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10:29 PM - 07/02/2005

The topic: Ya learn something new everyday…

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Today, following links to blogs, I found out something very interesting about my dryer.

Well, this would work for anybody who uses fabric softener sheets in their dryer.

Take your lint filter out and clean it.  The sheets somehow get their coating over onto the filter and it will end up causing your dryer to not work as efficiently or even cost money in repairs, by burning out the heating unit.

There was a little test she said her repairman suggested.  Take the lint filter to the sink and let water run on it.  Does the water run through or sit on the filter in a puddle?  Mine puddled.  So, ya clean it with warm water and soap and a brush.  I did this and it was absolutely horrible.  All sorts of crud on it.

After I was finished washing, which took a while because there was a major buildup, the water poured right through it. You’re supposed to do this about twice a year.

If water can’t go through it, it’s makes sense that air can’t either. 

I’ll be curious to see if Brian’s wash towels have less lint now.  It’s something he’s been complaining about for a while, lint on the vehicles when he dries them.

biker


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06:05 PM - 07/02/2005

The topic: Wanna see a picture of Brian’s tractor?

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The one that we made four payments on before he got it?

 


He ordered it last January via the internet and he finally got the last of what he’d paid for last week.  I’m glad we’re done with that.  He is, too.

Yep, it’s a Mahindra and Mahindras are red, but they painted his blue to make the sale. And that was part of the reason it took so long to get here.  The weather wasn’t really nice on the east coast at the beginning of the year.


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10:58 AM - 07/02/2005

The topic: The backyard cam remote

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Does anyone who reads the journal play with the remote?  For some reason, the past few weeks, that page quits working when I move the camera and I have to reload.  I see that the camera has moved, but it’s not showing on the actual page.

I was just curious if this was happening to anyone other than me.

Also, if you were having a problem with the live feeds on the cameras earlier this week, my ISP had changed my number again.  So, I had to go through and change the code on all five live feed pages so that it reflected the correct IP number.  Sorry about that. I should know by now to check that when that problem arises.


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10:20 AM - 07/02/2005

The topic: Does anything ever strike you as

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incredibly funny and you can’t explain it to others because you can’t stop laughing?

I took typing in school, back in the dark ages, before word processing and electric typewriters.  I never finished the course because I was out of school for two or three months. (My back was broken in a car accident when I was sixteen; my parents and I were going camping and I got carsick unless I was sleeping and I was stretched out on the backseat - a drunk driver ran a stop sign and broadsided us.  My parents got out of the car, but couldn’t find me anywhere.  I was wedged on the floor between the front seat and the back seat. Somehow my parents managed to pull me out and minutes after they did, the car caught fire.  Anyway, I had seven thoracic vertebrae that were compressed fractured (I lost an inch in height) and a broken sternum. The drunk driver, who was uninsured and left behind a wife and three small children, was killed.)  But I could still type.  Every job I’ve had since involved typing.  I’ve done it for so long, I don’t even think about it.

But Brian never took typing in school. He’s a guy.  He took shop.

Fast forward to now.  He’s got a computer.  He bought his tractor via the internet.  He did all of his correspondance himself. I showed him how to use his email, I set up his accounts, showed him how to download pictures, resize them and send them as attachments.  I downloaded a spellchecker for his computer, so it would be easier for him.  He was doing quite well for someone who’d never taken typing. With two fingers. We used to laugh when I’d say with some alarm “where’s the fire extinguisher?” and he’d ask “what for?”  “Well, you’re typing so fast, your keyboard is smokin’!”

So, he’s getting more used to the keyboard, still using the two fingers, but he’s faster now, because he’s becoming more familiar with where the keys are.  I doubt he’ll ever be as quick as I am, but I’ve done it for so long, it’s second nature.

Yesterday, he noticed he’d gotten a private message on the forum he frequents.  It was sent on the twenty fifth of June.  Almost a week ago.  It was his first one and he wasn’t clear on what the blinking envelope icon meant.  So, he reads the message and figures out how to respond.  He starts typing.

Every once in a while, he’ll ask me how to spell a word.  Or did he spell it correctly.  And I’ll look at what he’s typed so far.  And it happened yesterday and I just started laughing, I couldn’t stop. He’s going “what? what? what’s so funny?”  And I was finally able to get the laughter under control long enough to sputter out “but I type really slow”.

This made absolutely no sense to him.  I pointed to the message he had typed so far. The last line was “I’m sorry it took so long to get back to you”.  He still looked puzzled.  I still couldn’t stop laughing. Then he put it together.  “I’m sorry it took so long to get back to you, but I type really slow”.

I could see it dawn on him.  Then he started laughing, too.  We both laughed so hard tears were running down our faces.

It feels good to laugh like that.


biker


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