Greetings,
We have lost internet access at our home so for now my Random Thoughts are on hold. Please try to carry on if you can.
Jon
Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Blog Number 443
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
We did manage to break into disk 2 of season 1 of The Muppet Show. Now I have seen tons of muppet show reruns but I am beginning to realize why season 1 was not part of the normal syndicated shows. While it is interesting to watch the beginning, there is not much to laugh about. The Kermit / Piggy relationship is still working out the kinks and characters like Gonzo are not prevalent enough while other reoccurring characters are overused. Then there are the guest hosts. While tonight's episode did have a guest that I actually had heard of, the most famous host from the first 6 episodes was Jim Nabors. Also, the hosts don't really do that much comedy. This episode had the song "So Happy Together" with Florence Henderson and 6 or so monsters. Nothing real funny, just an odd setting. Even the wise cracking old codgers don't have the sting they did in later seasons. I already have season 2 purchased so I hope the kids don't give up on it before we get there.
The wife and I watched the season 2 premier of The Mentalist which is one of our favorite TV shows. The have not tried to change the formula that made the first season great and all the characters are back without any big changes. I just hope the rest of our shows can continue on in this way.
We filled out our calendar for the month of October yesterday. We put in placeholders for our Date Night, Panera Saturday, and Family Night Out as is our custom however since it is getting colder I decided to to swap out the Ice Cream Social for something new. I am calling it Breakfast With Daddy / Lunch With Mommy. My plan is to take the daughter out for breakfast on some school day. We will just leave early to head to school and stop at a greasy spoon for a cheap breakfast. There is a restaurant called The Breakfast House here in town that advertises a $1.99 breakfast consisting of 2 eggs, sausage or bacon and a side of toast or biscuits and gravy. I figure we can get out pretty cheap. The son can have lunch with his mother at Taco Bell (which is the best gluten free restaurant in his opinion). The kids are looking forward to it and I am a little sad now that I planned it for the 4th week of the month as now we have to wait.
I am finishing up the latest John Grisham novel. My son was asking me what I liked about the book and in describing it I told him that I had read all his books. When we counted them up, there was something like 20 Grisham books so far. This impressed the son (who does not like to read books). He was not impressed that the same author had written 20 books but that I had read that many (total for my life!). I got this one from the library and it was on the Hot Picks shelf so I can only have it out for 2 weeks. I did not finish the last book that I started before it was due and I had 4 weeks for that one. I made it about 95% of the way through but could not bring myself to finish it. The first 2/3 of the book was rather good but then it was like the author ran out of ideas or could not figure out how to end it so she did something drastic out of left field. I plodded on but didn't even consider renewing the book for another 4 weeks to finish it. Oh well, as I said in an entry about 400 blogs ago, life is too short to finish a book just because you started it. I am keeping that mindset even now 400 blogs later.
Well I better head back to the bedroom and get at finishing the Grisham book since it is due in 2 days.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
We did manage to break into disk 2 of season 1 of The Muppet Show. Now I have seen tons of muppet show reruns but I am beginning to realize why season 1 was not part of the normal syndicated shows. While it is interesting to watch the beginning, there is not much to laugh about. The Kermit / Piggy relationship is still working out the kinks and characters like Gonzo are not prevalent enough while other reoccurring characters are overused. Then there are the guest hosts. While tonight's episode did have a guest that I actually had heard of, the most famous host from the first 6 episodes was Jim Nabors. Also, the hosts don't really do that much comedy. This episode had the song "So Happy Together" with Florence Henderson and 6 or so monsters. Nothing real funny, just an odd setting. Even the wise cracking old codgers don't have the sting they did in later seasons. I already have season 2 purchased so I hope the kids don't give up on it before we get there.
The wife and I watched the season 2 premier of The Mentalist which is one of our favorite TV shows. The have not tried to change the formula that made the first season great and all the characters are back without any big changes. I just hope the rest of our shows can continue on in this way.
We filled out our calendar for the month of October yesterday. We put in placeholders for our Date Night, Panera Saturday, and Family Night Out as is our custom however since it is getting colder I decided to to swap out the Ice Cream Social for something new. I am calling it Breakfast With Daddy / Lunch With Mommy. My plan is to take the daughter out for breakfast on some school day. We will just leave early to head to school and stop at a greasy spoon for a cheap breakfast. There is a restaurant called The Breakfast House here in town that advertises a $1.99 breakfast consisting of 2 eggs, sausage or bacon and a side of toast or biscuits and gravy. I figure we can get out pretty cheap. The son can have lunch with his mother at Taco Bell (which is the best gluten free restaurant in his opinion). The kids are looking forward to it and I am a little sad now that I planned it for the 4th week of the month as now we have to wait.
I am finishing up the latest John Grisham novel. My son was asking me what I liked about the book and in describing it I told him that I had read all his books. When we counted them up, there was something like 20 Grisham books so far. This impressed the son (who does not like to read books). He was not impressed that the same author had written 20 books but that I had read that many (total for my life!). I got this one from the library and it was on the Hot Picks shelf so I can only have it out for 2 weeks. I did not finish the last book that I started before it was due and I had 4 weeks for that one. I made it about 95% of the way through but could not bring myself to finish it. The first 2/3 of the book was rather good but then it was like the author ran out of ideas or could not figure out how to end it so she did something drastic out of left field. I plodded on but didn't even consider renewing the book for another 4 weeks to finish it. Oh well, as I said in an entry about 400 blogs ago, life is too short to finish a book just because you started it. I am keeping that mindset even now 400 blogs later.
Well I better head back to the bedroom and get at finishing the Grisham book since it is due in 2 days.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Blog Number 442
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Yesterday we had to break down and turn on the furnace for the first time this season. We had avoided it thus far despite some nights dipping into the lower 50's. Our house keeps pretty warm but yesterday was just too cold. This means of course that the "thermostat wars" will soon begin again. The wife (being part reptile) cannot generate her own heat and (short of having a heat rock handy) needs to have it a few degrees warmer in the house then I care to pay for all winter. We will agree to a daytime temperature and a nighttime temperature but when I leave the house and am not here to see the thermostat, all agreements are considered null and void where a flimsy excuse like, "It felt colder than X° in here" is all that is needed to justify violating the terms of our thermostat war treaty.
We took a few years off of the winter version of this war while in Texas (winter is only 2 weeks long there it seemed). The main warring moved to the summertime and regulating the central air. On the hottest months I calculated that every day cost $3 to cool the house. So anyday that we succeeded in leaving the air turned off was a day to celebrate the savings. I could predict my electric bill pretty accurately based on the number of days in the billing period that the air was used. Here in Indiana we seldom had to use the AC this summer as it was quite mild.
Wednesday nights the kids have AWANA at church and the wife is one of the leaders so I have the option of staying home, going to AWANA and helping or finding something else to do (like visit with my gramndmother). I stayed home 2 weeks ago (the day I shaved off my hair) and last week I went to the church so tonight I decided to visit my grandmother. She recently moved into my mom's condo while my mom bought the condo next door and moved into it. The condos are actually duplexs but my mother's house and my grandmother's house are not connected and are actually mirror images of each other. This makes it feel very strange now to go to my mother's house and have everything be completely backwards of what I am used to. Anyway, tonight I was at grandma's house (my mom's old house) so everything was in the right place. That is except the thermostat. My grandmother (who is also part reptile in her old age) has the heat set pretty high. On top of that, she sits with a space heater about 1 foot from her body most times. I stayed about 90 minutes and showed her some videos I took of the kids during their recent recitals. She was impressed of course. I was sitting next to her and showing her the videos on my laptop. This meant that I was pretty close to the space heater as well so fortunately for me the videos were only about a minute each so I could head back to the relative coolness of the couch.
Well I have the thermostat set to 66° right now so it is time to head back and get under the covers and pray the same prayer I pray most winters, namely that the wife's feet aren't too cold (please Lord! Amen!)
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Yesterday we had to break down and turn on the furnace for the first time this season. We had avoided it thus far despite some nights dipping into the lower 50's. Our house keeps pretty warm but yesterday was just too cold. This means of course that the "thermostat wars" will soon begin again. The wife (being part reptile) cannot generate her own heat and (short of having a heat rock handy) needs to have it a few degrees warmer in the house then I care to pay for all winter. We will agree to a daytime temperature and a nighttime temperature but when I leave the house and am not here to see the thermostat, all agreements are considered null and void where a flimsy excuse like, "It felt colder than X° in here" is all that is needed to justify violating the terms of our thermostat war treaty.
We took a few years off of the winter version of this war while in Texas (winter is only 2 weeks long there it seemed). The main warring moved to the summertime and regulating the central air. On the hottest months I calculated that every day cost $3 to cool the house. So anyday that we succeeded in leaving the air turned off was a day to celebrate the savings. I could predict my electric bill pretty accurately based on the number of days in the billing period that the air was used. Here in Indiana we seldom had to use the AC this summer as it was quite mild.
Wednesday nights the kids have AWANA at church and the wife is one of the leaders so I have the option of staying home, going to AWANA and helping or finding something else to do (like visit with my gramndmother). I stayed home 2 weeks ago (the day I shaved off my hair) and last week I went to the church so tonight I decided to visit my grandmother. She recently moved into my mom's condo while my mom bought the condo next door and moved into it. The condos are actually duplexs but my mother's house and my grandmother's house are not connected and are actually mirror images of each other. This makes it feel very strange now to go to my mother's house and have everything be completely backwards of what I am used to. Anyway, tonight I was at grandma's house (my mom's old house) so everything was in the right place. That is except the thermostat. My grandmother (who is also part reptile in her old age) has the heat set pretty high. On top of that, she sits with a space heater about 1 foot from her body most times. I stayed about 90 minutes and showed her some videos I took of the kids during their recent recitals. She was impressed of course. I was sitting next to her and showing her the videos on my laptop. This meant that I was pretty close to the space heater as well so fortunately for me the videos were only about a minute each so I could head back to the relative coolness of the couch.
Well I have the thermostat set to 66° right now so it is time to head back and get under the covers and pray the same prayer I pray most winters, namely that the wife's feet aren't too cold (please Lord! Amen!)
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Blog Number 441
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Ye olde dial up connection is really slow tonight. At least it is only $5 / month for now as my 3 month, 1/2 price trial period is over. In the mean time, I head over to mom's house to download the new fall TV shows. One of our favorite shows is The Big Bang Theory. One of the main characters (Sheldon) is a spot on image of our son only grown up. At times he does something so much like what our son would do that we laugh until we cry. You would have to know our son pretty well in order to understand this but in the premier episode (which we watched tonight) there were a few times we had to pause the show so we could stop laughing (and crying). We watch that show along with Fringe, CSI, CSI NY, NCIS, Survivor Lost, and House (I think that is all of them). I am sure there are a few favorites that we will pick up this season. Our beloved Prison Break ended last year (it was time) and Eleventh Hour was cancelled so we will need to pick up a few shows to fill the gap. We watch them sporadically as they are available. Shows like Survivor however we wait until we have all the season's episodes and watch them over a 2 or 3 week period. We did the same with American Idol (only the performance shows, not the early rounds or the vote off shows) and we are doing this technique now with the last season of Dancing With The Stars. As long as we don't have friends that we converse with about these shows, we are ok to watch shows in this way.
When we returned the 6 toed kitten over the weekend, our neighbors gave us some rasberries and also a spaghetti squash. I had never had this type of squash before...until tonight. The wife (ever trying to expand our menu) prepared it with some spaghetti sauce. It looked like angel hair pasta but was a little cruchier in texture As with all things new, the kids were skeptical. I only finished about 80% of mine and we only forced the kids to eat about 2/3 of their bowls. I will have to check in on the price of this kind of squash before I can justify attempting it again. If they are dirt cheap then I could justify eating it again. If it is the same price as pasta (even gluton free pasta) then what is the point?
Tomorrow is the last day of the month and the last day of the quarter. We are heading into the 4th quarter of the year unless you work for my company where it started 2 months ago and ends next month (as does the year). I have not researched why it is that companies do this but I am sure there is a logical reason for the weird calendar. At any rate, the year is heading into the home stretch and soon it will be time to start counting the days until Christmas. The wife hinted about doing a real tree this year. Hinted is too weak of a word really. I got along without a tree the last 2 years but since we are back in Indiana I think that streak might come to an end. Oh well, it was a good run. I will probably devote a whole blog to this as the season approaches so I won't go into the preliminary rounds of our discussions. It is sort of like the early rounds of American Idol in that we can skip them for now and get the highlights later.
Surprisingly I was not sore today despite doing 100 sit ups yesterday. I am due to do 107 tomorrow so we will have to see how that goes. I have avoided the treadmill for the past week and a half (as well as the scales) due to a small nagging injury. I don't want to make this a habit so I am hopeful to get back on the horse soon, probably Thursday since tomorrow is a sit up day. I have not heard from our fellow challengers at church yet but they were out of town this past weekend so the bantering back and forth had to be paused. Well once again it is time to head back to the bedroom with the rest of the pack to bed down for the night.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Ye olde dial up connection is really slow tonight. At least it is only $5 / month for now as my 3 month, 1/2 price trial period is over. In the mean time, I head over to mom's house to download the new fall TV shows. One of our favorite shows is The Big Bang Theory. One of the main characters (Sheldon) is a spot on image of our son only grown up. At times he does something so much like what our son would do that we laugh until we cry. You would have to know our son pretty well in order to understand this but in the premier episode (which we watched tonight) there were a few times we had to pause the show so we could stop laughing (and crying). We watch that show along with Fringe, CSI, CSI NY, NCIS, Survivor Lost, and House (I think that is all of them). I am sure there are a few favorites that we will pick up this season. Our beloved Prison Break ended last year (it was time) and Eleventh Hour was cancelled so we will need to pick up a few shows to fill the gap. We watch them sporadically as they are available. Shows like Survivor however we wait until we have all the season's episodes and watch them over a 2 or 3 week period. We did the same with American Idol (only the performance shows, not the early rounds or the vote off shows) and we are doing this technique now with the last season of Dancing With The Stars. As long as we don't have friends that we converse with about these shows, we are ok to watch shows in this way.
When we returned the 6 toed kitten over the weekend, our neighbors gave us some rasberries and also a spaghetti squash. I had never had this type of squash before...until tonight. The wife (ever trying to expand our menu) prepared it with some spaghetti sauce. It looked like angel hair pasta but was a little cruchier in texture As with all things new, the kids were skeptical. I only finished about 80% of mine and we only forced the kids to eat about 2/3 of their bowls. I will have to check in on the price of this kind of squash before I can justify attempting it again. If they are dirt cheap then I could justify eating it again. If it is the same price as pasta (even gluton free pasta) then what is the point?
Tomorrow is the last day of the month and the last day of the quarter. We are heading into the 4th quarter of the year unless you work for my company where it started 2 months ago and ends next month (as does the year). I have not researched why it is that companies do this but I am sure there is a logical reason for the weird calendar. At any rate, the year is heading into the home stretch and soon it will be time to start counting the days until Christmas. The wife hinted about doing a real tree this year. Hinted is too weak of a word really. I got along without a tree the last 2 years but since we are back in Indiana I think that streak might come to an end. Oh well, it was a good run. I will probably devote a whole blog to this as the season approaches so I won't go into the preliminary rounds of our discussions. It is sort of like the early rounds of American Idol in that we can skip them for now and get the highlights later.
Surprisingly I was not sore today despite doing 100 sit ups yesterday. I am due to do 107 tomorrow so we will have to see how that goes. I have avoided the treadmill for the past week and a half (as well as the scales) due to a small nagging injury. I don't want to make this a habit so I am hopeful to get back on the horse soon, probably Thursday since tomorrow is a sit up day. I have not heard from our fellow challengers at church yet but they were out of town this past weekend so the bantering back and forth had to be paused. Well once again it is time to head back to the bedroom with the rest of the pack to bed down for the night.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Monday, September 28, 2009
Blog Number 440
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Monday, Monday. I am a little tired, mostly from staying up late at mom's house watching the Indianapolis Colts win their Sunday night game. It is always more fun when your team is winning. Fortunately for us Colts fans, they have had many good years in a row during the regular season.
We had a good time Sunday morning at church as I led the song service. I even had the 11 year old son up there on the stage with me with the 2 scripture readings. He was a little nervous I think and did set a new church record (as far as I can tell) for shortest amount of time to read Psalm 1. After singing all my favorite hymns and hearing the sermon, we headed home quickly and then off to the big family reunion. Actually there were far fewer people than I was expecting but we had a good time. We had missed the last few years while we were in Texas so we were the star attraction and I was able to catch up with all my great aunts and uncles (who are all in their 70s, 80s and even 90s). We stuck around until almost everyone was gone and then came home.
We did learn that our neighbor's outside cat had kittens and they were missing one. So our 6 toed freak of a kitten found his way home and I am told by the wife (who brought him next door) that he looked happy to be reunited with his litter mates and mother. The neighbors told us that the mother cat was one of the kittens that were born earlier this year. You may recall my exploits in trying to get them from out from under our house. One of the cats wasted no time in getting into the family way.
Today was a typical Monday. Nothing really special other than I left work an hour early as I had a 8:30 call tonight that I just got off of. Those silly people on the other side of the world and their clocks that are 14 hours ahead of us!
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Monday, Monday. I am a little tired, mostly from staying up late at mom's house watching the Indianapolis Colts win their Sunday night game. It is always more fun when your team is winning. Fortunately for us Colts fans, they have had many good years in a row during the regular season.
We had a good time Sunday morning at church as I led the song service. I even had the 11 year old son up there on the stage with me with the 2 scripture readings. He was a little nervous I think and did set a new church record (as far as I can tell) for shortest amount of time to read Psalm 1. After singing all my favorite hymns and hearing the sermon, we headed home quickly and then off to the big family reunion. Actually there were far fewer people than I was expecting but we had a good time. We had missed the last few years while we were in Texas so we were the star attraction and I was able to catch up with all my great aunts and uncles (who are all in their 70s, 80s and even 90s). We stuck around until almost everyone was gone and then came home.
We did learn that our neighbor's outside cat had kittens and they were missing one. So our 6 toed freak of a kitten found his way home and I am told by the wife (who brought him next door) that he looked happy to be reunited with his litter mates and mother. The neighbors told us that the mother cat was one of the kittens that were born earlier this year. You may recall my exploits in trying to get them from out from under our house. One of the cats wasted no time in getting into the family way.
Today was a typical Monday. Nothing really special other than I left work an hour early as I had a 8:30 call tonight that I just got off of. Those silly people on the other side of the world and their clocks that are 14 hours ahead of us!
- White Noise: I still picture Michael Keaton in Mr Mom, Johnny Dangerously, Gung Ho, and Beetlejuice in the 80s and so it is hard to take him seriously in a scary movie. Still, I think he did a pretty good job though I kept missing the main plot (other than speaking with the dead and being scared when the scary music was being played). At first you think that he is supposed to help people with this ability and then the next minute he is being warned not do meddle. Anyway, we made it through the entire movie though the wife did so through her fingers at times, hiding from the movie's frightening parts. The ending was kind of weird (go figure in a movie about recording messages from the dead). Anyway, I would not necessarily recommend this one unless you are bored and it comes on a cable channel.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Nina Finds A Fried
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
When Nina (our doberman) has been out in the back yard the last day or two she has spent a large percentage of her time staring at the base of one of our sheds. This is not normal behavior for her but we supposed there was some critter down there and she was showing an interest. No critter in their right mind would dare come out with Nina's 70 lb frame lurking out so when a small head did appear we were interested. The wife headed out and found exhibit A (see above photo).
A lady at the pet store told us that this little guy (and he is a guy) is about 3 weeks old. We stocked up on premature kitty supplies and now we have this little meowing thing that is holding our attention the bulk of our time since yesterday when we found him. He did sleep all through the night which was one of my concerns and we were relieved when (despite being quiet all night) he was still alive this morning. One thing you cannot see in this picture is that he has 6 toes on both his front paws. They just look weird, like some kind of tree dwelling creature or something. I tried to get a pic of a paw but none of them came out very good. Maybe some other time.
Last night (after the kitty excitement) we went to a recital of sorts. The place where both kids take music lessons has a student night once a month. The son participated last month but I was quite sick at the time (or at least still contagious) so I could not attend. The video the wife took left something to be desired and in the end the wife and daughter could only stay for his performance since they had another commitment right after that. The cost is $5 (students are free) and there is quite an elaborate set up with lighting, amps, microphones, etc. All manner of skill levels are represented from beginner to advanced. Everyone did a pretty good job and it was well worth the $5 price of admission (and I got some much better videos of the kid's playing).
Today after church we have a big family reunion (like grandma level family, and given that my grandma had 10+ siblings, the 80+ years she has been alive have produces a big family). It should be a good time and we are hoping for some good weather. I remembered to charge the camera battery since kitty and kiddy pics and videos have drained it down. Well it is about my turn for the shower.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
When Nina (our doberman) has been out in the back yard the last day or two she has spent a large percentage of her time staring at the base of one of our sheds. This is not normal behavior for her but we supposed there was some critter down there and she was showing an interest. No critter in their right mind would dare come out with Nina's 70 lb frame lurking out so when a small head did appear we were interested. The wife headed out and found exhibit A (see above photo).
A lady at the pet store told us that this little guy (and he is a guy) is about 3 weeks old. We stocked up on premature kitty supplies and now we have this little meowing thing that is holding our attention the bulk of our time since yesterday when we found him. He did sleep all through the night which was one of my concerns and we were relieved when (despite being quiet all night) he was still alive this morning. One thing you cannot see in this picture is that he has 6 toes on both his front paws. They just look weird, like some kind of tree dwelling creature or something. I tried to get a pic of a paw but none of them came out very good. Maybe some other time.
Last night (after the kitty excitement) we went to a recital of sorts. The place where both kids take music lessons has a student night once a month. The son participated last month but I was quite sick at the time (or at least still contagious) so I could not attend. The video the wife took left something to be desired and in the end the wife and daughter could only stay for his performance since they had another commitment right after that. The cost is $5 (students are free) and there is quite an elaborate set up with lighting, amps, microphones, etc. All manner of skill levels are represented from beginner to advanced. Everyone did a pretty good job and it was well worth the $5 price of admission (and I got some much better videos of the kid's playing).
Today after church we have a big family reunion (like grandma level family, and given that my grandma had 10+ siblings, the 80+ years she has been alive have produces a big family). It should be a good time and we are hoping for some good weather. I remembered to charge the camera battery since kitty and kiddy pics and videos have drained it down. Well it is about my turn for the shower.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Cleaning The Vacuum
Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
The wife is out walking with her friends as she does most every Saturday (and Tuesday and Thursday). Being a Saturday, the question of making a Panera Bread run afterwards has come up and with little discussion a decision was made in the affirmative. The kids are with their aunt so that leaves me here at home all by my lonesome. The wife did leave me a task to do however, namely to look at the cheap vacuum cleaner that we have and see if I can get it working again. Most of you that know me will know that this decision (to have me look at it) is really the last ditch effort before the vacuum finds its way to our large trash bin. I can read the signs that my wife is secretly (or not so secretly) hoping that I would be unsuccessful at this which would result in a new vacuum. We had a really nice one that I bought over 10 years ago and it lasted us up until the move back to Indiana. Once we had picked out our house here and noted that it was small and had little carpet, we decided against another high quality expensive one for now. This one was around $100 if memory serves and was bought at Lowe's as apposed to the $500 one from 10 years ago bought at an actual vacuum (and sewing) center. We new a salesman there that we could trust and he even threw in a box of attachments for free. The vacuum we have not is not worth paying to have fixed hence the wife's having me look at it. I started by taking it all apart...
This involved a wrench and a screwdriver. I made a mental note how things went back together hoping that this I would be successful and that this knowledge would be needed for reassembly. There were not that many parts that could come off but if it could be disconnected, I did so. You cannot see this in the picture but notice my disregard for my safety in that part of the disconnecting occurred whilst the vacuum was still plugged in to the wall. Notice also the fork in the right of the picture as this proved the most valuable tool in fixing the real problem, namely some serious pet hair clogging up the biggest hose. Also notice the large amount of dust and stuff on the floor. When the first deluge of dust poured out of the bottom I then realized my first mistake was doing this in the house for if I was indeed unsuccessful in resurrecting the device I would have somehow to clean up the carpet.
I think I could make another pet with the amount of fur that I found lodged in the hose. Pet hair probably makes up a large percentage of stuff we sweep up anyway so I don't know why after many months the clogging happened but no matter as when I got done forking out the furballs the vacuum returned to its normal sucky self. I wish the son could have been here to see me do this as he does not get to witness Dad doing stuff like this very often. This is part of the reason for the pictures, proof I did something semi-husbandly today.
The kiddos should be home in about an hour and the wife has a book club this afternoon. After that, the daughter has a recital so the day is filled and a nap is a low possibility. Oh well, at least I have an hour more of peace and quiet here by myself now that my vacuum repair is done. I just hope the wife is not too disappointed that I was successful.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
The wife is out walking with her friends as she does most every Saturday (and Tuesday and Thursday). Being a Saturday, the question of making a Panera Bread run afterwards has come up and with little discussion a decision was made in the affirmative. The kids are with their aunt so that leaves me here at home all by my lonesome. The wife did leave me a task to do however, namely to look at the cheap vacuum cleaner that we have and see if I can get it working again. Most of you that know me will know that this decision (to have me look at it) is really the last ditch effort before the vacuum finds its way to our large trash bin. I can read the signs that my wife is secretly (or not so secretly) hoping that I would be unsuccessful at this which would result in a new vacuum. We had a really nice one that I bought over 10 years ago and it lasted us up until the move back to Indiana. Once we had picked out our house here and noted that it was small and had little carpet, we decided against another high quality expensive one for now. This one was around $100 if memory serves and was bought at Lowe's as apposed to the $500 one from 10 years ago bought at an actual vacuum (and sewing) center. We new a salesman there that we could trust and he even threw in a box of attachments for free. The vacuum we have not is not worth paying to have fixed hence the wife's having me look at it. I started by taking it all apart...
The kiddos should be home in about an hour and the wife has a book club this afternoon. After that, the daughter has a recital so the day is filled and a nap is a low possibility. Oh well, at least I have an hour more of peace and quiet here by myself now that my vacuum repair is done. I just hope the wife is not too disappointed that I was successful.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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