Wednesday: crimping

Today I had to crimp some splices. (Basically use a tool to form a cylinder of metal with a circular cross-section into one with a half-circle cross-section.) However, the tool handles were rather short and usually the crimp isn't that drastic. Oh, and it is important to know that the handle is a ratchet, so it clicks. Here's how it went.

Click..click......click..........................click

Amanda: maybe that was enough

Handle: no

......................................................................click maybethatwasenough

Handle: no

Amanda: but my hands really hurt!

Handle: too bad.

...................................................................................click wasthatenough?

Handle: no

Amanda: maybe the next click will be the end.

.................................................................................................click wasthatit?

Handle:no

Amanda: owwww!

.....................................................................................................................click

Amanda: I win!

I have to do that 12 times. I got one person to do the last click once and am in the middle of number 5.

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This made me remember the time I had some magic occur in one of my electronics exam questions. I had the initial problem and the answer (somehow) but couldn't make them connect. So *magic*!

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My pictures came today! I may have ordered too many :) But it is easier to take them out now than to wish I had them.

Tuesday: car

So the car had an appointment this morning. However, the noise stopped sometime on Sunday. Ben thinks it just needed to go to church and get straightened out. (We didn't hear the noise at all today either, which would have been annoying.)

Flurry cuddled with me in my blanket. It was nice because I was so cold and she helped warm me up.

How come my gum, which I don't actually eat, has less than 5 calories and mustard, which I do eat, has zero? Something seems wrong.

Monday: dinner

Tonight we had our annual ham and squash dinner. Since last year the squash was rather frustrating to make, I checked the interwebs this time. So this time it was made in the oven and was much smoother (and cleaner). Yay!

Sunday

Not much new today. Ben played drums so we went to both services. I found a couch and slept during one of them. Then the youth had a lunch fundraiser so we went to that...the food was good as was the company. I worked on my quilt (some blocks are all put together) and made some more applesauce because some of the apples were starting to go bad.

Saturday: more Flurry

Today we have proof that Flurry enjoys bubble wrap

and that she really likes dirty laundry. She usually hangs out with the towels quite a bit on laundry day.

Ben and I also went for a walk around the loop. It was nice and much warmer than we were expecting.

Thursday: a package for everyone

When we got home there were three packages by the front door. Ben got Windows 7, I got two boxes of picture frames, and Flurry got two boxes of packing material. She loves packing material. This kind came with the large-bubble bubble wrap, and she likes to pop the bubbles and lick out the air. It must taste good.

I finally decided on a good place for my picture collage...in the dinning room. I ended up going with "frameless" frames because I was having a hard time deciding what color to get that would match and wanted to get a lot of frames for not too much money.

I'm hoping that my pictures will be cuter than the bored baby.

Wednesday: winter can come

Today was a beautiful day, although I spent most of it inside. After work Ben blew out the sprinklers and I raked half the lawn.

Oh, I thought of a funny story of the day. Phew. I thought that the whole post today was going to be two sentences.

I went into the break room to heat up some water for my spice tea. It must have been break time because there were about ten people there. I cleaned out my mug and put it (and the water) in the microwave. Apparently someone had been standing in front of one of the vending machines for about ten minutes. He finally decided on a burrito and everyone cheered for him and told him it was the most entertaining thing they had seen all day. He must have been a bit flustered because he proceeded to put is burrito in the same microwave as my water. (Note: the microwave was running.) Hilarity ensued, but I don't really know how to explain it. A lot of disputing whether or not he could see the mug in the microwave.