Sir Randall commented on my earlier post, saying he was surprised I didn’t mention Toyota’s WoW commercial. I knew nothing about it. Well Ali called me and told me she heard about it. A 5 second search on You Tube turned it up. This is so funny. Even non-wow addicts will get a chuckle.
Yesterday before I went to the gym I went out and grabbed 
a SpotBot to add to my robotic army. Last night I put it to the test with a stain that has been in the carpet in our bedroom for ever. It was the end result of Nicki chewing a rawhide that was “beef basted”. It was brownish, reddish in color. Evidently the combination of whatever colored the bone and Nicki’s saliva created a substance that has resisted all attempts to clean it.
I had a problem initially getting the SpotBot to spray down solution, I had to push down harder on the cleaning solution tank. Operation of the unit is a no-brainer. Push the appropriate button depending if it is a set or fresh stain and walk away. The light cycle takes 3 minutes, the deep cycle takes 6. Well I ran it through two deep cycles and one light cycle and the stain remained. It was lighter so it gave me some hope if I continued to let the SpotBot work on it, it may eventually clean up.
It’s cool watching the cleaner do it’s thing. It sprays, scrubs and vacuums in cycles. The scrubbing action reverses direction often to work the stain from different angles. I will mess with it some more over other stains that reside throughout the house until I give it a final grade.
My robotic arsenal is quite large. It includes 3 Roombas, 1 Scooba, 1 Dirt Dog, 1 SpotBot, a Littermaid automatic litterbox, and the automatic hand soap dispenser we got from Sharper Image.
Lately I have been trying to do a few things around the house at night instead of spending most the evening sitting on my ass either watching stuff on the Tivo or playing WoW. The other night I walked around with a can of WD-40 and sprayed the hinges of several doors that were habitual squeakers. Last night I washed and vacuumed my truck as the sun was going down. It was very dirty. There are tons of little, easy things that need to be done around the house that seem to get continually shelved for one reason or another.
Speaking of WoW, I just got my 7th character to the games highest level of 70. My ultimate goal is to get all 9 of my characters there. I have one character for each class in the game. If you play WoW, you know how long it takes to get seven 70’s. Yay. My buddy had a virtual disaster happen this week. Someone broke into his WoW account and stole all of his items, all of his money and even transferred two of his characters to other realms. He had a trojan on his computer that stole his account information. This is a huge problem in WoW and happens quite often. These cyber criminals break into an account, clean it out and sell all of the virtual loot for real world dollars. My buddy has no idea how he got the trojan on his computer, he generally practices “safe” computing. It makes me paranoid as well that my virtual empire could disappear very easily.
So I am four days into my different regimen which to this point has just been basically substituting eggs (egg beaters), oj and toast for the bowl of cereal I normally have. In reality I doubt that this small change will have a big effect. My dinners this week have not been ideal as we have been trying to eat through the various leftovers from the weekend buffet. At the gym I am trying to superset exercises with minimal rest to make my lunch time workouts more effective.
The one visual change that is easy to identify is the hair on my face. It’s funny at work how the women are divided on my look with a hairy face. Some like it, but more do not. Some say I look handsome with it, more mature (old), more rugged. Some just crinkle their nose and shake their head. One woman even went as far to say that I looked like a “pervert” with the facial hair. That was not a comment I expected. Anyway, I have a long way to go until I shave again, it will be interesting to see what a month of hair growth will wind up looking like.
Yesterday for some reason I was thinking about playing golf at Manor golf course. When I was younger I played golf much more than I do nowadays and I played at Manor golf course more than any other place. Manor was located near our house and had been around for a long time. It seemed every time I went there, there was the same old, grumpy guy behind the desk. I always had the feeling he looked down on me because I was typically wearing sneakers and a t-shirt as opposed to golf spikes and a collared shirt. The clubhouse itself was very small and very old. The cashier area lead to a small flight of stairs down to the bar area where they had a small tv that was normally playing some sporting event. It was cozy.
Manor had some memorable holes. Number one was dead straight but went up a huge hill. I rarely got off the tee there well. The course itself was pretty open, despite being nestled among the trees. There were a decent amount of fairways that were hemmed in with trees. Those holes were the ones were I lost the most balls as I never was one to hit the ball straight with any consistency. Hole 10 was across a huge valley with a road running through it. The green was doglegged to the right, you couldn’t see it from the tee box. Hole 15 was a short par 3 but you were shooting over a road and a pond. I rarely hit the green there. The final hole was again up a hill, over a ravine with trees lining the “fairway”. It was a challenging way to wind things up.
The entire course was up and down hills with each hole holding a rather unique personality. I only used a cart a few times there, even with the long hilly terrain. At that age, saving a few dollars was worth the added exercise. I have played golf down here in SW Florida at a number of courses and even though they are typically beautifully landscaped with hardly a blade of grass out of place, they feel generic and manufactured. I’d take old Manor golf course located outside of Gouglersville, PA any day, even with the grumpy old man behind the counter.