“The team has come along slow but fast.”
– Casey Stengel, Baseball player/manager
“Weather forecast: precipitation in the morning, rain in the afternoon.”
– Detroit Daily News
“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
– Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.
“Can you get a ticket for running a stop sign that is not
there?” – Driver school applicant
“A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.”
– Everett Dirksen, Congressman
Filed under Favorite Quotes, Funny Signs - Humor
motherboard
Recently I told you that my husband had two projects going on simultaneously – building a welding lathe in the shop and building a new computer for me.
Yesterday we got the CPU finally and he put that and the fan that goes with it into the computer and turned it on. It wouldn’t boot despite everything he knew how to do. After the New Egg people (from whom he bought the computer parts STILL didn’t call as they said they would, he called ASUS, the maker of the motherboard, since he suspects that this is the reason the computer isn’t booting. After a long talk with them, they said to send the motherboard to them and they would look at it.
We now have the motherboard packed up and ready for UPS to pick up Monday. We’re hoping they’ll send us another one quickly, or fix this one and send it back. There is nothing more that can be done until we get one that works, so the project is on hold now.
He moved all the parts off my work area, thank goodness, so I’m functional at my computer again without having a lot of problems finding stuff or moving around a bit, checking my calendar, etc.
He’ll switch projects now. The power supply for the step motor for the welding lathe arrived today, so he’s waiting for the heat to work in the shop and will probably spend the rest of the afternoon out there.
I’m planning to put a coat of orange on the jack-o-lantern mailbox decoration I’m repainting, and then I’ll go back up and work on figuring out what to do with all the ‘stuff’ I took out of the guest room closet….
I hope you’re having a fun day.
Filed under Challenges, Lewis Mailbox Decorations, Lewis projects
I spent most of the afternoon getting everything out of the closet except for my out-of-season clothes, which I moved to the far end. Everything else is now out. When I get home from Lunch Bunch and errands, I’ll make lunch for my husband and then clean the closet before even thinking of putting anything else back in.
Going through my spring/summer clothes again will wait until I switch over at the end of winter.
Right now the guest room looks like a bomb went off in there, doesn’t it. I’ll probably start with linens and bed stuff I want to keep for the guest room. If this takes me through Sunday, I’ll just take time off for the SuperBowl and then do another session. :0)
Maya of WholesumYum.com really knows her stuff. She prides herself on coming up with low carb recipes to die for that don’t have a lot of ingredients, and the ingredients she uses are readily available. Good food, low carb, delicious.
Yesterday I tried her “Baked Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders Recipe – 3 Ingredients”
I used chicken breasts, cutting them lengthwise. I have to admit, I forgot to turn on the vent/blower over our stove and the temperature on this is very hot, so two of them went off toward the end of the cooking time, but we removed them and put them outside for the couple of minutes or so left and then during the couple of minutes of broiling.
My husband ate his dinner in front of his computer in the office, waiting for tech support to call. He came out soon after I took his plate into the office, saying, “This is the best chicken of this type I’ve EVER eaten. Juicy and delicious. Please put this recipe in our do-over-and-over group.” To say this happens rarely is an understatement, so I felt good the rest of the evening, basking in the glow of having served such a delicious dish.
THANK YOU, MAYA!
Filed under Cooking/Recipes/Low Carb Lifestyle, DIET!, Healthy Eating
It is lying on its side on the working space between my husband’s computer area and mine in the office, side cover off, all plugged in – but not working.
We got the CPU yesterday. My husband immediately installed it – plus a fan for it – into the computer and fired it up. Fans turned, noises were made, but it didn’t boot. Since then, he’s tried everything he knows to do. And he knows a LOT. A former systems analyst, he’s built, maintained, and written programs for computers his whole adult life.
SO – he finally called New Egg support – since that’s were we bought most, if not all, of the parts. He worked on HIS computer while he waited for the call back, watching to see where he was in the queue. He ate his dinner in here, finally coming into the living room about 10:00 when he figured all chance of call back was over.
He contacted them again, and they’re supposed to call this morning between 8:45 and 9:15. It’s now 9:18….
We’re supposed to go to Lunch Bunch in about an hour. We’ve already agreed that he probably won’t be able to go with me. He’ll either be ON the call, hopefully getting help, or will still be waiting for them to call.
I hate computers that don’t work. I don’t have the smarts to figure out what is wrong or what to do to fix them. I love them when they do what they’re supposed to do and all I have to do is learn how to make them do their magic.
With all of my husband’s expertise, I don’t think we’ve ever had a computer work the way it’s supposed to right off. And so it goes….
Filed under Challenges
“Before the Meeting” – Paul Militaru Photography
“Birds at Movie” – Paul Militaru Photography
Filed under Paul Militaru Photography
partnersRiley
Good form! It’s important to stay fit during the winter.
Filed under Creativity, exercise, snow people
You already know what a slob I am, and that I put lots of things – almost anything – above cleaning stuff out. I feel the need, however, every 30 years or so, to go through things. We have NEVER stayed anywhere for more than 7 years. Our first house closing was in 1970. Our second was in 1977. Third 1981, and last 1987. ( know these dates because of a wonderful wooden plaque my parents had made. It has a mounted champagne cork on one side and a gold plaque mounted on the other with the dates – added to each time we bought another home. We’ve had it on a wall somewhere since 1970 (some 48 years now. :0) ) When you move, you’re forced to go through things, purging, cleaning and reorganizing. 
I use the guest room walk-in closet as storage for my off-season clothes. I ALSO use it for our son’s leftover luggage, some memory boxes I created, bedding for the guest room bed, and LOTS and LOTS of other things.
My goal is to only have linens for the guest room plus my out of season clothes. Everything else has got to go – either somewhere else, be donated, or thrown away. I plan to spend a couple of days (or whatever is needed) to take the time to go through everything carefully, armed with a large trash can, large leaf bags for donated items, a pen and paper to list what I’m donating, and cleaning supplies.
I know. It’s disgusting. It’s a good thing we’re friends, ’cause I wouldn’t show this mess to just anyone….
Wish me luck, please, on healing this.
“Desolation” – Paul Militaru Photography
“Gull” – Paul Militaru Photography
Filed under Paul Militaru Photography
Our son lives and works in Thailand. The touristy part of Thailand is in the southern part of the country, from Bangkok south. Northern Thailand is beautiful and much quieter, and he really likes it.
He thinks that it is only courteous to try to speak the language in the country you’re in. When he was in China, he took Mandarin lessons. Now he’s still taking Mandarin and is also taking Thai lessons. In fact, he recently told us he doubled his lessons in both and now feels he’s making good progress.
He has lived in Airbnbs and apartments. One of his big loves, though, is making music. He plays the guitar, drums, a little piano, and loves to create tracks of music for a song, making a track of each instrument and then merging them with his electronic gadgets. He can really lose himself in his music, but hasn’t been able to play the way he would like because it would bother his neighbors. He’s been on the lookout for a house to rent that is by itself a little, yet close enough to his work and his classes. He finally found a really gorgeous place and just moved in today. (He’s sleeping now after a really long day of moving in. There is 12 hours difference between us.)
Here are some pics he sent of his new rental house – (I am DROOLING!)
He’s going to use one room as a music room. He plans to start a YouTube channel and list some of his music there. I’m so happy for him and I can’t wait to hear what he creates!
Filed under Dreams, Family, opportunities, vicarious enjoyment
We put up Cupid with the Valentine on the mailbox yesterday. This is a closeup.
This is the back. You can see where I tried to blend the support hanger into the design.
This is the front. We hope people smile as they either drive past our driveway or come up and see us!
Filed under holidays, Lewis Art, Lewis Mailbox Decorations
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