Daily Archives: January 11, 2011
Yo-Yo’s and Geniuses . . .
Today was a really busy day in contrast to yesterday’s lay-about the rig day.
It started off when I left the rig about 10am heading for a client’s up in Clear Lake. I was there until about 2:30, and then it was off to another client’s in Pearland to drop off a computer that I had taken home to work on a particularly pesky Trojan Virus. I hadn’t run into this one before so it took a little while to figure out how to get rid of it. I also spent some time talking to Bill and June about RV’ing since they have a 5th wheel and travel a good bit.
Then it was time to head back down south to the rig. And I got back just in time to get Jan and head back up to Nassau Bay to pick up our granddaughter Piper and her friend Helena.
Tonight is Bingo night and they’re both going with Jan and Maria to play tonight. Then it was back down to Dickinson to meet Maria at Garcia’s Mexican Grill in Dickinson for supper.
With all this back and forth, sometimes I feel like a yo-yo.
BTW did you know the yo-yo has been around since 500 B.C. in Greece and was made of terra cotta clay.
And when it was first patented in the U.S. in 1866 it was called a ‘bandalore’.
If I don’t tell you this stuff, who will.
Nick Russell called a little before 5pm with a computer problem on Terry’s laptop. Luckily I was able to tell them how to fix it over the phone. Looks like they got a bad update that was messing up the memory card reader.
After we finished dinner, and Maria, Jan, Piper, and Helena headed down to La Marque for Bingo, I headed back up to Clear Lake to another client’s office to do some updates and cleanups that can’t really be done during the day.
About 9:30 it was time to head down to La Marque to pick everyone up. And unfortunately, nobody won anything but Maria, and she only won $25. Wheeee!
And then it was back up to Nassau Bay to drop off Piper and Helena, After that we finally headed back down to the RV park on Dickinson Bayou.
Told you I was a yo-yo.
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Thought for the Day:
”But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” - Carl Sagan
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