The phoenix lander is supposed to be on the surface of Mars this evening.  What a trip...  I saw Indianna Jones last night and thought it well done.  S and A were to meet me but A came down with a cold and needed to stay home.  CGW is in Arvada for a week. 

Another three day and too much to do. 

So S.F. is having a heat wave...we finally had two sprinkles this week, a prelude to the monsoon's?  I still have work to do in dealing with crap I've accumulated.  School's almost out and the swimming team is set to begin practices(more transport).

     After quaker meeting, we went to sell girl scout cookies at boxmart, but the wind finally won.  I had taped the demo boxes to the card table using duct tape so we wouldn't have to hold them down.  The tumbleweeds kept hitting the table and scaring us.   So we quit after two hours.  Still we sold alot.  I've gotten used to clothes that fit.  My ( Read more... )

I just got back from the Thusday poker game($6 for the right to play even when broke so I went broke a couple of times and then almost recovered all my investment).  It works out pretty good except that when it's my turn to buy beer/soda/nuts/popcorn, I spend just as much as everyone else, but only drink soda.  The other guys recognize this and buy ( Read more... )

Up and reading  rebyribs and thinking about how mine ued to do that when, there she is and she peeks over my shoulder and asks not to be bothered this morning.  A real independance.  We're going to have a beeding birthday party in honor of her 12th and Martin Luther King's day off.  I got a tickle in my chest, hope it's not a cold.  I've gotten ( Read more... )

I found an old blue lava lame a while ago and found it very useful to warm hands.  It's also really neat to find it in stasis in the cool morning to start moving as soon as any pressure is applied to the glass.  I remembered how I made an Archimedes diver that would rise or fall when the glass bottle was squeezed and shows the flexibility of gass ( Read more... )

Waiting for everyone to get here.  I put on rice that we'll have with chicken(and lot's of my daughter's curry) when we eat.  I finally got the chainsaw fixed(or so I thought) when the sprocket that holds the chain fell apart.  A little later it"s dissassembled and I'm off to hardware stores to find a nonexistant replacement("Not til friday, can't ( Read more... )

I Called SR and the Hydrocloric acid worked!  yeah!!!  My daughtor is playing an old lady whith crossed eyes.  And beaver teeth... weird...I got the chain saw working finally, after having to remake the adjusting nut for the chain bar.  We watched "It's a Wonderful Life" again(the first time for Ariel) last night.

We were in S R wed and thur to see cousins and gramps but cousins didn't make it.  The plumbing failed again and 50 years of lime was hopefully dissolved using acid.  We went to johnnies and I found out that Alice had died from cancer.  wormwood...  I had a piece of cherry pie that broke my sugar fast.  I'm not giving up though.  School starts ( Read more... )