Friday: toes

Here's what I've noticed recently about my toes: they are almost always cold in the winter. I'll get into bed and they are ice cubes, but then an hour later they are still cold. It has been the downfall of several naps...when I can't get them to change from ice cubes to just cold.

Thursday: dates

So lately I've been having to type the date often. I have found that last year I liked using slashes (12/09/09), but this year the slashes seem more cumbersome and so I'm going with dots more often (1.25.10). I think it is partly due to how the "1" and the "9" are closer to the "." and the "/", respectively.

Wednesday: nada

Today nothing very special happened. I had a hard time staying awake around 2pm but then a second wind kicked in and I got quite a bit done in the last two hours of work. We forgot to put the trash out which normally wouldn't be a big deal, but the trash can was much fuller than normal. I'm sure we'll somehow make it through another week, but it might get a little tight. We also have a computer chair that died so we're hoping the trash people will pick it up too, although I have my doubts.

Tuesday: language

Her's my favorite sentence of the day:

"Shrink all sleeving with the robotic shrinker and all shrink labels"

That's right...I used one word as a verb, noun, and adjective.

Small group party at our house tonight. With a snack-luck. I really like the word "snack-luck." It was a lot of fun, although the boys won the game. :(

Sunday: Ben's home!

Ben's home! He was gone all weekend and definitely missed.

Saturday: puzzle night!

Tonight some friends came over for the express purpose of putting a puzzle together! :D It was a lot of fun.

Pre-puzzle

Puzzlers (along with Heidi, who was taking the pictures)

Finished puzzle!

Friday afternoon: someone understood my problem

So I'm going along, looking at specs from the web, and find this:

Well, it doesn't take much to figure out that something is wrong. So I call the company. Except that it is before business hours in California, so I get someone without a clue.

Amanda: can you open the file from the website? It'll make things easier to explain

Clueless: ok, I see the dimensions

Amanda: so you see that .690 doesn't equal .325+.150.

Clueless: but that is how you're supposed to cut it.

Amanda: but the dimensions don't add up.

Clueless: I don't understand. Cut it to those dimensions

Amanda: is there a dimension I'm missing?

Clueless: no, everything is right. Can you tell me your problem again?

Amanda: .690 doesn't equal .325+.150. How am I supposed to cut it?

Clueless: using the dimensions that are there.

After about five minutes he says he'll get with his boss and they'll call me back. They didn't. So I called today, asked the person to look at the drawing and he understood right away. All I had to say was ".690 doesn't equal .325+.150". It made my day.