Monthly Archives: March 2012
Resting up before the Big Day . . .
We really took it easy this morning. Jan had an on again / off again / on again migraine so we just ate in for lunch and watched stuff we’d recorded on our DVR.
I worked some more on my seminars, nailing down exactly what I’m going to talk about, and what I’ll have on the handouts and the CD’s. But mostly I just play it by ear, kind of going by the questions people are asking.
I had hoped I might get phone calls from some of the last minute door prize stragglers, but no luck. Maybe tomorrow.
Nick had called a meeting at 3:30 for the parking crew so we could go over assignments. Many of them have done this before, so I expect things to come up to speed pretty quickly. Although tomorrow is Early Bird Arrival and Monday is actually the first day of the Rally, we always get the majority of the people coming in on Sunday, rather than Monday.
Jan and I will move our rig over to the parking crew staging area after dumping our tanks at the dump station. Then as soon as the Good Sam Rally people have pulled out, we’ll park over by the Vendor building where we’ll be until the rally is over next Friday.
At 1 pm we’ll start parking attendees, starting with handicapped and vendors first. And at the same time, Terry, along with Jan and a number of others, will start registering people as soon as they get parked.
As Nick says, it’s organized chaos, but we do get people parked pretty quickly once we get going.
After the meeting Nick and I drove around the fairgrounds checking out the area and deciding where we want to park some people with different requirements.
About 5 Nick and Terry, and Jan and I headed over to eat at EAT, our favorite local Chinese buffet, and one of our all time favorites anywhere. Afterwards we called it an early evening because tomorrow will be a long, long day.
But at least we’re not forecast to have rain, hail, a lightning storm, and high winds all in the same day like we had two years ago.
Yay!
On another note, our daughter Brandi emailed us that she and her sister-in-law Sherry had stood in line for two hours at the grand opening of a new Bullritos in Friendswood, and had each won a year’s supply of their food, either a Bullrito, a Bullrito Bowl, or Bullrito Taco, once a week for a year.
Guess we know where they’ll be eating every week.
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Thought for the Day:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered…"-Thomas Paine. 1776
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Dust Storms and Seminars . . .
This morning started out with hot coffee and high winds, with a lot of sand and dust tagging along.
At times, it was hard to see Nick and Terry’s rig right in front of us.
I spent some time working on my seminars for next week’s Gypsy Journal Rally. Nick’s talked me into doing 4 different ones this time.
The first two, “10 Things to Never Do with Your Computer”, and “Do’s and Don’ts of Computer Security”, I’ve done before, both here and in Celina, OH.
But this time I’m doing two more, “10 Things Every RV’er Needs”, and “Computer Q&A”.
The first is a demonstration of 10 things I think every RV’er should have for their safety and convenience. The second one came about because one of the most popular parts of my other two computer seminars is where the audience gets to ask questions about problems they may be having. So I decided to just do an entire seminar of questions and hopefully, answers.
At about 1pm I headed back over to the Good Sam’s Rally vendor area before making one last door prize pass.
Today was mostly going by and picking up prizes that were promised for today, i.e. Cracker Barrel, Westwind RV Resort, Big O Tires, Log Cabin Quilts, etc. I’ve still got a few more places that are supposed to call me this weekend, and that will wrap things up.
Then a little while after I got back to the rig, we headed out for dinner at Las Herraduras, the Mexican restaurant we’d eaten at on Wednesday, and this time the Gang of Six had become the Gang of Eight with the addition of Mike and Elaine Loscher, who had just arrived this afternoon.
Again we had another great meal at Las Herraduras. And Tom and Barb, and Mike and Elaine all agreed with us.
We’ll be back.
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Thought for the Day:
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." – Jules Verne
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