Monthly Archives: January 2011
And the rain came . . . and the wind blew . . .
Well, today certainly got off to really rough start.
Rough, as in 60mph + winds and rain so heavy you couldn’t see out the window.
About 4am the cold front rolled in, and I thought the wind was going to roll the coach over. This was the worst storm we’ve ever been in since we started living in the coach. And it pretty raged until about 10am.
When Jan got up, she said she was glad to find the the bay water right where she left it…in the bay, and not up over the banks.
The weather map shows what it looked like, with us right in the middle of this mess. And ever worse, it wasn’t moving. It just sat there right on top of us.
The wind was gusting so hard it was trying to suck the vent covers off the roof fans. They kept jumping up and down. And as you can see in the photo below, the neighbor’s sat dish bit the dust…er, grass, too.
And the whitecaps were really something, too. We’ve never seen the bay this rough.
This photo from about a month ago shows the bird feeder being blown about. Well, this morning the feeder blew off the pole completely and ended up about 30 feet away.
After surviving the storm we left the rig about 10:15 heading up to Friendswood to meet all our kids at the Texas Tea Room. We really like this place and let Chris and Linda check it out too, since they’re the only ones who hadn’t tried it.
Here’s Brandi with Landon showing off his new shirt. Now we’re gonna have to decide if he’s going to play for OU or Alabama when he grows up. And then, of course, he’ll play for the Steeler’s like my uncle, Tom Calvin.
After lunch Jan when back to Brandi and Lowell’s to Landon-sit while they went to the movie. They saw ‘True Grit’ and really like it. Which is pretty much what everyone seems to be saying.
I went back to the rig and worked a number of different projects getting us ready to travel in a month or so.
Lowell called about 4 to say they were home so I headed up that way. Coming home, since it was after 5pm, we decided to stop for supper at King Food for some Chicken in Hot Garlic Sauce, XXXXX Spicy with Jalapenos. Hmm, hmm, Good. I can always tell when a dish is hot enough when my nose starts running and the top of my head starts sweating.
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Thought for the Day:
If at first you don’t succeed….then destroy all evidence you ever tried………..or just change your definition of success.
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Trojans and Tanks . . .
Today got off to a nice slow start for a change. I made coffee and we just sat around and enjoyed each others company, and life itself.
Our daughter Brandi called a little after 10:30 to let us know that Jan didn’t need to come and Landon-sit this afternoon. Bummer! But we’ll probably get together one way or the other tomorrow.
I left the rig about 12:45 headed over to Pearland to visit a client’s home and work on a couple of problems he’s having.
I got him straightened out on one thing but ended up bringing his wife’s computer home with me, since I wasn’t able to get it de-virifyed before I had to leave. It has a ‘susp_irp_mj_create’ trojan that I haven’t run into before so I need to do a little research.
I got back to the rig about 5pm after stopping at the Wendy’s in Dickinson for a supper of Spicy Chicken Sandwiches and Natural-Cut Fries. Hmm, hmm, good.
After that I went out and dumped the waste tanks since Jan was worried that she wouldn’t have room to do another wash load unless I did. I had closed off the grey tank a couple of days ago because the black tank was getting full and I wanted to have plenty of flush water available
I talked to our son Chris a little after 6pm to set up everyone meeting for lunch tomorrow, at Texas Tea Room again. We really like this place.
Then I made me some coffee (Jan doesn’t usually like coffee at night) and we watched some “Two and a Half Men” reruns before it was time for “Primeval” on BBCA, one of our favorite shows. I mean time travel, dinosaurs, intrigue…what more could you ask for.
Of course while we were watching TV I was also working on the computer I brought home. It took a couple of hours (mostly waiting for the virus programs to scan) but I finally got rid of that trojan (and several more). I’ve rescanned the machine 3 or 4 times with different programs and it keeps coming up clean, so I guess it’s fixed.
More tomorrow…
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Thought for the Day: Remember, you do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
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