11-4-08 Tuesday (The Foam, Fabric and the Wardrobe)

Ahhhhh, it's started to snow. Right now it's at a chilly 38 and falling. I guess it's better to snow while we're not in the RV. The forecast says its not going to stick until tonight. Then again, they said its not going to snow until this afternoon, and since its morning, they're already wrong.

When we first used the new GPS we discovered the volume for the different voices available was lower than our first GPS. With the volume at 100% it was difficult to hear. We were ready to return the unit. When we got home, I Googled the volume issue and found some hacks to edit the voice volume. I backed up the original files and began hacking. The volume was much better. Yesterday, we found the GPS to have a speech impediment. As it gave directions, it would stutter. I thought perhaps I screwed it up. "Great", I thought, "we purchased a GPS that requires speech therapy". More fitting for us would have been a GPS with a lisp. (They have voice files on the Internet for a fee and one was a gay guy with a lisp.) Later in the evening, I found a manufacturer update to correct voice stuttering. I found the therapy! We'll see how it works today.

Today we purchased our foam and fabric for 4 cushions. We went to Joann's and it wasn't a superstore so their fabric selection was limited. Using a 40% off Internet printable coupon, we bought 5" foam. That coupon saved us $100! Next we went to Home Depot and bought some wood to use as the base, for something to staple it all to since we don't sew. At the next Joann's we bought fabric and batting, spent $3 (at the recommendation of the nice fabric cutting clerk) to buy a magazine that had 50% coupons in it. Our total supply cost was $250. We made 1 bottom and 1 back cushion so far. We'll check to make sure we like the fit before we make the others. I'll take photos when it's done.

We finished dinner and just had some sleet. For you native southerners, sleet, to meteorologists in the United States, consists of frozen raindrops that hit the surface as little ice pellets.

Ladies, ladies, I spotted this woman at Wal-Mart today. Yeah, we were shopping at Wal-Mart, but that's not the highlight here. It would be this lady, wearing a blanket. It was awful. Don't do it! Save the blankets for the beds!