(

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2016, 08:48:32 AM »
2-3" mic?     useful size !!!!!

Check you haven't used it as a G-clamp somewhere.

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2016, 09:40:45 AM »
Ever have one of those days where things are going just below average? When it takes three tries to do what two should do? Then the finish line approaches..... the end of the job is in sight.... just one last part to fit up.....

All days are like that;  I seem to spend half my life looking for things. Even things I had ten minutes ago and put down when the 'phone rang or doorbell went.

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2016, 10:24:18 AM »
That's what it is like around here every day lately. I even cleaned up the shop and I still can't find anything.
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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2016, 11:47:02 AM »
yes have felt the pain and sweated in the t shirt.

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2016, 12:42:49 PM »
The shop Gnomes probably left it in the freezer, behind the ice cream...   :Lol:

Offline Mosey

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2016, 01:26:56 PM »
Ever have one of those days where things are going just below average? When it takes three tries to do what two should do? Then the finish line approaches..... the end of the job is in sight.... just one last part to fit up.....


And the 2-3 mic can't be found.   Anywhere!!! Or the box.

I spent an hour and a half in the shop searching.... even looked in the wash tank... and behind the bandsaw...and under the work bench....and all the drawers in the benches and toolboxes and.....everywhere!!

Then I came in the house and spent another 40 minutes.....

The sucker just ain't here!  I swear it isn't here....

Called my friend who I doing the job for to see if it landed in a box of parts that went back with him. A half hour later..... no joy.....

Done for the day.    :cussing: :Mad: :'(

Pete

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Offline Brian Rupnow

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2016, 01:50:05 PM »
I am going to become a billionaire.--I am going to invent a chemical that makes all tools, when handled once, turn blaze orange and stay that way for the next 16 hours, then fade back to their normal color. I know where all my tools are when I start a job. It's just while I am using the damn things that they disappear. Every time I pick a tool up, then set it down, some unique flaw in my psyche makes me set it down in a different place. I always find it again before the day is over, but some days I spend more time looking for the right tool (which I just had 5 minutes ago) than I do actually working.---Brian

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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2016, 02:56:49 PM »
Those little GPS tracker chips are almost small enough now to attach one to everything.
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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2016, 03:13:53 PM »
Pete I been there many a time, helll I spent an hour one time looking. It always ends it on a shelf or right there in your eyes view but don't see it. Sometimes I feel like I lost it because I should of known it was there. When we work we concentrate on what we are doing and don't pay attention to where we lay things and it just burns me up because I am always misplacing my tools....... :Mad:

PS  I hope you find it just look in the obvious places....
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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2016, 03:35:55 PM »
I've said for a long time that a good case of OCD is a real asset in the shop.  I have a really good/bad case.  It drives my wife nuts.  I'll ask her what she was doing with the fountain pen on my desk...
 
How do you know I was using it?

Because it's not where I keep it.

I put it exactly where I found it.

Yeah, but not in the direction it was pointing.

The problem is that I have a very small shop.  As a result I frequently reorganize tools and materials to use space more efficiently or effectively.  Then, for weeks after, I'll keep looking in the old location for a tool until the aging frontal cortex rewires the neural memory loop.
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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2016, 04:35:51 PM »
No worries Pete.  You'll find it an hour before the one you ordered as its replacement is delivered on your doorstep :Lol:

Cheers,
Phil
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Re: The gremlins have struck again.....
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2016, 05:11:58 PM »
Do You have a shop apron? Don't ask why I am asking that!

 

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