We just had to replace our garage door opener because the last one got fried a few weeks ago when we were away and our electricity was suddenly cut when a tree came down on the power line.
Now this afternoon one of the springs snapped so garage door won’t open - again. Hopefully we find someone to come fix it tomorrow.
uff da…that happened to me once…I was lucky that the guy I found in the yellow pages was honest & competent. He did a temporary fix at first, so I could at least open/close the door. I think he had to order a part. Then a few days later I got the permanent fix.
My boss suggested that it’s possible to open the door using the door opener if you go just a bit at a time, but, I think boss thought that somehow his experience was universal.
One time a plastic gear inside my cheap ass garage door opener (that came with the house when we bought) disintegrated. I bought another cheap ass garage door opener from sears and installed it myself. It included metal bars for the track that needed to be attached/snapped together. I snapped them together only to realize that there’s a correct & incorrect way to do it, and it seemed that once done it could not be undone. Fortunately/luckily, without knowing I was guessing, I guessed correctly. That was a relief.
Hah I actually snapped one in upside-down by accident and had to bend a couple tabs with a screwdriver so I could take it apart and flip it over. I didn’t look at the picture closely enough and didn’t know there was an “up” for that piece.
That’s probably what i almost did…and would have had to have done…if i could have figured it out.
Anyway, ugh, it only Thursday?!?!?!
This happened to us once as well. But we got a guy for that. They have been greasing and checking out the door annually for years. Maybe money not well spent, but we got a guy out of it.
I replaced a spring on a segmented/rolling door for a friend once. Not super easy, and definitely dangerous if you do it wrong.
I did one for the old-style solid swing-up door once. It was really scary. Felt like I was setting a giant rat trap with a hair trigger.
I have a single phone call to make. My new dentist is out of network and I need to cancel my appointment for next week and try to get scheduled with the other dentist in the practice, who is in network.
But phone calls are so harrrrrrd.
I ordered pizza online…to be picked up by me…of course, there’s an automatic “how much do you want to tip? 42%?” I was going to put zero, but, since we have specialty orders that require extra work & care I decided to give 'em a few bucks for the (supposed) extra work they were going to do.
I get to the pizza place & the chick behind the counter prints off a receipt for me…even though I didn’t request one. Not only is my tip already on there but there’s another line for an extra tip. You’ve got to be fluffing kidding me!
Is it Friday yet?
I made pot roast for supper last night. The first few slices were fine, but then we hit a nasty, gristly part!!! It was like chewing on .. on… rai-SINS!!! 
I’m sure there are grosser things than raisins in beef but I don’t want to find out.
Raisin beef cattle will make an honest worker out of you.
@Echo : U no let Daddy, Mommy, or JFGJR bring dirty, nasty, smelly, disgusting, vile POISONOUS rai-SINS into hows!!! Who’s a gud gurl??? Are you a gud gurl??? Of course you are!!!
I woke up with a sense of relief, thinking it was Saturday. 
hotel rooms - can’t they get a better “Privacy Please” sign than one that falls off the door 75% of the time you open or close it?
I slept on a different pillow last night and my neck is sore today. Took an Aleve, but it’s not helping much. Wah. 
Dog farts.