Braced for Cooling Weather...

The tempature has dropped about 20deg since all the company left. When Oliver was here, it was usually over 100 and now its been in the low 80ies and even 70ies. Which is good news for the time being. Its just too hot to be doing much when its over 100deg here. And, this cooler weather should trigger the fish to start loading up on food before the upcoming cold winter tempatures set in and they basically hibernate through the winter. They actually don't hibernate, but being so large, they get very slow and sluggish and cannot compete with the smaller fish for much food, or that's what I am told. I guess they are on it, whatever it is, as they have been around longer than most other species and doing well.

Anyway, I am hoping to get in some really good fishing from now until the first really cold spell, which last year, stopped the fish from biting. All that being said, I went fishing two days this week and didn't catch anything - Grumble, Grumble...

My back has been feeling a little better lately, which is great news. I keep getting these little bouts of muscle spasms, but all in all, it has been much better than before the epidural shots.

I went to play in the weekly 9-ball tournament Tuesday and again a lot the good players were there. I was playing ok with a few episodes of weirdness - sorta like my back and probably linked to it - and ended up coming in 3rd. So, all in all, it was a successful night, but I should have won it...

We got this new wireless router that was on sale from Buy.com that has 7 antennas and a little blue led light for each one in a circle on the top of the unit. They light up when the specific antenna is being used, I guess. It really improved the wireless reception around the house and was on sale referbished for only $29.99 with free shipping. I am liking Buy.com more and more since we have no local stores to get such things at good pricess. Now the challenge is the take the old wireless router and use it to replace the 8 year old Linksys router up in the wiring cabinet which has been acting up and the reason for all this upgrade stuff in the first place.

As has been cronicaled here for some time, Pam has been preping for getting braces on her teeth. This is something that should have been done many years ago, but wasn't, for whatever reasons. Anyway, all the prep work was done and the braces were finally installed this week. She was very excited about finally getting them installed and I am glad we can finally get-er-done, as they say here in DaHo.

They are quite a challenge to maintain. Anytime food touches your mouth, you have to go through this complete ordeal of brushing, cleaning and flossing them, which can take considerable time and effort. Then there is the pain from the inner mouth skin that is being scrapped and poked by all the new hardware with every facial movement. I have never had braces, but it looks really nasty painful to me. She has to pack wax around the braces to try and keep the sharp hardware away from her tender skin as much as possible. Being a phone support technician is probably not the best job to have until this all settles down a bit, but it will all work out and she will make it through all this like the trooper she is.

Well, I guess that is about all the news that is fit to print here from DaHo...