Headed to Hawaii: Learn to keep yer Big Mouth shut!

The other day while on call, I was outside frying some chicken in my new Turkey Fryer and wanted to keep a close ear on my pager in case I got called.
Not paying attention to the 7 gallon beer bucket with water in it, which was beside the chair, I sat my pager on the seat part of the chair. Again, it never crossed my mind that my pager wanted to go for a swim. In it went, to the bottom. Oh no! I ran over to the bucket, and fished the pager out and quickly checked to see if it was still working. Nope. It was dead.
I was furious at myself.
I knew better than to do that. For some reason, I WASN'T THINKING!
My wife calmly said, "I can fix it" LMAO! no way could she fix this. "What? Are you some sort of magician"? I asked. The argument ensued.
She said, "I'm going to put it in a bowl covered with rice". Oh man, this was getting funnier by the minute. I was borderline asking to be killed.
Now, I am fairly open minded and usually take advice and put it in my thought process before making a final decision. Also, I really am "one of those guys" who can admit when they are wrong.

This time was different. I wouldn't have anything to do with it. My ears and mind were shut down.

I have a degree in Electronics, a degree in Computer Systems Management, have worked on 1000's of computer systems and electronics and I can tell you, no way would this work.

"Why don't you ever listen to me"? she said. Knowing where this would lead me, I just bit my tongue and said: "Go ahead punk...make my day"!

(I didn't say: punk...make my day"!...I just took that from Clint Eastwood)

Boy, I just could not wait for this to fail, and say: "Ha! I told You"!

Well, 24 hours later the pager turned on. Doh!......But wait...it shut off. Yay! I won!...Not quite.

At this point, my mind opened a little. I said put it back in the rice in a bag and leave it there for a few days.

This morning before I went to bed, I pulled it out of the bag, and the pager was working. I plugged it in to charge and when I woke up today, it was fully charged and working just fine receiving pages throughout the day. Doh!

So, I guess I am headed to Hawaii now. I told my wife that if this little crazy trick of hers worked, I would take her on a trip to Hawaii whenever she wanted.

She told me, at least there are no races in Hawaii....Oh yes there is. She doesn't know about HURT 100 & 100k ultras.

CrossFit WOD from Yesterday:

1 mile warm up

30 Squats

30 Push Ups

20 Pull Ups

Skill: Front Squats: 3,2,2,1,1,1,1: my weight: 135lbs. -Kept it light.

WOD:

11 Push Jerks: 95 lbs

30 Wall Balls: 12lb ball

400m run

3 Rounds for time.

My time: 14:57