Archive for June 11th, 2009

Cankles and TVs

June 11, 2009

Not working on work for a change this evening.
But the lack of real exercise has made itself evident.
I looked at my feet and both ankles were pretty swollen.
Ashlan says that it is from sitting too much.

She also informed me they are called Cankles – when the calf and ankle become one.

Since I was not working on work, and the DTV switch is tomorrow, I thought it time to try and connect the 1978 black and white to the latest technology. Using a pigtail kind of thing I was able to get all of the connections successfully made. So we should have all working TVs – right? Wrong! Because the old TV had a built-in antenna, and I had to pirate one from one of the other TVs to see if it would work.

Now we don’t really need 3 TVs, but they each serve their purpose. And now that they are all tethered to boxes, they are not really mobile. The black and white is the back-up alarm clock, and morning traffic reporter. Pretty good for a TV that hashad no remote or anything more than an off and on switch. We connected it to one of those timers to turn lights on and off while on vacation – and voila. The small color is used for a lot of sports viewing, visible from the kitchen and dining/work table. The “large” (by our modest standards) TV is in the living room. Movies and lying on the couch for viewing. The large TV is currently antennaless. Could still be used for DVDs.

Guess I’ll have to go shopping and try to walk out of my cankles.

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Treadmills

June 11, 2009

Ashlan may be trying out treadmills soon. Actually, I made that up. She has been to a spinning class and is now trying some other work0ut thing tonight. I don’t know what she gets paid to work, but the benefits of working in a health club certainly seem to be good.

I was really referring to my treadmill at work of late. Finally got the paperwork finished late last night, ready to merge. Learned a few new things about merging into Word from Excel (which I have done many times in the past). Either I had not had the stars aligned with the same type of data, or upgrades have tweaked things here and there. But – I got one merged ready to print, and the other with just a minor kink to figure, which I correctly surmised I would see more clearly in the morning. [I don’t like to print remotely, at night, when the building should be empty. We have found that paper and heat coming out of a printer can simulate a bad guy snooping around in a building, and the police don’t find it nearly as funny as the person that was getting the work done.

So – I printed probably 7 inches of paper, some double sided, some not. Color, black and white, letterhead and plain. I had printers coming and going. Then collate – give to others to finish collating… OK – in good hands …into a separate meeting. Out of the meeting. Ask good hands if it went well.

Well – it was apparently collating well until the low-bid contractor upon which the mailing numbers were based called to say they wanted to rescind their bid – error in some computation. A little to late to STOP THE PRESSES. Wind out of sails, pin to a balloon, brain with locked up brakes.

But, at least the letters were not in the mail. [For those that don’t know what the heck I am talking about – the letters were inviting property owners to help pay for a new sewer, based on the cost of the installation. Without some community interest, we may not put in the sewer, and the future price will certainly be more …. ]

So – new price, reprint about a third of the paper, but then have to pull apart, staple, re-collate, restuff ………………………………. and get it out in the mail. I hope the collating was perfect. Nothing like giving one person another persons numbers to look like a fool.

Now onto more mundane issues like safety incidents, new developments, recalcitrant Cities that think they are better than other developers, oh – and go home and have that drink I really wanted last night.

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