Missing Trash Can Lid

Last night I took out the trash can. That's because the trash man comes early on Friday. Momoko told me Friday was supposed to be windy. So I placed the can right up against the back of my truck.

Sure enough the trash man came and left by the time I woke up this morning. Before work I like to roll in the trash cans. However I could not find the lid. I looked down the street. I looked under the truck. It was nowhere to be found.

So I thought about what the trash dudes do. They normally throw the lid on the curb in the yard. I looked around and found the lid by our house. The thing must have blown across the front yard to the house. Gail force winds.

Who Let the Animals Out!

I was taking the kittens for a ride when all of a sudden a horse crossed the road. Wow that was pretty amazing but then a few seconds later a sheep runs across the road. Now, we were on a pretty busy road but there was a house nearby. I guess the horse got out and the sheep was tracking him down. They walked toward some unknown destination. I was a nice conversation piece in the car. You just do not see that everyday.

Plumber Power

Momoko told me the sink in the kids bathroom was getting slow to drain. Normally I would call the plumber. But we are trying to be scrappy. When the plumber visits, he charges $100. No can do.

I ordered some long pipe cleaner looking tools. Then Kit Kat and I hit the sink. She said she did not need any gloves. I put on some latex gloves for protection. Kit Kat put the pipes down the sink.

Now I thought we would find tons of hair. Don't get me wrong. There was some hair. But there was also a lot of sludge or something down there. And I had to clean off the pipe each time Kit Kat dug for treasure. Those gloves came in handy.

By the time we were done, we could run the hot and cold water at full blast. All the water flowed down the drain and did not back up. Plumber charge avoided. Kit Kat and I will have another adventure this weekend. All I can say is that there is something nasty about the windows in her bedroom.

Jump Car Jump

I have been spending a lot of time a work lately and today was no exception. We had an event today and I had to park in a different lot. When I came out, I saw that there were only a few cars left in the lot. A colleague of mine had left her lights on and she needed a jump start.

There was another car that had stopped to help but she was having trouble. Neither women knew how to jump a car and they asked for my help because they couldn't find the battery and/or couldn't reach it. I have never jumped a car before and I did not feel comfortable advising her.

Meanwhile, my son had taken control of the situation. He told her where to hook up everything and when she could not reach the battery on the jumper car, he opened my hood and saw that my battery was easy to access. I did not feel comfortable with Little Kat advising when I wasn't 100% sure he was right so I told him to locate a man to help.

Of course, Little Kat was on the right track it must be in his "man" genes. We ended up using my car. I had directions on my jumper cables that said to hook the black to a battery and the other end to the engine block but the "man" put it on the other battery and it seem to work just fine.

So, I guess my question is where should it go...battery or engine block? I guess it does not matter as long as it work.

You've Got Mail

Normally Momoko and I get all the mail from the mailman. They are either bills or junk mail. There always seems to be a lot of it. Once in a while Little Kat will get a magazine.

Lately there has been a mail change. Kit Kat is getting all this mail. And they are from colleges. Huh? This kat is only a sophomore. Why are colleges hounding her already?

It seems Kit Kat took some test at school. And she marked that it was ok for colleges to send her stuff. They are jumping on the band wagon. Times are tough. Colleges need students to make that $$$.

Perhaps the best way to look at this is that Kit Kat did well on her tests. So the colleges want her. As long as they are ponying up for some scholarships, I say let there be mail for Kit Kat.

Desktop Transfer

Kit Kat's desktop computer is dead. She tried to revive it. But it keeps going down. Now she "borrows" Momoko's computers. She sometimes uses Momoko's desktop. However she tries to get in on Momoko's laptop as well.

When I bought my laptop, I offered to let Kit Kat use my desktop. She declined the offer. I think she planned to save up and buy a laptop for herself. However the savings are low.

Today Momoko told me to move my desktop computer into Kit Kat's room. Kit Kat wanted to keep her monitor. I told her she could keep almost everything, except for the box that is my PC. I got Microsoft Office on there. And it is set up to use our wireless network and printers in the house.

Normally I would have tossed Kit Kat's old PC. However Little Kat wants to open it up and experiment with it. Now that's a young computer engineer if I ever saw one.

Tech Club Cancel

Momoko goes to college class on Tuesday nights. So I pick Little Kat up from school. This week he was supposed to start "Tech Club" after school. It has something to do with computers. The good news is that I don't have to leave work early if Little Kat stays after school for club.

Today Momoko called me up and said that Tech Club was cancelled for today. Great. I still had a lot of work to do. But I had to run to pick up Little Kat. Once I got him, we headed over to Petco to get fish and gerbil food.

At first, Little Kat tried to pick up some random bag of food. But it was for mice. I guess gerbils could eat the food too. However I made him search for a bag that was specific for gerbils. By the time we got home, Kit Kat was already here watching her favorite TV show (CSI?).

I realized that my library books were due. So were Kit Kat's. We headed to the library as Little Kat studied. Now I am going to read my new library book as Kit Kat cooks us up some lasagna. Come home quick Momoko. Otherwise there may be no lasagna for you.