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Catching up
Well, here I am again, up way too late, trying to catch up on posts. Tomorrow is Saturday, but it's a Sebastian and me morning, so I'll be up with him.
Today was...weird.
I went to work despite the winter storm warning. Spent a very productive morning, but the snow was hitting hard by noon, and almost everyone was gone by 12:30. So I went home early myself. The commute's too damn long, and too dangerous when it's snowing.
Teri picked me up at the station. We picked up Sebastian, and drove over to get some milk at Wright's Dairy before settling in. The roads were getting very bad, and I was nervous, so on the way back Teri had me drive (I guess I'm an annoying passenger, particularly when I'm nervous).
On the way, driving at less than 20 miles an hour, the car went into a completely uncontrolled skid - straight towards a car that was waiting to turn on to our street. That wasn't on a hill or anything, either; just a gentle turn. Nonetheless we plunged towards the other car. I steered at a 45° angle away from the collision, and fortunately we recovered just as we were about three feet from a collision. I've had closer calls, but it was still scary as hell.
I kept the car at closer to 10 mph for the rest of the ride home. When we got there, I couldn't pull into the driveway! The incline is nothing, less than six inches, but the car simply wouldn't go up and in. I had to back up several times to work up some momentum, and when we finally did get into the driveway, the car slithered and fishtailed. For a minute, I thought we were going to take out the fence and wreck the car at the same time.
But we didn't.
The birthday party for tonight (for me, my nephew, and my mother) has been put off. You should have heard Sebastian cry when we told him the bad news! His heart was utterly broken, because he was so looking forward to playing with his cousins. We might try to do it tomorrow at lunchtime, but we'd have to be on the road by 10 AM, and frankly, I'm nervous about the prospect. Still, we'll see.
We've been having a lot of problems with the CD player in our car for the last few months. It kept skipping or simply failing to play discs; it seemed likely that we'd have to replace it.
But just for the hell of it we picked up a CD lens cleaner. It came with a disc cleaner as well. I was afraid that it might actually destroy the player, but since the damned thing was hardly working anyway, there wasn't much to lose. And the cleaner was very cheap.
Do you know, it actually worked! After I ran the cleaner disc through one cycle, the performance of the player has improved enormously. It's still not perfect - I imagine that there was a lot of dust and grime in the works - but it plays most CDs straight through, no problem.
Nice to have something work out the way it's supposed to, for once!
Just for the record, yesterday I ate my first meal with cheese. I screwed up my order at a local Mexican place - forgot to say "no cheese" - and ended up with a cheese & beef chimichanga. It was my fault, and I was really hungry, so I said "screw it" and ate it anyway. I guess I've mellowed quite a bit in many ways, with age; apparently that includes food, too.
It actually wasn't bad. I still wouldn't order one deliberately, though.
There's something I'm really good at, and I wish I could do it more: reading aloud, particularly children's books. I was reading a Frog and Toad book to Sebastian and Teri last night, and it was eerie to feel so much in control of my voice. I'll spare you a lengthy description, but it's odd to have a free skill mastery (to use RPG terminology) that I won't get much use out of.
Still in the process of trying to transfer my domains to a new registrar. Why can't these things ever be easy?
I love bittorrent.
Yow. I just sneezed six times. Good night!
Today was...weird.
I went to work despite the winter storm warning. Spent a very productive morning, but the snow was hitting hard by noon, and almost everyone was gone by 12:30. So I went home early myself. The commute's too damn long, and too dangerous when it's snowing.
Teri picked me up at the station. We picked up Sebastian, and drove over to get some milk at Wright's Dairy before settling in. The roads were getting very bad, and I was nervous, so on the way back Teri had me drive (I guess I'm an annoying passenger, particularly when I'm nervous).
On the way, driving at less than 20 miles an hour, the car went into a completely uncontrolled skid - straight towards a car that was waiting to turn on to our street. That wasn't on a hill or anything, either; just a gentle turn. Nonetheless we plunged towards the other car. I steered at a 45° angle away from the collision, and fortunately we recovered just as we were about three feet from a collision. I've had closer calls, but it was still scary as hell.
I kept the car at closer to 10 mph for the rest of the ride home. When we got there, I couldn't pull into the driveway! The incline is nothing, less than six inches, but the car simply wouldn't go up and in. I had to back up several times to work up some momentum, and when we finally did get into the driveway, the car slithered and fishtailed. For a minute, I thought we were going to take out the fence and wreck the car at the same time.
But we didn't.
The birthday party for tonight (for me, my nephew, and my mother) has been put off. You should have heard Sebastian cry when we told him the bad news! His heart was utterly broken, because he was so looking forward to playing with his cousins. We might try to do it tomorrow at lunchtime, but we'd have to be on the road by 10 AM, and frankly, I'm nervous about the prospect. Still, we'll see.
We've been having a lot of problems with the CD player in our car for the last few months. It kept skipping or simply failing to play discs; it seemed likely that we'd have to replace it.
But just for the hell of it we picked up a CD lens cleaner. It came with a disc cleaner as well. I was afraid that it might actually destroy the player, but since the damned thing was hardly working anyway, there wasn't much to lose. And the cleaner was very cheap.
Do you know, it actually worked! After I ran the cleaner disc through one cycle, the performance of the player has improved enormously. It's still not perfect - I imagine that there was a lot of dust and grime in the works - but it plays most CDs straight through, no problem.
Nice to have something work out the way it's supposed to, for once!
Just for the record, yesterday I ate my first meal with cheese. I screwed up my order at a local Mexican place - forgot to say "no cheese" - and ended up with a cheese & beef chimichanga. It was my fault, and I was really hungry, so I said "screw it" and ate it anyway. I guess I've mellowed quite a bit in many ways, with age; apparently that includes food, too.
It actually wasn't bad. I still wouldn't order one deliberately, though.
There's something I'm really good at, and I wish I could do it more: reading aloud, particularly children's books. I was reading a Frog and Toad book to Sebastian and Teri last night, and it was eerie to feel so much in control of my voice. I'll spare you a lengthy description, but it's odd to have a free skill mastery (to use RPG terminology) that I won't get much use out of.
Still in the process of trying to transfer my domains to a new registrar. Why can't these things ever be easy?
I love bittorrent.
Yow. I just sneezed six times. Good night!
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On the reading aloud: I'd note that eventually you'll probably have a grandkid so I'd think that you'll probably have a lot of opportunity to read aloud. Umm, well, assuming that Future Tech doesn't gets really weird in a way that makes that unlikely, but I'd expect that verbal reading will still exist then.
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When you say you don't like cheese, are you talking about the horrible, plastic, cheese like stuff that gets called cheese at places like Burger King, and in the supermarket as "American Cheese" (or at least used to be), but is really more like plastic than actual cheese...
... or are you actually talking about cheese, which covers a lot of different kinds of food that comes in a lot of different tastes and textures... and which, given what I know about your tastes I would have expected you to like... well, some types of it anyway.
Kiralee
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I think texture also has a lot to do with it.
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Kiralee