- One of the coolest things happened yesterday. I found out that two people (Deanne and Ruthie) who comment on this blog and live about 3000 miles from here, having found my blog independent of each other, have known each other all their lives. It is truly a small world!
- Charlene sent me a link to a lady who makes tamales at one of the local farmers markets. Lorena has been thinking about doing something like that. I think it would be very cool and a good way for the kids to make some money even if it is a lot of hard work.
- We got the camera in the lab at NCSU up and running yesterday, transmitting images to the server on the internet. There are still plenty of bugs and not too much functionality, but it was still exciting. We will put up some links to the blog, images, and website where the research is described in the next few weeks.
- I got a new (to me) computer at work that is MUCH more powerful than my previous computer. That is always fun, but somewhat of a pain to transfer all the stuff over from the old computer.
- Ciara, the lady from the Johnston Community College Testing Services who administers the CLEP tests the kids have been taking called yesterday. She wanted to know if we would show up for a test this month. She has been great in the way she has helped us with the testing. We were not scheduled for a test, but we are such regulars there, she called us up just to make sure. She is really a pro at her job.
- The cat tower is still moving along, although we are stuck until we get some more carpet glue. This one weekend project is now in its second year, but it will be cool when it is done. Lorea, please remember to pick up a couple of tubes of glue for us today when you go to Christian’s guitar lesson!
- The great Betty Blonde one year anniversary T-shirt giveaway will start as soon as Kelly and Christian finish the T-shirt design and we get them ordered. They promised to work on the design today.
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Ken, concerning the cat tower: are you only using carpet glue or are you going to reinforce with staples? Our cat tower (we call it a cat tree)has the carpet stapled to the wood. The carpet needs replacing so I was waiting to see how your cat tower turned out. We have carpet for the project.
We were thinking of doing both because we have absolutely no clue about what is the right way to do it. We never thought about what might happen when the carpet wore out. I think what we really need to think about doing, now that you have brought this up, is just buy longer staples. I will discuss with Christian and let you know how it goes. If we do it that way, it will go together WAY faster, too. Thanks for a very timely comment.
Ken,
I could pull out a staple, measure it and then send you an e-mail. I am hoping that cutting the carpet will not be too hard. Suggestions on cutting carpet? I am thinking of taking the pattern from the old carpet pieces. We should have done this project a long time ago but I am glad I waited. I need to check our Costco for carpet glue.
We found a mini bucket of carpet glue at Lowes for $4. That would be great if you could pop me a note on the staple length. As for cutting the carpet, we used an Exacto knife. We drew a line with a magic marker on the back of the carpet then just cut (with the aid of a ruler for alignment). We, too were worried that it would be difficult, but that worked amazingly well.