Daily Archives: February 15, 2012
. . . to a Precious Few.
Well, Jan finished up the last of her doctor’s appointments this morning, so we’re all set to hit the road tomorrow morning, heading about 230 miles away to Canyon Lake, TX in the Hill Country.
We’ll be spending a few days visiting our friend Gina, before starting our trek out to Yuma, AZ by the 26th.
But in the meantime, today started out OK but quickly fell apart. I had just planned to wrap a couple of things up and have an easy day.
But, NNNOOOOOO! Everybody and his brother either broke something or needed something done at the last minute. So I spent most of the day falling further and further behind.
Finally though, I wrapped things up in time for Jan and I to meet our friends Bob & Beth at Floyd’s Cajun Seafood and Texas Steakhouse over in Pearland. We hadn’t been there for several years and were surprised at how busy they were. We got there a little after 7 and still had about a 40 minute wait.
But it was certainly worth it, Jan and I both had steaks, really good steaks, and of course the obligatory cup of gumbo. You can’t go to Floyd’s without having gumbo. Or at least I can’t.
After a great meal, we all got in our hugs, and then Jan and I headed toward home with a quick stop at Brandi’s to pick up a hat I’d left, and then a stop by the storeroom to drop off some last minute stuff. Then finally we got home a little after 10, after a long, busy day.
Tomorrow, the Hill Country.
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Thought for the Day:
Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.
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As The Days Dwindle Down . . .
We’re starting to wrap things up here with our departure set for Thursday morning.
But now we’re on our Memorial Goodbye Dinner Tour with friends and family. We kicked it off last night with dinner at King Food with all the kids.
Well, it was supposed to be all the kids, but our daughter Brandi called in the afternoon to say she wouldn’t be there because she was feeling bad and was just going home.
Turns out the “feeling bad” caused her to end up in the emergency room at 4 am trying to pass a kidney stone.
Ouch!
She’s back at home and feeling a little better, but will be home for the next several days.
Just as I was getting ready to leave the coach this morning to wrap things up with one client, another one called me and said their Internet was down and they couldn’t process credit cards. So after asking a few questions I decided to head there first.
Getting there I found the problem was that the 8 Port Switch that distributes the Internet to all the computers in the office had died, so it was off to Fry’s Electronics to pick up a new one.
Back at the client’s I installed the new switch and everything was back up and running again. So then it was off to the original client that I was supposed to finish up with.
They had two remaining problems. They wanted to have their Ouickbooks set up for multi-user to share the database, and their Xerox ColorCube printer would not print double-sided, even when you told it to.
The Quickbooks problem just needed the right folders shared, which can sometimes be tricky in Win 7, but this time went pretty fast. But the printer problem took a little more work.
Finally ended up downloading the manual from the Xerox website and found the answer buried in a footnote. The printer has 3 paper trays, 1 for manual feed and the other two can be filled with whatever you need. The printer is picky about what kind of paper it will print double-sided, and as it turns out both trays had been set to ‘Labels’ in the printer setup, and they had forgotten about it. So setting the trays back to Letterhead fixed the problem.
Leaving their office, I drove over to our storeroom to drop off some bins of stuff we don’t need, then it was back to the rig, just in time for Jan and I to turn right around and head to Pearland to meet some friends for dinner at Central Texas BBQ there. Then afterwards we went over to their house nearby for coffee and a delicious dessert Bonnie had made.
Finally heading home about 7:30 we stopped off at Brandi’s to see how she feels and get our last hugs in with Landon, who actually was already asleep, but not yet in bed.
Heading home at last, I told Jan it would be good to get back on the road just to get some rest. She said she was thinking the same thing.
Jan had a an early morning doctor’s appointment tomorrow so I’m going to bed early.
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Thought for the Day:
Experience is the name we give our mistakes.
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