Randy Ingle

I don’t know if it’s hard, or if it’s fun

Randy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:57:13 +0000

I swear that I don’t know if it is hard, or if it’s fun to be a female in this society. So many women are so worried about their clothes. They spend a fortune trying to keep up with new fashion trends! With men, it is a lot easier to deal with fashion. Yes, there are still trends, but it is not quite so worrisome to us; we are more than happy to wear the same outfit for years on end! But so many women are so worried about what “everyone else will think” if they wear the same clothes for several years.

My wife recently bought several sets of slimming clothes that really minimized her problem areas and maximized her natural beauty. I think that it’s great that designers are paying more attention to pleasing shoppers in that regard. And I have to admit, I would encourage everyone to be investing money in ecological friendly clothes if they are going to buy new clothes anyway. But if you don’t really NEED new clothes, then I would encourage people to just keep wearing what you have!

Stomach virus

Randy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:46:53 +0000

Seems as if everyone in town has come down with a stomach virus this week! So far no one in my household has caught it, but I suppose it is just a matter of time before we catch it too. The other day I was watching a young mother in a pharmacy dragging her sick children around the store, killing time while their prescriptions were being filled. The kids were touching all kinds of things throughout the store and the mother was putting them back on the shelves. I remember thinking about how the innocent person who comes behind them and buys those items are going to be exposed to whatever illness the kids have! Isn’t it awful, to be thinking of things like that?

A new remodeling project

Randy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:03:35 +0000

My wife has been talking about putting in a couple of new stainless steel kitchen sinks in our kitchen. The one we have came with the house that we bought a long time ago. It was old even then! And the people who installed it put the hot and cold controls on backwards! And the knobs keep falling off! There are a lot of scratches and rust stains. I have to agree, it is way past time to get it. Maybe with our tax refund check we’ll be able to replace it! And I’d like to put in a small bar sink in the kitchen island as well. It would be really handy to have one there!

E 911 Conversion

Randy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:08:27 +0000

It has been quite a long time since our town went through the E911 conversion. I remember that letters were mailed to every resident in town, advising all of us that in order to be compliant with the conversion we had to name all of our roads, and put address signs on our houses. The letters were very specific about making sure that each house had an address sign on the side of the house that is visible from the road so that any emergency response vehicle could plainly read the house number from the road.

I remember buying an address plaque for my mother to put on the front of her house. I was amazed at how many different styles, types, sizes, and colors of address plaques there are on the market to choose from! My wife was so annoyed when my mother installed it on the side of the house where no one could see it! She must have nagged my mother and me for weeks before I finally persuaded my mother to let me move it to the front of the house where it belonged!

Bob is moving

Randy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:12:34 +0000

Bob called me up last night and told me that his father just passed away. He’s known for a long time that he has been ill, and the day has been coming. So he’s going to be moving to Lexington to be near his mother. She’s getting up in years and he wants to be closer to her. So he’s contacted Chapin Real Estate to help him find a place to live. He doesn’t want to move in with his mother; he knows that the grandchildren would just be too much for her. So he’ll be looking for a good price on Chapin Homes to see if he can accommodate his growing family along with the budget restrictions!

A classic

Randy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:59:46 +0000

I don’t have any idea why this artist popped into my head a few minutes ago, but I started to wonder whatever happened to Tiny Tim. I know he eventually married Miss Vicky, but I don’t rememberhearing anything about him at all in many many years. I don’t even know if he is still alive?

I remember the first time I saw him perform. I think it was on “Laugh-In.” In fact, it might have been this very clip that I found on YouTube! What a laugh!

I’d love to see re-runs of “Laugh-In!” I wonder if there are any on television?

Insidious

Randy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:18 +0000

It wasn’t very long ago that I heard that asbestos is still actively mined in some countries. I think I was told that Canada is one of those countries. I’m not sure if that’s true or not, but I was certainly surprised to hear that because asbestos is so closely linked to Mesothelioma Cancer. When my wife was working for the phone company, one year her boss put her in charge of an OSHA inspection that included inspecting the building that she worked in for asbestos. That was when she learned that exposure to asbestos could cause Mesothelioma.

Since then we’ve learned a lot about how millions of people suffer, and die from that horrible cancer. I just can’t imagine that any country would allow mining of asbestos to continue! But apparently asbestos is found in lots of things – from insulation to car brakes! I would think that the scientists could come up with a different product that works as well with fewer health hazards!

A discouraging word

Randy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:30:36 +0000

Our Lumina needs to be inspected, and we knew that there were a couple of issues we needed to address in order for it to pass inspection. So we dropped it off at the garage this morning and came home. We expected to be able to pick it tomorrow.

Well, the dreaded telephone call came in. The repairs are going to cost more than we had anticipated. We told the representative that we talked with to go ahead and do the repairs, but now we are going to have to put a few things that we wanted to do (like put in a remote starter) on hold. The car will be in the shop for an extra day or two. We have to repair it; we can’t afford a new car! That’s discouraging, but that’s life!

There is so much to learn

Randy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:51:44 +0000

I’m thinking about taking some courses at the local community college. I’d like to learn more about the technology of the Internet. I’ve noticed that I feel rather out-of-place among many of the folks around here lately. I need to learn how to geek-speak! Apparently more and more geeks are moving out here because their jobs do not require that they live in a specific city. So they move out to a rural area where they can live a really nice quiet life and yet make enough money to do it in style.

I noticed a few weeks ago when I attended a dinner party at one of my customer’s houses that a lot of people were talking about computers. They were using terms like dedicated hosting and network servers and bots and I realized that I was falling behind on my knowledge of the technology that is running the world. I think I’d like to keep up with it all, so as not to fall behind and feel totally technologically challenged!

Buying a car

Randy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:11:26 +0000

Part of growing up includes buying a car. What an irritating process buying a car is! Especially buying from a dealer. When you go into a dealership and the salesman asks you if you have a trade-in, the smart thing to do is to say no, that you are paying cash! If you say you have a trade-in, and say that you brought it with you they are going to ask for your keys so they can give you a trade-in value estimate. Well, once you hand over your keys, you are at their mercy until they agree to give your keys back to you! The last time that happened to us, my wife got irate that they weren’t forthcoming with the keys so she told the salesman that he had five minutes to return the keys or we were leaving anyway, since she brought another set of keys with her! She got her keys pretty fast then!

Another important part about buying a new car is getting car insurance. One should have a good idea how much the auto insurance is going to cost! Take some time to shop around for cheap car insurance. I can remember the last time I bought a new car that the cost of the insurance went sky high! That was an unpleasant surprise and now I’m careful to shop for that before I commit to buying the car!