Daily Archives: October 15, 2016
Coming Back ?
It looks like once again Summer is hanging on by its fingernails.
We’re supposed to have low 90’s for the next 5 days or so before a front finally comes through on Friday leaving a Sunny and 71 degree day, with a long string of low-80° days following.
We’re still in a holding pattern waiting to hear from SiteWatch on Monday. Or we hope to hear from them by then.
While I was looking at RV parks in the Kenedy / Karnes City area in case we do end up down there, I discovered that RV Park Reviews, my go-to website to check out RV parks, now has a Android app available. You can can find it here – RV Park Reviews app. There’s also an Apple version if you lean that way.
On another note, today is National I Love Lucy Day. I Love Lucy, which was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35 mm film, premiered 65 years ago today.
The show was also the first episodic one to be shot in front of a studio audience. In fact the studio had to knock down a concrete wall on one side of the studio to have a place for the audience to sit. And even the set had to be reconfigured to allow the audience to be able to view the action.
The individual sets were even redecorated to represent Fred and Ethel’s apartment as needed.
The fact that the show was done on film, the $500 a week cost paid out of Desi’s pocket, is one of the main reasons the show still looks so good today.
Oh, like the fact that Captain Kirk never actually says, “Beam me up, Scotty”, Dr. McCoy never says, “He’s dead, Jim”, and Humphrey Bogart never says, “Play it again, Sam”, Ricky Ricardo never says, “Lucy, you got some ‘splaining’ to do.”
Brandi and Lowell’s sister Sherry did the Annual MS Society Muckfest Run over in Baytown this morning. It’s a 5K obstacle course, with all of the 18 obstacles involving mud. Lots and lots of mud.
But it looks like they had fun.
About 3:15pm Jan and I headed into Katy to get together with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon, as well as friend’s Chantelle, Eric and Max.
But we made a first stop at Harbor Freight Tools to look for a couple of things. I was looking for a small jigsaw and a right angle polisher for the rig’s aluminum wheels.
After looking over what they had, I ended up with an air-powered polisher, since I can tap into the rig’s compressor, or use my Sear’s standalone model. And with no electric motor, it was cheaper too.
But the only jigsaws they had was an expensive cordless model, for more than I wanted to pay. So maybe a Home Depot sale.
By then it was time to meet up with everyone at a favorite new burger place. And by ‘new’, I mean it opened just a few days ago.
It’s Willy Burger. And of course they say it’s willy, willy good. And it was.
Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos.
Jan had the #47 burger, a double cheeseburger with mushrooms, grilled onions, and tomatoes, while I had the Hee Haw burger, a double with homemade pimento cheese, a fried green tomato, lettuce, and 3 strips of bacon. And it’s all topped off with a large dollop of red pepper jelly.
Along with orders of Parmesan Garlic Fries and Sweet Potato Fries, it was, as they say, Willy, Willy good!
Brandi had a couple of things for us that came in the mail recently. The first package was the engraved sunglasses that Greg Gray, owner of Eyes Of Texas Sunglasses, sent to Brandi and Jan.
Brandi loves hers, and Jan loves hers, especially the Breast Cancer Awareness one.
And you’ll love yours. Order yours today.
From Amazon, I got a new hard drive for my 4 year old ASUS laptop. When I shut it off after we made our move from Lake Conroe to Colorado River this past Thursday, I got my second warning from the S.M. A. R. T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) software on the laptop, warning me that my hard drive was sickly and fading fast.
So I’ll make a .iso copy of the old one, put in the new one, and then copy everything back. And I’ll do this hopefully before it fails.
My second package was a new Otterbox Belt Clip for my Otterbox-encased Samsung Galaxy S5. The Otterbox case seems to be pretty bullet-proof, and has protected my S5 several times as it bounced down the rig stairs and on to the concrete with no problems.
But after three years one of the corners broke off the belt clip part so I ordered a new one.
Leaving on a high note, high as in rig count, the sign that we pass coming into Katy gave the US Rig Count as 539 (+15). When we came by on Thursday, it was at 524 (+2). So that means the count is +17 for the last two weeks.
So it certainly looks like the oil industry is coming back.
Thought for the Day:
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” — George Will, columnist
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