Blog Number 303

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Today we made the trek to the clinic again.  This time our appointment was early in the morning so we were hopeful that it would not turn into the marathon waiting session that our last two visits have.  We made it back to the house in record time and while we were there the doctor gave the wife the "all clear" on her neck.  It is still sore but it is more of a tired muscle feeling than anything else.  She is free to get a massage (woo hoo) and to drive (uh-oh).  We are going to wait until after next Monday when the cast comes off before we get serious with our car shopping.  I am sure you will hear about it here.

We have played quite a bit of Boggle recently and now that we know the rules a little better (2 letter words don't count) we are getting seriously competitive (even more so than normal).  We did almost come to fisticuffs the other day over the following incident.  As you probably know, in Boggle you have 3 minutes to come up with as many words as possible but you only get points for the unique words in your list.  Once the 3 minutes are up, each person reads their list and the others mark off the words that are on their lists.  Once everyone reads their list you tally up the score.  Everything was going fine (i.e. I was winning) when we were reading our lists after a middle round.  The son read the word "does" (the 3rd person singular of the word do).  I had this on my list so I marked it off.  When the wife read her list she listed the word "does" (the plural of the word doe).  She then had the audacity to claim this was not the same word and insist that I count the word.  After a heated discussion (and a threat to call Hasbro for a ruling) she relented and marked her word off.  In the end the game was decided by more than one point so it was irrelevant whether the word counted or not.  Moving on, it is time for...

Random Bad Quality Pictures With My New Cell Phone

I am a creature of habit when it comes to parking at work.  I get there early enough to have my pick of the choice spots but I pick one closer to the exit of the garage than to the entrance of my building.  About 6 months ago, a truck started parking in the spot next to mine.  The truck arrived before I did and was usually there when I left.  The truck was almost always parked next to or on top of the yellow line dividing the two parking spots.  I thought for a while that the truck was there in some sort of long term parking but it would not be exactly straddling the line each day, just most days.  The above pick shows how close it is to my space.  These are standard width parking spaces so the truck has about 2 foot of play on the other side.  My spot is at the end of a row so it is not a problem to park just like the truck so I have room to open my door at least.
Well it is time to give the daughter a shower and maybe get some Boggle in before bedtime.  I will let you know how I do and how the wife does (that is does and in how she plays the game, not as in how her female deers are doing).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon