08:41 – Barbara’s dad was released from the hospital late yesterday afternoon. He’s at home and seems to be doing fine. And he’s using his new walker.
As usual for a Saturday, I’m doing laundry. Barbara is getting ready to head outside and do some yard work. This afternoon, we’ll work on kit stuff. The seasonal slow-down in kit sales makes it tempting to ease off a bit, but with Christmas and the start of the winter semester just around the corner kit sales are likely to pick up again late this month and into December so we need to build some inventory.
We also need to make time for a Costco run in the next couple or three weeks. We don’t actually need that much for current consumption, but I want to stock up on food. With food prices increasing every month, it just makes sense to buy now instead of waiting for prices to increase.
11:47 – This is interesting. Netflix has started throttling me again. That hasn’t happened for several years. All of that time, a disc I returned one day would be received by Netflix the following day (other than Sundays) and they’d send my next disc that same day. Since we changed to the one-disc-at-a-time plan, we’ve reliably gotten two discs a week, every week. A disc arrives on Monday, we send it back Tuesday, Netflix logs it as received and sends out the new disc Wednesday, we receive the disc Thursday, send it back Friday, Netflix receives it Saturday and ships us a new disc, which arrives Monday. Lather, rinse, and repeat. But for the last two discs, Netflix has delayed acknowledging receipt for an extra day, turning the normal three-day cycle into a four-day cycle. I wonder what’s going on.
Congrats on your FIL using the walker. We have talked with my wife’s father until we are blue in the face about cane vs walker. The VA even gave him a powered scooter and put ramps all through his home. He falls weekly (at least) and has broken ribs, cheek bone and fingers. Many, many lacerations.
The last time we were there my wife hid his cane and brought him his walker. If he had not been lying on the floor in a pool of urine at 4 am, I think that he might have argued with her. He found the cane the next day.
Stubborn old buggers, damn them! I hope I am not like that when the time comes. Oh wait—fuck that; I am not going out like that.
Just clicked on Saturday and the site is again slow as molasses in January and got this instead, the url I mentioned earlier:
http://api.mybrowserbar.com/cgi/errors.cgi?ct=15&type=dns&ccv=155&q=http://www.ttgnet.com/journal/2012/11/10/saturday-10-november-2012/#comment-13827
Hmm. Things appear normal speed to me.
Go back on the threaded container sealing. I’m not sure how good the white, teflon plumber’s tape is for sealing threaded joints other than iron pipe fittings.
I do use that tape with some success on resealing the cap on Freesole (out of the box seal is with metal over the top that needs to be punctured at first use).
http://www.schnees.com/product/5250/s
Threads here are like previous generation, metal toothpaste tube.
Lynn M: The only way to force your FIL to use the walker is to actually throw the cane away. Or give it to some charity, so that someone else who needs it can use it.
And the mail has gotten slower here, because our local processing center has been consolidated with one 100 miles away.
He has got spare canes stashed away like a three year old has hidden pacifiers…
BTW, my wife and her sister have bought him three walkers now…
My Aggies just knocked Bama down! Whoop!
An so it starts, Louisiana is ready to leave the Union:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-louisiana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/1wrvtngl
And Texas will be right there with them.
Cool. I’d move there in a heartbeat if it warnt for the dang venomous reptiles, heat, humidity, and bugs.
Yay! We’ve at last started Bob and Barbara on the road to being preppers! The road to self-sufficiency. The one thing you can most guarantee, the one thing you can say you can most prepare for, is price increases in essentials. Investing in groceries gives the best ROI over time you can get, excepting anomalies like silver in the days of the Hunt brothers.
Next thing you know, Barbara will be taking lessons from Brian, and doing backyard raised-bed vegetable gardens, while Bob supervises and takes lessons from Madam Lash. Well, audits lessons from Madam.
A short Youtube flick of cats doing evil things…
Guess it helps if I put in the link:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/im-ruined/#comments