• Daily life,  Home education

    Stirring up dust

    We had a family lunch at my mother-in-law’s house yesterday. BIL #2, who lives at the house with his wife, brought home a new desktop computer on Friday but hasn’t set it up because he doesn’t have a desk or table for it. So the Scientist offered an old metal one at our house to use and he is going to come to pick it up today. The difficulty of this offer was that the desk was pretty much buried under all sorts of stuff that had been stored in the same area. The Scientist has spent the last couple hours unearthing forgotten items, much of it junk. But he did get it cleared out and the desk has been removed. Now he’s in the process of putting it all back. Actually, much of it has been transferred to our recycle bin, and some has been thrown out. So the volume is considerably smaller. It should look a lot tidier once he is complete. I had to leave due to the massive amount of dust floating around.

  • Daily life

    New parts

    I was just getting ready to have a shower before taking the Lego lover to an appointment when there was a knock at the door. It was a postal delivery. Of course, all my clean clothes were hanging outside, well out of reach. I rushed to find something, taking clothes off, eventually putting them back on and settling for a robe over top and a super quick brush of the hair. There’s nothing like that mad scramble for appearances when a delivery is being made.

    I was perplexed as to what was being delivered but all became clear on seeing the return address. It’s a replacement part for our exercise bike. The pedal came off a few weeks ago and the threads were stripped so it could not be replaced. The bike is still under warranty for parts so they sent out the pedal and crank. Actually, now that I have opened it, I find there are pairs of each. Good. We have a spare for the other side should we need it.