The garage doors are finally installed. 2 installers were over during the rain on Saturday, 11 March 2006. (So much for guaranteed 10 day install!). It took them about 4 hours to install the 2 doors.
Meanwhile,
we worked under the house. 
And
Lucy ate some hotdogs with ketchup for lunch. 
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Our First Real Field Trip!
Well, sure we’ve gone to the zoo and the like, but we did something really cool this time! Max and I (Lucy being cared for my sister Kelly) went to see a play in Thousand Oaks – “Watt is Electricity.” Now of course my five-year-old didn’t understand everything, but he was interested and entertained. It was a one man show of a ‘science guy’ who had big machines on stage that made various forms of electricity. We had a super time at the show, and getting our muffin and (my) coffee at the neat new shopping area next to the theatre complex. We ended our fun time with a trip by Daddy’s work and a quick bite to eat. I really am enjoying this homeschooley thing – praise God. 🙂
I love cruise control
I have been daily commuting from Carpinteria to the south end of Camarillo for nearly 3.5 years.
During
that time I have gone to work as early as 6 am and as late as 11 am for various reasons.
The stretch between Carpinteria and Ventura is mostly empty, so I use cruise control
every day. Today, as usual, I set cruise control to 72 mph as soon as I got on the
freeway and began my daily ritual of shaving my face and head while listening to an
audiobook (currently I am 15+ hours into a 26+ hour book, How
Few Remain by Harry
Turtledove — I love that I can download books from the local library, but I digress ). I usually get to Ventura or Oxnard and then turn off the cruise control for the rest of the trip.
Although I noticed that traffic was not heavy this morning, I didn’t notice that traffic was significantly lighter than usual. At the Carmen exit, which is in the middle of Camarillo, I noticed I still had the cruise control on. Amazing! I was able to go all the way to my exit at Santa Rosa Road on cruise control.
Our Daughter, the Potty Mouth
Oh my – Lucy says ‘truck’, ‘duck’ and ‘frog’ – but you guessed it, it sounds just like the F- word. I’m just really hoping she doesn’t belt it out in the store or something. 🙂
359 miles
359 miles is the number of miles that I can drive on a single tank of gas in my Honda. My tripometer reading this morning was 359.4 miles. Can you guess where I was sitting? If you guessed on the shoulder of the Telephone on-ramp of 101 South in Ventura, you would get a prize.
What communications device was missing from my pocket where normally lives? If you guessed my cell phone, you get a prize. I had left it at work the night before. I almost never take it out of my pocket, but it was bugging me on Monday.
I knew I was pushing the edge of the range of my car this morning, but I thought the little dashboard light would come on. It didn’t.
As I was walking down the on-ramp headed to get a gas can from the not-so-near nearest gas station, a CalTrans driver stopped and asked what was wrong. I told him that I was getting a gascan. He said he had some gas and would put some in my car so I could get to the next gas station. He was very professional and courteous and refrained from laughing at me (at least to my face).
I got his name thinking that I could call and commend him, but after 4 different transfers to get to the Ventura office of CalTrans, the operator told me that they didn’t have anyone by that name.
I submitted a webform, but that was pretty generic and goes to Sacramento.
My co-workers had a hearty chuckle when I told them the story. Now I know that I need to get gas when the tripometer rolls to 355. (I want to allow a little cushion.)