Misc Ramblins . . .

It's been a cold, very windy, sun & drizzly day.  Had about 5 minutes of 35 to 40 mph wind around 7 this AM.  Glad it isn't a mowin day!

The Brink's truck was at the Circle K this AM.  They have a new one.  I think it is a Mercades.  The old one was getting pretty rusty.  Parts of fenders were actually rusted away.  

Been doin some serious cleaning this PM . . . that means I've been movin stuff to clean under it.  I even got brave and moved the refrigerator!  The washer & dryer are goin to hafta wait . . .  Waitin for the kitchen floor to dry at the moment.  It wasn't a hands 'n knees scrubbin . . . . Haven't done that since I bought the sponge mop . . . It has a lever to squeeze the water out of the sponge part.  Pretty neat tool.  

I've pretty much decided I gotta start thinkin about getting a new wallet or as I call it -- billfold.  This one is comin apart in places where it is hard to get stuff in and out of it.  Gettin to be a problem at times.  Can't remember how long I've had it.  I don't think I'm exaggerating when I thinkin around 20 yrs.  They say the first step in solving a problem is admitting that you have a problem.   

Listed a few things on eBay yesterday.  Someone from Japan bought 4 Pyrex and Corning Ware bowls last night.  Hasn't paid yet.  I repacked everything into two boxes and sent an invoice with the combined shipping.  She better pay after all that extra messin around.  I bought 2 of the bowls yesterday AM from one of the local thrift stores.  Always nice to get a quick turn around. 

On the front page of today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, above the fold, is a story about Aretha Franklin.  It seems that she was on the way back to Detroit from a Birmingham, Alabama concert and stopped at the Auburn Walmart to restock her tour bus.  Spent about an hour shopping, filled 4 carts, mostly food and spent about $1000.  She put all the stuff on the items on the conveyor herself and signed the credit slip.  Big news for Auburn this time of year, I guess.  This is the place where they have the big antique car auction Labor Day weekend.  Lots of 'high-rollers' in town then, but I've never read about them shopping at Walmart . . . I wonder why . . .

The Harper's Findings column was very interesting.  I'll bet you didn't know that 'gloomy octopuses vastly prefer HDTV to regular TV.'  Or that' two bottled ghosts - an old man and a young girl - were sold at auction in New Zealand.'  Didn't how much . . . Or that 'University of Hiroshima scientists made goldfish fearless by injecting their cerebellums with lidocaine.'  I thinks those guys need something else to do . . .  And that's only a few of the interesting tidbits in this week's column.