I ended up not doing a job today. I went to a mobile home in the same park where I did the flooring job - they saw me working there and asked me to do some things for them - planning to install a new programmable thermostat and a light switch. But they bought the wrong thermostat so that part of it couldn't happen.
And have you ever taken out a light switch in a mobile home? I hadn't. But now I know not to ever consider living in one of those things. Never mind that they take flight in any wind over 15 mph., they're built like toys. The light switch is a cheap plastic box made out of two halves. They run the wires in between them with the black one cut, press the two halves together, and metal blades pierce through the insulation of the black wire. Then this box gets shoved in a hole cut in the drywall. The only thing holding it in place is the drywall. (Don't cut the hole too big!)
So tomorrow I'll get an "old work" box and go back. They will have purchased the correct thermostat for me to install, and then I'll do the light switch using that box.
An elderly couple are sitting in church listening to the sermon when the wife leans over and whispers to her husband.
"I just let out a silent blast of gas. What should I do?"
He whispered back, "Put a new battery in your hearing aid."
As long as we're on the topic of annoying TV commercials, is there a more inane series of ads than those for Alltel? Those are the ads that show Chad always looking cool with his "My Circle" feature as compared to those of the other four companies. Now that Alltel has been sold, can we please get rid of Chad?
I'm doing that edit of the curriculum, and in the process I'm making up a Power Point presentation for most of the lessons. Several of the sessions need maps in the presentation. What's the law regarding maps I pull off the internet? If there is no copyright info on the map can I assume it's public domain? I'm often finding the same map on several different sites, which leads me to conclude they aren't copyright protected. Anybody know the rules here? Or how, apart from a copyright notice on the image, I'm supposed to know if the map is protected material?
Today Apple announced that they're coming out next month with a new iPhone that's twice as fast and costs half as much as the model that debuted last year. If I had purchased one of the originals last week I'd be really ticked! I'm also pretty sure that sales of iPhones have come to a screeching halt until the end of July.
I realized today that, besides the thermometer, there's a way to tell when it's really hot here. I went outside this afternoon and it was completely silent. A couple of weeks ago there would have been birds making noise - the mourning doves and the quail, and whatever bird it is that has that distinctive and varied song. But I stood and listened for a couple of minutes and didn't hear a single sound. It's too hot even for the birds.
They're hiding from the sun.
Which is why we have to keep the garage door closed. We've left it open a couple of times and been very surprised to go from the house to the garage and have panicked birds fly out. I'm not sure who's more startled.
But I have finally learned to expect them to fly out from underneath the van when I walk up to it. And I don't think the neighbors saw me jump before I learned that they take shelter there.
A woman looks at herself in the mirror and says to her husband, "I look old and fat. Pay me a compliment."
He answers, "Your eyesight is great."
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