I really should post something

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No one is safe. You heard me, no one is safe. Well at least no one in North America. I am in the process of purchasing a GPS unit. Now I am pretty good with directions but there are times when it would be nice to have help. Since a lot of my trips are solo that usually means ahead of time I have to become familiar with a map and a route ahead of time and hope nothing changes. Then I have to hope I can read the map which can be tricky when you are driving especially when you get in a busy area. I had this very thing happen this year, I was heading down to Kentucky, a place I know pretty good, but I was going to a motel and to a church that I was not sure where I was going. I was coming in last minute so I could not afford to make a mistake. Luckily my friend contacted me and more or less guided me in to where I needed to go. On that return trip I was heading a different route so I could visit Crabby and Mr Crabby. I had planned it out and was not too bad. I got a couple of hints from Bob and found my way. But leaving and heading for home I was on roads I have never been on and it was dark and impossible to see the map. Well I need to make another trip that the GPS will come in handy for once again so I finally broke down and purchased one. I should see it on Wednesday. Wow how the prices have come down. I think in the long run I am really going to like this doohickey.

My Dad's birthday was nice, kind of low key but nice. Cake and ice cream and pizza. My Sister and her family were not there but they had visited Friday. They were missed. After the birthday thing I roped my brother into helping me mark the game boards (yes I brought them with me to work on them). We got that done and enjoyed the rest of the day. After they left I dragged my Dad into working on the game boards too. We taped up the boards and I painted the boarders of the boards. Might I say I was shocked about the paint? I had to paint white, yellow and scarlet. Now the yellow covered pretty good. The white was so so but with a second coat should be OK. The red, the one that I thought would do so great; it was like I have used nail polish. I could really see what was under the red. This was a problem as I had pencil marks as a guide around the hold I cut in the board and I had been sloppy and got some white paint on the board I was trying to cover. When it dried I say a decent scarlet color everywhere but when it was over the top of the white it was like the red was on FIRE. So I have since sanded that down and put down a primer coat over that area. This is so much fun.

Oh and one more thing. My Dad ran over the game boards. Well actually he ran over one of them. He has Alzheimer's and can forget easy and sometimes not make a wise choice. The 4 game boards were on the floor in the garage and caused him to park in a slightly different spot. The next morning when he went to pull out, he turned his wheel and backed into the U of M game board. Now that was not to bad because all it did was run some paint off but when I yelled stop he only paused and kept going. He pushed the game out of the way and made his way out. I was not happy. If he would have just listened and stopped I would have been OK but no. Oh well, no permanent damage that a little paint and TLC can not repair but my poor board!!!

I just found out I had a possibility to meet up with the wonderful Lime. Shucks, I missed out. I am sure it would have been wonderful. Oh well, maybe there will be a next time. I sure hope so.

Editors note: Opps, forgot one more thing you may actually find interesting. When I was painting my game boards my cell phone fell out of my pocket. My Dad grabbed it and cleaned off the paint for me. But then he decided to put it on top of his car so it would not be forgotten. I juts knew it was a bad idea. My Sister lost a cell phone that way before. Anyway fast forward to Sunday. We went out to the garage and he promptly ran over my one board (you knew that from above) but here is the rest of the story. My phone was still on the car. We hopped into the card and headed off to see a movie, the game plan. 2 hours later the movie was over (which I really liked except for the tear jurk effect) and we were out front of the theature talking. Something was said and I knew right away that my cell phone was on the car and probably had been lost or even broken. We went over to the car and there it was tucked neatly in the gutter of the roof. So not only did it not fall off in the 2 to 3 mile drive to get to the theature but it was not stolen sitting on top of the car for 2 hours. AMAZING. I got lucky for sure.