Update on Skittles PC

For those who are interested or who read Skittles blog I have an update. Her PC has been reformatted and should be ready soon. We had done a non-destructive restore a few weeks ago after it had not worked properly, but that didn't seem to fix the problems that it had. So, after putting up with a poorly working PC, she finally decided it was time to totally reformat her PC back to how it came from the factory. This meant putting in all the neat programs that she had installed on her PC which meant quite a bit of time to reinstall the ones she had saved and downloading the ones she got off of the internet.

In short, her PC is up and running and she should be back blogging soon.

Thanks!

Till next time BYE!!

Heads or Tails

This weeks "Heads or Tails" meme is...The letter "P".

I have the perfect post for this week lol. At least I think Skittles would agree with me on it.

I have chosen the word "Plethora" for my post this week. In this I mean I have a "Plethora" of hobbies that I am interested in.

Just to name a few
Model Trains
Woodworking
Model Cars
Photography
Recording CD's
Working on Cars (real ones lol)

You get the drift by this list don't you? lol
I love doing things with my hands and mind. It keeps me off the streets as my Mom used to say.

I know this isn't a very long post, but I just thought I'd participate in this weeks meme as I haven't done so in a while.

Till next time BYE!!

Heads or Tails

This weeks Heads or Tails meme theme is someone you'd like to meet.

I think I'll pick Henry Ford for this one. He's really just one a many from the past that I'd like to meet. Part of the reason I'd like to meet him is that he surrounded himself with others who were smart. He himself was pretty smart as far as I know seeing as he came up with the idea of the moving assembly line. I just think it would be neat to be able to talk to him and find out more about him.

Till next time BYE!!

Another Post....lol

I was just sitting here looking at the map at the bottom of my blog and realized that Barb and I have done some pretty good travelling over the years. Just last year we added Maine, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin to our list of states that we have visited. We'll have to see how many more we can add this year. The only thing wrong with this way of doing things is that we are running out of new states to visit lol. I must admit though, that I have enjoyed travelling immensely the way we do it. We get to see so much of this great country of ours.

Till next time BYE!!

Update

I haven't been posting regularly for awhile now. I've been busy playing a pc game called World of Warcraft. It does take up a lot of time and is addicting lol.

Some new things have happened since I last posted though. Barb and I got a new bedroom last year. She had been wanting some new bedroom furniture so we ended up getting a king sized waterbed and new furniture that seems to match it pretty well.

We had a dvd surround sound system that wasn't the best and kept sticking in the middle of movies, so we got a new surround sound system for Christmas. I also got some new tools for my birthday and Christmas too :)

I haven't done anything with my collection of trains so far this winter. Winter is usually the time when I get the bug to work on them but I just haven't felt like it so far.

We haven't really taken any good long trips since last summer, but I think that will change as I am supposed to get laid off one week per month in the next couple months due to slowdowns at work.

I think that's about all for now, I might try to do more blogging in the future, we'll see lol.
Till next time BYE!!

Heads or Tails

This week's Heads or Tails meme is to write about any of the 5 senses. I don't think I'll hit on all of them but I definitely will hit on a couple of them.

This is longer than it has to be, but I think it might be interesting lol.

For Christmas I got Barb a new am/fm cd player for her car. I brought it home and wrapped it up so she could see what she had got, She had an am/fm cassette player in her car, but it had a cassette stuck in the player that just wouldn't come out. Her car also has the controls for the radio and heat on the steering wheel, so when I bought the new radio I told the people there that the radio had to be one that worked with it. So after Christmas I took the car back to where I bought it to have the new radio installed. First thing they tell me after they get the car where they install radios was that the radio that I had bought didn't work with the steering wheel control...UGH. So they let me see a couple they had that did and I got one that did work with it. But, they didn't have the correct interface controller for her car. They ordered it and it got in about a week later. I guess by now you're wondering where this is going and what it has to do with any "senses? lol. Anyway, I took it back this past Monday to have them install the interface and now everything works like it's supposed to, almost lol.

After I got the car back from them installing the controller, I thought everything was fine until I looked at the gas gauge. It wasn't working properly. This has happened in the past when we had work done on the car that required the battery to be disconnected. The gas gauge does this funny thing where it actually goes past it's stop and doesn't register anything. I've been told this is a fairly common thing on GM cars.

So to the point of this meme. I went out this morning and fixed the gas gauge on Barbs car. It took a good "feel" to get it apart and then figure out how to fix the gauge. I had to "see" where all the screws holding it together were also. After I fixed the gauge I reset her radio to the correct time and date also. So, I "feel" good about doing this also.

So, thats my input for this meme this week. I know it was a bit long, but I tried to relate it to the meme.

Till next time BYE!!

This weeks Heads or Tails meme theme is the Letter "C".
For this I think I'll do Choo Choo lol. I know this is actually 2 words, but if any of you have read any of my blog (when I was blogging that is) you'd know I love trains. When I was a youngster, I always called trains choo choo's. Probably a great many kids do also. It's what most grownups who try to tell a child what a train is calls them so!! I haven't been doing much with my trains this season. In the past I would have been working on them either by weathering them or assembling the kits that I had gotten, but I've been busy playing a game called World of Warcraft. That doesn't start with a "C" so I won't go into it . That's about all for now. Thanks for dropping by. Till next time BYE!!

For this weeks Heads or Tails meme the theme is either heads. something in the air or in space or tails, something in or under the water.

For this week I think I'll be different and do something for both memes.

First thing I thought of for the meme was the something in space thing. That thing happens to be the orbiting international space lab. Part of the reason that came to mind was that there was supposed to be a launch sunday of the space shuttle that was canceled due to a malfunctioning fuel gauge. The shuttle will eventually take the rest of the space stations parts up in space so astronauts can assemble them. Although the shuttles are due to retire within the next 5 or so years, I hope they get the job done.

The second part of this came to mind when Skittles said something to me about trains not being under water when she explained what this weeks meme was. I got to thinking and came up with something to put in the meme. So here it goes. There is a train that goes under water so to speak. It's the train that runs under the English channel in the "Chunnel". This train carries passengers and autos between England and France. Before the Chunnel, folks there had to rely on ferries to cross the English Channel. Now they can ride in comfort in a speedy train and arrive safe and sound.

So, that does it for me on this weeks Heads or Tails meme. Till next time BYE!!

Heads or Tails

This weeks theme for the Heads or Tails meme is "Mark".

For this my mind immediately went to Micro Mark. What is Micro Mark you might ask? Well if you have read any of my previous posts you would know that I love working on model trains and models in general. Micro Mark is a company that specializes in tools and such for building models. I get their catalog regularly and love looking through them to see what new gadgets they carry for building models. They also have a website that I have "marked" as a favorite on my computer. They also send me e-mails with specials that they have "marked" down in price. So, there you have my meme for this week. Till next time BYE!!

This weeks theme for the Heads or Tails meme is "Road".

For this I'll tell about a few of the "roads" we've been down on our vacations. Anyone who had kept up with Skittles blog knows that we take some pretty neat vacations and all of them were in a car. We've been down some pretty interesting "roads" during our travels. I remember the first time we went to Florida, there was a road we traveled at night on our way from Ocala over to Daytona Beach that had wild pig crossing signs all over the place. Being from Michigan, I was used to seeing "deer crossing" signs on the road but this was the first I had ever seen about pigs crossing the road lol. Another interesting road we went down while we were in North Carolina was when at night again, we saw "wolf" and "bear" crossing signs. I'll tell you, it didn't make me want to get out of the car for anything. If we had gotten a flat tire, I'd just drive till I got to a gas station or something. We've been down some of the most beautiful roads you can imagine also. Through the Great Smoky mountains, Yellowstone and Vermont. So, that does it for my "Heads or Tails" meme this week. Till next time BYE!!