Lucas Blackwood Contemplations » Internet

Broken zipper

Lucas — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:54:26 +0000

A few weeks ago I saw a zipper repair kit for sale online at one of those “bargain” websites. I had been looking for something to give my wife to use to repair the zipper on the hooded sweatshirt that she had hand painted several years ago. The zipper had broken and she had stopped wearing the sweatshirt, but she did not want to throw it away because she had spent so much time and energy hand painting the thing.

So when the zipper repair kit arrived, we hunted for a while to find the sweat shirt. It had been put away in the back of a closet and was being elusive. Finally we put the zipper repair kit in her sewing basket and had given up looking for the sweat shirt. Well, surprisingly enough, when my wife was looking for a gray skirt to lend to her sister to wear at a funeral, she found that sweat shirt and pulled it out of the closet.

We tried to use the zipper repair kit, but we were unsuccessful with our attempt. We broke two of the replacement zipper heads in the attempt. Very discouraging!

I’m A Stubborn Old Cuss Sometimes

Lucas — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:12:22 +0000

I really don’t know what all the fuss is about, my current address plaque suites me just fine, but I guess I’m the only one since I keep getting harassed by folks about looking at new address plaques and finding a new one to put up. You see the one that is presently installed on the front of my house is the one that I made in Shop Class back in high school and I’ve gotten pretty darned used to having it there. I know that it has faded out a bit during all of this time, I mean it’s been outside in the weather for all of these years, but I can still read it just fine, thank you very much!

This morning when I checked my email, my sister had sent me a link to a company that has a ton of house address plaques that is wanting me to check out and pick one to order to put up to replace my home made one. I have to admit that there are some might fine looking address signs there to offer, but I’m a stubborn old cuss and I’m standing firm on this issue.

You Think You’re Cooler Than Me

Lucas — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:52:01 +0000

This is one of my all time favorite songs that I haven’t heard on the radio for quite some time. While on my laptop today I decided to look it up on YouTube and give it a listen. It’s got a good beat, easy to dance to, so I give it a 10. Thanks Mike Posner and YouTube.com.

Carpet Cleaning in Round Rock

Lucas — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:06:31 +0000

I’m glad that my daughter finally listened to my voice of reason and contacted the round rock carpet cleaning service that I found for her online. She still doesn’t have Internet access and being new in that area she doesn’t know many people yet to turn to for recommendations for things such as this and is too busy working and being a new mommy to go to the library to use their computers.

Their new puppy has made a real mess of their carpets and I am concerned for the health of my granddaughter because she is just starting to be able to crawl around and I really hate the thought of her crawling and rolling around on such a badly soiled carpet. There is a good chance that that carpet wasn’t even cleaned from the previous tenant when she moved in just a few months ago, so I’ll feel much better when I know that she has called and had this taken care of.

Wish List

Lucas — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:47:53 +0000

Well it seems that the wife has all ready made her wish list up in anticipation of our tax return check this year. She is wanting to find some cream comforter sets to use in our guest room, as well as a daisy bedspread for our daughter’s room. The only thing on her list that I really think she needs is the decorative wall mounted coat racks that we found online a few months back that we just haven’t ordered yet, so when we do get the money in the bank I guess we will go ahead and place the order.

I guess I really need to buckle down and get all the paperwork done and get our taxes filed since we only have a few days left to do it in. I really hate doing our taxes and each year I seem to procrastinate right up to the deadline which really drives the wife crazy. I guess it all stems back to the day when I knew I had to send a check in and didn’t want to part with my money until the very last moment.

Mother’s Day

Lucas — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:06:31 +0000

Mother’s Day is coming, and I have been racking my brain trying to remember where I put the pretty beryl ring that I bought a few months ago to give to my mother. Her name being Beryl, I thought it would be appropriate to give her some jewelry made with it for a gift giving occasion and when I saw it on Ebay a couple of months ago I bid on it and won it. When it arrived I put it in one of those “safe places” that act like black holes. I might have to buy her something else for Mother’s Day this year and give her that ring for her birthday in September if I don’t find it soon!

Vessel Sinks Online

Lucas — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:24:16 +0000

It looks like my sister-in-law has changed her mind once again about how she wants her master bath made over. Part of the Easter dinner conversation was about the do over that is taking place over there, and the beautiful vessel sinks that she found online and now wants to use in their master bath. Most of the talking was done by her while my brother basically nodded his head and smiled on occasion when he felt it was warranted. I feel so bad for him to be stuck in this marriage with a loud mouthed woman who seems to be busy making his life miserable all because they got pregnant and decided to “do the right thing” and get married, for the baby’s sake.

New Bathroom Tiles

Lucas — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:53:27 +0000

I have to admit that the website MetalStainlessSteelTiles.com has some really nice mosaic metal tiles that would look good as the bathroom back-splashes in my parents master bathroom that they are getting ready to tear apart and completely re do in the very near future. They are having to make that bathroom easier for the two of them to get around in, complete with a new hot tub spa that is handicap accessible for my dad to use to get in and out of with little or no effort.

They want this new bathroom to be easy to keep clean as well. So I believe having this nicely decorative metal tile will help in that area, it is easy to clean and it will help brighten it up as well. I’m sure I’ll be assisting my Dad with some of the work that this will all take, but I don’t mind. I rather enjoy working along side my Dad, we don’t get to spend as much time together as I’d like and we get along famously so I look forward times such as this to hand with him when I can.

Beauty products from the sea

Lucas — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:48:08 +0000

One of the things that always amazes me is when I read an article about how there are dangerous chemicals in a lot of the make-up products that people use. For example I read that a lot of brands of lipstick have dangerous levels of lead in them. And yet women still wear their lipstick! My sister was telling me that she has found a bath body website that sells beauty products that are made from natural ingredients and that some of the ingredients come from the sea. Ingredients like seaweed. What will they think of next?

The new timeline

Lucas — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Have you converted your Facebook page to the new timeline yet? I have been resisting the change; I really did not want to bother trying to learn something new AGAIN. Generally speaking I am usually accepting of change, but to be perfectly honest when I was looking at my friend’s pages that had already converted I found the new format to be confusing. To be honest, I still DO think that it is confusing. I suppose I’ll get used to it, but it is definitely going to take a while before I’m comfortable with it. A lot of my friends have been complaining that they don’t like it, but then again several say that they like it just fine; it reminds them of the “MySpace” pages. I never had a MySpace page, I guess that I never felt “self-important” enough to crow about me online. I only signed up for Facebook as a way to keep in touch with several of my friends, since they never seem to send individual emails.