Blog O’ Obscurity

What a coincidence. I was just resetting some label makers to factory presets the other day. And it just so happens that my label printer is out of paper. Thermal labels are the kind that uses heat to actually make the characters on your label. We personally have a Zebra label printer for barcodes, and this site has the perfect labels just for the printer that we have. I’m sure that they also have the labels for whatever use you could need.

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Note to self: Hammers hit nails. Not nails.

Slight accident today while constructing a 2×4 frame to modify the hutch for my desk. On the second to last nail that I needed to hammer in, I missed the nail and squarely hit my thumb nail. Kind of hurt.

On closer inspection, my thumbnail is alright. The hammer glanced off the nail itself and just separated the skin from the side of the nail. Still kind of hurts.

Hopefully all is healed before the Regional Left-Handed Thumb Wrestling Championships of Western Arizona.

I’ve been waiting all year for RLHTWCWA.

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Incontinence. We’ve all heard about it, read about it. And we all say that it can’t happen to us. I’m sorry to have to be the one to bring this up, but it can happen to you, and it will eventually happen to you. Stay on this blue and green globe long enough and eventually the plumbing starts to leak. Don’t think that the need for an adult diaper will pass you by. It may just be you in seventy years that has to surf the internet (or whatever the net evolves into) for some sort of futuristic incontinence product.

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Our new house has many nice things about it, but the coolest by far (at least to me) is the walk in shower. Now, I know what you’re thinking. Aren’t all showers walk in. It would be mighty inconvenient to make a crawl in shower or a skip in shower (though kind of cool).

What I mean when I say a walk in shower is a shower with no tub, no door, and no curtain. Just a big open area mostly surrounded by tiled walls. This is cool to me because it probably quadruples the size of our old shower.

It does take some getting used to, though. There is also no door from the bathroom to the bedroom. Things are very open. We just have to learn to keep the bedroom door closed during shower time.

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No longer do many people get new recipes from their friends and family at church socials and backyard barbecues. There are millions of recipes for every type of food on the internet nowadays. For me, I tend to find a great recipe and then lose the website that I got it from. It makes recreating a masterpiece difficult. Saving my recipes at an online site and finding new recipes to try is a great idea that I’m looking forward to using more and more.

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In only a couple of hours now the newest release by the Guitar Hero franchise will be released for all. The Aerosmith edition features mostly songs from the legendary band with a few other bands thrown in. I was somewhat disappointed with the effort put into the 80’s edition, but I’m somewhat optimistic about this newest version. The songlist looks great, and I’ll let you know what I think as soon as I can give it a test drive.

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Now that the market has just about hit rock bottom, you may be thinking that it’s time to get out. Or maybe this whole real estate instability has scared you out of the market. Now is actually the perfect time to buy a home. The only problem is that many mortgage lenders have increased their standards of who they will lend to. Look at many different lenders, especially online, to find one that will fit your needs and get you into your new home.

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My daughter went to a movie theater for the first time last week and saw the new Jack Black / Dreamworks animated movie, “Kung Fu Panda”.

The film is a fairly simple ‘fish out of water’ story focusing on a big fat panda that dreams of becoming a kung fu master. He accidentally is declared the Dragon Warrior and begins training to battle the most dangerous and evil creature that has just escaped from prison.

And that’s basically the whole movie. It’s fun and cute and flashy, but there’s not a lot there. The other good warriors in the movie are all voiced by fairly famous people, but each has only a handful of lines. I was kind of hoping to hear more from Jackie Chan, but he only has maybe four or five lines.

It was fun though. Much better than most computer animated movies, but not an instant classic.

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If you’re in the market for some memory for your cell phone, micro sd is the smallest flashcard available today that’ll do the job for you. It’s compatable with a whole slew of cell phones, so you don’t need to worry about that and it’s very affordable. If you look around a little, you can get it shipped to you for free.

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That’s right, this is at least a two part post. I’m going to tease you and then leave you wanting more of the story.

After we sold our house we moved into my parents house (I was a 32 year old living with mom and dad - yes, I’m ashamed) so my son could finish the school year and we could save a month’s worth of mortgage. Things were going along smoothly. The kids were discovering how my parents argue and I was trying to teach them the unwritten rules of the house. One day, while I was on the phone with my sister, my daughter (who’s a little over a year old and a proficient walker and thief) got her hands of one of my parents glass cups. She was right behind me when I heard the glass shatter. I think I said, “Hang on a minute” and proceeded to hang up on my sister as I was turning around. I picked the girl out of the mass of glass where she was quietly sitting and started checking for cuts.

We went a few steps to the kitchen where the light was brighter and I found a cut on her wrist. It looked a little deep but it wasn’t bleeding much. My parents scampered for a broom and dustpan as I washed her cut (which actually made it bleed somehow) and applied pressure. We found another, smaller cut on the side of her other hand when my dad asked if the drops of blood on her leg were a different cut. I washed that cut briefly and transported her to the game room where I could sit and hold pressure on the first cut. I think by this point it had stopped bleeding but they say don’t even peak for at least five minutes, so I don’t know for sure.

Five minutes ended and we bandaged the cut. Somewhere in there (and in no particular order), the glass was swept up, my mom picked up the phone and told my sister (who was still on the line) we had to hang up, I pulled a large piece of glass out of my daughters hand that she was just holding onto (no cuts from that) and an argument over which first aid kit to use took place.

The End, right?

If you mean The End of this post, you’re right. However it is not the end of the drama! This might be a three parter….

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