We're sailing wing and wing with a reef in the main. Seas are starting to run after about 12hrs of 20kts wind but they're still mostly pretty steep and so the boat is moving around. But since we're going downwind it's a chore. I got sunburned on the upper side of my right thigh and I have no idea how!
First in my long life: brute force wins (Trump paradigm? Oh no!). I try to tackle a new item everyday so today was the turn of the dvd player. Not too high on the safety list or the nav list but hey a sailor’s got to watch his flick occasionally. So obviously the thing does/t work. But the tv work. So it’s worth investigating further. It turns on but the door doesn’t open, so obviously I rip open the door (literally, I didn’t use any tool). Well there’s an inner door. So I continue on my promising groove and instead of unscrewing the cover, I rip the mofo apart as well or more exactly fold the metal cover of the whole dvd back on itself exposing the guts and its led eye (terminator like) Looks good inside(what I haven’t touched yet). But still doesn’t work; still no way to get the dvd case to open. Some negative-thought people might think “no wonder, jack ass”. But hold your mean spirited prejudice a little longer! I then rip apart the dvd case itself, revealing its bottom half where life reveals itself in the form of a red laser light which is actually on. So in a fit of complete ballsyness, I actually place my dvd on the bottom half and hit play on the remote and the thing actually works! !st try the dvd flew out because I hadn’t centered it carefully but the on the 2nd try all was fine and I played my movie (a gory war movie called a thin red line, I think). Now the dvd player looks really sad (really like the terminator whose inards are the only thing left but it is still computing.)