Monthly Archives: January 2012
Cheese and Books . . .
Jan and I headed out about 12:30 for another afternoon of errands and work stuff. But our first stop was for lunch at King Food, before heading over to Half-Price Books.
Jan had a large bag of books she wanted to sell, and a list of books she was looking for. And as usual, we got zilch for our books. I carried in a big canvas bag that must have weighed 25 pounds, and we walked out with 8 whole dollars.
Whoopee!
Our next stop was my client’s office. While Jan read in the truck, I finished setting up the second new computer for them. I’ll go back over some time later this week and get everything installed.
A little before 4pm we drove down to meet Brandi at Landon’s pediatrician’s office. Landon had a Dr’s appointment, and since Lowell couldn’t get free from work, Brandi wanted Jan along, so between the two of they could keep Landon in hand and still pay attention to what the Doctor was saying.
Afterwards, we all headed over to Brandi’s for a while, waiting until it was time to meet Lowell at Cheddar’s for dinner.
While we were there, Landon got his first chance to use his new Gyro Bowl, in this case, full of orange sections. As I thought he spent as much time playing with it as eating from it. He was fascinated by how it swiveled as he turned it.
After a fun meal, we finally all headed to our respective homes.
Tomorrow’s kind of up in the air. I may just work around the rig unless something comes up.
We’ll have to see.
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Thought for the Day:
A wolf will back off when its wolf opponent bares its throat and submits. When a rabbit rolls over, the wolf eats it.
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Gyro Bowls and Bingo . . .
Woke up this morning to much nicer weather than yesterday. And after some delicious fresh-ground Chocolate Almondine coffee, a Christmas gift from our son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Linda, I headed out about 12:30 for some errands and client visits.
My first stop was Fry’s Electronics, and then my other favorite local electronics place, EPO (Electronic Parts Outlet) looking for some connectors, but I struck out at both places. I may end up ordering them online. We’ll see.
Then it was on to my client’s office. I had planned to come back here and work tonight while Jan is at Bingo, but my plans changed.
Next I went by my client’s house, the one that I had all the AT&T problems with. Seems like their network printer wasn’t working.
Turns out that when AT&T switched them over to Dynamic IP’s, they also changed their IP addresses around.
There are two IP address series used on internal home networks, 192.168.x.x and 10.0.x.x. Previously everything was set up to use the 192 series, but when AT&T switched things over, the IP address also switched to the 10 series. Why I don’t know.
But since the Xerox Phaser 8400DP printer was hard-coded for a 192 address, it was suddenly left high and dry on the wrong network. But resetting the printer to 10.0.1.100 instead of 192.168.1.100 fixed it all right up.
As Jan says, probably more than you really wanted to know.
By this time it was after 4pm so I headed back to the rig to pick up Jan so we could head back up to Webster to pick up our granddaughter Piper for Bingo. Then we headed back down to Dickinson to have supper at Monterey’s Little Mexico. While our friend Maria picked them up about 6:30, I headed back up to Brandi’s.
I feel like I’m going around in circles.
While we were eating, our daughter Brandi called to ask if I could ride up to north Houston with our son-in-law Lowell to pick up his truck and drive it back home. He started a new job on Monday, and had driven his truck to work, but then when he was issued his company car, he needed someone to drive his truck back home.
A couple of days ago I ordered Landon one of those Gyro Bowls they sell on TV.
It came today, but since UPS didn’t delivered it until after he was already in bed, he hadn’t seen it yet. But knowing him, I know he’ll be fascinated by it. The idea is that you can’t spill anything out of it. If you turn it upside down, the bowl stays level and the gimbaled cover rotates over it.
Also. surprisingly, my power window motor came in today. Very quick, since it was just shipped from Mesa, AZ yesterday. Guess I know what I’ll be doing later this week.
After picking up Jan and Piper at Bingo, and then taking Piper home, it was almost 11 by the time we got back to the rig.
A busy, but fun day.
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“If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.” — Winston Churchill
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