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We did walk this morning, and Nick and Terry came with us. We did the bottom loop, a little over .6 miles, before we came back to the rig, A little later, Nick and Terry came for a while to take and also catch up on last week’s Mike & Molly that they didn’t get to record. And as usual we had a great time just talking and laughing.

Later, after they went home, Nick called to say he was down by the putt-putt course flying his DJI Phantom drone, and did I want come fly it too.

I think I was down there before he hung up.

Although I have a number of drones myself, this was my first time to fly a Phantom like this one.

DJI Phantom Quadcopter Drone

I’d heard about how stable it was in flight,

and the reports were true. Even in the gusty winds we were experiencing, the Phantom was pretty much rock steady. When I set it in a hover at a certain altitude, it would just stay here.

When the wind gusts moved it to the side, it would return to its previous position all on its own.

And although I had never flown one before, I had no trouble controlling this one, with only a bouncy landing to my credit.

Here’s a short video of with Nick at the controls.

Later, about 4:15 we all headed into the Katy area to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at one of our all-time favorite places, Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro. Nick and Terry had been jonsing for this place since they got to town, and we were all looking forward to going.

Landon decided we were laughing and talking so much that we were making too much noise, interrupting his game play. So he stayed underneath the table using the seat as a rest for his tablet.

After a great dinner, we all headed back to Brandi’s for a bit so I could pick up some mail, then it was on back to Colorado River.

And then tomorrow, believe it or not, we’re going to do it all again. Tomorrow is Nick and Terry’s Anniversary, and they want to go back again.

Yeah, like we have a problem with that. Back when our kids were small, we once ate at the same restaurant every night for a week So two nights in a row is no problem.

If it’s good once, it’s good twice, right? Or even seven times.

We saw online about a big frack site fire up in Oklahoma, near Chickasha. So far it seems that truck off to the side caught fire and then it quickly spread, finally consuming the entire site.

The site, owned by Continental Oil, and being fracked by FTS has been rated as a total loss, with 22 trucks, valued at over $1 million a piece, burned to a crisp.

Luckily, probably because it started as a fire and not as an explosion, everybody got out safely with no injuries.

Even though we’ve never been extremely close to our frack sites, glad this didn’t happen at one off our gates.

The story about one of the PowerBall winners that was going around the Net yesterday, about the California winner being given the 1/3 winning PowerBall by her boss, turned out to be a prank, one that apparently got out of hand. The boss did give all of his 9000 employees a PowerBall ticket. That part was true.. But the winner part of  it came about when a son called his mother at work, and as a prank, told her she had won.

But things quickly got out of hand, the press was called, and the announcement went out nationwide, with TV and news reporters crowding into her workplace. I suspect that her son is now very sorry he did this.

If he’s still around.

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are back together again.

Well, it was spitting rain this morning, so we didn’t walk today either. But there’s always tomorrow, right?  And if you can keep a secret, a world-famous mystery writer and his wife may be accompanying us along the way.

On the PowerBall front, as I thought, the prize made it up to $1.6 Billion right before the drawing last night, and yielded three winners. And the California winner didn’t even have to buy his ticket. His boss gave it to him.

A multi-millionaire, who owns 80 assisted living facilities in California, bought 18,000 PowerBall tickets and gave them to his employees, and one of those tickets was a winner.

I guess now it’s possible that the employee might be able to buy out his boss.

Quite a few blog readers emailed me about the odds of winning the top prize, and how that works. Here’s some info I posted here in a comment, and also in several forums online.

Actually the odds of YOU having a winning number never changes, no matter how many people enter.

It’s always one in 292,201,338. This is based on the possible number combinations derived from the first five numbers 1 to 69, i.e, 11,238,513,  and the Power Ball number that goes from 1 to 26.

And so 11,238,513 x 26 different Power Balls gives you 292,201,338 chances.

But two things do change as people buy more tickets as the jackpot increases.

1. The pot IS more likely to be won by someone. The more tickets, the more combinations sold, the more likely a winner.

2. And the chances of there being more than one winner also increases.

I heard yesterday that over 85% (it was 90% at the time of the drawing) of the possible number combinations, i.e. the 292.2 million, had been sold. Thus there is an ~85% chance that someone will win. But for an individual, it’s still one in 292.2 million.

Statistics are funny things and often run against ‘common sense’. For example, if you flip a coin, and it comes up heads 10 times in a row, it is no more or no less likely to come up heads again, i.e. a 50% chance.

Our good friends, Nick and Terry Russell, showed up here at Colorado River about 1:30 and were soon parked and set up. Nick called me when they were coming through Schulenburg and I drove around to scout out a good site for them, and as it turned out, I found a nice 50am FHU site just 6 spaces away from us.

We spent a couple of hours just talking and catching up before we all headed out to have dinner down in Columbus at Los Cabos Mexican Restaurant, a place we all really like.

Along the way, we found that diesel at the Colorado County Co-op had dropped another 5 cents a gallon, to $1.75. This past Sunday, it was $1.85, and then yesterday, it was $1.80. Ten cents in 5 days is a big drop.

As with previous visits, everything was delicious, but I’m not sure if we would have noticed if it wasn’t. We were talking, laughing, and chatting so much. And eating, of course. But I think that did come in fourth.

Coming back to the park, we made a stop at the hardware store in downtown Columbus, and then Brookshire Bros. for some supplies, before getting back home a little after 6pm.

Not sure what’s on tap for tomorrow. Nick and Terry have been on the road with some 400+ miles days recently so they may just want to jell.

We’ll see.

Thought for the Day:

Politics: from the Greek “poly” [many] and the English “ticks”.

So ‘Many Blood Sucking Ticks’.

Sounds about right to me.

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