MYBLOG October 17, 2011

A dinner out, a lunch in and up is down.  I could just stop there and let you fill in the rest.  The dinner and lunch is pretty easy, but that last little bit, now that’s a poser.  Last week, Thursday to be exact, was my birthday.  Thank you to everyone on Facebook, phone, in person and via e-mail for the birthday wishes.  On Friday night the boys spent the night with Mamaw and Papa so Carrie and I, along with Crissie and her boyfriend Jimmy, could go out to dinner.  We went to a place called Logan’s Road House in Martinsburg, WV.  Nice place and great food.  There is a small bucket of peanuts in the shell on every table for you to nibble on while you wait for your food and if you run out, you just go to the big barrel up front and scoop up another bucket full.  And don’t worry about those pesky shells, you just toss them on the floor.  I’d hate to be the one who has to clean up at the end of the night.  Sunday after church we went to Larry and Doris’s for my birthday lunch and of course cake and ice cream.  I was very blessed with presents too.  Carrie and the boys gave me a new pair of lounge pants and a Scentsy warmer with bats on them.  The warmer is sort of like a night light that you plug in and the heat from the bulb melts a scented wax.  It’s plugged on here in my office as I type this.  Crissie gave me a couple of very nice shirts, Larry and Doris gave me a nozzle to wash cars and a pole trimmer so I can get rid of some low hanging limbs around the house.  Crissie’s boy friend Jimmy, who I’ve known for years, gave me a Rubik 360.  From the makers of the Rubik’s cube it’s a device to test your patients and mental fortitude.  I passed the patents part.  It’s sort of hard to describe but I’ll try.  There are six different colored balls inside a small, clear sphere which is mounted inside a larger sphere which is mounted inside an even larger sphere.   All the spheres are weighed and roll within each other.  On each sphere there one hole, opposite of the weight, for the colored ball to fit through.  The object is to get each ball, one at a time, through those holes and into the color coded hole in the outer sphere and locked in place.   I worked most of the day yesterday and was able to get four of the six balls where they were supposed to be.  Evan wanted to try so I let him.  He promptly unlocked the balls and got them all back into the center sphere.  “Look daddy, they are all back in the middle for you” he said proudly.  I just said “thank you Evan” and put the game away.  One last thing this week; Saturday afternoon Evan and I did a little work on my truck.  The drivers’ power window hadn’t been working.  I’ve had it apart before and managed to get it working again by cleaning the brushes on the electric motor so I figured it was the same problem and went about fixing it.  While Evan looked on I took the door panel off and then removed the motor, tore it down and cleaned and lubed it up.  The whole time Evan was asking all sorts of questions, as you can imagine.  The first time I put it back in it didn’t work, so I took it out again and did some more cleaning and adjusting of the brushes.  I put it back in and sure enough it worked.  The window went up and down without hesitation.  It wasn’t until I was about to put the door panel back on that I realized that, although it did work, it was working backwards.  In other words, up makes the window go down and down makes the window go up.  Some how, and I still don’t know how, I managed to switch the only two wires on the motor.  It was getting late so I just put it all back together and left it as it was.  It’s pretty cool; the “auto” rolls the window all the way up now.  I’ll bet there’s not another truck like it.  This verse fits very well with MYBLOG this week.  Romans 12:12