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It's being a day
Yesterday I printed calendar pages for September and October because I can't keep track of everything we have planned and I foolishly neglected to put them into my PDA. I wrote in the events I could remember and before breakfast this morning remembered to look for the replacement tickets we had to get for Stagecrafters' first play of the 2009/2010 season. (We traditionally got opening night, but this year that conflicted with The Bridge Walk). The tickets weren't where they should have been, so I ended up flipping through piles of unopened snail mail. Which is when I discovered I hadn't bought a new license plate tab for Gabe's car. Which means he's been driving around on expired plates. Oops. I gave him the checkbook and the paperwork; he's going to stop at the secretary of state after our dentists gives him his new crown this morning.
I found the tickets, btw. Naturally, this resulted in a conflict -- Little Women is the same night as ladyinfidel's birthday party. We're going to try to do both anyway, even though it will mean a really long day and that'll we'll be exhausted the next day, in which we will again be trying to cram two events.
I also went around the house grabbing the various boxes and bags and stacks of old mail. I now have a 14x10x6 (inch) box stuffed with things I need to process. I try to get rid of the sales circulars as soon as they enter the house, but the ones hidden between the pages of the local newspapers or stuffed in with the bills are a different story. I've found checks we haven't deposited (I got a new ATM card and mislaid the new PIN number. The PIN number reappeared during the search for the tickets, but I don't know where the new ATM card is. Hopefully it's in one of the letters I haven't gone through yet. If not, I'll just have to go to the credit union when they're open and see an actually bank teller.
Another thing that surfaced this morning is the little newsletter the Royal Oak School sends out. Not having human children, I usually glance through the publication and add it to the recycling. One of the headlines caught my eye: ROHS Students File for Patent On SEEKER Robot. Three ROHS sophomores invented SEEKER -- an autonomous robot that detects and marks the location of land mines with fluorescent dye. What I found particularly wonderful is that the team built their robot for only $148. I know land mines are an ongoing problem in many of the poorer parts of the world, so I'm hopeful that SEEKER will be an affordable solution to the problem.
I found the tickets, btw. Naturally, this resulted in a conflict -- Little Women is the same night as ladyinfidel's birthday party. We're going to try to do both anyway, even though it will mean a really long day and that'll we'll be exhausted the next day, in which we will again be trying to cram two events.
I also went around the house grabbing the various boxes and bags and stacks of old mail. I now have a 14x10x6 (inch) box stuffed with things I need to process. I try to get rid of the sales circulars as soon as they enter the house, but the ones hidden between the pages of the local newspapers or stuffed in with the bills are a different story. I've found checks we haven't deposited (I got a new ATM card and mislaid the new PIN number. The PIN number reappeared during the search for the tickets, but I don't know where the new ATM card is. Hopefully it's in one of the letters I haven't gone through yet. If not, I'll just have to go to the credit union when they're open and see an actually bank teller.
Another thing that surfaced this morning is the little newsletter the Royal Oak School sends out. Not having human children, I usually glance through the publication and add it to the recycling. One of the headlines caught my eye: ROHS Students File for Patent On SEEKER Robot. Three ROHS sophomores invented SEEKER -- an autonomous robot that detects and marks the location of land mines with fluorescent dye. What I found particularly wonderful is that the team built their robot for only $148. I know land mines are an ongoing problem in many of the poorer parts of the world, so I'm hopeful that SEEKER will be an affordable solution to the problem.