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Still Sick.

Can you believe it? Me niether. I’m still sick. But at least now I’m sick at work! I’m hoping to soon be healthy and at work. I’m still very tired. My voice is shot and I have a terrible cough. My neighbors are thrilled about the cough. Actually I’m doing a good job of controlling the cough.

My throat gets irritated quickly if I speak, so I’m trying not to talk today. This makes negotiating with the painter tricky. And it makes my job tricky.

All that’s peanuts though! Liz took Grace to “dance” class today and I guess she must have been feeling lousy too. She’s normally thrilled to be skipping merrily around the room and she frequently breaks in to dance at home too. But today she just sat down with her hands over eyes and cried.

HOW SAD!

I can’t even imagine that! I was shocked to hear such an awful description of such a giddy little girl. Liz took her home of course. But when Liz got home there was a message from the school nurse saying that Ben was complaining of pain in his ear and the nurse thought he might have an ear infection!

Lo, another tradgedy! Liz hustled off and got him from the school nurse and his pediatrcian agreed to see him right away. He was able to confirm that Ben had infections in BOTH ears!

I know all this because while this was happening the painters returned to finish up their work but couldn’t get to their paint, which was locked up in the store room.

And Liz feels lousy, too.

When it rains it pours.

Thank god the sox are winning!

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Sportsbetting.com

Sportsbetting.com has the Red Sox as the underdogs tonight:

  • RedSox(Boston)Lowe +129

  • Cardinals(StLouis)Marquis -139

So, if I put down $100 on the Red Sox to win I’ll get $129 if they actually do it.

Alternatively if I put down $139 on St.Louis to win I’ll get $100 if they pull it off.

My trouble with these web sites is that I can’t ever get my credit card accepted there because the credit card companies have all stopped servicing web-based gambling.  I tried to find a site that they liked but I was unable to find such a place.

So if i want to place a bet I’ll have to call these people on the phone and load up my account from my credit card and somehow I don’t want to do that.

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Comparators, Potentiometers and Photocells, oh my!

You might not know it from my Blog but I am continuing to slowly work on my Robot.  I haven’t done much with it for the last few months and I’m sure Liz is figuring that the whole robot-thing was a passing phase.  She may be right, but I haven’t finished passing it yet!

I was at a point where I needed some more parts, so I finally ordered those from Jameco a couple of days ago.  They priority mailed me a grab-bag of potentiometers and five comparators!  I told Liz what had arrived and she looked at me like I had just said “Habbash giggleyfroop on the zabbarazzit!”

Anyway it looks like I can fire up my testing again.  I’m at the point in the book where they’re describing the circuit used to determine light vs. dark.  That is, there are two photo sensors on either side of the ‘bot.  As they sense more or less light they let more or less electricity through to the motor on that side of the ‘bot.  The idea is that you put down light tape on the dark floor and the robot will follow the light tape.  Alternatively you can reverse the wiring and have the robot follow a dark line on a light background.  Whichever.

So, now that I have the photocells, the comparator and the potentiometers I can construct the circuit that’s used on my breadboard!  HAH!

I probably won’t do that because I still feel lousy and its (hopefully) the last night of the World Series when Boston sweeps the St. Louis Cardinals.  Have you seen those rediculous looking Cardinal-head hats?  They’re worse than those Cheese-head hats!

Maybe not.  They’re pretty bad.

(everything is out of whack due to my inability to publish.  I think this one is actually from Wednesday, 10/27)

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Curious

Rehearse the Curse. A melding of political and sports humor: World Series victories by the Boston Red Sox predict defeat for incumbents in presidential elections [New Urban Legends]

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