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.
Archive for June, 2008
Label Liquidators
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Note to self
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Note 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.
Things that you generally don’t discuss in a blog
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Incontinence. 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.
Walk in showers are cool
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Our 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.
Recipe saver
Saturday, June 28th, 2008No 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.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith preview
Saturday, June 28th, 2008In 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.
Buying a home
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Now 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.
Kung Fu Panda – review
Saturday, June 28th, 2008My 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.
microSD
Thursday, June 26th, 2008If 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.
Baby S: Part I
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008That’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….
Olympic Trials
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I’ve been watching the Olympic trials this week and I’m once again disappointed that only the major competitions get any air time. Am I wrong or aren’t there some equestrian competitions? I know for sure that there are archery competitions and I’ve seen nothing of that. If they don’t televise these things, how am I going to become current on the important aspects of the competitions — like the equestrian clothing or the newest wrist bands for archers?
I really think the Olympics is more about making money than about bragging rights like it used to be. You can tell by the fact that we’re still sending “pros” to play in the basketball competition even though they only won a bronze last time around. Apparently someone thinks that the dregs of the NBA (the only NBA players willing to go) are better than the best college players.
Oh well, I’ve always thought that getting gold time after time leaves no room for improvement. At least now we have room for improvement. I just hope we don’t end up with MORE room for improvement.
FIRE!! Again?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008The old house is gone and we’ve moved into our new crib. The move was crazy and I think I wrote about the lack of REAL internet access (I might just as well try mailing blog posts to every person on the planet rather than try to deal with dial up) which should explain the LENGTHY absence from the blog.
But here we are, up and running again. In our absence, 12 spammers managed to get comments through our weird comment system. In case you’re one of those spammers and you’re reading this, I deleted every one of those. Even the one you wrote repeatedly that said, “nice, just passing though”. This blog is not a watering hole on the way to your real destination! It is the destination itself! And if you don’t realize that then it’s your loss (and apparently everybody else’s based on my usual readership level).
Anyway, back on the topic of MEEEE!!
The first night we were here, my husband and I went outside to look at the stars. There were some whispy clouds in the sky and one in the distance seemed to be lit from beneath somehow. We looked and I decided it was something happenening on the lake. We looked again a little later and could see a orange-yellow glow on the horizon. I thought it might be a big light. We looked again a little later and the glow had grown. I decided it might be a rapidly growing fire. (My husband can sometimes be a man of few words.)
I was concerned and continued to watch and the glow continued to grow….and grow…..AND GROW!!! That fire must be much closer than I thought to look like it’s growing that fast, I thought.
Then I thought how strange it was for a fire to widen and widen and then start to narrow. Then I thought how strange it was for the fire to start flying.
Just kidding. Though I’m apparently a cynic, I did manage to figure out by this point that I was looking at the moon. In my defense, I’ve never seen a moon rise and this was more amazing than any sunrise I’ve seen.
Oh, also in my defense, I’m sometimes not all that smart. (Sure I’m unemployed but I’m usually a genius.)