August 3, 2008: Seven

Seven days and going strong, mostly. My shoulder is beginning to hurt from the throwing motion in my workout and my legs are beginning to fatigue. I may take tomorrow off and allow myself to heal some. I want to make it 19 straight days (that would be everyday until I go back to work) but I don't think it is advisable to do so. Besides, I have softball practice tomorrow, so I will still be getting the exercise. While I was working out, Michelle and Evan were at the pool with Dan, Wendy, and Aidan. I arrived at the gym hours after them so I didn't spend hardly anytime with them. Instead I saw the new movie The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (as I mentioned yesterday). It was as I expected/predicted, action packed with good effects, but not very good. I would say it was "OK." 2.5 out of 5 stars.



This evening we went to Nicole and John's for Nicole's birthday. It was nice and relaxing. We grilled out, I'm sorry, since they are also New Yorkers I guess I should say "we had a barbecue." Either way was fine, there were chicken wings, hot dogs and hamburgers. Slaw, potato salad, and so on.

My dad also forwarded me a link to a news video that you should see. it is about automobile tires. I am sure after you watch it that you will go outside and check your tires right away. I did and on the van my tires had the code 2807, 3007, 0808, 0908. So the van is good. As for the Ford, the tires are a little older and must have the code printed on the backside of the tire. I will look under there tomorrow in the day light. You are just going to have to watch the video to find out what the numbers mean. And I highly encourage you to do so!

Aged Tires: A Driving Hazard? (ABCNews.com)

November 12, 2007

Today was an "Evan and Daddy day" as we like to call it. That is, Michelle had to work and we were off from school so we had our customary breakfast at Perkin's restaurant. We made plans to bowl with Peter and the boys at 12:30. That was fun, but of course the kids mostly just wanted to get their game over so they could hit the gameroom and win their tickets so they could turn them in for "prizes," a.k.a. junk. In between, I brought Michelle's laptop over to Firedog at CircuitCity so they could check the powered component of the USB ports in question. They said that they did not have that capability their to test such a problem, but the tech did make me feel better by saying that he has seen more problems with iPods than you would think. In fact, if the second iPod was in the same shipment as the first one I returned, then they could all have been fitted with bad hard drives, which is now what I am hoping. So I returned now the second iPod to BestBuy hoping that the latest is from another batch and will not have a bad HD. (I hope I am not just deluding myself and that the problem is with Michelle's laptop)

Speaking of bowling, I don't know if you saw this video. It is from a couple of years back. It is still pretty funny.