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I went to the Alabama State Fair just to eat lunch. It was expensive so maybe Ruth’s Chris next year instead.
We ate so much fried food it was ridiculous: fried Twinkie (far left), fried Oreos (right), funnel cake and other stuff.
I did not want to risk my life on any carnie rides, but these insane people on the “Fire Ball” ride did (far left). The middle picture shows all the safety precautions that the rides have. But my favorite was the “Fun Slide” which sure looks like a ……. “Fun Slide”!
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Last birthday party (left) new birthday party (right). Now my sister has a Nikon D300 and I am not using my crappy Nokia 6133 phone anymore.
Everyone seemed to have fun! There was squirrel hunting (we do live in Alabama), jet flying and deal making.
But it does look like Chuck-e-Cheese ditched their Rowe changers for American Changers?
I had a coin jam in my Rowe C-10RL that I was testing (error message “Er 8”).
Pictures of the coin hopper motors and coin chute.
I still got the “Er 8” error after clearing the coin jam so the instructions say it could be paper or something blocking the led or sensor. The left side looked fine so I attached everthing and reset the changer and got “Er 9” which means the same thing only the right side. Everything looks clean and fine but I guess I will be replacing a sensor because the led works fine.
I like the basket in the front of the scooter. Greg’s bike looks about the same but he has a blue theme.
I needed a usb cable for my Mother’s computer so I went to Office Max. They wanted $25 for the cheapest USB cable. I started looking around for something that included a usb cable. I found a 4-port usb hub made by the same company (Belkin) and purchased the hub for $20.
So I saved over $5 and got a hub I didn’t want. What a scam!
I did get some swag from the secwa meeting. I figured out I needed to check my insurance, stopped by Erie Brush, JBS said they would call me and save me some money and gave me a tshirt. I got a free secwa journal and some pens. I also talked to some people and purchased a changer from Jimmy Branch.
Hell to tha naw Bobby!
Unrelated to Bobby Brown Parkway: while at the secwa convention Jimmy said that 3 cars got broken into and there were hardly any cars there.
A new car wash that serves lunch opened down the street from my car wash in Wylam. Not sure where they get their water from, unless it is from a hose from the house behind them?
While driving to Atlanta, GA from Birmingham, AL it took 330.3 miles. I filled up my car before I left and then after I got back and got 46.8 MPG. Pretty good for my little Honda Fit.
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I would just like to say I have been going to the SECWA show for over 10 years.
I was disapointed with the meeting but I guess it might be my fault. I thought there would be over 400 booths and was so large it needed to be at the “Georgia International Convention Center”. Instead it was a smaller then normal SECWA meeting with only “68 exibitors”. It cost $20 for the exibit hall which was a little high at $.30 an exibitor? While talking to the exibitors my favorate line was “What do you expect from a group with only 150 members?”. It was fun talking to Jimmy Branch and Marcus and I collected some pens and a tshirt from JBS.