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Surprising Covers

Today on XM radio, I heard Neil Diamond's Kentucky Woman covered by Deep Purple. Ouch!

Guess I'll have to get one

How did we get so lucky

For the second time recently, I heard about one of our friends whose kids have, for the most part, disowned them, or visa versa. Neither Ellyn nor I can believe that they have accepted this. We are relatively close to our kids, and also to our siblings and parents, for the most part, and if we were not, it would be very tragic. I am not sure what it is that we did right during "the dark years" of Logan and Brian's up-bringing (just kidding of course, which might be it), but we certainly have not disowned them and, I think, they not us, and we are very interested in everything that is going on in their lives and are always glad to see them or hear from them when we get the chance.

I gave my Dad a call on Friday because it was his 81st birthday and I think he was glad to hear from me. We didn't have much to talk about because I just saw him last month, but it was a nice call and I will do it again sometime before the end of the year.

Kick-ass rock guitarists - Robin Trower

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Speaking of back to school...

...how about this shot from 1990 of Logan and Brian heading back to school?


by geoff0522

Back to School

I'm glad we don't have to go through the "back to school" drill any more.

Hard work

Well, I have finished pouring the floor to our new shower, and it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself. I need to get the tile guy in to take a look and let me know if I need to correct any possible problems before they come in on 8/23 to start setting tile.

Good product naming

Assos Women's H F.I. Lady Cycling Shorts

I was a baaaaad boy.

So the good news is that our 11-year-old van with 165,000 miles on it, which I have been somewhat lax about keeping up to date on its maintenance, passed its CT emissions test. Whew! Now we can renew its registration. The bad news is, it will be due again in about 1 1/2 years, since I was about 6 months delinquent in getting it tested. Oops. Now we will probably also have to cough up another $20 in fines for doing it late.

Fix ups

After 20 years, we have new garage doors. The old ones had started rotting out. I had painted them twice and took out glass windows (after Brian put his hand through one while playing hockey in the driveway), put in wood, then took out the wood and put in plexiglass. I also backed Ellyn's car into one of them from the inside. So it was time for some nice, new, tightly sealed and insulated doors. They look nice. And they will never need painting.




Now I just have to fix the broken siding from the hockey playing in the driveway.

Bang, Pow, Bam!

So I'm working on Wednesday in an industrial part of Georgetown and the power goes out. The person there says it has been happening a lot because there is some construction going on. She checks with the CL&P guy outside and he turns it right back on. Then, about 15 minutes later, it goes off again. But this time we also hear some banging sounds in the outside wall. We listen for a while and then realize they are coming from outside the window. We look and there is an electrical wire hanging down in the street doing St. Vitus' dance in the street, with sparks shooting all over the place. Luckily (ha!) there is a CL&P truck right down the street, with its cherry picker...um...up. Hmm. So we run into the next office and look up the side of the building to where the wired used to attach. there is a flaming stub of wire where the dummy in the truck (allegedly) sheered it off. Oops. So I guess my job there was over and everyone else's, for a while at least. As I left the CL&P guy was in his truck talking with someone, I guess to order more wire.

I started my second blog

I am trying an experiment. I am going to use my new blog, "Blog This!", to post stuff that angers me each day. I am hoping it will work as an outlet for my anger. Not that I get angry all that often but I'll bet there is at least one thing I see, hear, or experience each day that will warrant a post.

Fallout

Well, maybe we have some fallout from Ellyn's laptop dousing. The fan that cools her processor has died.



I sent for a new one. Hope it comes fast. The laptop will not start up without it.