Yikes, Tom! Hope you are feeling fine

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I have taken myself out to brunch and will shortly take the train to Martinez (in the opposite direction as Jesse’s mom) to do swine and chocolate stroll, so I expect a fun day

Happy birthday, minus t!

It looks scrumptious already.

So, everything has decided to go kablooey simultaneously.

Dishwasher's down. Sink is backing up. Disposal doesn't work. Toilet is clogging. The SMEG refuses to make coffee.

Worse, JZ made a powder protein shake in a coffee travel mug and then forgot about it. A month ago.

So...at 5am yesterday morning we're woken up by a loud bang and clatter. I rush out thinking I'll find that Jacqueline has fallen down or knocked something over. And as I get to the kitchen I smell an awful vomitous stench.

Matilda yells, "What is it?"

I reply, "I think mommy fell down and threw up!"

From the bedroom, Jacqueline says, "No, I didn't! I'm fine."

The kitchen smells like puke and I can't tell what's going on. All I can see is the lid to a travel mug on the floor.

I take a picture of it and show it to Jacqueline and she says, "Oh yeah, I made a protein shake in that. I thought I put it in the fridge."

So it fermented in it's tightly packed and sealed travel mug and exploded. But I couldn't find the mug itself. Nor signs of the protein shake. Because I was looking on the floor and the wrong side of the kitchen.

The mug was twenty five feet away and when it blew it shot the mug top off the ceiling, spewing mess up the wall, and Stank Shake all over the counter.

So we've cleaned the whole thing up multiple times now with everything from 409 to lemon juice and water and it still stinks in there. Airing it out doesn't help.

I need some mega-Febreze option which will capture and destroy the stench because I've washed every surface five times.

OK, I realize that is a terrible situation and I’m sorry you have to deal with the clean up but it’s a highly successful unintentional experiment in the explosive capabilities of protein shakes.who knew?

but it’s a highly successful unintentional experiment in the explosive capabilities of protein shakes.who knew?

Not just explosive but a persistent stink bomb.

So if you're leaving a job you hate, mix up a protein shake in a travel mug and leave it in the file room. One month later - revenge.

Simpler than putting a fish in an air vent

Happy Birthday, -t!!!

David, that is one hell of a day, and it's not even noon.

Happy birthday, -t!

I hope fate is front loading all the hassles for you, Hec and JZ, and that they’re done now.

Happy birthday, -t!

I’m now having my birthday coffee at Starbucks which required me to talk to the barista to order. Haven’t done that in a while (order ahead through the app is the way). But now I have the fancy clover coffee that isn’t available in my town, so probably worth it

Happy birthday, -t!

I am lounging. Should be doing something but I'm going to the gym in an hour so I refuse to get off the couch yet.