Monthly Archives: January 2013
Cheesecake and Hello Kitty . . .
We didn’t do much this morning, but it sure was nice.
After our morning walk we just sat outside, drank our coffee, and watch the birds in and around the bayou. Mister laid out with us too, where he found a nice sunbeam to stretch out in.
About 1:30 I headed over to a client’s house to drop off a flash drive with the data that I pulled off a HD that I took out of an old computer that had died.
I got back to the rig about 3:30 just in time to turn right back around to take Jan up to the Cheesecake Factory at Baybrook Mall. She was having her yearly get-together with some of her coworkers from the last hospital she worked at before she retired and we hit the road the beginning of 2008.
I dropped her off at about 4, but the dinner wasn’t until 5:30. She got there early so she could get in line for a table for a group of six. They were already on a wait at 4pm so she just had to get in line since they don’t take reservations. But since she had her Kindle with her, she was just fine waiting.
After I dropped her off, I headed over to our storeroom to drop off the floor dolly that I used to work on our washer/dryer, and then picked up Chris’ mechanic’s creeper so I could use it to work under the rig.
My next stop was at the house so I could kill some time while I was waiting for Jan. They were having such a good time that she didn’t call me to pick her up until about 8. I think it was too many Long Island Iced Teas.
Heading home, we gave her friend Barb a ride to her home down in League City. In one of those ‘small world’ moments, Barb said her brother was an RV’er, and she was telling him that she had some friends(us) who were RV’ers too, and that we had a blog where we chronicled our travels.
He said a while back he had picked up a newspaper about RV’ing and started reading the guy’s blog, and this lead him to other RV blogs. This newspaper of course was Nick Russell’s Gypsy Journal.
Barb said her friends had spent last summer oil rig gate guarding in South Texas. He said one of the blogs he read had done that. In comparing notes, they figured out it was us!
Her brother sounded really impressed and told Barb, “I can’t believe you know Greg and Jan”.
Jan didn’t get your name, so if you’re Barb’s brother, leave us a comment and let us know.
Finally, wrapping things up for today, a 5 year old Pennsylvania girl laughingly told a friend at a bus stop she was going to shoot her with her soap bubble gun. Check it below:
Let’s Ban Imaginary Hello Kitty Soap Bubble Guns!
An adult overheard the "threat” and the 5 year old ended up being searched, interrogated by school officials to the point of crying, and all without her parents present. Later a teacher scolded her in front of the class and told her the police might come after her. Afterwards she was suspended from kindergarten for 10 days for making “terroristic threats”
She now had a lawyer to help her.
Don’t you feel safer now?
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Thought for the Day:
Never give the devil a ride. He’ll always want to drive.
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Still Working . . .
Well, our Splendide washer/dryer is still working fine so far, both the thermal fuse repair and the door switch repair. We see how it goes.
I spent the morning and part of the afternoon setting up a new computer for a client, and also pulling some data off of an old HD for another client.
About 2:30 Jan and I headed out for errands, dinner, and some evening entertainment.
My first stop was at a client’s office to take care of some orders, and the best part, pick up a check. Then is was on to Home Depot, and then Lowe’s for some things for some of my ongoing projects.
Our next stop was by the house to pick our mail and say a quick ‘Hi’ to our son-in-law Lowell, and then on to Kroger’s for some lottery tickets. You can’t win if you don’t play.
For dinner we meet a few friends and fellow Alvin Opry patrons, at La Casita, a Mexican restaurant in the Friendswood area that we used to eat at a lot, but probably haven’t been back to in 20 years.
Don’t know why, because it was really good tonight. We might have to put it back on our list.
On the way to Opry, since we had some extra time, we made a quick stop at the local Wal-Mart for a few things for a dish Jan wants to make.
We had some great singers at the Alvin Opry tonight, but it’s also nice to see some beginners like Zack Clifton.
At 9 years old, this was his first time on stage and he did a really good job. Local Opry’s like these are where a lot of famous singers get their start. Some day we may be able to say about Zack that we knew him when.
In contrast to Zack, we have Earl Epps, who looks and sounds like George Jones.
Another new singer who essentially did a on-stage audition was a young lady named Crystal.
She did a great job on “You ain’t woman enough to take my man”. Hope she’ll be back.
But the feature for the tonight’s show was Kevin Robinson.
This was our first time seeing him and we were really impressed. He has a great range and a really good voice. It didn’t hurt that he sang one of my favorites “Statue of a Fool” either.
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Thought for a Day:
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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