Sun 20 April

00:40:46   7.7  / 138  Bedtime     
07:02:38   6.7  / 121  Fasting     
11:12:10   7.9  / 143  Post-Bfast
12:42:28   5.4  /  97  Pre-Lunch   
15:48:25   7.1  / 127  Post-Lunch
18:54:59   5.4  /  98  Pre-Tea     
21:51:40   8.9  / 160  Post-Tea
22:54:13   7.3  / 131  Post-Tea

Scratchy: I owe myself one. Will get a $5 crossword scratchy tomorrow.

Breakfast: Low GI toast w/ PB & drop honey
Lunch: scrambled eggs, 2 crumpet toast
Tea: 2 slices pizza (it's Sunday)

Notes: Today was filled with discoveries. My neighbours asked me to print some photos for them and bought me a big 100ct package of kodak photo paper to play with. Turns out, I can use the pre-sized photo paper with my printer and it even does copies, albeit I'm not happy with the colour on the pics. I'm going to try scanning them and printing to see if I can get the pics better colour-wise. But now that I know, I'll be printing more pics of baby Ricky, for sure.

Laundry has been getting higher on my to-do list every day this week, and so today I did 3 loads. At the same time though, I decided to have a really good test of what cleaning products work at getting out stains and what doesn't. I've tried this before, but by time the clothes were out of the wash, I couldn't remember what I'd used for what shirt. So today I got clever and wrote notes describing each shirt as briefly as possible but so I'd know which one) and then what I used to treat stains with. Well did I ever learn something. I tried 4 different approaches. 1st - Regular spray laundry stain remover, 2. plain white vinegar, 3. Orange Power spot and stain remover (it's for carpets, but it also says you can use it on just about anything. It's a citrus based cleaner). and 4. One shirt was pretreated with vinegar and baking soda. This last one was a bit messy for my tastes. As in I wouldn't want to use on to treat every item of clothing needing pre-treatment. The results? Pretty amazing.

Positive results (where the item of clothing had all stains removed) :

Stain Remover: NONE!
Vinegar: 2
Vinegar & Baking Soda: 1 (very good job, actually)
Orange spot remover: 4

Negative results (where the item of clothing still had stains):

Stain remover: 3
Vinegar: 2
Orange spot remover: NONE!

Wow, so I won't be buying that brand of stain remover again. Or any other as the Orange citrus stuff works better. If I were in a pinch though, vinegar & baking soda would certainly get another look in, but it's too messy to work with.

We went out for a drive this afternoon so I could have some practice time. I need 50 hours driving time in order to get my 'P' (Provisional) license, and 10 of those hours need to be at night. We didn't have any real plans on where to head to today, so I told Rod I still needed to get my walk in for the day, so where could we have a nice walk, hopefully on a beach somewhere. We ended up at Silver Sands. I took some nice piccy's and a couple movies that I've uploaded to Random Experiments. It was great to have a good walk on the beach, and to see the sunset and moon rise. I drove along a really long stretch of road along the coast which was also good as it let me really learn about the accelerator with this car, and pretty much learn how to keep it at speed. It's a really light touch, as are the breaks. Sheesh, not at all like my old Dodge Charger or any other car I've ever owned. The trip home was after the sun set, so the time driving counts as night time driving hours, which is cool. All in all, a very pleasant late afternoon.

Tonight I have uploaded pics to Flickr, looked at new pics of my grandson, watched a couple videos of my son, DIL and grandson, made some voice recordings on my phone that I uploaded to my eldest son's directory for him to download. This is a great find as it means I can talk to him, for once, without him interrupting me. Teehee! I'd been using my mobile phone's voice recording features for notes and such lately but tonight I found out I can easily convert the files to something other people can listen to them with (mp3) and then I can just Email them or whatever. Great find though. Maybe if I get the nerve up, I'll record a lullaby for Ricky. I'd have to have the house to myself for that first though. And later I can read him stories. :-)

Well it's getting on and I haven't done my stats yet so think I better do that and then get this uploaded.



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