Daily Archives: November 10, 2014
Wrapping Up Soon . . .
The last of the frack equipment pulled out today, but was quickly replaced by more of the flow-back stuff, as well as additional workers. In addition, our drilling rig is starting to finish up and getting ready to shut down with a lot of trucks coming in and going out as a part of that. So it ended up being a pretty busy day with almost 10 pages of vehicles logged in.
My missing Amazon package finally showed up this morning, but only because I called their distribution center in Bryan a little after 7am. When I gave the guy the tracking number, he said, “Yeah, it’s here. You want us to send it back to Amazon?”
Me: “No, I’d like you to deliver it to me like you did my other package last week.”
UPS Guy: “Well, I guess I can pull it off the shelf and send it out today if you want.”
Me: “Yes, I want.”
UPS Guy: “OK. Bye.”
After that I was really surprised it actually showed up today at all.
Tomorrow Jan and I are taking a few hours off to spend the day over in Bryan/College Station, with our friend Charlotte taking care of our gate for us. Since we don’t have a lot of other stuff to do, we may try to take in a movie, but haven’t decided what we want to see. But we’re leaning toward either “St. Vincent”, with Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy (Molly), or “Big Hero 6”, an animated movie. We saw a preview of this at our last movie and it looked good. As a matter of fact, many of our favorite recent movies have been animated, especially the two Despicable Me movies.
And one of our all-time favorite movies from 2005 is an animated retelling of Little Red Riding Hood called “Hoodwinked”. Done in Rashomon style, it tells and retells the story several times from the viewpoint of each of the major characters, all having wildly different views of the same events. Really good and worth seeing.
Brandi texted over the latest Landonism this evening. She was fixing dinner, apparently not fast enough for Landon, and he wanted to know where his dinner was. Brandi told him it would be a few minutes, whereupon Landon said, “I want it now!”
Brandi told him he needed to learn to be patient, and Landon replied, “My patience went on vacation!” Out of the mouths . . .
After several nice days of low 70’s in the daytime and 50-60’s at night, it’s getting ready to get cold . . . and colder. After a high forecast of 61 tomorrow (Tuesday) we’re supposed to get 6 days of highs in the low 50’s, and lows in the low 30’s. Then Sunday we’re looking at a high of 55 and a low of 28 degrees, in what would be our first below-freezing night on the gate. But we won’ be here to enjoy it.
Normally we leave the gate each year on the Sunday before Thanksgiving and head down to Galveston Bay RV Resort for the winter. But this year’s a little different, so we’re going to leave a week early, on Sunday the 16th instead of the 23rd.
Jan has been having some bad side effects from the Tamoxifen that she’s taking as part of her post-breast cancer regime, and she wants to see her doctor next week, so it’ll just be easier to take care of after leaving the gate.
Since our site at Galveston Bay is not ready yet, and may not be for a while due to construction delays on the new area of the park, we’re going to head down to the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails for six days before heading over to the Escapee’s RV park in Livingston to stay with Chris and Charles Yust on their lot for few days. After that we’ll have to see how things work out.
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Thought for the Day:
A man in a movie theater notices a sweat bee sitting next to him.
“Are you a sweat bee?” asked the man, surprised.
“Yes.”
“What are you doing here at the movies?”
The sweat bee answers, “Well, I liked the book.”
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