Monthly Archives: December 2011
SilverStar and the Guppy . . .
This morning got off to a fast start with visits to two clients that were having problems. It took a couple of hours to clear their problems and make them happy.
But happy clients are paying clients.
My next stop was Brandi and Lowell’s to pick up our mail and packages that had come in. Getting out of the truck, I saw the Super Guppy flying over and snapped this photo.
Built from parts of a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser fuselage, and first flown in 1965, it has been involved with NASA and the US space program ever since. It is still used today ferrying parts of the International Space Station and other NASA projects.
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Finally getting home I got my tools out and went to work replacing one of my headlight bulbs that had lost its low beam. These SilverStar Ultra bulbs really light up the road, but they have a weak point.
They trade lifetime for brightness.
In my case this bulb lasted a little less than two years. Since I installed both sides at the same time, I expect the other side to fail soon.
Jan’s had a nagging headache for the last couple of days so she decided not to do Bingo tonight, but about 4:30 we did head over to Dickinson to have supper at Monterey’s Little Mexico for soup and nachos.
I mean, Chicken Soup is supposed to be good for what ails you, so Chicken Tortilla Soup has to be even better, right?
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Thought for the Day:
I just wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
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Heady Company . . .
Jan did the early morning thing again a few days ago and got some great shots of the sunrise over Dickinson Bayou.
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And because of the way we’re parked out on this spit of land on the bayou, we also get great sunsets too.
Just one of the many reasons we keep coming back here for the holidays year after year.
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I headed out on another day of errands and clients about 10:30am, and also trying to finish up the last of the Christmas shopping. Got everything pretty much done. Hopefully my clients will be happy until after Christmas.
We’ll see.
Got back to the rig about 3:30, and then a little before 5pm Jan and I headed up TX 146 a few miles to Bacliff to have dinner at Stomp’s Burger Joint. Stomp’s is the Tookie’s clone that opened while we were here last year.
Tookie’s, having opening in 1974, was severely damaged during Hurricane Ike in September 2008, and never reopened. Water was almost 4 feet deep in the building and the inside was trashed.
Finally last year some Tookie’s aficionado’s and ex-cooks opened Stomp’s, named after the original Tookie’s premier burger, the Stomp’s Ice House Special.
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Then, this past year, the owner of one of our other favorite places, T-Bone Tom’s, bought the old Tookie’s building and all the recipes, and then reopened it earlier this year.
Tonight was our first time this winter to eat at Stomp’s, and now I have to agree with Jan:
Stomp’s is better than the original!
The onion rings are better, and tonight the burger I had was better than the one I had at Tookie’s a week or so ago. And it’s cheaper too.
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My friend Nick Russell called about 6:30pm with some great news. He’s sold almost 19,000 copies of Big Lake so far this month, and even better, he got an nice email from author Sue Grafton, writer of the ‘alphabet series’ of murder mysteries, i.e., “A is for Alibi”, and the latest “V is for Vengeance”.
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Thought for the Day:
The budget explained in simple English:
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. United States Tax Revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
. Fed Budget: $3,820,000,000,000
. New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000
. National Debt: $14,271,000,000,000
. Recent Budget Cut: $38,500,000,000
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Now, remove eight zeros and pretend it’s your household budget:
. Annual Family Income: $21,700
. Money The Family Spent: $38,200
. New Debt on the Credit Card: $16,500
. Outstanding Balance on Credit Card: $142,710
.Total budget cuts which some politicians are proud of: $385
Stop the insanity now,. Demand a balanced budget.
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