7and8

I have to make a new paper wallet today. My first one was quite a trooper. It survived a number of events (not the least was ridicule from a Costanza wallet enthusiast) but could not withstand the deluge of the pipe burst. It clung to life for a valiant 4 days after the flood. Today I decided to humanly euthanize/recycle it.

I want to share that the initial zipper folds are critical and the wallet would have lasted longer had I gotten these right from the start. I'm considering printing some of the information I carry as business cards on the new wallet so I can further reduce the payload. I could even take a lesson from another instructable and scan/print the bar codes for the library & grocery card on to it. Making sure the info prints in a fold friendly spot will be the tricky part. Nothing like trial and error for this guy.

I sat at my breakfast table drinking my (hot) coffee and reading the paper when a movement in the woods caught my eye. The sun was behind the woods so everything therein was a silhouette. The movement came from a humanoid figure towering 5'6". The lumbering gait and arms hanging as if too much muscle prevented them from being any closer to the body than one foot. Chills ran down my spine as I tried to remember where my camera could be. Small trees began to be heaved from its path as it moved closer. Then the most unexpected thing caught my eye. This mythical creature revealed it had on a blue t-shirt and was going back to the yard it had come through to get more yard waste and dispose of it in the woods.

Beware kids, compost or Sasquatch will do it for you.


BTW the preceding anecdote was a dramatization. It turned out to be my neighbor, Frank, clearing branches felled by a storm from his lawn before mowing.

Apparently if you want hot coffee at Dunkin' Donuts these days you must specify that at ordering time. When did ice coffee become the status quo?
Call me old fashion but I think HOT should be the standard temperature of coffee no matter the season.

I must admit my bias: I do not understand ice(d) coffee not would I ever order it. I have tried them intentionally and by accident and my mind just cannot understand why the taste and temp. don't match.

I found a neatly folded piece of paper addressed to me in 7s writing on my desk. "To Dad" with the date.
It was a tracing of his foot. I was amazed at the diminutive size. He seems so much bigger to me.
This one is a keeper.

Summer is coming and I am filled with dread and joy to share time with the boys. The dread is a new addition since they started mimicking the least appealing idiosyncrasies ever attributed to humanoids. I won't go into detail but will share that no matter what they are doing or saying they are as loud as they can possibly be in the most shrill voice they can muster. They have gone full-on crazy-hyper for a few days now and I hope it burns out of them or I will start to drink and cry at 3:30. It is hard to see your promising progeny devolve while you weigh long lasting effects of letting them act in such a way with squashing their spirit.