Monthly Archives: July 2018
Taken For Granite . . .
Ended up spending part of the morning at work helping my client’s wife on a problem she was having with her laptop.
Most of it due to the fact that her laptop is circa 2000 and is running Windows XP! The system is maxxed out on RAM at 1GB, fine for when it came out, but today’s programs are much more RAM-intensive, and 1GB just won’t cut it.
I’m trying to get her set up with something newer, but she is really reluctant to switch to a new computer.
I also found out that I’m working both tomorrow as well as Friday because my client will be out both days taking CE courses for his medical license. I will have to duck out for a while about 1pm to meet the last potential buyer for our house, and then we’ll probably make a decision this weekend. But we’ll see how that goes.
Several readers have asked about Karma the cat.
She doing fine, and as of our last RV trip, she’s finally settled down and doesn’t run and hide when she hears the rig engine start up. Now she either lays on the rug between our two chairs, or sleeps on the sofa.
And she’s grown up to be a good-sized girl, at 13.2 pounds. We know her exact weight because the digital scale in the bathroom is one of her favorite places to sit.
And when I’m at the computer she normally sleeps on her perch right beside my chair.
And she’s turned out to be a much better kitty than I had expected from a half-feral stray.
Chris’ wife, Linda, sent over some pics of their new home up in Kingsland, TX, and it looks like it’s really coming together.
And they’ve got Tonto, the real wooden Indian, in his new spot out on the front porch (shouldn’t he be called Kaw-Liga?).
And this is what 3-1/2 TONS of crushed granite looks like. Chris hauled it in, got it unloaded, spread out, and leveled.
Really looks great.
You all now I can’t resist a new toy, and this is my new one.
It’s a Digital Voltage/Amp Meter that I want to connect up to the rig’s shore power input. Actually I got two of them coming in from Amazon, one for each leg.
My Progressive EMS has an ammeter indicator on it, but it’s out the electrical bay. The newer models have a remote display but it wasn’t available when I got mine.
I’ll mount these back in the bedroom, probably connected to the output of the transfer switch. That will let me monitor both the shore power and generator power. Of course that assumes that I get it working again. LOL
Last up, here’s a neat website that lists RV Salvage Yards by state around the country. Check it out.
Thought for the Day:
Ignore crises. If they’re serious enough, they’ll reach the point where you can’t ignore them any longer. If they’re not that serious, they’ll go away on their own.
hdg
Great Friends and Good Offers . . .
Jan and I were out the door this morning by 10:15 this morning, to meet the next possible house buyer that we had scheduled to give us an offer.
He was just the first of three that were coming by to look at the house. And then we have one more coming by Thursday afternoon. Then as it stands now we’ll probably be making a decision this weekend whether or not we’ll accept one of the offers, or proceed to Plan B.
A little later we met long-time friend Tricia at the Barcenas Mexican Restaurant right outside the subdivision. It’s been a while since we’ve seen her, and since she’s been traveling a lot lately it was good to be able to catch up.
Then after saying goodbyes Jan and I headed back to the house to meet up with the second possible buyer.
When he was finished I went ahead and took Jan back to the rig since it was going to be a while before the third guy showed up. And by the time he was finished, things were really looking up.
We are now up over $10,000 from the initial offer we got from the first guy this past Saturday. And we still have one more guy to go.
Here’s hoping.
I dug up one of those adapters that lets you use one of those little Micro SD cards in a regular SD slot on your computer. And when I did this, I found that the card worked fine. So the problem is apparently with my phone.
Chris and Linda are getting settled in at their new place up in Kingsland,TX and sent over some photos of what they’ve done with the yard.
Really looks nice. We’re hoping to get up there in the next month or so to see them.
On a completely different subject, has anyone else noticed disappearing Facebook posts on your timeline. It seems at least once a day I will be scrolling down through the posts and then I will see a post start to scroll up and then there’s a jump and the post just disappears. As far I can see the post are usually political in nature, but I don’t think they’re from the same source.
So has anyone else see anything similar? Let me know.
Thought for the Day: Word Play
Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly
sfgsf
