Month: April 2012

Back Slid Some

Maybe I should add a column for my weight too. Every winter I always gain 5-10 pounds due to inactivity and each spring I lose it back. This year I think I have past the age point where losing weight becomes much more difficult, because I tipped the scales at Dr. PCP’s office at 206.0 today. Maybe it is the extra 10 pounds or maybe the same age marker is to blame for my higher blood borne floating fats…

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >31 <100 30-150
04/10/12 193 39 121 166
10/10/11 162 43 88 155
04/04/11 155 38 96 107
12/06/10 176 41 114 105
05/18/10 151 38 91 109
12/15/08 167 41 92 171
03/21/08 164 37 104 115
12/12/07 175 38 104 165
07/17/07 185 36 117 162
03/05/07 195 39 123 167
09/19/06 167 37 103 135
04/06/06 168 37 106 126
12/08/05 182 35 120 137
07/28/05 177 30 113 169
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
09/21/04 209 24 131 271

All Wet

We weren’t the only ones out enjoying the Florence Marina State Park on the early morning of April 1st. I hope he caught some fish because we found our geocache.

When we got back from vacation on the 7th of April we were in for a surprise. The floor around our refrigerator was very wet. Dang! So we pull the fridge away from the wall and take out the 8 screws holding the soggy cardboard cover on the bottom back. The tray that catches condensation or whatever was full and running over. I sponged out as much water as possible and decided that maybe the water build up might have been caused by the dust build up on the condenser coils, so I vacuumed them off, buttoned everything back up and pushed the fridge back.

You would think I would have remembered about the last time this happened, but no.

One week later (Saturday the 14th) as I open the fridge for something, my sock starts soaking up water. Come on! Sure enough the floor is wet around the base of the refrigerator again. Wheel it away from the wall, remove 8 screws, throw away the totally soaked and warped cardboard cover and notice the condensation tray is full again. Also notice a fine mist cloud of cooling water coming from where the clamp that holds the ice maker water line to the back of the fridge. Empty the tray. Shut off water to the house. Cut 3 inches off the water line. Place a new fitting on the line. Tighten every thing up. Turn the water back on. No leak. Roll the refrigerator back.

Do you think there is a chance that when I get a wet sock while getting a cold drink in the year 2017, that I will instantly think of the ice maker water line?

Me either.

A Thousand Stories To Tell

Unfortunately for my few readers, I have a thousand and one excuses.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Moon Landing Over Mississippi

Our one and only geocache (for now) in Mississippi was not too far away from this life-size model of a Lunar Lander placed in the eastbound !-10 Welcome Center to that state. We apparently were just about a week too early to tour the new Infinity Science Center built adjacent to the Welcome Center. This exit off I-10 is the entrance to the Stennis Space Center which started life in the mid 60’s testing the Saturn V booster engines, later the Shuttle’s main engines and is still in operation today testing the engines that power cargo rockets for satellite placement and International Space Station resupplying.

Woe Is Them

Last year the Red Sox started the season by losing their first 6 games. So far this year in their first 6 games they are 1-5. I’d like to say that they have won 100% more games to this point than last, but 100% more of no wins is still no wins, so I guess I’ll have to go with they have lost 16% fewer games than 2011.

Started down, still down.
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This April Starts Like Last April Started And Last September Ended

Baseball is back and the FRS have lost the first three games of the season. The Boston press is already writing stories about the Red Sox 2012 season being doomed or don’t worry it is only 3 out of 162. Today the Sox had a 3 run lead going into the bottom of the 9th inning. Detroit scored three runs to tie it. The FRS scored two in the top of the 11th to take the lead, but Detroit promptly scored 3 in the bottom of the inning to win it. I was already leaning towards Gloom & Doom, but after today’s effort I’ve fallen completely over.

Both cars got a bath today, the Sonata to remove the Georgia red clay from the wheel wells and the Florida bugs off the front, while the Miata had the last of the pine pollen rinsed off.

Started down, went up, still up.
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