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Is it all wasted fuel or can you pump it out into another container?

Maybe you could just take a match and burn it off.

OK, so you need to get the gas out of the bilge to avoid fire risk or worse-than-normal waterway pollution, but you don't want to put the gas into your engine because it probably contains water, dirt, fish poop and a couple of minnows.

Time for some big oily explosions in the closest vacant lot, I think...

I'd take it to the same woods where you take your transmission fluid

Several gallons of gas was spilled at the gas station because the drain plug was out at the time and I drained the rest of the gas into 6 gallon plastic gas jugs after I got home, the gas isn't any good because of the water in the bilge as John says. I cleaned and rinsed the bilge several times with Dawn dishwashing liquid so I'm not worried about gas in the boat's bilge anymore but there is about about 8-10 gallons of useless gas to dispose of now ... maybe I'll use your suggestion John.

My setup suddenly got no sound coming out from front and only surround speakers got some muddle sound....

I thought it's the notorious HDMI handshake issue again, so I switched input, "on" and "off" the AVR, even power off the whole thing and power on again....but, but, but "It's still the same!!!"

Got panic, went into the setup menu of the AVR and check if someone had done anything to it, but no, all the same setting.

Check the BD player setting, everything looks fine.....

How could that be?? I've got a lemon AVR (it's just less than a month!!)...so sad....

After 40 minutes of cursing and tweaking, then I saw one orange light on my XPA-3, I did not switch the power amp on!!!

That's the problem without main zone 12v trigger!!!

Wasted my 40 mins and energy for cursing for the wrong reason! :p

Always check the gas first. I once spent several hours trouble shooting the electrical circuits in a tractor. My dad came along and pointed out it was out of gas...

Got up at 5:45am to wait for a FedEx truck I know won't get here until at least 11:00am

Axiom Track Shipments status: On FedEx vehicle for delivery

I tried the Mount Everest Ice Cream Challenge at Rosy's Ice Cream and Diner. 15 scoops of ice cream and all of the toppings with a 40-minute time limit. It used to be 30, but no one was succeeding. Someone who works there told me they had increased it to 45 minutes, but when we went in, the person who was there said it was actually 40 minutes. Still, if the world champion ice cream eater can do 1.75 gallons in 8 minutes, surely I could do the 60 oz in 40 minutes, right?

Nope. The guy who had committed to trying the challenge alongside me bailed (some BS about pulling a muscle in his back and having to take ibuprofen, which was messing with his stomach, plus an extra unneeded detail about his anal fissures). Thankfully, my coworker's daughter stepped up, even though she'd just had some cake at her baby shower. Being pregnant was cheating a little bit, but I was just glad to not be the only one trying. I started off strong, making a huge dent, trying to get as much down before losing momentum. I'd say the first 5 scoops went down without a hitch. I definitely slowed up as I approached the half-way mark. No brain freeze, and I wasn't cold, but the ice cream was just too much sweetness, and I had run out of stomach capacity.

My competitor had caught up with me, and passed me, but she finally gave up with maybe a third of Mount Everest to go. I wasn't too far behind, and I got a few more bites in, but after there was only 10 minutes left and too much remaining on my plate, I told them to go ahead and write my name on the Wall of Shame.

I didn't puke while I was there, or on the ride home, and I thought I could get by without the exorcism, but my body finally decided to expel a significant amount of it. I feel much better now. Yeah, I'd say I'm now smart enough to never try that again. No more eating challenges for me. Perhaps now I'll turn into Mr. Sensible Portions.