Monthly Archives: November 2017
A New Ride . . .
Jan and I headed up to the Clear Lake area about 4pm to meet up with Chris, Linda, and Piper at Cheddar’s for dinner. But we left a little early so we could make a stop at Sam’s to pick up a prescription and 6# of JIF Creamy Peanut Butter.
Then it was on over to Chris’ to wait for Piper to get off and meet us at the restaurant. The first thing we noticed when we pulled up to the house was this.
Turns out that this Mazda Miata is Piper’s new ride. Don’t remember what year it is but it only has about 64,000 miles on it. But there’s a problem.
Piper can’t drive a stick, and a 6-speed stick at that. So it’s back to Driver’s Ed for Piper.
I told Miss Piper that she was taking after her PaPa since this is what I was driving when I met Jan down in Florida. Of course this is an Internet photo.
A 1965 Triumph Spitfire. Of course knowing me, it’s not surprising mine was somewhat souped up. (Well, maybe a lot souped up!)
Dinner was just as good as we’ve come to expect from a Cheddar’s meal, with Jan having the Key West Chicken and Shrimp with Bourbon Glaze, and Green Beans and Broccoli-Cheese Casserole
while I had the Chicken Tenders, with Green Beans and Broccoli-Cheese Casserole.
All as delicious as usual.
I did this group photo after we finished eating,
with everyone in the Christmas Spirit except Miss Piper.
But after I reminded her that there was still room on the Naughty List, she perked right up.
After dinner, we drove over to the other ‘new’ thing in Piper’s life. To go along with her new ride, she also has a new job and a new apartment.
Her new job is here in the Clear Lake area where she does Medical Coding and Insurance Billing for a company that furnishes Hospice services for both individuals and medical Institutions.
A really nice place, and as she say’s, ‘Only 4 minutes, 31 seconds from work.”
Nice.
This is little fellow is Kat, a kitten that Piper rescued during Hurricane Harvey.
Jan and I have been going through the slides that we came across while Chris was cleaning out the attic at the house.
I was able to borrow a slide projector from my client so we’ve been going through them one carousel at a time, picking the ones we want to have digitized by Legacy Box. Looks like we have 5 or 6 more carousels to go.
The Word of the Day is: Nostrum
Thought for the Day:
Consequence is what makes our choices real.
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Lemonade . . .
I spent most of the day at work working on our paper catalog, trying to correct a lot of problems left by my predecessor.
In going through the catalog I found 5 or 6 blank pages scattered through the book. Since they still had page numbers I assumed that products had been deleted, leaving the blank pages.
At first I couldn’t figure out why he would leave the blank pages since InDesign automagically repaginates when you add or delete pages. So that shouldn’t be a problem.
But after checking a few other things I saw the problem. When the previous guy set up the catalog, he failed to set up Index to also auto-update. Which means that as you delete pages the pages behind that page to change page numbers.
When means the Index would no longer be correct. At this point I don’t know if I can convert the Index to auto-update or not. So in the meantime, I converted the blank pages to page-size ads for specific products we have on sale.
Making lemons into lemonade.
A few weeks ago I mentioned that if you had bought $100 of Bitcoins in 2010, it would then be worth $72 million. That was when Bitcoin was worth $6000. So today when it peaked out at a little over $11000, your $100 investment jumped to about $130 million.
You can never find a time machine when you need one.
Looks like USPS is slowing down with the Christmas rush. I had two packages that were supposed to be delivered on Monday, but according Tracking Details there were just sitting in the local PO.
Then they finally showed up on Tuesday, but I didn’t get the text message that they’d actually been delivered until this afternoon. That’s the first time in a long time that Amazon Prime has missed a Two Day Delivery.
Since our pre-Thanksgiving dinner last Wednesday was aborted by our bad tire experience, we’re doing the post Turkey Day thing tomorrow night at Cheddar’s.
Really looking forward to it.
The Word of the Day is: Scurrilous
Thought for the Day:
Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good – Pope Leo XIII
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