No Sunday Funnies

I didn’t see anything I liked. Instead you’ll get the tale of why I wasn’t reloading ammo for Boomershoot yesterday.

Dave, David and I set up the Boomeragio at the far end of the line, complete with couch, tables, a hammock and a grill. We believe that just because we’re out of doors in the middle of a field there is no reason to be uncomfortable. We’re grown ass men who own vehicles with enough cargo space and just make it happen.

Especially this year. There was a snafu in getting on-site food for Friday and Saturday, so it will be more important to be able to cook up some grub than usual. There will be someone there on Sunday with Chinese food, if I remember correctly.

Sadly, when I went out to test the Boomeragio grill and make it ready for transport yesterday morning, it suffered a critical failure and almost blew me up.

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If you look in the middle of the pic you’ll see two foil hoses that come up from the bottom of the grill. I lit the grill up, and while there were little flames coming out of some of the burner holes, most of the flame was coming out of the middle of the backside of the burner at a length of about eight inches.

After the above inspection, I immediately went inside and sat down at the RNS blogging station and looked up the part. Long story short, while the part itself was only $20, to get it here in time for Boomershoot was an extra $30. There were no local parts in stock that I could find in 30 minutes on the phone.

Not being one to despair, I immediately hopped on CraigsList and contacted a of couple ads. The first guy to call back was about 30 minutes away so I re-emailed the second guy and told him to disregard mind my previous email. I arrived at the first guy’s house, hooked up some gas for a function test, flipped him a Jackson and loaded it up.

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Boom bitches! $20. The electronic ignitor and all five burners work. If you’re wondering why it was only $20, you should see the grill he’s replaced it with. He needed the grill gone to fit the new one on his patio. He said that he had told his wife that he would have it sold before she got home from work. She bet him he couldn’t. I had it in the truck within two hours of his ad going up. I decided not to tell him that I thought that was worth a replay of Steak and BJ day. How he handles that win is up to him.

Barron already asked and I think I forgot to give him a thumbs up for bringing his eats up for some heat, but yes bring your food down, man. In fact, I’m opening up the Boomeragio grill to all those who ask. Just leave some room on the grill for us, OK?

Update: Unless I can find a reasonable couch within reasonable driving distance before Thursday, there may not be a couch this year. Also, since I was laid off, I really don’t have anywhere to dispose of something that large without paying through the nose to the county to get rid of it. On the plus side, I might be able to see out the back of my canopy on the way to Orofino this year.