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Laminar jets

Jerry — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:48:05 +0000

When we went to Josh and Allie’s barbecue party last weekend we were really entranced by the Pentair pool lamina jets that they had running in their pool during the party. The way that the jets squirted water in an arc across the pool reminded me of the play area in DisneyWorld’s Epcot Center outside the theater that showed the 3D film “Honey I blew up the kids.” Our kids loved playing and running around in those fountains. Funny how things like that can bring back memories of when our kids were young!

The Princess Bride

Jerry — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:41:50 +0000

Tonight we are watching the movie The Princess Bride. I haven’t seen that movie in about six years, and right now we are watching the fencing scene. This is such a good movie; each time I watch it I notice something else that I had either not noticed before, or at least had forgotton since the last time that I had watched it. I was trying to find a YouTube clip of that scene to share with you, but every one that I’ve seen so far has the embedding disabled. Oh well… I encourage you to watch the movie for yourself if youget the chance, it is truly a classic!

Great parade

Jerry — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:49:06 +0000

One of my proudest moments as a parent was when I went to the town’s big Easter parade and saw my son in the high school’s marching band. He was playing one of the snare drums, and the band was playing the song “Seventy Six Trombones” from the musical “Music Man.” Although it has been probably over twenty years since I saw the movie, that is a song that I frequently sing to myself, so I was really pleased that the marching band was playing that tune as they marched past me. And even better was the fact that my son’s eyes met mine, so he could see how proud I was to see him in the parade. That was a good day.

Redbox broken

Jerry — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:45:03 +0000

Went up to the local 7-11 store this morning to use the Redbox machine to rent the Mission Impossible movie to take home and watch with my in-laws. When I got up there my credit card wouldn’t work! I tried a different card, and it wouldn’t work either! There was a line of four people behind me, so this was very embarrassing. Using my cell phone, I called my wife and asked her why was I having trouble with my credit cards. She told me that there should not be an problem with the cards, it is probably some problem with the telephone lines that the Redbox is hooked up to. It’s a rainy day and there have been a lot of solar storms lately, so she assured me that it was probably just a problem with the machine. I came home empty handed, and annoyed, but what can you do? Technology is great when it works!

Paying more attention

Jerry — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:38:54 +0000

This guest post from Margaret Mills

I do not think I had heard of DirectStarTV until I used it to set up our TV service in our new house. That is often the case when it comes to knowing companies and providers. It seems like you do not pay attention to those things until you have to. I finally had to I guess when we were moving because we needed to figure out what the best possible service was for what we wanted to pay. It ended up being fairly easy to pick out a deal with the local channels and some good extras included with them for a good price. Even though we have our service and we are really happy with it, I still find myself paying a lot more attention when I hear people talking about their TV service provider or other services providers. I think I just do it out of habit. I had to listen to figure out who we should use, but now it is just this habit that I figure could do nothing except help us to figure out if what we have is best.