Spider, lame lip sync, Littermaid goes into the litter

Not only did my captured wolf spider make the air waves in PA, Scott also posted the picture on the Y102 website.  I was surprised that my brother was the only one to mention hearing it.

So last night after work I did something I hadn’t done in a long time, go for a run with Ali over at Sugden Park.  Sugden is right across the street from Ali’s workplace.  It is a nice little park with a big lake in the middle and a nice running/walking trail that surrounds it.  Ali and I ran close to 2 miles.  It was a very enjoyable run.  The only unenjoyable part was running on the mostly concrete path felt rather hard on my knees.  Almost all of my running recently has been indoors on a treadmill which has a lot of “give” to it.

After we got home I set up the timing system.  I wanted to run every single programmed chip over the timing lines to verify they were all functional.  At the last race I had two chips that mysteriously didn’t register for some reason.  However all 500 chips we tested read ok in our test.  Sunday morning we are timing another race in downtown Naples.  It should be a pretty big race, close to 300 runners.

So after a couple weeks of the Littermaid Elite litterbox working ok after I ripped it apart and blew out some switch, it started to f up again, not sensing when cats had used it and clogging up in the process.  I had enough and called back their support.  I told the guy this is the third time I called for the same problem.  Without hesitation he said they will replace the unit.  Thankfully I don’t have to return the entire unit.  They have you return a small plastic cover that has a number on it as well as a small circuit board that they instruct you to remove from the unit.  You literally take a scissors and cut a cable to remove it.  Doing so effectively kills the unit.  So now I send those two parts back to them and they supposedly send me a replacement in 7-10 days.  I don’t have much hope of the replacement being much better.  It seems like they made an engineering blunder by putting this mechanical microswitch in a location that easily can become contaminated with litter.

On DWTS this week they had Def Leopard on, yes Def Leopard.  What a f’ing joke.  What a bunch of sell outs. If just appearing on the show wasn’t bad enough, they added insult to injury by lip syncing both performances, poorly.  One of the tip offs that a performer is lip syncing is they cup the mic with both hands in front of their mouth in an attempt to hide their little ruse. It was truly pathetic.