Our RV Adventures

14 Days and Counting!

By this time in two weeks we’ll be parked at the Lake Conroe Thousand Trails for 12 days before we move over to the Colorado River Thousand Trails for 14 days. Then it’s back and forth every 14 days as far as the eye can see. Well, at least until sometime in the March – April timeframe.

The reason we have the initial 12 day short stay is that back in late July/early August I booked us bouncing between Colorado River and Lake Conroe every two weeks from the end of August (in case we didn’t get a gate) until March (when we plan to head back out for the year). And it just so happens that, lucky for us, our time at Lake Conroe starts on the Friday before we leave the gate on Sunday. This means we only have about a 160 mile run down to Lake Conroe instead of 280 miles to the Colorado River TT in Columbus.

Today for lunch, Jan wanted to feed her hot dog craving, so around 11:30 I headed into Carthage to the Sonic to pick up her fix. Mine too, of course. But before I stopped there, I went on into downtown to pick up a couple of things from the True Value Hardware, only to find they were closed on Sunday.

I guess that explains why the Ace Hardware, that I drove past to get there, had an overflow parking lot. But then they didn’t have what I needed when I checked there on Friday.

I realize businesses can run their stores as they see fit, but I’m not real happy when it inconveniences me. Just sayin’. LOL

Coming into town, I noticed they finally got the new Little Caesar’s Pizza open, and it was really busy with a lot of cars out front and a long line at the drive-thru. Jan had been talking about pizza, so I swung by and picked up a menu on the way.

Sonic was our usual order, with Jan getting a regular Chili Cheese Coney and a Corn Dog, and I got a New York Dog and a Corn Dog, and we shared an order of their Ched’r Poppers. Great as always.

But I do wish I could get them to special order the coney on mine for me. My favorite way to cook a coney is to drop it in the deep fat fryer until it floats. It gets a crispy, almost blackened, crust on it, and it’s hot and juicy inside. Really, really good.

But they won’t do it. I guess they’re afraid of contaminating their fry grease. That’s why you don’t fry onion rings or fish in the same grease where you do your fries. But they fry the corn dogs in there, so why not pretend it’s corn dog without the breading. And we never had a problem with that at our restaurant.

Now with the weather getting colder, it seemed a good time for soup and sandwiches, so last night for dinner Jan made grilled cheese sandwiches, and heated up some of the Campbell’s Slow Kettle Tomato and Sweet Basil Bisque that we bought out in Prescott, AZ this spring.

We noticed Sam’s Club had 4 packs on sale for $1.99 so we bought one to try it out. And it was probably the best ‘canned’ soup we’ve ever eaten. When we checked at Wal-Mart, we found the individual cans sold for about $3.00. So we went back the next day and bought all 8 packs Sam’s had left in stock. And even better, the price had dropped to $1.89. We bought all of them because we’ve learned from experience that if you wait too long on a Sam’s Club sale, it probably won’t be there when you come back. And they had a lot less of them that day than the day before.

I did figure out the reason for the sale, and that was that the Best If Used By Date was later this year. But that seems to mostly be a ‘Use It Now or Throw It Out So You Can Buy More Date’

My CAPTCHA login program on this blog is apparently working great, since I’ve not had a single failed login attempt in several days. But it is nice to see that I’m not the only one having this problem. Here’s what you see when you log in to the South Dakota website to renew your license plates.

Apparently I got the answer right.

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Wrapping up, for most people it seems like the World Wide Web has always been here, and I guess if you’re young enough, that’s true. But the Web actually had a beginning. And that was the at the CERN research organization located outside Geneva, Switzerland.

Now we’re not talking about the Internet. Although it seems these days the ‘Web’ and the ‘Internet’ are used interchangeably, they’re actually two separate things.

The ‘Internet’ started in the late 60’s with a few computers linking several universities. The first real consumer access came in 1979 with the startup of Compuserve, who offered email, real-time chat (called IRC chat), and the Internet Newsgroups.

I  was first online a few months later with my Exidy Sorcerer computer and one of those 300 baud acoustic modems that you stuck your phone handset into.

But the World Wide Web began on August 6th, 1991, when Tim Berners-Lee created the very first webpage, written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), a language he wrote especially for the Web. And that very first webpage still exists, and can be still be seen at its original URL address.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

It’s a plain Jane page of links to other pages he created to show what could be done.

And look at what it’s become.

BTW Tim Berners-Lee didn’t like the acronym ‘Web’. He wanted to it to be called ‘W3’. I guess sometimes even the father doesn’t get to name the baby.

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Thought for the Day:

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: ‘Of course it’s none of my business but -‘ is to place a period after the word ‘but.’ Don’t use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. — Lazarus Long

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