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I'm at home enjoying a few days of well deserved time off. Since I'm a responsible, contributing member of the team at 1578 Merit Ln, I'm doing a little housework.  I'm finally breaking out the flannel sheets for the bed when my mind wanders onto a question that must be answered - A conundrum that has baffled the brightest minds throughout history - So here it is - Riddle me this Batman - why is it that flannel sheets feel immediately warmer than the standard variety "summertimer" bed sheets.  I understand the idea that the weave of the fabric traps more body heat than the others, and that explains why they are warmer over a perdiod of time - but why do they feel immediately warmer when you hop into bed?  The flannel fabric itself is not resting at a higher temperature than the Sateen sheets - so why does it instantly feel warmer?  It boggles the mind.

These are pictures of the activity table / train table that I made for Carsen as a Christmas present.  The table top is reversible and one side has a landscape scene for a train set to go on while the other side has letters and numbers and cartoon characters.

I found the plans for it online and it was super easy to make.  You can download the plans and instructions below.  They come with a complete materials list, cut list, and illustrated assembly instructions.

tableplans.pdf (42.93 kb)

traintableinstructions.pdf (101.31 kb)

So worth the hour and a hlaf wait for the picture.

I'm posting this here as a public service since this took me quite a while to get resolved.

After upgrading to Windows 7 (and to Internet Explorer 8 along with it) I ran into quite a perplexing problem with Flash Player 10.

My Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer had stopped working and all of the suggested solutions listed on the Adobe website and around the internet were not working.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the player.  I tried running the SubinACL tool from Microsoft to reset registry permissions.  I tried using the standalone installer instead of the web download installer.  None of it worked.

It seemed that the installer was having trouble registering the Flash10c.ocx file that is required for the player to function. 

I ended up having to manually change 1 registry permission and the installer ran correctly and everything worked fine again.

The key in question was HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{D27CDB6B-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} and I had to modify it so that local\Administrators had full access.