What Are You Doing?

Sitting here at my writing desk in a smoke-stinky basement.

Clothes dryer began smoking in the next room and kept doing so even after I unplugged it. I googled (of course) and the consensus seemed to be that if the smoke doesn't stop, call the fire department, don't risk a house fire. Still, I hesitated, knowing they would come with sirens blaring, and I didn't want to make a big fuss and didn't want the neighbors curious, especially the guy next door who is a super handyman and would scoff at me and probably demand that I surrender my man card. I just wanted to know it was okay to assume the smoke would eventually dissipate, the key and troubling word being "assume."

But the smoke kept up. So I called. And they came, with flashing red lights that lit up the whole neighborhood, a whole bunch of nice guys -- big guys, confident guys, with helmets and fire axes and oxygen tanks. They ripped the dryer apart, used heat detectors to make sure all was cool, determined it was likely the electric motor burning up, and assured me we did the right thing and that I would need a new dryer.

I don't think they scoffed at all.

I know, I know, it was the right thing to do, but now that I know what it was and probably no harm would have come from leaving it be, I feel kind of silly.

 

My wife cut her finger pretty bad one time and we debated going to the emergency room. The doc there said that she didn't need stitches but we'd definitely made the right call in getting a professional to check it out.

I worked 9-1-1 for a few years. If there's smoke, it's best to call the FD. A fire doubles in size every five minutes.

This knucklehead was trying to use an "oil match." The weird robot-child voice you hear is a text-to-speech app of a viewer trying to warn him he'd started his room on fire. "Abu nai" is "be careful" and "kaji desu" means "there's a fire."

 

No, I mean Shadow Man. Maybe it’s the UK title?

 

That’s so obviously staged. He doesn’t even try to put it out. In fact when he takes the burning bag to the back of the room he carefully places cardboard on top of the flames.

 

No, the man was just a complete idiot. Incident was in 2015, made international human interest news.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3260214/Japanese-man-live-streams-moment-accidentally-sets-room-fire-tries-flames-hitting-flammable-objects.html

https://www.eteknix.com/japanese-man-actcidently-burns-house-live-stream/

 

None of that proves it wasn’t staged. You can see him carefully place the cardboard in the flames. Even the Scarecrow knew how fire worked, and he had no brain at all.

 

Okay Jud, you do you.

 

Thanks, Asch. Coming from an ex-Marine and former Chicago tough, it makes me feel better.

 

Right now, I'm thinking about what I should do. How about you?

 

I'm wondering what you're going to end up doing.

 

Probably responding to messages on this website.

 

A good choice!

 

Spending a lot of time in front of various screens. Signed up for youTube TV, mostly so I could watch March Madness (though both of my teams went out in the first round), and I have to finish the last three seasons of The Walking Dead before I cancel Netflix.

 

Trying to construct chinese names is giving me a headache. And a heartache. Need to change my characters names AGAIN, as well as come up with names for new characters, since I found a very illuminating article on how to go about it and how not to, which I'm afraid kinda cancels out my previous struggles. I'm not even sure it cancels them out though... JESUS! Is there anyone in this forum that can help me out with this? At least tell me their opinion with the ones I came up with. It'd be of grave importance. I'd really be grateful.

 

Paging @Mckk (I promise I won't make a habit of this!)

 

Lol. What are they? Even if I don't know, I can ask my parents for you. We're originally from Hong Kong.

 

Thank you very much!!! I'll send you a pm later in the day.

And thank you @Xoic for your conjuring ability.

 

Watching The Karate Kid II. So cheesy but I don’t care. Danielson!

 

Ha! Is that what he’s saying? I always thought it was Daniel-son, as in he sees him as a son.

 

SMH

 

Eh?

Oh, I see. Shake My Head, I assume? Well do forgive me my lack of knowledge in Japanese culture. What an ignoramus I am!

 

Eating really bitter chocolate and reading.

 

Studying for a test tomorrow-

 

Getting pissed (on cheap brandy and good red wine (cos we’re having lamb for tea))

Grape and grain - I’m going to suffer!