So far probably my favorite part of my job (among the many other things I enjoy): knocking ice off the roof with a light-bulb changer. Apparently there’s some device called a “roof snow rake” that is meant for this very task, but it’s vastly more fun to do it inappropriately. For instance, by means of lobbing other chunks of ice, poking at it with poles, detonating small explosive charges, driving my car up next to the building and cranking up my subwoofers, and so on. Yes, mom, I’ll be careful.
Ice knocking
December 12th, 2005 
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And of course, the ever-popular, “Stand on my shoulders, Tim, and use your arm” method.
some things will never change…
police officer: so what are you doing, boys?
tristan: oh, you know. just driving my car through the snow bank.
of course, you could always use an expatiate to get rid of the ice.
beth – hahaha! that story is gonna follow me for the rest of my life isn’t it? to quote kevin loss after we had already gone through the plowed-up line of snow in the church parking lot twice: “awesome!!! now try it longways and see how far we can get!!!”
and then there was pouring hot water over my engine to melt all the snow away… ben reaching in and wrenching the power steering belt back onto its pulley… explaining to naomi why it took us three hours to go to the grocery store and back. **sigh** i miss that car. however, i _don’t_ miss the 15 miles per gallon it got… on a good day.
JB – i don’t know. i tried explatives and that didn’t work. is an expatiate different? ;)
man, and I wasn’t even a part of that adventure… but how bout the time you and I got stranded in my car on an unplowed logging road after hitting a deer and had the state police start a manhunt for us?!?
Tristan, I’ve been in your car, those subwoofers couldn’t knock the crap out of your tennis game ****BURN*****
-You know we love ya.
A: you mean when we broke into a hunting cabin to avoid hypothermia and had to chase psychotic flying squirrels with a frying pan? those were crazy times for sure, my friend…
J: ouch! and the even sadder part is that regardless of its sound, my stereo is still worth more than my car at this point. but how ’bout i pick up that sub you’re saving for me over christmas? you didn’t ebay it, did you? i don’t think i’m taking my old ones out, either — i’m just gonna wire the new one in with them. that’ll be nice and loud… and i won’t have any trunk space. but it’s so worth it.