Paul Kimbrel's Musing

How do you take down an armed gunman from the KGB? Duct tape over the eyes from behind! I mean… what would you do?

Wow. I really blew it on that last post. I even proof read it a few times. But it was just bad. Bad, bad, bad. I mixed up you’re and your. I mixed up buy and by. I mixed up site and sight. I got the plurality of my fingers wrong (thankfully I do have more than one). I just plain butchered a number of sentences (and there weren’t many to butcher).

I hate to do this, but I must give it an…

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You can’t say you can’t do something when you read a story like this… a 78 year old man loses his sight, and then goes on to bowl a perfect game:

Blind Bowler Scores Perfect Game

It reminds me of what my friend, Steve, who taught me guitar basics, always told me… “Don’t tell me you can’t play! If I can teach a special-needs kid to play… YOU can play.” That’s paraphrased, by the way. The point was… I kept saying my fingers were too fat. He didn’t buy it. I’m glad he didn’t.

[edit]And apparently my problem is… I can’t tell the difference between your and you’re. Ugh.[/edit]

And I’m not going tell you who he is.

Why? Because my Google ads keep showing his name it ads. And the ads are for auditory signals used to grab your attention when a person is trying to contact you through the radio based telephony device strapped to your belt (trying not to add to the AdSense fuel)!

Who is this guy? And why are his rington… I mean auditory signals… showing up in my Google ads? Seesh! I noticed that whenever I create a new page, either here or on my studio website, his, um, auditory signals, always show up until Google figures out what the page is for.

I just hope he’s some nasty guy who uses cuss words like conjunctions.

– EDIT –

Huh. Well, now my Google ads are showing the light bulbs again.

Weird.

It’s only taken about 6 years, but we’re finally whipping the place into shape! I finished painting the carport today! It actually looks half way decent (if you ignore the major dip in the roof). It only took a month or so to paint. It’s fun trying to get painting in between kids, work, and rain.

That’s a major item off the ‘ole to-do list. Now if I can just get the fence painted…

I’ve been searching high and low for a great way to sync my work, home, and Google calendars, using my Google calendar as the “central repository” of information. That way my wife can add events to my calendar without too much hassle - using my Google calendar. All the sync processes I’ve tried have failed for one reason or another. Here at work, we have a pretty hairy proxy/firewall and I got fed up with trying to work with it, so I pretty much gave up.

Well, I just noticed the Google allows you to import CSV (comma separated values) files from Outlook. I simply exported my Outlook calendar here at work and at home and imported them into Google. I could even color code things so I know the difference between work and home calendars. Just that easy…

Now if I can just find a way of automating this!

It was a good day today. I was a bit worried about how things would pan out, but the rain ended early in the morning and we had a good sunny day. A bit humid, but not too bad. We got a picnic table which I assembled this morning. We also got some really nice tiki torches and really spruced up the back yard for evening events.

I spent the entire evening last night getting the yard cleaned up, mowed, and trimmed for the 4th, I was scared the rain would hamper things, so I was glad when it didn’t rain any more.

We took the boys over to Towanda to see the parade over there. Quite an event for such a small town. Clayton freaks out over the firetruck horns. I’m not surprised. They’re pretty loud. I finally got him convinced that the trucks were past and that he could takes hands off his ears. No sooner did he do it, one of the Shriners honked is horn right in front of him. I guess my word is no longer gold (like it ever was).

Later in the day, Tonya’s cousin, Mathew, and his wife Kim stopped by from California. It was good to see them. Then our friends Korey and Dusty and their son Evan came over. We had a blast cooking out and playing with the boys.

Then Clayton and I went to the fireworks over at the ISU track. It was pretty cool. Not as varied as it has been in the past, but it sure beats the dinky fireworks we had in Havana. I glanced back and found that we were sitting in just the right place to see the fireworks reflect off the windows of Watterson Towers. It was spectacular. I’ll have to get some movie shots next year.

All in all… it was a very good day.

Okay, okay… I forgot to get a picture up here. Having three boys is tough business!

We’ve been busy beavers in our back yard. A few weeks ago, my mother-in-law brought over a few (actually, several) plants from her yard to put in ours. I hadn’t really planned on working on the yard to any major extent just yet, but with plants in need of some soil, my plans changed.

We got the plants (mostly hastas, some ferns, butter-and-eggs, etc.) in the ground and I decided it was time to do some mulching around the plants. I bought tons of mulch and started putting up some edging. My mother-in-law also started bring over geodes she had gotten from Indiana and we started using them as edging. I was a bit skeptical at first, but they actually look pretty good.

I also got some brick edging for the front and put together a small flower bed in the front of the porch and planted some impatiens up there to add some color to the front of the house. It turned out rather well.

Joe and I got the roof of the carport done today. That’s a huge item off the “to-do” list.