Tuesday June 11, 2013 update #479
Oh boy, an early
night and a good sleep do wonders but awaking to a rainy day does put he brakes
on that and make you feel dopey and sleepy.
However I did need
to get up and get our Eleggant Hooks packages mailed off. I tried to check to see if we had any new
orders prior to leaving but the Internet, and hence our phones too, were down.
I went to the main
Post Office to get the packages off with the morning’s stuff then went over to
the Southridge PO to check out the additional parcel. It was indeed Mark Anderson’s passport and paperwork all
completed so he will be happy to see all that upon my return. I did a quick tour in Staples but one look
in my wallet cured any thoughts I may have entertained about buying anything.
I dropped in at
McFarlane Agencies to see all the boys, including Bill who was in the office in
one of his rare visitations. Everyone
looks really good. I then spent a
little time with the new girl, Nicole, who has inherited my book of business. She appears to have already made a very
good impression on her co-workers and my clients so we wish her the best there.
Back home I saw the
Internet was up so I called Gord and Em to confirm that Wing Night is tonight
at Original Joe’s. I then gave my Mom a
quick call to say I would stop by tomorrow.
Mom loves wings so I am toying
with the idea of bringing her to Foxy’s…
Then the Internet
went down again so I used my cel to call Platinum to complain. They are saying it is a general outage
everywhere and they are working on it.
It is not looking good for getting at the many things I had hoped to
accomplish, like uploading more work for sale, etc.
I started to tackle the repair to the rain
barrel outside. I applied some
Weldbond glue that is not good on plastic (not much is…) and I will apply some
Duct tape over top of this once it is reasonably dry. Hopefully it will then be able to hold water for a while.
Then I went to work
on the new camera equipment, installing the UV filter, checking out the 2 new
lens hoods, and connecting the new lens cap.
I am very pleased with the small investment. I took a few shots with the new 70-300 lens and was thankful for
the image stabilization feature because the image in my viewfinder wasn’t very
steady. I am quite happy that the
photos turned out much better than expected.
I was pooped so
settled in for an hour-long nap before heading out to Wings. Many folks are away so there was only five
of us tonight. I had the salt &
pepper wings and was adding more black pepper when the girl cam by with the
peppercorn shaker. Mmmmmm good and
spicy.
I then went down to
Gord and Emily’s for a quick visit with them and Chimo, their champion Golden
Lab. Oh, the two huge cats, Pepsi and
Orange joined the party too. First we
went downstairs to check out why they are not receiving most of my emails but
this is a universal problem with Shaw so
they will need to phone Shaw. I had
forgotten how nice a new computer can be, with almost instant page changes and
no waiting on anything. While we
enjoyed an ice cream dessert we were treated to a few videos of Chimo doing his
workouts and also some footage of his first litter. Chimo is such a gentle giant who doesn’t bark and is such a
pleasure to be around.
It will soon get
boring around here once I finish these small projects and I know I will be
looking forward to getting back to Bella and the Boys.
That was today’s excitement. Cheers, Al
Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/
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