Bathroom Fixtures....

Okay, yes, today's topic is bathroom fixtures... No reason, just popped in my head... The one faucet I would really like to have is one I saw a long time ago, and I don't even know if they make it anymore... It had an open 'top' where you could see the water flow across the spigot and then free fall down into the sink... It was kinda U-shaped, i guess... Anyway, I always that was cool... :-)

I didn't get to do any riding today. Got back around 5:30 or so from Camden after a day of installing the latest firmware updates to a school's Goya.... LOL - for those that have no idea what I'm talking about - I helped upgrade their video conferencing system... Then, we (I went with the DL Coordinator from that Co-op) stopped at another site and, after a bit of cable hunting, were able to make their rear camera respond to the remote control... One way (not recommended!) to get anything to respond to a remote control is to WHACK the 'anything' WITH the remote.... Did I mention, this is NOT highly recommended? :-)

After we got back to the co-op, we figured out what the blankety-blank was wrong with their VCR/DVD Recorder that it wouldn't record! Well, it records now (See "getting anything to respond with a remote control" above.. LOL)!!!

I visited with friends and ex-coworkers for a bit, then headed home to find my mother leading Daisy out for a late afternoon stroll... :-) I stopped to pet her (Daisy, not my mother!) and came inside to work on my LAST DAY of PBS TeacherLine training... :-) I also checked my eTopps portfolio (yes, I only have one, thank you!) and make a few trades... Oh, I ate somewhere in there before figuring out the whole Groupwise/Outlook calendar thing (See Below), then logged in to tell the world about the bathroom fixture I want... LOL... What a night!

Before I go, I was working at the Co-op where I used to work and they asked me if I could help them get their Groupwise calendars into Outlook, because they use Groupwise but various other entities use Outlook and they need to share calendars, etc... Well, getting it out of Groupwise was easy (once they showed me..lol) but getting INTO Outlook was another story... But, here are the steps, just in case someone ever asks you... :-)

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Here are the steps to take when creating a calendar that you want to import into Outlook from Groupwise:

• Right-click on the calendar folder in Groupwise
• Export the calendar as a vCalendar file (.ics)
• Remember where you saved the file!
• Open the file in notepad:
  ---Start, Run, type NOTEPAD and press OK
  ---in Notepad, FILE, OPEN, change "Files of Type" to "All Files (*.*)"
  ---Click the drop-down next to "Look In:" at top of window
  ---Locate your .ics file (Where did you save it?)
• Once the file is opened in notepad, LOCATE the line that reads "VERSION:2.0"
  ---This should be about the 2nd line down from top
• Move your cursor to the line IMMEDIATELY BELOW the "VERSION:2.0" line
• Type the following text: METHOD:PUBLISH
  ---this should push the text currently on that line to the right, that's okay!
• Press ENTER
  ---Now the "METHOD:PUBLISH" should appear on its own line immediately below "VERSION:2.0"
• Click FILE, then SAVE
• Close Notepad

---HOW TO BRING THE FILE INTO OUTLOOK---

• Open Outlook
• Click FILE, IMPORT AND EXPORT
• Choose "Import an iCalendar or vCalendar file"
• Click NEXT
• Browse to find your save .ics file (Where did you save it?)
• DOUBLE CLICK your .ics file!

That should bring your calendar items into Outlook! :-)

If you are emailing the ics file to someone, please also send them the "How to Bring the File Into Outlook" section with your message, as they will need to know how to do this.... (You may wish to remind them to SAVE the ics file to their computer first...)

MLB.com Shuffle Roster Update

Oh yeah (speaking of 'popped in my head'), the roster update for the Shuffle game is NOT on the MLB website, as the game says! It is on the site for the company that MAKES the game - Sandcastle Games....

Just go here: http://www.sandcastlegames.com/shuffle.html and find the updates. RIGHT-click on the link for the month and OPEN/RUN the file and install the update!

For the record, the highest value I have had one pplayer was a bit over 14000 points. The most players from the same team I've had on the field at a time is six... I still have yet to break the 200,000 point mark.. :-) And, Emily, yes EMILY was in the Top 5 list on my computer from the first day she played the game. Yesterday, I ended up kicking her down to 6th...

(Yes, I am posting this from work, but I am waiting to start moving some equipment, so it's okay.... LOL)

Boating... And Stuff...

So, Tyler is an official "safe" boater... Since their school construction is still underway, they've had some interesting classes, one of which is taking the Arkansas Boater's Safety class... He passed with flying colors. So now, he is the only one in the family that knows all the rules and regs for boating....

Did I mention.... We don't OWN a boat!!?? :-) Oh well, next time we rent one or go out with someone that DOES have a boat, well, he'll know what's going on... :-)

I watched the Little League World Championship yesterday (Mon) and Georgia beat Japan! They showed one of the US players crying his eyes out - he looked like someone had just told him dog died, really... The reporter asked him how he felt, and said, "I'm just so happy!" I mean, you know he was, but his face and his appearance told you a different story. It was funny, sad, and poignant all in one moment.

We also spent much of the evening watching an rerun of the $100,000 Americas Funniest Videos finals... As Larry the Cable Guy would say, "I don't care who you are, that's funny right there." Of course, the winner wasn't who we would have picked... The funniest one of the night, to me, was two little girls sitting and playing in a bubble bath. The older girl decides she wants to sticker head under the water in the bubble. About the time she get her face in there, the little girl turn and excitedly reports she just went "pee-pee" in the water! Of course, her sister has no idea since she is under water! When she comes up, the parents are laughing and the poor girl is clueless.... Great stuff!! :-) Remins me of the time when I was MUCH younger... Let me just say that my brother and I... 'flavored' a glass of lemonade and offered it to a friend of ours.... He said it was the best lemonade ever... We laughed about it for days.... Well, after we got over the beating we took for it... :-) Ahh... To be tweleve again, huh? (I told you, this stuff just pops in my head!)

As kids still say (yet they have no idea what it means), "See ya on the flip-side!" (Incidentally, so far as I know, that is a reference to these things called records, LPs, 45s... The 'flip-side' was the back side of a record (usually a 45). Of course, 'flip-side' could refer to anything that has two sides - coins, pancakes, baseball cards...whatever... LOL)

Pictures - Finally! :-)

Okay, I have been off here for a few days now.. Mainly working through my TeacherLine course through PBS, watching the RRO on eTopps come and go (I missed it... But that's okay, I am having fun trading my cards for other cards anyway!). I also got to spend a lot of time with Daisy...

So, to play a little catch up here: I had predicted the RRO to come out Friday evening. Instead, it came out at 11:00a on Saturday. At that time, I had been out to feed Daisy, and then I got Tyler's bike (Tyler is my son) fixed to where he could ride it. So, I missed the RRO to be with my kiddos - as I told the folks on the eTopps boards - I believe I won that trade-off! :-)

So, Thursday and Friday, Emily spent the day with me at work again. She was the hit of the day with my co-workers! Of course, that meant having no time to pop in here and update my blog, but that's okay, too.. :-)

Saturday, like I said, I fixed Tyler's bike. Late in the afternoon, we got Daisy out and everyone took turns riding her. I took her out into the cow pasture and rode her around, including making her climb a few steeper areas - mainly to see how she would react to the different terrain. She did great! :-) I still have to work on making her run faster... That is more my own issue than hers... I haven't mastered the whole 'rhythm' thing when riding at faster speeds... :-)

After we all rode for a couple hours and then Emily and I gave Daisy a bath. She loved the cool water and never flinched as I sprayed her off and washed her down. She was pretty dirty so i have no idea when the last time she had been bathed! After that, Emily and I fed turned her out and fed her, then refilled her water tub.

Today (Sunday), we gave Daisy a break since we rode her pretty hard yesterday between all of us that rode (Me, Emily, Shan, Shan's Mom, Shan's Dad, Shan's Sister and Brother-in-Law). Plus, the weather here has been thundering with some lightning... Tonight, it is raining some...

I finally have pictures to post of Daisy.. :-) Let's see if I can post these pictures correctly....

Where Did The Days Go?

Well, I missed posting yesterday... Not that I am going to post every day, but still...

Tuesday was busy! I spent the day with my daughter at work again. The phone rang off the hook and we spent a lot of time traveling to one school, back to the office, back to that school, back to the office.... You get the idea...

I have an idea as to when the next RRO will be out for eTopps. I did not come up with the system myself... I just think I figured out which day it is this week based on clues left by other etoppers... :-) I guess we'll see if I understand the clues or not... I should just post when I think it will be.. I'm pretty sure none of my etopps buddies are reading this, since they don't know who I am... LOL.. So, I'll just say it - Friday between 5 and 6 CST...

Tuesday night I helped out with an after-hours videoconference held across the state... I was told to go home at 7:30 and my boss(es) took over for me, which was very considerate!!

Tonight (Wednesday), I got to the house, ate supper and my daughter and I fed Daisy. After a little while, we got her tacked out and I rode Daisy for a little while before my baby girl got on her. She rode for a while, decided to go play for a bit with her brother, and then she got back on Daisy. I led them around for a while, and I think Daisy is still getting used to being ridden after such a long time of just hanging out in a pasture... LOL, I make it sound so easy... Okay, remember, I AM A TECHIE! So, I am still learning and remembering how to saddle up the horse. I mean, okay, it's not brain surgery, I know... But, it's been a couple years since I rode more often, and back then I did not tack my own horse...

Okay, I'll stop using the 'techie' crutch, too... There are several techs I know that have horses... It's just new for me, that's all... I'll get the hang of it, and then I'm sure I'll be riding Daisy every day I can for longer periods, and today i got her to give me a little speed, which was nice... She's not shod, so I'm not pushing her too hard since I dont want to hurt the poor girl!! :-)

I guess I'm done writing a book here.... See ya next time - Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel...or something like that.....