Take five Давид

My name in Russia would be Давид. Cool.


Jog/walked past a dead end street that I usually ignore, but this time saw that there was another sign underneath. Was it new? It looked new, but maybe I was just missed it before. This time I saw it and it informed me, "5 mph."
That cannot be well thought out. I easily can run in spurts faster than that. OTOH, I don't know of any car speedometer that can read that low. A friend who was a motorcyclist complained about a speed limit higher than that because it was impossible to keep his balance.


Yesterday I got in quite a conversation with my wife using text-to-computer and computer-to-text. It was a small discussion moving some furniture around that is probably run-of-the-mill to most people, but pretty miraculous for this deaf guy. Usually, when she's on a trip she might as well be dead.


Walked to Ace for the speed nuts and left disgusted. The man that "helped" me basically got in my way. I told him what I wanted, a 1/4" speed nut and showed him a 1/2" one to make sure he understood. He laid a 1/2" clip on type on the counter. I showed him the speed nut again and repeated my request. He put down a speed nut. Using my trusty pocket measuring tape, I showed him it was 1/2" and repeated my request. The same happened again with a 3/8" speed nut. I figured he would then produce a 1/4" one. I was wrong. He laid a 1/2" one down. I left.
Quite obviously there was a communication breakdown, but where?


Just before arriving to Ace, I went past a person I think was an old schoolmate. He had a hollow-eye and very sad expression on his face. I walked past without saying anything, of course. Conversation is prohibited.

An even shorter run.

Found a pair of forceps and then a pin to remove something from the vent of Beverly's Dell. Looked like tape, but then it flew off of the forceps and I didn't try to track it down. I noted down what the F8 menu is like in the work laptop and hope that it remains the same on Beverly's. I'll try that later.


Dry caulk. I got done around the inside of the outside door frame. But then I checked the inside of the door frame and see that I should do that first.

Beverly and I went to the Baptist church around the corner for their meeting. The book my parent's pastor was teaching was of the health/wealth genre which is one that Beverly has a weakness for. Mainly, however, because she was no longer going to a woman's only group and I dislike monologues, I decided the informal teaching format at the Baptists was better. Their subject was on the Moslem belief.

Short run this morning. I'm going to try short frequent runs for a while.

Messed a lot with the dehumidifier hose because it leaked. Finally Beverly found that it was cracked at the connection. My dad sprayed it with crack sealer and we hope it will provide good service.

Started sealing the boards around the basement door. I am using an old tube up so I just started and stopped. If it looks dry, I'll finish it.

SemiExcuse?

Been semibusy.
Mainly my time has been "wasted" reading the comment section of yahoo.com. The comments range from beastly to profound, depending on the article and it gives me somewhat an idea of the way people think or not think. I probably should be looking a other things more now.

I've been busy digging, hoeing, a cleaning up the dead plants from that. I'm pretty much finished and will be able to hoe around the house every week. Mowing will be much easier when I don't have to see how close to the fence I must get.
Fixed a small hoe my mother said was made by her father. I'm not sure -- it looks manufactured -- whatever, it will be of some use.

I've extended my running, but have also gotten spotty. I decided this morning that it would be better if I cut back on distance for now and concentrated on being out every morning.

I brought my vise here yesterday and am now experimenting on butternut cracking. Hard to do with a hammer.

For some reason yesterday the Belkin USB wireless network connector CD started working, so now I'm outside with my laptop writing this. Good to know that I can, though I'm not sure if I want to in the heat of the day. Still, it is useful to know I can do it when I want.

Friday Beverly and I went around on several errands. One was to order new lopper blades at Ace for their extension lopper. Should be in Monday, they say, and I've several other purchases as well. Hoping to caulk around the basement door to make it more difficult for the things to have a staging area before sneaking in.