Dr Copa

My daughter called me last night to brag about how she got her green belt in karate earlier in the day!  Wow!  I can’t even imagine her in karate class at all!  She was telling me how much she enjoys the class, and that her favorite part of class is sparring.  She is thinking about entering some local competitions in upcoming months. 

I asked her what kind of body protection she uses to keep herself from being injured, and she reassured me that she uses the same proforce sparring gear from AMWA that the competitors use on the American Gladiator television show.  That made me feel a little bit better.  I don’t like the thought of anyone hitting my daughter!

I don’t mean to be rude, but it is getting quite annoying to get so many comments from my “loyal readers” that simply say “I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me…” especially when the post is not about anything that could be agreed or disagreed upon! Come on spammers, give me a little bit of credit, at least put some thought into your comments!  At least READ my post and make your comment relate to it, it really shouldn’t be that hard!  It’s not like I’m typing in code!

Bankruptcy is a last resort that many people are finding themselves turning to.  I’ve heard that it is something some people have abused in the past.  I’ve also heard that there have been so many changes in the laws around bankruptcy that it does not even make sense anymore to declare bankruptcy, all it does is officially ruin your credit for years!  One of the best alternatives to bankruptcy may be debt consolidation. 

Well, this was an unusual Father’s Day for me this year.  Usually I spend some time grilling steaks for the family, but not this year!  I spent the day in Norfolk, having attended an Elks convention over the weekend.  I carpooled with some other Elk members, and attended hospitality parties, meetings, and went to mass this morning.  I returned home late in the day and mowed the lawn.  My wife was not home, she had gone to spend the day at her mothers house.  One of my step-sons tried to call me to wish me a Happy Father’s Day but I didn’t hear the phones ringing, so he left a very nice voice message which made me feel good.

My wife still isn’t home yet, and I’m tired so I’m going to bed.  Yes, it was a strange Father’s Day for me this year.

When we bought this house we knew that three of the outdoor wall-mounted lights were in bad repair and need to be replaced soon.  Lately my wife has been on a huge “save energy” kick and wants to put in those socket adapters that are photo-sensitive and don’t turn on if it is light out.  She’s been noticing that almost every day when she goes outside that at least one of the outdoor lights is turned on even if it is light out.

She bought some of those socket adapters, but once they are screwed into the socket and the light bulb is added, the globe to the light fixture is too small to go back on, so we can’t use the socket adapter. She has also been buying those CFL light bulbs for every light she can possibly put them in.  She’s also very unhappy that some of the outdoor light fixtures won’t accommodate the larger CFL bulbs.  She bought some CFL yellow bug lights to install in the outdoor light fixtures, and we can’t use them because they are too long for the globes.  So, she wants to buy new outdoor lighting fixtures that will replace the lights that are in bad repair and will accommodate both the photo-sensitive adapters and the CFL bulbs.

I’ve been looking for new outdoor lighting fixtures at the local stores and just can’t find what we need.  It doesn’t help that we live out in the boonies!  Not a lot of local stores to choose from.  I’ve found quite a few possibilities on the Internet that I am going to show my wife and see if any of them pique her interest.  I know we are going to want something that is extra tall globe, and we are going to want the globe to be frosted because we don’t want to buy decorator bulbs, we want to use the CFL bulbs (which are ugly!)

Anyway, I’ve bookmarked these sites from the www.farreys.com website for her to look at lights from these outdoor lighting collections: Fine Art lamps, Forecast lighting, Maxim lighting, Kichler lighting, and Quoizel lighting. All of those have some outdoor lighting fixtures that I think would fit the bill!