Daily Archives: January 6, 2011
Happy 3rd Anniversary . . .
Today is our “Beauty’s” 3rd anniversary. Three years ago today we picked her up Roman Holiday Motorhomes in New Braunfels, TX.
Then, one month later, on February 6th, 2008 Jan and I began our full-time life on the road. And if we stick to our plan this year, we will hit the road again this coming Feb. 6th.
A little synchronicity at work.
But this morning I left the the rig a little before 11 am heading back to the same client I was at yesterday. But today was already scheduled before yesterday’s emergency laptop repair visit.
Leaving the rig I noticed we’re finally getting street lights here in the park. They’ve been installing the forms and rebar to pour concrete for the pedestals. And they’ve already finished some of them.
Jan and I both have mixed feelings about the street lights. The darkness is kinda nice and the lack of light lets us see the stars better. Oh well.
Finishing up at the client’s about 2:30 I next drove over to Brock’s Car Care to see about getting my front brakes fixed. A few days ago I started hearing grinding from my front right brake. Since it hasn’t been that long since I had the brakes done, I suspect that I may have a stuck caliper that caused the brakes to not release completely after braking and then grinding the pads and rotor down.
They said they could get me in tomorrow with no problems, so I told them I’d drop it off either this evening, or the first thing tomorrow morning.
I got back to the rig about 3:30 just to turn right around and leave about 4 pm.
Jan and I were heading up to League City to the Cracker Barrel. It’s Thursday so it’s Turkey and Dressing Day there, Jan’s favorite.
And even better, we got to eat for free.
As I mentioned back on December 23rd, we stopped by Cracker Barrel to pick up a take-out order of Turkey and Dressing so Jan could have ‘leftovers’, since we were eating out on Christmas Day.
But then the day after Christmas, when Jan went to have her meal for supper, she found that no only did she not get any cranberry sauce, but that her Turkey and Dressing lacked any dressing.
Sacrilege!
So to avenge Jan’s slight, I emailed the Cracker Barrel home office, and lo and behold, a few days later, I got a call from the manager. And after another few days, we received a coupon in the mail for two free meals. So Jan finally got her dressing and all’s right with the world.
After we left Cracker Barrel I called our son-in-law Lowell to see if he was home yet. Luckily he was, so we drove by the house to borrow his truck so we’d have a vehicle to drive tomorrow while my truck is in the shop. Especially since Jan has a dentists appointment tomorrow morning.
This way we were able to go ahead and drop off my truck at Brock’s tonight so they can get started on it the first thing after they open at 7 am.
And, of course, while we were at Brandi’s Jan and I also got in a little Landon time since Lowell had already picked him up from daycare.
We got home about 6:30 after a busy day. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back on rig stuff tomorrow afternoon. We’ll see.
More then…
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Thought for the Day:
”When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving…”
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