True love :: My Wife
Age :: Before Beauty
Stern :: Grim
Elastic :: Man
Rustic :: Man
Enhance :: Pills
Jackson :: Pedophile
Inherit :: MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Devious :: me
Scapegoat :: He’s been shot!
Kids Learning
I was having a conversation with someone about kids recognizing various characters and thought this might be interesting. I’ve made a link to 10 different small pictures. See how many you recognize just by sight. Then see how many your kids recognize. I’ll bet that the average adult (without kids) might get 4-5. Adult with kids should get all 10. Kids will get 9/10.
Goings On
Well, lots of stuff has been going on, but very little of it blogworthy. For both my readers, however, I’ll give a little summary of things that have been going on.. My wife has taken to writing a list of things to do on our bathroom mirror, where I can’t help but see it several times a day. This is really good, since I have a very short memory :).
First, there was a vent in the laundry room, and I finally got around to looking at it, and it looks like it once had a fan in it, but no longer. So I went to OSH and got a new fan and housing and had intended to put it in, but they had nailed it to the beam in the attic, from above. So I shelved that project for a while.
There was also an unpleasant smell from the washer, and we thought that perhaps the drain was clogged. As it turned out, the fabric softener had started to clog the inside of the agitator, so I ended up having to take the cup and the agitator off and clean it all out. I’ve seen some foul things in my life, but the greyish goo that I had to clean out from that washer was some of the foulest.
Then soaked them, replaced them, and ran vinegar and baking soda through the washer to get the rest of the scum out.
Then last night I climbed up in the attic to fix that fan. 45 minutes in 110 degrees covered in blown in fiberglass was not fun.
But tonight, I get to test the new Tomb Raider game, so that is SWEET.
Dreaming from Camp
I had the weirdest dream last night while camping. I was walking through a part of a city that was not good – run down, but very busy with illicit activities. there was a lot of drug dealing and using going on, and i distinctly remember feeling very fearful, that I needed to keep moving, not piss anyone off, because these people were angry, suspicious, probably tweaking, and could easily kill me at the slightest provocation. I take the side door into what appears to be a restaraunt or hotel lobby, with the intention of heading out the front door. As I step out of the front door into the antechamber that leads to the street, I see someone about to step into the chamber, and it’s someone I know, an ex addict. He’s looking the other way down the street and I can see sores on his skin, and I feel a part of me inside cringe, knowing he’s using again. I brush past before he sees me and vanish out into the street.
Car Update
The estimate is in, just short of $11K in damage, and a few percent below a total write off. So they begin to rebuild it. I begin to wait. The estimate is 23 work days to finish my car, so I’m off to pick up a rental today, and will be using it for the next month or so. Anyways, off…