Daily Archives: January 3, 2015
Fried Chicken and Windows Vista . . .
After another wet, gloomy morning, we actually started to see glimmers of sunlight peaking out from the gray. And by the afternoon it was bright and sunny, although it’s rained so much for the last week, that everything is still very soggy.
Yesterday’s power converter install is still working fine. The house batteries are staying fully charged, and the system is regularly switching over to top off the engine batteries.
So far, so good.
I was thinking about adding some new photos to the rotating slideshow at the top of the blog, so I was going through some of the more than 27,000 pictures we’ve taken in the last 7 years.
No, that’s not a typo. Since we hit the road February 6th, 2008, we’ve been averaging over 10 pictures a day. Thank God for digital cameras, otherwise we couldn’t afford the film developing costs.
I did find a few new photos that I’ll be posting in the next few days, but Jan and I really ended up just paging through the pictures, reminiscing on our trip to Alaska, and visits to Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, Grand Tetons, and many others.
In fact we spent all afternoon on this, until suddenly it was time to head out for dinner. We’ve been wanting some good fried chicken so decided that Golden Corral was the place. So we headed out about 4pm for the one about 5 miles south of here.
As usual the food was really good, and even better, Golden Corral is running a promotion where you get to take home 6 free yeast rolls.
Yay, free food.
Leaving GC, our next stop was the Lowe’s right down the road. I needed a new 1/2” x 3/8” drive socket for my set. I noticed yesterday that one was missing when I went to use it on the power converter install. And I also wanted to get a small paint roller handle for another project that I’ll talk about later.
I had also planned on getting a replacement Danco faucet nozzle to go with the Danco ‘Universal’ replacement hose for our sink faucet. But blog reader Rod McElhenry reminded me that Moen faucets have a lifetime warranty, so I’ll wait and give them a call on Monday.
Then it was on to the Wal-Mart right next door for a few things, and then a last stop off at Starbuck’s to get a couple of Chesnutt Praline Lattes, and to get registered in their Starbuck’s For Life contest. Of course if you read the fine print, ‘Life’ to the Starbuck’s corporation is 30 years. But I’d be 96 by then so the point is probably moot.
Getting back to the rig, we found we had a new neighbor. Randy Lazarine, who was parked next to us in Columbus a couple of weeks ago, showed up. If you remember, he’s the guy with the new-to-him coach that had been completely mis-wired so that his power converter was not even hooked up, and his house batteries and engine batteries had been wired together. His solar panels kept things going at first, until we had a week of no sun. Then all his batteries ran down and he couldn’t even start his coach.
I didn’t have a chance to talk much tonight but I guess it’s still working OK. I’ll know more tomorrow.
Tomorrow looks to be a stay-at-home day. We’re going to put together a big batch of chicken vegetable soup in the slow cooker and goof off.
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Thought for the Day:
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. = Bill Gates
I guess this finally explains Windows Vista – Me
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