Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Last Supper . . .
I spent this morning finishing up a few chores around the rig before we head out..
First up, I installed the replacement TireTraker sensor that Daryl and Cheri Lawrence had given me. Because it was a new one, I had to delete the old one from the monitor first, but it only took a few minutes and I was back in business.
Next I finished repairing the fold-down arm on my driver’s chair. The wooden frame inside had broken so I had to remove the arm from the chair, peel off the cover and the foam inside, and then repair and re-glue the wooden frame. Then I used spray adhesive to reattach the foam to the frame, and then replaced the cover. Then after everything had dried, I reinstalled the arm on the chair.
After taking care of a few more things to get ready to travel tomorrow, Jan and I drove into town to grab lunch at McDonalds, and then to pick up a few things at Wal-Mart.
About 5pm Nick and Terry, and Jan and I headed back into town to have our last meal together for a while. We decided to check out the local Applebee’s.
We’ve always enjoyed them, and this time was no exception. But as usual we spent more time talking then eating, trying to see how our schedules match up for the next year. It’s possible that we won’t see them again until next February or March. I imagine Nick will have accumulated a nice long list of repairs by then.
Getting back to the rig, I went ahead and pulled the truck behind the rig and got it hitched up and to roll tomorrow morning. And at the same time I got pretty much everything else loaded up too.
It’s going to be interesting to see how easy it will be to get out of here tomorrow. It rained pretty heavily last night, and it’s rained again tonight. In fact it’s raining right now.
Tomorrow we heading about 250 miles east to the East Belvidere SD KOA for the night before traveling on to Sioux Falls on Tuesday, where we’ll get our SD drivers licenses renewed.
That’s assuming we’re not stuck in the mud tomorrow morning.
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Thought for the Day:
We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.
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Making Our Beauty Feel Old . . .
Well, as I mentioned last night, Jan and Terry headed out about 9am for the local Farmer’s Market, but they had gotten some bad info on the date. As it turned out, the Farmer’s Market doesn’t start until July 20th and then goes every Saturday through September, and not the 1st Saturday of the month starting today as they were told.
So next it was off to the Gillette Cheese House to check out their large selection of Wisconsin cheeses, honey, and many other local products. But apparently the Cheese House isn’t open on weekends. Bummer!
About noon I went over to blog readers, Rich and Mary Coppens’ Alfa See Ya to take a look at some computer problems Rich was having with his Asus laptop. His printer wasn’t printing, and his machine was running really slow, with a lot of strange error messages.
It took a while, but after getting the old printer driver completely uninstalled and cleaned out of the registry, I then downloaded fresh Win 7 drivers from the Internet and got the printer reinstalled and working again.
Then I started cleaning out all the ‘gunk’ (yes, that’s a technical term) from his machine. When I started, the CPU usage was running about 50% just sitting there. But after deleting a lot of extraneous, unused programs and add-ons, and then cleaning out the registry, the machine was running much faster, the strange error messages were gone, and the resting CPU usage was bouncing between 0 and 3%, just about normal.
A little after 4pm we all headed out for dinner and a couple of errands. Our first stop was Wal-Mart to pick up a prescription before the pharmacy closed at 5pm. Then it was across the street for a return visit to Las Margaritas Mexican Restaurant. We really enjoyed it when we were here the other day and everyone wanted to go back.
After a relaxing dinner, talking over our plans for the next few months, we headed home by way of Office Depot so Nick could pick up some more labels to mail out Gypsy Journals to subscribers.
Getting back to the RV park, Nick dropped off a bundle of papers for someone to give out as they travel. When we got back to the site, Nick pulled in behind his rig so we could plug in the taillights to check out my connector repair job from the other day. Luckily for me everything tested OK.
At our site we had a new neighbor, a much newer, longer American Eagle. American no longer makes a 40 foot Eagle like ours, but only 42 and 45 foot tag axle models. We were happy to have Beauty’s cousin parked right next door, but there was a problem.
Since we never had anyone parked south of us, I had placed the satellite dish over on that side. But now with a neighbor over there we no longer had a sat signal. But moving it out it out in front of our rig fixed the problem.
Tomorrow we’ll start getting ready to travel on Monday, with Nick and Terry heading west to Billings, and Jan and I heading east to Sioux Falls where we’ll spend about 4 day getting our drivers licenses renewed and take in some movies.
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Thought for the Day:
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." – L.P. Hartley
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