Friday, December 06, 2002Fire Again
Jerry Barber, the workaholic Town Hall
President keeps coming up with jobs for me to do. He had a realtor friend
dig up the county listing for all the property owners in our zip code and
he’d like me to transfer the list to my Town Hall database. OK, his list
is on disk but it’s in text format so I’ve been trying to figure out how
to import it into my Access data base. I did manage to get it into a
useable Excel format but transferring it to Access is a little trickier.
Lots of little hurdles to jump on this project. The list is all in upper
case and he’d prefer to have just the first letters capitalized. No doubt
there is some sort of macro script that could be used to do everything I
want but of course, we do the mailing this Saturday so time is of the
essence. I’ve gone back to the one reliable method I know. I stick on the
new Springsteen album and key in everything by hand. I must be on my 8th
listening of the album so I think I’ll move on to the Dave Mathews Band
for my evenings work. _____________
This morning I found the offending circuit breaker and only
needed to re-seat the thing. We have circuit breaker panels all over the
property so I had to do a bit of running around to find it. Amazingly, one
of the panels had a mouse nest built in the box between the main power
bars that come directly off the pole. Not sure how a mouse can do that
without being electrocuted but I thought it wise to clean out the nest.
This is the second time in two weeks that I’ve almost burned the place
down. I was using the handle of my pliers to scrape out the nest and just
barely touched one of the power strips with the metal part of the tool.
The jolt blew a chunk out of my pliers and ignited the mouse nest in the
breaker box. It was a small fire and the mouse wasn’t home at the time so I was able
to stomp out the blaze as the nest fell out of the box. Next time I think
I’ll turn off the power before I rummage around in a circuit breaker box.
We also won’t mention this to Catherine when she gets home from work - at
least not today. I’d like to be a maintenance man hero for a few hours
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July 2,
1966 - continued from last entry
This turn of events is going to put a
drastic change in these papers I’ve written. Anything I write will sound
boring after missing out on a trip to Japan. I probably won't write half
as much as previously. I’ll say one thing right now. I hereby swear that I
will get out of the United State and go to all the countries I possibly
can. I don’t know how but after high school I’ll start. Maybe going to
college in some other countries as my brother plans to do. I’m dieing
inside to go to other countries and see how other people live. So help me,
I’ve got to get out of these United States or I’ll bust.
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I saw “The Sound of Music” a few days
ago and I was very impressed. (Otherwise I wouldn’t mention it now). This
movie is in its second year and it even surpassed “Gone with the Wind”. It
was about a family living in Austria. It’s a beautiful country that I plan
on visiting but besides that, the family in the movie impressed me. It
reminds me of how my family used to be. We were always close and did
things together. Now I’m the only one left. I guess in every family the
youngest has to get used to his brothers and sisters moving away.
And so ends another chapter in the life of Robert Horne. I hope that in
the future years I will have better and more interesting things to write
about.
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