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Thought today was going to be a good day. Got off work early, it was a nice day outside, a few little odds 'n ends were supposed to show up from sounddomain today. Was pretty excited about coming home and dickin' around with my stereo for a little bit.

Get home. Have a message on the machine from a company whom I applied for a job with yesterday...so I'm pretty excited, very quick call time..that must mean something decently good I presume. Copy down the number, go to give a lady a call back.....and all I get is a message telling my the # I'm trying to reach has been disconnected //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif Okay, I probably just copied the number down wrong. Listen to the message a few more times, double check the #....nope, it's definitely the one she gave. So, okay...I probably just dialed it wrong. Dialed it a few more times, keep getting the same messages. Fuck it, I give up...I'll try to find a different # tommorrow, right now I wanna dick with my stereo.

So, go outside and tear out my 8053 to sell it to a local kid. All goes well, while I'm doing that my order from SD shows up. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/woot.gif.aaa6090e619a97b6090d16dd863c5a69.gif for me...or so I thought.

Get the new radio all wired up, go outside to plug 'er in and install 'er. While I'm trying to get it into the dash, I realize that the mounting sleeve is screwed up (it's a used/older deck) and that the little arms on the side that are supposed to keep it from sliding forward and backward don't fucking lock into place. So everytime I try to push it back into the dash, the wires bunch up behind it and push it forward, right out of the fucking mounting sleeve. Uggghhh....so after ****ing with that for half an hour, I finally get it into the dash and all buttoned up.

So, I begin to tackle my order from SD. Top-post battery adaptor terminal, 0/1ga in-line fuse holder, yadda yadda yadda.

I pop my hood, unscrew the battery terminal screw (had a GM side-terminal car, now have a top-post battery, so I just screwed the side-terminal screw into the hole for the top-post...works for now). Plop the adaptor into place and go to screw it in...and this is when I realize that the fucking hole for the screw is too god-damned small! Fuck Shit Fuck Fuck Shit!! I haven't had a stereo in over a week because there isn't enough clearance between the top of the battery and the hood, this was my gold-plated savior...and it doesn't fucking fit! I don't have a vice, so I can't enlarge the hole right now....so now I'm beginning to get a little pissed off because shit just ain't going my way.

Move on to the in line fuse holder. Figure I might aswell accomplish something under the hood while I'm there. Go to unscrew the endcaps to the cheap-*** fuseholder I have in there right now...and I can't get one of the sides to loosen. Go I go grap my vice grips...latch them on a carefully turn to break it loose. What happens? Fucking snaps my god ****ed ANL Fuse! I'm furious //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif :mad: Now I have to drive fucking 30 miles each way to buy a new one and get charged out the *** for it because the only local dealer that carries the size fuse I need only sells Monster Cable, or I can wait a fucking week and have one shipped to me.

God Damnit!! I should have just stayed at ****ing work this afternoon.

So, I plopped the fuseholder down on top of my bare power wire to hold it in place, jumped in the car and listened to some Hotel California and Life In The Fast Lane, smoke a cigarette and calm myself down.

 
No sir. I had two wingmen, EhRon and my buddy Brian.
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Prove it you bastard.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif :furious: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

I was about to go home early and wait for my new amp. Untill I read Squeaks post...

 
Prove it you bastard.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif :furious: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif
I was about to go home early and wait for my new amp. Untill I read Squeaks post...
Ask EhRon. He's the guy in my avatar, aka B&W

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