Our RV Adventures

The Gate Guards Play.

Again, another day of resting up and goofing off. But on the other hand, it seems like we should be gate guarding, or something.

Pretty much the only vehicles coming through are the guys running the pumps at the frack pond that are now supplying water to the new frack site, and we don’t log them anyway.

I did get a few things done around the rig that I’ve been putting off, and tomorrow I’m probably going to bite the bullet and tear my laptop apart to replace the power jack, but we’ll see.

When I walked around to the backside of the rig the other day, I saw these on the ground.

These are some leftover Whataburger fries that just won’t die. They’ve been out here since the very first time I brought Whataburger back to the rig. We both got Combos and couldn’t eat all the fries. So we tossed them out for the birds. So far there are no birds, and that was five weeks ago.

What are these really made of?

I’m mean, the birds won’t eat’em. The ants won’t eat’em.  What will?

We had the herd of cows around the rig again today.

They just walk by and stare at us, and then move on. At least they’re not doing like last year when they kept tripping over the satellite wires and yanking the dish off the stand.

For the last week or so, I’ve had a pesky piece of malware in my desktop computer called ‘cnfg.toolbarservices’ lurking around in my machine. It kept popping up as being blocked from accessing the Internet by Malwarebytes, but nothing I tried could find it and kill it.

But some Googling told me about SpyHunter, a Spyware Detection and Removal Tool from Enigma Software. Since it was free to download, I thought I’d give it a try.

And it not only found ‘cnfg.toolbarservices’, but a lot of other things that Malwarebytes had been also blocking. But neither Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, or Spybot – Search and Destroy would actually find them.

But the hook here is that the free download only detects bad stuff, but it won’t remove it until you buy an Activation Key. $39.95 gets you a six-month license, including personalized help from them if you come across something really difficult to eradicate. You just email them a copy of the Support Log that the program generates and they will send you back a customized solution to your program.

I normally don’t care for the ‘license’ type software, but since nothing else had even found the problem, much less eliminated it, I decided to spring for the Key. And 5 minutes later, I had the Key, the malware program (and the rest) had been killed off, and my computer was rebooting.

I’ll wait a few days to see if the fix holds before I give my final stamp of approval. I’ll let you know. But it can’t hurt to download the program and see what it finds.

For our second night of freedom, we headed out for dinner once again about  4:45. Although last night we just pulled the gate closed since we hadn’t let the water guys from the frack up the road know we would be locking up. But the Company Man had given us a key and told us to lock the gate when we left, so tonight we did.

I’ve seen a number of these multi-lock gates, but this is the first one like this.

Usually they use kind of a barrel mechanism, but they all do the same thing; let several people open a gate with their own key.

Our dinner selection for tonight was The Jalapeno Tree, a Mexican place we last ate at the first week of September when we had a couple of nights off between the frack prep work finishing up, and the frack crew and equipment actually moving in.

Tonight we started things off with a White Sangria, made with Muscato wine and three or four fruit juices.

I think the last time we had an alcoholic drink was this past April in Las Vegas at the Lindo Michoacan Mexican restaurant down in Henderson. Twice in one year. I think we’re on a binge.

Jan had the Chili Rellenos, the same as last time.

A lot of places only have them with cheese, but here they also have them with beef, which is Jan’s favorite.

Last time I had a Combo Platter, but this time I went with the El Diablo Jack Combo Fajitas.

It’s Beef and Chicken, with crispy bacon pieces, sautéed mushrooms, and covered in Monterey Jack Cheese. Beef, Chicken, and Pork on the same plate. You can’t go wrong.

And I didn’t.

They were really good. And we both had plenty to bring home.

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Thought for the Day:

Never take to sawin’ on the branch that’s supportin’ you, unless you’re being’ hung from it.

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When I got up about 11 this morning, Jan was sitting in the rig watching TV.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Turns out that the company man had come by about 10, after all the equipment had rolled out, and said that we had a few days off until the workover rig comes in sometime next week. In addition, he gave us a key to lock the gate if we leave for a while.

Whoopee!

So we had a nice, quiet morning, just talking and relaxing for the first time in a good while.

Very nice!

Later, Jan and I headed out about 4:45 to have dinner once again at what’s turned out to be our favorite local place, Longhorn Grill. But first we drove down to check out the pad after everyone had pretty much pulled out this morning after the completion of Completion. But as it turned out, everything wasn’t cleared out, I guess waiting for the arrival of the workover rig.

Heading back past the rig, we crossed paths with the landowner, Mr. A. He was just doing his evening rounds, checking out things since the pullout. Told him we were heading out for dinner. We also stopped in for a few minutes with the other gate guards to see if we could bring them anything back from town.

And as our two previous visits, Longhorn was just as good as before. Jan had her 10oz. Sirloin, while I had my usual 14oz. Ribeye.

And of course, we both had a salad with their great homemade dressings.

Jan and I both agree that their salads are so good, they rank right up there with the ones from Outback Steakhouse, which are our other top favorite.

To wrap things up on a high note, we split a piece of their also-homemade Strawberry Cheesecake. And this time I managed to get a picture of it.

Compare the size of this normal single serving with those thin slivers you get at other places. YUM !

And even better, with the size of the steaks, we had a lot to take home with us, along with some of their homemade yeast rolls. This means steak sandwiches in a few days.

Coming home, we stopped off at the local HEB to pick up a few things, and maybe find a couple of items that the Wal-Mart here doesn’t carry. (Hint. HEB doesn’t either.)

Another good thing about not working for the next few days is that tonight and tomorrow night it’s supposed to be in the mid 40’s here, so it’s nice to be inside

On another note, since yesterday there’s been 131 attempts to break in to this blog. There will be nothing for an hour so, and then 15 minutes of almost constant attempts. Persistent little devils.

But they really don’t stand a chance hacking my password. Mine is 8 characters of upper case, lower case, and numbers. This gives a combination of 62 possibilities per character, i.e 26 upper case, 26 lower case, and 10 numbers.

Multiplying this out at 62 x 62x 62x 62x 62x 62x 62x 62 means they have a 1 in 218,340,105,584,896 chance to guess my password. That’s 218 Trillion with a ‘T’.

That means it would take 6,931,432 years to try every combination.

Of course they could hit the right one tomorrow, but it’s not likely..

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Thought for the Day:

“It’s only fair; we were stuck with them in the last war.” – Winston Churchill, upon hearing that Italy had declared war on England as Germany’s ally

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