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Today was a pretty lazy Sunday – but that is what Sunday’s are for, right?
( How lazy was it? )
Since The Kid is heading to spend the summer with my in-laws next Sunday – we couldn’t do Saturday since my MIL has a conflict that would prevent her getting him at the airport – today was his last opportunity to get to the beach until August – and he’s been bugging us to go back since we first hit the beach just after moving here in 2008.
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Today was the day that we were scheduled to get our new TV hung on the wall. The installer was late – his previous appointment ran long, and then traffic from Carlsbad to RB was bad.
But, once it got here, the TV was hung in short order. Once installed, it was up to me to hook it up to the components and set them up. This part went almost OK. The only glitch, when setting up our Harmony remote it couldn’t control the TV’s input setting. After a bunch of iterations, I finally settled upon having the remote manually resend the input setting commands after it is otherwise done. It seems to work, at least so far.
Now, we just need to figure out how to replace our HD receiver with an HD-DVR, preferably without paying someone to swap them out.
I just threw away the first plugin I was using to cross-post from Wordpress to LJ. We’ll see if this one works.
At my last annual physical in February, my doctor pointed out that what I'd thought was a sometimes swollen lymph node was in fact a hernia. After a bit of delay in part due to my other health issues I've now got surgery scheduled to take car of it. The surgery is scheduled for June 22, which will be after The Kid is in Rockford for the summer, making it a bit easier to schedule around.
I'll be glad to have this repaired so that I can, hopefully, resume martial arts training and other things. Until then, I'll have to live with walks at lunch as my main activity.
Today,
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robot_grrl, The Kid and I headed north to the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire. I used to be a regular attendee (at least once a year) at The Bristol Renaissance Faire (run by the same company), but after moving to DuPage county the added distance made us not make it more than a couple of times. Similarly, last year we didn't try to make it up to Irwindale - which is in Northern Los Angles County - for the Southern California event. We did go to a smaller event in Escondido, but it was nice to get to the big faire again, and plan on going back somewhat regularly.
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This was a fairly busy weekend - especially for an "empty" weekend.
...I was dropping The Kid off at his school, when I was passed by a parent who apparently couldn't let their precious bundle of a middle school student walk any further than absolutely necessary - and nearly hit my son and my car in the process.
The Kid's school shares a parking entrance with the adjacent high school, and one could use the same circular driveway - more a roundabout with only one entrance and one exit that are in the opposite directions - that is shared between both schools for drop offs. But, the preferred way for dropping off and picking up middle school students is to use a marked curb lane on the side of the parking lot adjacent to the middle school.
When we'd pulled in there were no other cars in the drop off lane, so I pulled forward to the far end - which is the closest to the school entrance and said "good bye" to The Kid. He then started to get out of the car on, unfortunately, the non-curb side since the drop off lane is on the left-hand side of the driveway. I looked back and tried to warn him as a car was shooting up the driveway much faster than is sane in a parking lot near middle and high school kids. I tried to warn him to watch out for the car, but he didn't hear me in time and still opened the door - probably no more than a couple of feet from the front of the other car.
As he was getting out and walking around, I noticed that the other driver pulled IN FRONT of the drop off lane - against the curb where the driveway narrows for its intersection with the aforementioned circular driveway - and was dropping of a kid. So this driver saved his or her child maybe 15 feet of walking by nearly killing my child and totaling both cars.
And I thought that the hospital employees who tried to drum up business by the way they drove through the student part of the shared parking garage at UNM were dangerous.
Before embarking on either of the other electrical projects, I decided to tackle the new gas grill that arrived yesterday - for free thanks to
robot_grrl's credit card points. We also worked on like to get her driver's license and the registrations for both cars updated - we succeeded in, maybe, getting her license changed. In the process we discovered we couldn't locate her registration. On top of that we thought we needed to be down in Claremont Mesa at 2:30 for a meeting (which turned out to be at 1:00).So, I started on the grill, later than I realized. After just a few of the 15 assembly steps, I was getting hungry and it was noon. So we headed off to get gas, lunch and visit AAA on the way to my meeting and the not-coincidently adjacent Mysterious Galaxy birthday party.
Gas wasn't too bad - except for the crowd at one of the few gas stations still under $3.00 around here. But we got a car was which added time. Then we grabbed lunch and headed for AAA. I managed to mix up Saber Springs Parkway (where the AAA office is) and Scrips-Poway Parkway, so we took the wrong exit and had to double back. But we got the vehicle stuff straight and headed out to my meeting.
As it turned out there was some confusion and the meeting, that I arrived at about 2:30 for, had started at 1:00. But I was able to get caught up while the rest of the family visited with friends and did other stuff at the party - including patronizing the sponsoring/celebrating business. After the meeting broke up, we made a brief pass through Games Empire and headed home.
Once home I finished assembling the grill, and ate dinner.
We'll see if I get to the electrical work tomorrow after church and lunch, or not.
This morning's goal is to look into the three electrical weirdnesses in our house: the ungrounded outlet in my office, the lack of a switched outlet (but a switch) in The Kid's bedroom and see if I can make the master/slave switches for the sconse lights into a proper set of two-way switches.
First up, the office outlet.
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