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Installation Day

June 9, 2022 by Lloyd 7 Comments

Lauren was at work, so Wally and I had to get ready for the new washing machine. There were twenty-four years of stuff under the dryer, but I didn’t get a proper before picture. Because the new washer didn’t have a reversible door, I had to swap the positions of our washing machine and dryer.


You can see the total amount of debris that was recovered. Speaking of recovered, I’m sure there must have been $2.17 worth of change in that pile, but neither Wally nor I were going to dig through it.

The movers knew what they were about. They had the professional version of Lauren’s fore-arm-forklifts. This one goes over your shoulders, so it’s even easier to lift things. The only real problem with it is that it only has one strap, so there is a little more balancing involved. On the other hand, what else are you going to do with your hands? Delivery cost $104, but I didn’t have to use fore-arm-forklifts, so it was well worth it.

Also included in the $104 was me just standing around while they lifted it on the pedestal, which I had completely forgotten about, and doing all of the setup. Lauren got the pedestal from their scratch and dent section. It’s pretty messed up on the side that no one is ever going to see.

The delivery people didn’t switch the door on the dryer for me, so I actually had to do something. There are 12 screws to take out and put back in to reverse the door –in case you were wondering.

The only thing left to do is to connect the washer to the internet, so I can do laundry online.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

1897 vs. 2021

October 8, 2021 by Lloyd 2 Comments

Filed Under: Nerd, Prototype Tagged With: Lincoln, map, old

Family Tree

June 15, 2021 by Lloyd 2 Comments

About a decade ago we went to the Nebraska Sommerer’s family reunion. We only knew two people there before hand, but we met a lot of nice people, including Jordan Larson‘s mom, Kae. It’s nice to be related to someone famous other than Lauren. We’ve since gone back to the reunion several times, and each time we meet new people, and afterwards, in true Sommerer form, my parents and I argue about how they are all related.

This led to several hand drawn family trees where we tried to sort it all out. Eventually that led me to look for something better than drawing boxes and lines out by hand. After off and on searching for a few years, I started putting some information into FamilyEcho. I picked it because it was free, online –so I could show it to people from anywhere–, and it allowed other people to work on a family tree together. Oh, and it looks nice too.

I worked on adding information to this family tree off and on for the last year and a half. Then I found out something that FamilyEcho didn’t do very well. It didn’t print large family trees nicely. I tried anyway, but I had to cut pages and tape them together, and the text was pretty small anyway.

I finally ended up buying Family Tree Maker. It’s a nice program, but you can’t work on it from different computers, or show people from your phone, or work together with others. But it does print nicely. So working in FamilyEcho, exporting and printing from Family Tree Maker seems like a win.

Except for one stupid problem: PDF documents can not be larger than 16.8 feet long (200 inches actually). Doesn’t that seem like an odd limitation?

“Who could possibly need to print something over 200 inches?”

–someone who works at Adobe

That limit probably turned out for the best, because I had to think a little more creatively about the family tree. If it wasn’t for that limitation, I would have had to print something that was about 5 feet tall and 24 feet wide, and that’s a little on the big side. Instead, I split the tree into 5 sections and moved them around until they pretty well fit on a 3 feet by 16.8 feet piece of paper. Office Depot wanted $195.00 to print it.

I eventually found some guys online who print blueprints. They wanted about $50 to print it, so I ordered 3 of them. They came pretty quickly, and Lauren helped me reinforce the edges and every so often in the middle with tape. I thought about laminating it, but I’m sure there are any number of errors on it. I’ll let everyone make corrections at the family reunion before I commit to something like that.

There are almost 600 people in the family tree right now. There are huge sections that are incomplete. My great grandparents and down should be pretty complete, but after that it gets pretty iffy. I didn’t do hardly any genealogy work on this. Other people did that. I just put it in a format that would print nicely (more or less).

The cats were very interested in their heritage.

Filed Under: Lloyd, Prototype Tagged With: family tree, reunion

I inconvenienced a deer

November 16, 2020 by Lloyd 7 Comments

Wednesday morning, right outside of Seward, by the parade of flags, I noticed a deer on the other side of the road headed away from me. I let up on the gas and then noticed the other deer on the shoulder moving toward me. I did two things next, and I think one of them was wrong. I slammed on the brakes and slammed on the horn both at the same time.

The second deer had time to get to my lane and then spent too much time wondering what I was honking about.

I hit the deer.

But not too hard.

I pulled off the road to check out the damage. I’d seen lots of cars that had hit deer and wasn’t looking forward to seeing the front of the car. But it was surprisingly mild.

I spent a lot of the rest of the drive in to Lincoln trying to put those 1 or 2 seconds in some sort of order in my mind. I think I was going about 50 mph when I saw the first dear. I think I had my foot off the gas for maybe half a second before I hit the brakes and maybe a half second of braking before I hit the deer at maybe 35-40 mph. It could have been slower. I don’t think I could have been going much faster with that little damage.

The deer didn’t go over the car or up on the windshield or anything. There was no blood. The deer walked away. I think it gave me a dirty look for honking.

Filed Under: Lloyd, Worst day ever Tagged With: car, deer, prius

The one where Lloyd got “scammed” (part 3)

February 7, 2020 by Lloyd 9 Comments

We decided to take the $2,000 and the 5 personal days and flee before the FBI caught up with us.

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The one where Lloyd gets “scammed” (part 2)

February 5, 2020 by Lloyd 5 Comments

Part 2: Where the scammer reviews the Super Bowl halftime show and uses the FBI to blackmails me.

When we left off, I had a pile of cash from Mr. Heibel’s safe, $300 in ebay gift cards, and $500 in Steam gift cards. As before, it’s interesting to note the times of each response.

You can read part 1 here.

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 4:42 PM

I have $500 in steam. That was all they had at that store. I am going to the wal*marts to get the rest.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 4:43 PM

Okay

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 4:54 PM

Are you there

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 4:57 PM

Are you there

How many minutes will it take to get to the store

{note: in a few cases, he didn’t feel like typing something he typed before, so he quoted it from a previous email.}

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:04 PM

Why aren’t you replying me

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 5:05 PM

I’m at Walmart now.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:07 PM

Have you gotten it

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:07 PM

Send me the one with you first before getting the remaining okay

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 5:08 PM

One what?

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:10 PM

The steam gift card and eBay you first buy send me those one first before getting the remaining

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 5:12 PM

Im going to have to find something to scrape the number off the back first.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:14 PM

Okay, when you scratch it then send me the picture here

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:27 PM

Have you gotten the rest of them

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 5:38 PM

Why aren’t you replying me

Have you gotten the rest of them


School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 6:23 PM

Are you still there or not getting it again just reply me please

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 6:25 PM

Are you still there or not getting it again just reply me please


Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 6:39 PM

Watching the Super Bowl now. I am sorry that I could not come to your super bowl party. If I could then I could have just given these to you.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:23 PM

Let me have the pictures of the card sent to me here

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 7:26 PM

What did you think of that half time show?

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:28 PM

Really think it was fantastic okay

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:29 PM

But you never send me Any pictures of the card to me

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 7:36 PM

Isn’t the meeting over? There’s no hurry now, right? Can’t I just give them to you tomorrow?

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:40 PM

It over and we are getting to party here but you fail me today

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 7:43 PM

What do you mean?

School Principal Attachments Feb 2, 2020, 7:46 PM

Another principal from another school get us that and I ask you to go to my safe and took the money and buy it but you never get me anything

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 7:47 PM

No, I got you, man.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:48 PM

I’m highly disappointed in you, upon how I like you and telling you some secret is it what you wanted to pay me back

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 7:51 PM

See. I do it for you.
image.png <——-picture of three scratched off ebay cards that I got from the interwebs.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:53 PM

This card you sent are invalid card what did you use me and call

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:54 PM

I would never trusted you anymore just get that, and I will make sure I collect my money from you when I get to school tomorrow

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 7:55 PM

You are a %&#*@&! fake liers, same with Jeff
{note: he didn’t actually type %&#*@&! here or in future emails}

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:10 PM

What did Jeff do?

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:13 PM

Are you still with my money $2000

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:16 PM

I knew Jeff is planning bad for you telling you not to get me the card

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:19 PM

I think that you might not be my principal.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:22 PM

So I’m not Matt Heibel right don’t worry we shall see tomorrow

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:27 PM

But you told me you will have a free days and you made a deal with me but how can I trust you now

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:28 PM

Wait! What!

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

I don’t get my free personal days?

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:31 PM

You told me you are getting the card and why didn’t you get it for me cause is so important

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:32 PM

Okay, you caught me. I’ll give your $2,000 back to you tomorrow.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:32 PM

You are not getting your free personal days since you didn’t get the card

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:33 PM

I’m sorry that I tried to scam you.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:37 PM

I need the card now to do something here on my system

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:38 PM

Okay. You don’t say anything about the $2,000 and I will send you the pictures of the cards. But I will only send to a cell phone number. No email!

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:41 PM

I can only receive that on my email okay, if truly you get it then send me here

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:42 PM

No way. Too risky. Only cell phone!

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:43 PM

check this out in your faebook click the link http://www.rzaca.comXXXXX//7tYyV/?sc=1&sc=1&l=1&ppy=6346840&i=6346840

{Note: this is a fake facebook login page. Remove the XXXXX to view.}

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:45 PM

No. Only cell phone.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:47 PM

I think you are making things harder why can’t you send me here

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:49 PM

Send me here then 9087584085

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 8:49 PM

If you don’t trust me with your cell number then I don’t trust you not to tell my real principal about the $2,000 if you do not trust me, then I do not trust yo

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:54 PM

4024675404 okay

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 8:58 PM

Did you check on the link I send to you about what are able to launch

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:01 PM

Send me a real phone number, or no cards.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:05 PM

That’s my number and I didn’t see anything okay don’t try to mess up with me okay

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:06 PM

That is the school number.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:11 PM

You are with my money and you don’t want to send me what I ask you to get or are you kidding and if you can’t send it them I’m not giving you any personal free days

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:16 PM

Are you still pretending to be my principal? I don’t know who you are. I just don’t want you to tell my real principal that I took $2,000 from his safe.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:21 PM

I will make sure you are fired out from the school tomorrow if you didn’t do what I ask you to do cause I’m reporting you to the FBI and if you wanted to be save then do that immediately just give you some minutes to do that right now

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:22 PM

Okay. You win. I don’t want the FBI. But I will only send to a cell phone number.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:25 PM

You just have some minutes left I promise you if you didn’t send me the card here you are gone I swear with my life I will call the FBI and they will track you you down tomorrow morning

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:31 PM

They will never find me and you will never get your $2,000 dollars.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:34 PM

Wow that’s great did you know I have the principal Email and cell phone number just wait and see what will happen to you LoL

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:36 PM

Okay, you win. Just send me a number that I can sends the cards to and you will never hear from me again.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:38 PM

You are in Lincoln and how did you want to get escape from the FBI ? I will text your principal that you stole money from him yesterday when no one is in school

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:39 PM

I’m too cute to go to prison. I will send the cards.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:39 PM

When you done that then everything will be okay, just send it to this number right now 9087584085

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:41 PM

And when I comfirm it a valid card then you are free

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:41 PM

What!

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:43 PM

I mean if the card is not a valid card or use card then you are in trouble I swear

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:44 PM

Don’t swear.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

Infact just send me the picture here now I’m not here for jokes and if you can’t do that just forget it and you are going to jail I swear with my life

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:48 PM

Infact just send me the picture here now I’m not here for jokes and if you can’t do that just forget it and you are going to jail I swear with my life and don’t and don’t text me again just send the pictures {note: I’m not sure who is texting him. I didn’t want to text him from my phone.}

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:50 PM

I am not stupid. If I just send you the card then you will tell my principal. Cell phone only!

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:54 PM

Okay, I promise with my life that after sending the pictures and I see that is a valid card then I won’t text you neither texting your principal. Deal

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 9:55 PM

Deal. Send phone number.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 9:58 PM

You are making me angry and Don’t let me change my mind I told you to send me the picture here what the hell %&#*@&! wrong with you

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 10:05 PM

No cell, no deal.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 10:08 PM

Go to hell, how many time will I give you my number 9087584085

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 10:11 PM

Go to hell cause have giving you the number 9087584085 and if you act smart I will send you to jail tomorrow

Lloyd Sommerer Feb 2, 2020, 10:14 PM

I have to go to bed now. I have school in the morning. I can send the cards tomorrow.

School Principal Feb 2, 2020, 10:16 PM

I swear to God if you go to bed you are gone without sending the card

School Principal Attachments Feb 2, 2020, 10:24 PM

What did you have to say about this

{to be continued in part 3}

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