Daily Archives: June 27, 2016
DashCams and DayCare . . .
After two recent very busy days, it was nice to not do anything today. At least anything outside the coach. Well, I did walk the garbage over to the dumpster, but that was it.
It was fun opening the Amazon packages we picked up at Brandi’s yesterday, almost like Christmas.
First up were the new DirecTV Remotes we ordered to replace our flakey ones.
Blog reader Art Raeck did clue me in on the secret to getting them open. But with 3 of them to repair, and the fact that I can get newer, better ones for $4 each on Amazon led me to take the easy road and just get replacements.
It only took me a couple of minutes to program them for our RCA LCD T’V’s since the needed code was the first on the list. It’s really nice to have all the buttons working again.
Next up was a pair of EMT or Trauma Shears. They were all over the TV ads a few years back, and we bought one a good while ago, but it disappeared.
These type of scissors are used by EMT’s and in ER rooms, to cut people out of their clothes, belts, shoes, pretty much anything, including metal. In fact you can actually cut a penny in half with one. So they’re nice to have around.
The final package was a second mounting kit for my A-118 dashcam.
The kit that came with the dashcam I used for the truck, but didn’t get one for the rig. I had kludged one up, but still had to swap the power cable back and forth. So this way it will just take a couple of minutes to move the cam back and forth.
I’ve had this dashcam for about a year and a half, and I really like the quality video it puts out.
I really wish I’d had it mounted in the RV when we had our blowout in May of last year. It would have shown what a wild ride we had as we came to a stop.
We’ve talked before about problems people have had being forcibly upgraded to Window 10, whether they wanted to be or not. Well, here’s a story about a lady whose travel business computer was trashed by a rogue Windows 10 install, causing her to lose business. So she sued Microsoft . . . and won. S10,000, in fact.
You can read about it here. Lady Sues Microsoft
Three days a week, Landon goes to a Summer Daycare that sounds more like a summer camp. Anyway, the other day they did a Robotics Class, with a kit for each student to assemble on the table.
After everyone sat down, the teacher started talking about robotics, but before the teacher could start giving instructions on how to put the kit together, they discovered that Landon had already assembled his kit . . . perfectly.
The teacher said he’s way beyond the other kids in his skill level. Must be all those Lego kits we got him.
I mentioned the other day about Karma and Jan fighting over who gets to use Moose The Footstool, so this time Karma got there first.
So this time Karma won.
Thought for the Day:
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.— Joan Rivers
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