Usually this site tends towards the, shall we say, nerdy but I have the interesting position of being a nerd and a husband.
(If you are a fan of the site who plays significant amounts of time with World of Warcraft, you may not have this offline problem and may not need this info. In fact, you may not know what offline is.)
But for those of us who fight evil on all fronts, sometimes we don’t have time to trawl the lawncare forums.
Today I was motivated (by seeing my neighbor working) to tackle the huge weed problem in my yard. A pandemic of pollination had happened with the last rain and I had just used the weed eater/thrasher a week or so ago.
And I had already showered for the day. I mean, did I need to get sweaty again?
So I busted out the weed spray gun, complete with nozzle trigger as if I work in a salon. The plus side to those is that I practice my precision shooting, hitting specific nodes and stems even though I get a -4 on attack rolls.
But I started to notice that I was getting more spray on my hand than on the weeds.
My options were:
- Try something else.
- Pour the weedkiller on like gasoline in The Usual Suspects.
- Shake my hand at that which I want killed. (Like a Wii game.)
Then I remembered that Pharmacist Dan (Doctor Dan when he moonlights as a pro wrestler/disc jockey on his Tuesdays off) had put a weedsprayer in the White Elephant exchange this past Christmas.
A sprayer that had ended up in my car by the end of the night.
A sprayer that I busted out today and loved.
Imagine a mix between a proton pack and a Super Soaker.
I pressurized the thing pretty quickly and sprayed most of the two gallons on one side of my yard. A second pressurization got me the second side of my yard.
Four pressurizations and four gallons of weedkiller later my yard (front and back) was soaked. The really cool part was that it has three separate nozzles: straight line, wedge, and foam. (Who uses foam?)
Instead of a called shot I made area attacks. DC10 to hit the square, baby! And I felt so professional with the constant wedge stream, instituting a Weed Holocaust.
Hopefully the Men of the House find this helpful.
Oh, and I tried to play Ninjabread Man for the Wii with the kids I was babysitting today. It took forever to collect the 8 scroll-type things to unlock the first door (since you lose all progress upon death) but I made it, not using my sword once (since it seemingly was only made to take out training dummies and not actual enemies). I ran through the entire level flipping around while shooting some type of gumdrop projectile.
When I finished collecting the 8 scrolls to unlock the door, I was rewarded with 8 scrolls to collect to unlock another door. I turned off the Wii.
No, I did not buy the game; the kids already had it. They also have High School Musical: Sing It! My wife sang and did well. I wanted to check if it actually picked up on slightly out of tune singers so I tried. Singing as Cookie Monster I earned a grade of C performing with Sharpie (like the pen?) and her brother.
The Haiku
When people wonder
what I really do all day
it’s tough to describe.
