Time to laugh at myself

dvx216

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Catawaba Island/Orrville,Oh.
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340 Sundancer 2001
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8.1s 370 v drv.
For the up grade on my electronics last season new tridata and transducers needed to talk to the new Garmin 943xsv. After getting all the adapter, backbones to get everything talking it wasn't working. No depth or speed on the Garmin. So after checking over everything I call Raymarine. The tech asked did I put the blue plugs in each end of the backbone. I kind of boneheaded that little step . The whole thing about the backbone needing the resistor caps to work slipped my mind. I told him he was a genius and ask him if he wanted to help me put my dash back together also but he declined on that one. All that's left to do is mount the radar dome pull a cable in and that project will be a wrap.
 
It happens to the best of us....

One of the smartest EEs I've had the pleasure of working with stopped in my doorway yesterday and said "there's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back..."

He had just realized the signal conditioning box he was busy troubleshooting wasn't plugged in.
 
I think if we all took a minute to look in the mirror we'd see guys who had done bonehead moves like that. I know my mirror shows me a bonehead most times I look at it.
 
I didn't tighten my prop nuts this year and the props almost fell off the boat.
 
On an involved project like this? Easy to do.

Sometimes a second opinion is worth its weight in gold. We all need a phone-a-friend sometimes!
 
I think if we all took a minute to look in the mirror we'd see guys who had done bonehead moves like that. I know my mirror shows me a bonehead most times I look at it.

My stock call out to myself when I do stuff like this is "You're a special kind of stupid f__k aren't you?"
As I get older, I catch myself having to say that to myself more than I'd like. :confused:
(I'm not answering myself yet... I hear that's when they lock you up!)
 

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