Today, not much to report. It was just another day! Got up this morning, heated up the place and then later on I went out and did my 3 miles. Lees came with me. It was a nice walk. Nothin like freezing like last night lol. I really want to get more exercising in, but it's just been so cold lately. I wish I had a bigger place but with all my Christmas decorations still out, it's pretty crowded, mainly my weight room. I have a piece of my couch in there so it takes up all the space. I can't wait until after the new year to put everything away, but with our Christmas 2 dinner planned for the 21st of January, we'll probably leave it up or atleast the tree anyway.
Well the rest of the day was pretty bland. This evening, I decided to install the new gasket that grandpa bought for the stove. I have NO IDEA how to put that thing in. Grandpa just doesn't want to do it for me I guess. He basically just gave it to me and gave me a quick 15 second verbal lesson on how to install it. He doesn't want to do it. I tried asking him to. I said that I'd feel more comfortable in him putting it in just this once so I could watch and see just how it's done to learn. Well, that didn't happen. Anyway, so this evening I decided to do it. Now it takes me about 3 tries to fire up that pellet stove. The damn thermocouple is going bad or is bad or something. So it tries to start, then shuts down and goes off. That whole process takes about 15 minutes to complete. Once it goes completely off, then I can try again. So the whole thing takes 45 mins to an hour just to get started. Anyway, I have that damn thermocouple set just right to where I don't have to move it and it comes on first shot.
I installed the gasket on the door to the pellet stove. After that, I could not close the door. I tried and tried, but I couldn't close the damn thing. I didn't want to, but I called Grandpa just to see if he had any tips as to why it wasn't closing. He offered to come over and look at it. I didn't want him to because it was close to 7pm and I'm sure he was getting ready to go to sleep. But, he insisted. Before leaving, though, he told me that the gasket adhesive can't be overlapping anywhere and I knew that was my mistake. I had it overlapping in each corner. So I quickly took the whole front window out and cut out the corners to where I did not overlap, then I put it back in and BOOM, the door shut and sealed. I quickly called Grandpa and my grandma answered. I asked her if Grandpa was still there and she said yes. She said he was just leaving. So I told her to tell him that I got it shut and he didn't need to come over. She did, but he insisted on coming anyway. So I waited.
When he got there, I showed him my handy work. He looked it over and I told him what I did. He said it looked good and that I did a great job on it. The door was sealing shut better than before. Then, omgosh, he made the WORST MISTAKE EVER and touched the thermocouple and wiggled it around really violently. I cried out, No Nooo nooooo oh crap!! I told him that it wasn't going to start now and that I had it perfectly set. He didn't listen and told me it would start. Well, it didn't and for the next two hours, we sat there trying to get it to start but it wouldn't come on. Then, he started fiddling around with it and I don't know what he did, but he made it worse. Now, I could not even get the damn stove to stay on. I was so scared because it was getting late and it was cold. He fiddled around with it more and the bracket that holds down the thermocouple broke :'( Oh man, it completely broke! I was so mad and angry! If he just did not touch it, everything would've been fine. He told me he was going to get my cousin to weld that piece back together and he'll bring it back tomorrow morning. He left and now I have to try very hard to get it going. I'm very scared and I'm angry! Right now, it's so cold in here and I really hope I can get it started.
So that was my day. I hope I have good news to write tomorrow :( Anyway, it's been real. Goodnight!
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