I know that I am way late to the party on this.

I've used levels for a long time usually for simple projects

like hanging pictures and such straight on a wall. But it was

only recently that I came across this cross-check level.
A VERY cool little tool.

In this picture I have laid it on my table surface and you can see

that it shows the table to be low in back and high on the right. It

shows both at the same time. What a great tool. I like it.

Cross-check. You learn something new every day.

This is my Tosari transistor radio. When I was young a friend of

my mom made a device that would hold this radio to the handlebars

of my bicycle. I used to ride all over (and mean ALL OVER) the city

listening to Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle on AM 93 KHJ Boss Radio

out of Los Angeles, CA.

You can still make out some of the psychedelic green black light tape

that I put all over it. Happen'n days, man. Happen'n days.

I do not know much about these things, but

this would tend to make me a bit... nervous.

~ Chapter One, The Chair ~
I REALLY need a new chair for my desk. My older chair

broke and almost knocked me on my butt in the process.

I went to Staples (office supply store) and looked around.

I ended up buying the gray chair you see in the foreground.

~ Chapter Two, Oh The Pain ~

After getting it home and putting the thing together it just

didn't work out for me... at all. The lumber support KILLED

my back and it wouldn't recline at all. Oh well.

~ Chapter Three, The Return ~

Staples let us know that we can return The Chair to them within

14 days of purchase, with receipt (always) and if disassembled.

My son was a huge help with ALL of this and I was eventually

refunded my $$$s in full.

~ Epilogue ~

I dislike returning things and in the last 20 years it has been

necessary for me to do that only a couple of times (defective

items). As for the chair? I still REALLY need one and will try

again sometime down the line.

~ The End ~

I love these trees.

I thought I had shown this before, but apparently not,

so here she is! From my 2010 visit to the Gene Autry

Western Heritage Museum in Griffith Park, California.

This is a rubber prop pistol used by Kevin Costner in

his movie "Wyatt Earp" (1994).

Movie props are a trip.

This display is no longer there. The pistol MIGHT be

in another section of the museum, but this area was

torn out. BOO. Sadly, I don't think that The Autry is
what she used to be, but I will still visit when I can.

The King.

When it's roundup time in Texas, and the bloom is on the sage.

Then I long to be in Texas, back a-ridin' on the range.

Just to smell the bacon fryin', when it's sizzlin' in the pan.

Hear the breakfast horn in the early morn, drinkin' coffee from a can.

~ Nat Vincent & Fred Howard ~

I used to collect decals from the states and
places we visited. This is from one of our visits
to Maine sometime around 1966.