Monthly Archives: December 2012
Sunflowers and Stew Kits . . .
Jan and I were up very early this morning, but it was for a good reason. We were meeting Lowell, Brandi, Landon, and Aunt Sherry at the Sunflower Bakery & Café for breakfast down in Galveston about 8:30am.
On our way, leaving the park area, we took down the signs we had posted after finding the lost dog last Thursday.
Since we never got a call from anyone, we’re even more convinced he was dumped. But he’s got a good home now.
Just not our home.
We had our usual great breakfast at Sunflower, but what was funny was watching Landon flirt with a cute blonde hostess. He would stare at her with a big smile on his face, and then when she would smile back at him, he would quickly look away or put his head down below the table edge.
He would then peek back over the edge to see if she was still looking at him. And he did the same thing with the same hostess when we were here two weeks ago. He’s gonna be a real heartthrob.
Leaving the café we all drove down to the Seawall to let Landon run around on the beach.
I think Brandi and Lowell’s real reason for this was to just let him run around and tire himself out.
Finally saying our goodbyes, we headed up to the Kroger’s on SR96 to get some groceries.
While perusing the meat department I came across a Beef Stew Kit.
Really. A Beef Stew Kit?
Some Assembly Required?
Is it a kit because you still have to cut up the veggies?
And it was $13.95!
For a couple of bucks of veggies, and 3# of stew meat. Sorry, but this is just ridiculous.
Are people really this lazy that they can’t spend 5 minutes in the produce section?
The bright note in our Kroger’s stop was getting gas there. Their new method of giving you gas points for your purchases meant that I got $1.30 per gallon off my fill up.
Which meant that I only paid $1.67 per gallon.
Nice!
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Thought for the Day:
By reading this blog, you’ve collapsed my wave function. Thanks.
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Jabba the Catt . . .
or, this is why keeping the dog was a bad idea!
Here’s Mister in his “Jabba the Cat” pose. He likes to sit like this in my computer desk chair. Kind of Master of All he Surveys.
Tonight Jan talked to the lady that took in the dog we found. They’ve named him Opie and said he’s doing fine. Seems like he’s found a good home.
Just as long as it’s not ours.
Brandi said Landon has become the front page poster child for the Children’s Lighthouse Childcare Center where Landon goes. You can see him here.
https://www.facebook.com/childrenslighthouse#!/clightbayarea?fref=pb
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Jan and I headed about 1pm to first have lunch at the Chili’s up in Kemah before doing some errands.
Our first stop was at Fry’s Electronics looking to purchase 3 copies of Microsoft Office 2010 for a client, but all they had was the Student version which does not have Outlook which the client needs. So I’ll have to see about ordering it, or downloading it.
My next stop was right up Hwy. 3 at EPO – Electronics Parts Outlet, to find a replacement switch for a client’s computer. They had what I wanted but I found a little something extra.
A G-Maxtec 860 Quad-Copter at 40% off.
You can fly it inside or out, and it will do flips and rolls. Check out the video below.
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Our next stop after EPO was Brandi and Lowell’s for a little Landon time, and also to pick up our mail. Then after a nice visit we headed over to Kroger’s to pick up some things before we met our friend’s Bob and Maria, and Connie at Coffee Oasis, a local coffee shop. We had a great time talking and drinking coffee. In fact we spent about 2 hours without even realizing it.
All in all, a nice day, well spent.
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Thought of the Day:
The NRA set off a firestorm suggesting that we put armed guards in schools.
If we can’t have armed guards in our schools, why do we have them in our Federal and State office buildings?
Why will we protect our politicians and not our children?
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