String to the Rescue

The other day I drove the family to a buffet. There was a strange noise coming from the back of my car. I got out to investigate. It turns out that some of the plastic that covers my bumper was hanging down. The sound was the plastic scraping the ground. At that point I just bent the plastic back up towards the car. I thought I would fix the thing permanently later.

Well I forgot about that until today. I drove the cats to lunch from work. A coworker asked if there was something wrong with my car radio. No. It was the bumper cover hanging down and scratching the ground again. When I got home, I decided to fix the darn thing before school.

I got two pieces of strong string. Used the string to tie the flapping plastic to the brace that holds the bumper. Then I wrapped a couple pieces of duct tape around the string, just for safety. Now this thing will stay up as long as I still have a bumper attached. I used this string trick on my last car. The fender by the wheel was hanging loose after running over something. String kept it tight until I sold that car.

Cat Lessons

I read an article that covered lessons on how to treat people. There were some gems in there. For example, you might find gold in the strangest of places. And you never know who you might meet on the side of the road.

In other news, I had turned in a assignment for school that I thought was pretty darn good. However the other night I found that I received a zero on the assignment. This must have been a mistake. So I tried to schedule a meeting with my instructor.

The instructor told me to drop by his office hours. Today I left work in the middle of the day to go to school. Wouldn't you know it? The instructor was not there at the start of his office hours. I saw another past instructor of mine and talked about some stuff in the world of network security. After a long wait, my instructor finally showed up. I made sure that there were no more hidden expectations for my assignment. When I turn it back in, I am expecting no less than 100% on the thing.

Close Call

Today I made sure I left work in time. We had scheduled to go play tennis again at the local park. Momoko and Little Kat were a bit late from school. However we were able to visit the park. Kit Kat drove us there. The courts were empty.

This time we were on the real tennis courts. Little Kat had some problems getting the ball to go over the tennis net. Kit Kat, on the other hand, was smacking the ball over the high fences on the side. Both Kit Kat and Momoko spent some time playing tennis against themselves by hitting the ball against a board on the side of the fence. It was kind of like Forrest Gump, except they did not have Forrest Gump skills.

Momoko talked us into playing doubles tennis. We are not quite ready for that yet. Got to work on serving and returning a serve first. When we got home, Kit Kat and Little Kat teamed up to cook us some pasta Alfredo with meatballs. Kit Kat almost burned the garlic bread. Luckily I reminded her that we needed that bread, and she ran to the over to pull out some crisp slices.

Rita's Italian Ice

Little Kat and I did our regular Sunday shopping. I usually go to Walmart because of the great prices. However today I decided to take us to Target. We got some wild bird feed which seemed pricey. Little Kat talked me into buying "How to Train Your Dragon" on DVD. We bought the 2-disc set that has an extra movie with it.

Afterwards Little Kat suggested we drop by Rita's. It is an ice cream store in the Target parking lot. We got there and found there were many options to choose from. This was our first time there. Little Kat ended up choosing a mango gelatti. It is vanilla custard in a cup with mango Italian ice in the middle. I just got a vanilla custard waffle cone.

This week I got a package that I had ordered by mail. It was an air compressor to inflate things like car tires and sports balls. Little Kat helped me test it out on my truck tires. He said the thing was slow to inflate a car tire, and made a lot of noise. It was also tricky to pull the inflating needle out of a football or basketball. We figured it out though. Now I do not have to go to the gas station when my tire needs air. I just plug this bad boy into the cigarette lighter and I am good.

Kit Kat's Day

Today is the weekend day when my bro usually comes over to watch movies with me. I took a small nap before he came over so that I would be fresh for the movies. When I woke up, Momoko and Kit Kat had gone out shopping.

Kit Kat came back. She and Momoko went to the Dress Barn. Kit Kat got invited to a friend's homecoming dance. I thought it was strange that Kit Kat had to pay for her own ticket. However it was her money and her decision.

My bro and I got some fast food between the movies. When we got home, the mail man had arrived. He delivered minimal letters. But he left a few packages. One of them was for Kit Kat. Her new cell phone has arrived.

Slacker School

The rain cleared up today. So the family had plans to play tennis for exercise this afternoon. Kit Kat, Little Kat, and Momoko were off from school. However Momoko needed to unpack a lot of boxes at school. So she brought the kids to her school to help her out.

I got off from work on time to make sure I could make it to tennis. When I got home, nobody else was here. That was strange. Momoko said she only had a half day worth of work to do at school. So I read the paper and browsed the web.

Later the rest of the family came home. There was a lot of moaning. The unpacking of boxes turned out to be a big job. Now everyone was too tired to exercise on the tennis court. There was some crazy talk about playing Wii tennis instead of the real tennis court. But even that seems like it may be in jeopardy.

So much for the playground exercise idea.

College Time

Kit Kat's school left a message on our answering machine. It said that tonight is the college fair at her school. Kit Kat said that over 50 colleges are attending. For some reason, Kit Kat is not interested in researching colleges. So she planned to skip the event. Luckily Momoko is making her go.

Two of Kit Kat's friends from school are going to the college fair with her. That should give her some good support. I had to stay home with Little Kat. We might be planting a bamboo tree tonight. However I did some role playing with Kit Kat. I started out as the high school student, and she played the college representative. Then we switched roles. Good luck Kit Kat.