St Patty's Day Party

The Art Association was holding it's 1st Annual St Patrick's Day party.
Daniel finally departed today with a load of peanuts ... heading to Chicago ... then it's back to Florida with a frozen food load. First load we've had in 7-1/2 months. At least Daniel has work now. I'm still waiting on the call-back.

The food ... which I don't have a foto of ... was really wonderful. Authentic Irish fare. In fact we had an Irish fellow from North Ireland who hadn't been home in two years ... he sat there eating and sighing ... saying something about comfort food. The only thing I didn't care for was the "Bangers in Rum Sauce" ... pieces of sausage soaked in Rum. Boiled cabbage, boiled potatoes, beef brisket, lamb stew, soda bread, irish potato salad, "pasties" (meat & potatoes in small pastry half-shells), green punch (the dark green bowl was the "special" punch with the kick to it ... light green for kids and us), and green colored desserts (angel food cake, key lime pie, green jello).

The Fone Replacement is Here!

Here it is ...
When I went on the website to choose the replacement phone ... they didn't have any Nokia 1600's. So, I had to choose something else. Not being a big fan of the LG 300 that we bought last year to replace the house phone (very marginal on reception -- even in Los Angeles) ... I decided to go with this Motorola W375. The advantage with the Motorola is that I can plug an external antenna (Wilson) into it and get much better reception in marginal areas. Wilson even has an amplifier that will increase the input and output to 3 watts! That is significant when you realize these things normally deal in milli-watts (millionths [ 0.0001] of a watt of power).

Foggy Morning

Yesterday I noticed that wipers are not real effective when riding my motor-assisted bicycle in fog. It is scary to pull your hand off the handlebar at 25 mph and reach up to wipe a finger across the glasses lenses. And besides, you can't see much of anything anyway. My wife was off to work with the car ... and it was a little 9 mile (one-way) ride thru the fog for me to the VA clinic. I set my front light and tail light in flashing mode, had my air horn ready, and prayed that no one would run me over. Of course, it was lovely and sunny when I came home at noon.

A little Sunshine, A little welding

Enjoyed a little sunshine, a little welding, a short bicycle ride, and a lot of hacksaw and grinder work ... gotta separate them bicycle parts from the frames so I can use them. Tried getting some tubing from an old 10-speed frame ... but it was so darn thick and heavy that I just kept the front forks and the headtube. Tossed the rest of it on the scrap pile.

No, my back didn't bother me while riding the recumbent bicycle.
Nice padded seat, firm back support ...
Just don't drop anything on the floor ...
and have to squat down to pick it up.

I'll take my sniffles and see about some yummy onion soup for dinner.

Blockage Between My Ears

It's been a busy day.
Called the recruiter at Werner ... no regional opening ...
in fact, no OTR openings either.

Called Lowes ... they said come in at 10 a.m.
I had an interview with the Store Manager.
So, they interview a few more people ... make a decision ...
and maybe I get a call from them next week??

Visited the local V.A. outreach center ... no help there.
come back next week and maybe we'll give you some Motrin
for that aching back problem ...

Made the long drive to the V.A. facility where they did the MRI on my head ... they confirmed that there is some kind of blockage in my head ... which is why the flashlight beam didn't go straight through from one earhole and out the other. Otherwise every thing is fine. Which had absolutely nothing to do with my back ... maybe I should wear one of those big black back-support belts ... oh, and take two aspirin ...
it might help (it's an anti-inflammatory).