I’m in Utah

My niece-in-law’s wireless was not working when I got here. I had to st it up - - again. Unfortunately, she had misplaced all the settings and codes so I had to reset everything and start from scratch.

I’ve done a few things around here. One of which was to install an overhead fan and light. It took me all day to get it done. Well I did have to go to the store to get some screws and washers. It sure looks good in her bedroom.

Driving around here is hard. The town of Provo and Orem are right next to each other. You can’t tell when you leave one and enter the other. And the street “names” are just plain lame. Both have a street named Central (an east-west street) which is the north-south dividing line. On the north side of central the streets go 100 North, 200 north, 300 North and so forth and on the south side the streets go 100 South, 200 South, 300 South. This is for both towns. The main north-south street is State and this is a common street for both towns. The east-west streets go 100 East, 200 East, 300 East an so on and 100 West, 200, 300 West and the like. It would be a great system if both towns didn’t use it or both towns used Stake Lake as the start point for the system of street names. So as it is if you are the corner of 800 North and 400 East and you try to use a map to get to where you want to go you cannot tell where you are, you have to first find out whether you are in Prove or Orem. Try finding someone to ask at five in the morning. Needless to say I got lost.

I’m still alive and kicking

My main computer has died. It’s a Win98 machine and Win98 will no longer boot. So I guess its time to move up to Win XP. I need to upgrade the hardware also. I guess I will do that in December when I get back from my next trip. My last trip to North Carolina was to be just to be three weeks, but I was there for four months. Now I am leaving Friday the 6th of October to drive to Utah. I plan to drive back the first week of December. I hope! More family handy man work.

I’ve been working on my house trying to get caught up on the work I was to do last spring. Some of the yard work will have to wait until next spring.

My back has stopped hurting when I urinate. Never passed a stone. I don’t know what was going on. My Doctor is injecting my knees with Synvisc (sp?). I hope it helps me get around better.

I am soo upset with W and his non-war on terror. I could rant for hours about the things that he has done wrong. But, because I live in a red state I have very few people with which I can let my true feelings out. The main thing people are concerned about around here are Gay marriage, abortion and stem cells. They don’t think much about what is happening in the rest of the world – except they want to “stay the course.” Too bad it’s the wrong course.