Move to new den, “Hunter’s Moon”, lots of walking...
(posted from home)
(This post covers 27-31 October, 2008)
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Friday, 31 October-
I spent the morning on email and hop-scotching across the various news sites I like to read. As the presidential campaign winds down I’ve been reading a lot more about politics and enjoy comparing news across multiple sites. It’s a bit disconcerting to read the wildly-different accounts at, say, NewsMax (conservative) and Salon (liberal) and then try to figure out what really happened. The bottom line is you can’t trust either for the news. Oh, yeah—and then go read some gunnie sites where you’ll learn, for instance, that it was Acorn that was responsible for the economic recession.
After lunch I put the top down on the Miata and drove over to the West Shore Sportsman’s Club to check out the new trap range. The old trap range was closed down last year when it was discovered that shotgun pellets rained down on a neighbor’s property under certain conditions. The new range is in a much better location but there’s a lot more work to be done before it will be usable.
I did meet an interesting guy today. He was cleaning up the backstop of the indoor range to prepare for an annual ladies’ shooting event next week. Our conversation ranged widely and we eventually hit on the fact that he too had made the long drive to Alaska and back. It was great to compare notes on our experiences.
After the range visit I drove on to Pinchot State Park. Today I walked six miles, leaving from the east-side mooring area and walking to the end of the campground and back in two hours even.
That evening we watched three more episodes of ‘Weeds – 3’.
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Thursday, 30 October-
Today I rode the Concours into York on some errands. One of those errands was picking up a windshield repair kit for Mocha Joe. The windshield has five small chips/cracks from gravel kicked up by oncoming vehicles on our Alaska trip. The good news is there’s only one very small chip (not even a star-crack) in the area swept by the windshield wiper on the driver’s side.
I got some bad news on the windshield kit, however. You’re supposed to do the repair within a few days of occurrence and (worse) it won’t work if the windshield has been treated with a windshield treatment like Rain-X. And I know I have treated the windshield with Rain-X since the crack happened. I’ve found Rain-X stops wiper-skip so whenever the wipers start skipping, I clean the windshield and polish it with a Rain-X-soaked pad. I know I did this on the Maine trip.
This morning I stopped at a windshield-repair shop to ask about the Rain-X problem. They say they can try it and it may or may not work—there’s no way to tell. The cost would be $84 whether it works to not.
That afternoon I drove the Miata over to Pinchot State Park for my walk. Today I parked at the east-side boat launch and walked to the campground and back—about five miles.
That evening we hosted a few Halloween kids (only about a dozen this year). We then watched ‘Survivor- Gabon’ and the first three episodes of ‘Weeds- Season Three’.
I finished “Hunter’s Moon” today and have to say I was disappointed. This one is a bit too much like “Tampa Burn”.
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Wednesday, 29 October-
This morning we drove to the BonTon in Camp Hill to shop for a new chair. I had bought my all-time-favorite chair from them back in 2000. After calling around and checking the web, it appears they still have the best deal. My current chair (the one we’ve now moved into my ‘den’) is a mission-style recliner (a Lane Montana Hi-Leg Recliner) in dark green leather. We’ll get the same model for the living room but this time we’ll go with a mahagony color if we do indeed go ahead with the buy.
I’m pretty sure we’ll be going ahead. Moving my ‘stuff’ (the laptop bag and accessories, my stack of reading materials, the occasional map, etc) has cleaned up the living room and opened up the space. Labashi LOVES it and I have to admit it would be better for me to routinely work from the den.
The laptop gave me a bit of trouble during the move and would not connect wirelessly. I had to turn off the MAC filter to get it to work and will have to research that further so I can re-secure the router’s wireless connection. I had a wired connection in the living room and may decide to extend that to the den. If wireless continues to perform well and I can get the MAC filter working, I’ll not bother.
This afternoon I brought up a small TV we had in storage and connected it in the den. I can’t change channels from here but that’s okay.
My four-miler was more pleasant today but temps are still below normal.
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Tuesday, 28 October-
I slept GREAT last night. The headaches associated with my cold or whatever have finally stopped.
I spent a few hours on web news this morning, then Labashi and I took an hour to adjust the hang of the dining room lights. The three lamps hang down individually and our task this morning was to make them four inches higher. They had been a little too close to the dining room table top.
We also spent a few hours figuring out what to do about my favorite chair. It has seen better days. We were trying to figure out whether we could fix it, have it upholstered, or replace it entirely. We ended up deciding to move the old chair into my office as a reading chair and buy a new one for the living room. This will solve several issues. Now if we can just find the right deal on a new one.
Today was a windy and cold day so I dug out a rain jacket for my four-miler. Going downwind wasn’t bad but coming back I had to lean into the wind and hold onto my hat. I see the weather report says we had wind gusts up to 49 miles per hour and I can believe it.
That evening we finished off the “Weeds - Season Two” episodes. The season ended with a cliff-hanger. Now I want to go get Season Three right away.
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Monday, 27 October-
This morning I updated the blog and caught up on the news. After a few hours watching and cataloging video clips, I went with Labashi to run some errands in town. We took advantage of a free temporary membership at BJ’s Warehouse to check it out. I’m kind of underwhelmed. We did pick up some excellent trail-mix. It’s Berkley and Jensen Gourmet trail mix intended for vending machines. We both say it’s the best ever and the cost was reasonable at $8-something for 12 bags.
We got home just an hour before dark but I wanted to take my four-miler anyway. That turned out to be a good thing. A barred owl serenaded me from a sycamore across the creek. Very cool!
That evening we watched three episodes of Weeds-Season Two.
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(posted from home)
(This post covers 27-31 October, 2008)
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Friday, 31 October-
I spent the morning on email and hop-scotching across the various news sites I like to read. As the presidential campaign winds down I’ve been reading a lot more about politics and enjoy comparing news across multiple sites. It’s a bit disconcerting to read the wildly-different accounts at, say, NewsMax (conservative) and Salon (liberal) and then try to figure out what really happened. The bottom line is you can’t trust either for the news. Oh, yeah—and then go read some gunnie sites where you’ll learn, for instance, that it was Acorn that was responsible for the economic recession.
After lunch I put the top down on the Miata and drove over to the West Shore Sportsman’s Club to check out the new trap range. The old trap range was closed down last year when it was discovered that shotgun pellets rained down on a neighbor’s property under certain conditions. The new range is in a much better location but there’s a lot more work to be done before it will be usable.
I did meet an interesting guy today. He was cleaning up the backstop of the indoor range to prepare for an annual ladies’ shooting event next week. Our conversation ranged widely and we eventually hit on the fact that he too had made the long drive to Alaska and back. It was great to compare notes on our experiences.
After the range visit I drove on to Pinchot State Park. Today I walked six miles, leaving from the east-side mooring area and walking to the end of the campground and back in two hours even.
That evening we watched three more episodes of ‘Weeds – 3’.
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Thursday, 30 October-
Today I rode the Concours into York on some errands. One of those errands was picking up a windshield repair kit for Mocha Joe. The windshield has five small chips/cracks from gravel kicked up by oncoming vehicles on our Alaska trip. The good news is there’s only one very small chip (not even a star-crack) in the area swept by the windshield wiper on the driver’s side.
I got some bad news on the windshield kit, however. You’re supposed to do the repair within a few days of occurrence and (worse) it won’t work if the windshield has been treated with a windshield treatment like Rain-X. And I know I have treated the windshield with Rain-X since the crack happened. I’ve found Rain-X stops wiper-skip so whenever the wipers start skipping, I clean the windshield and polish it with a Rain-X-soaked pad. I know I did this on the Maine trip.
This morning I stopped at a windshield-repair shop to ask about the Rain-X problem. They say they can try it and it may or may not work—there’s no way to tell. The cost would be $84 whether it works to not.
That afternoon I drove the Miata over to Pinchot State Park for my walk. Today I parked at the east-side boat launch and walked to the campground and back—about five miles.
That evening we hosted a few Halloween kids (only about a dozen this year). We then watched ‘Survivor- Gabon’ and the first three episodes of ‘Weeds- Season Three’.
I finished “Hunter’s Moon” today and have to say I was disappointed. This one is a bit too much like “Tampa Burn”.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Wednesday, 29 October-
This morning we drove to the BonTon in Camp Hill to shop for a new chair. I had bought my all-time-favorite chair from them back in 2000. After calling around and checking the web, it appears they still have the best deal. My current chair (the one we’ve now moved into my ‘den’) is a mission-style recliner (a Lane Montana Hi-Leg Recliner) in dark green leather. We’ll get the same model for the living room but this time we’ll go with a mahagony color if we do indeed go ahead with the buy.
I’m pretty sure we’ll be going ahead. Moving my ‘stuff’ (the laptop bag and accessories, my stack of reading materials, the occasional map, etc) has cleaned up the living room and opened up the space. Labashi LOVES it and I have to admit it would be better for me to routinely work from the den.
The laptop gave me a bit of trouble during the move and would not connect wirelessly. I had to turn off the MAC filter to get it to work and will have to research that further so I can re-secure the router’s wireless connection. I had a wired connection in the living room and may decide to extend that to the den. If wireless continues to perform well and I can get the MAC filter working, I’ll not bother.
This afternoon I brought up a small TV we had in storage and connected it in the den. I can’t change channels from here but that’s okay.
My four-miler was more pleasant today but temps are still below normal.
---------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, 28 October-
I slept GREAT last night. The headaches associated with my cold or whatever have finally stopped.
I spent a few hours on web news this morning, then Labashi and I took an hour to adjust the hang of the dining room lights. The three lamps hang down individually and our task this morning was to make them four inches higher. They had been a little too close to the dining room table top.
We also spent a few hours figuring out what to do about my favorite chair. It has seen better days. We were trying to figure out whether we could fix it, have it upholstered, or replace it entirely. We ended up deciding to move the old chair into my office as a reading chair and buy a new one for the living room. This will solve several issues. Now if we can just find the right deal on a new one.
Today was a windy and cold day so I dug out a rain jacket for my four-miler. Going downwind wasn’t bad but coming back I had to lean into the wind and hold onto my hat. I see the weather report says we had wind gusts up to 49 miles per hour and I can believe it.
That evening we finished off the “Weeds - Season Two” episodes. The season ended with a cliff-hanger. Now I want to go get Season Three right away.
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Monday, 27 October-
This morning I updated the blog and caught up on the news. After a few hours watching and cataloging video clips, I went with Labashi to run some errands in town. We took advantage of a free temporary membership at BJ’s Warehouse to check it out. I’m kind of underwhelmed. We did pick up some excellent trail-mix. It’s Berkley and Jensen Gourmet trail mix intended for vending machines. We both say it’s the best ever and the cost was reasonable at $8-something for 12 bags.
We got home just an hour before dark but I wanted to take my four-miler anyway. That turned out to be a good thing. A barred owl serenaded me from a sycamore across the creek. Very cool!
That evening we watched three episodes of Weeds-Season Two.
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