Monthly Archives: April 2013
I’ll have the Da Vinci, Over Easy . . .
Brandi sent over some more pics of the progress on the new house. She said they’ve put another coat of paint on the walls, and started painting the trim.
Looking good. I think they hope to be in the house in about 6 weeks.
I know they’re really excited.
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I took it kind of easy today, didn’t do much, because I’ve had a sore back the last few days, one of those things where everything’s fine, and then you move just the wrong way and it feels like someone put a knife in your ribs.
Hopefully it’ll be better tomorrow.
I did head out about 1:30 to make a Home Depot run, along with Radio Shack, and an Office Max for Jan. Then about 6:45 we took off on our walk with a short detour by Nick and Terry’s to drop off a couple of things from Home Depot that I’d picked up for Terry. Then it was on our way to finish up our mile and a quarter walk, getting back just as it got dark.
Tomorrow morning Jan and I are going to visit the Arizona Science Center to see the Da Vinci – The Genius Exhibition. This is a traveling exhibition that’s here in Phoenix from February to June, so we’re lucky our timing is good.
The last time we visited the Arizona Science Center was in March 2007 when we had rented a CruiseAmerica Class C to check out RV’ing, and after attending the Life on Wheels training in Tucson, drove the RV up here to Phoenix for the afternoon to see the Body Worlds exhibit, the one with the real plasticized bodies in various poses.
On our way to the exhibit, we plan on stopping for breakfast again at Over Easy, the breakfast/lunch place we ate at a couple of weeks ago.
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Thought for the Day:
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker’s game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
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Unintended Consequences . . .
I’m sure you’ve heard about how some cities, especially ones in California, have outlawed paper and plastic grocery bags, requiring people to bring their own reusable cloth bags.
The only problem with this is that according to the CDC, these reusable bags are breeding grounds for E. coli, salmonella, and other dangerous bacteria. In fact, a study by the University of Pennsylvania and George Mason University showed that just in the first 6 months after San Francisco enacted their total ban, emergency room admissions and deaths relating to E. coli jumped almost 50%.
So, where does all this E. coli and salmonella come from?
Well, you know how they tell you to always wash your fresh fruits and vegetables before you eat them, well now you know why.
Or did that stockboy wash his hands after using the bathroom before he put your can of beans on the shelves?
Now the CDC recommends you wash all your bags after every use. Of course, that would mean millions of bags being washed every week, using precious water and putting more detergents and other chemicals into the environment.
So what’s an environmentally-aware person to do? Of course, it’s apparently hard to be an environmentalist anyway.
Are you an environmentalist that supports solar power, or are you an environmentalist who protests a solar power project being built in the Mojave Desert because it might harm the Desert Tortoise. What, tortoises don’t like shade?
Are you an environmentalist that supports wind power, or are you an environmentalist that campaigns against wind power because they kill thousands of birds every year.
Decisions, decisions.
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Jan and I headed over to Wal-Mart around 2pm to get some stuff, and also let Jan get her hair done. Then on the way home I stopped off at an Auto Zone to pick up some battery terminal cleaner and protector spray, since both Nick and I want to clean our rig batteries.
Later we picked up Nick and Terry a little after 5pm and drove over to Sourdough Pizza for dinner. Jan was happy to see that they had her favorite meat ravioli, and we shared our usual pizza with pepperoni, sausage, and mushrooms, along with very nice small dinner salads.
The one thing that was unusual here was that the pizza sauce was kind of sweet. According to Google, a sweeter sauce is kind of a regional thing. But the first bite was a bit of a surprise.
Tomorrow I’ve got some more rig projects to work on, and then Nick and I may work on cleaning our rig battery terminals.
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Thought for the Day:
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison
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