Tuesday June 11, 2013

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

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