Daily Archives: February 21, 2011
Thanks, Nick! . . .
First off, I want to thank Nick Russell for keeping all the bad weather over in Apache Junction with him. For the second day in a row, it’s been great here in Gila Bend. Sunny with daytime temps in the low 70’s and nighttime in the low 40’s. Couldn’t be nicer. Thanks, Nick.
Jan and I slept in this morning enjoying the cool temperatures so we didn’t get up until about 10am, to find a call from our daughter Brandi waiting for us. Yesterday was Landon’s 6 month birthday, and today is his 6 month checkup.
Brandi laughingly wanted to know if Jan could babysit Landon this Saturday. Sure, I mean it’s only 1250 miles back to Houston. No problem.
Though I think Jan would do it, just to get some Landon time.
After fixing coffee, I caught up on some computer work, while Jan read her new Janet Evanovich book. Then about 10:30 I got a call from the client that I did that one last job for right before we left Houston. And she had a problem.
All of her phones quit working this morning. They worked just fine on Friday, but when she came in this morning they quit working … one at a time.
I spent a good while on the phone with the VOIP company Tech Support guy with no luck. He didn’t know what the problem was, he just knew it wasn’t his companies fault. He kept wanted to blame our routers, but he couldn’t answer my question about why it worked for two weeks and then went down one phone at a time.
I guess tomorrow I’ll be spending more time on the phone, this time with AT&T.
Nick called a little after 11 updating us on their departure date from Apache Junction after they get the latest issue of the Gypsy Journal in the mail.
About noon Jan fixed a lunch of sandwiches and chips, then I went out and pulled out our Weber Q200 grill from the bay.
Our kids gave it to us for Christmas in 2007 right before we hit the road. We haven’t used it as much as we should have, but Jan had a hankering for hot dogs this evening so I wanted to be sure the the grill worked and had enough LP gas in the bottle.
After being sure the grill was working, I made a run into Gila Bend to the hardware store and the NAPA auto parts store. I was looking for a 3/4 wrench to make it easier to remove the rig seats to get at the carpet underneath them. I was also looking for a set of small snap ring pliers to let me disassemble our electric heaters to clean the dust and cat hair out of them.
Getting back to the rig I pulled the passenger chair and starting ripping up the carpet. It was slow going due to all the staples they used in the corners, but I did make some headway.
About 4:30 I started up the grill while Jan had already started the baked beans.
I grilled the hot dogs and the buns on the Weber and they both came out great. So about 5 we sat down to delicious hot dogs, beans, and chips.
Then after supper I did a little more on the carpet and then fixed evening coffee.
Tomorrow, more work on the carpet.
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Thought for the Day:
“Our ancestors settled a continent, but we get upset if we have to go to both the bank and the dry-cleaners after work.”
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