Daily Archives: October 7, 2016

Chicken Chili and Broccoli Cheese . . .

I spent the morning finishing up the new website, but I’ll have more about that later.

About 1pm Jan and I went outside (Jan holds the ladder) to cut the notch for the circle clamp screw in the dryer vent hole. I had planned to use the saw blade on my Swiss Army tool, but once I saw how thick the rig wall was I rethought my approach.

Dryer Vent Opening 1

In fact I was very surprised at how thick the wall actually was, especially based on damage to other rigs I’ve seen that revealed their wall structure. Our coach’s wall is 2” thick with the outer fiberglass skin, 3/4” plywood, 1” of insulating board, and the inside wall board.

Based on this, I decided to use my Oscillating Multi Tool and a saw blade to cut the notch.

Oscillating Multi Tool

And with this, it only took a couple of minutes to carve out the opening.

Dryer Vent Opening 2

At this point I was able to quickly remount the deflector and finish things up.

Dryer Vent Deflector 3

Later about 4pm, Jan and I drove into Conroe to have dinner at the new Jason’s Deli. When we were last here this past August, it was still under construction, so we were happy to see it ready to go now.

And although it’s been a good while since we’ve eaten at a Jason’s, we went right back with our usual favorites.

Jan had a cup of Broccoli Cheese Soup, and Quarter Ham Muffuletta.

Jason's Muffuletta

While I got a bowl of their Spicy Southwest Chicken Chili, and the small Rueben Sandwich.

Jason's Rueben and Soup

If that’s the small Rueben, how big is the big one? But it did give me half to take bring home.

After dinner, we headed over to the nearby Sam’s Club to pick up a prescription that I had called in earlier. But the first thing I did was to upgrade my membership to the Plus card.

For a number of y ears, we had gotten our scripts through Sam’s Club, and only used Wal-Mart when there wasn’t a Sam’s nearby. At that time Sam’s honored Wal-Mart’s $4/$10 prescription discounts, and the Plus card itself saved us about $50 per month, so the $55 per year extra cost of the Plus Card was worth it.

But then Sam’s dropped the $4/$10 list so it no longer made sense to keep the Plus card. So when we renewed this past May, I dropped our membership back to the standard $45 version. And as I related in the blog at the time,, we actually got the renewal free because the manager kept screwing up printing out our new card, so he finally just comped the fee.

Well, with this new prescription, I found it was $105.00 at Wal-Mart, and $85 at Sam’s Club. But with the Plus card, the price was $10. Yep, $10. So it sounded like it was time to upgrade back to the Plus card.

And then things got even better. I went up the Customer Service desk expecting them to pro-rate the $55 for about 6 months worth, or around $27.50. But for some reason, the pro-rated amount to upgrade was $7.38. Where they got that from, I don’t know. I did question it, but they said it was correct.

So for $7.38 I save $75 per month. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Finishing up, I’m reposting Brandi’s Travel Agency since the link was bad in yesterday’s blog.

Brandi Land and Sea

Brandi Morrison – Travel Agent for Land and Sea

And now, here’s the new site I’ve been working on for a while.

Header Graphic

It’s for Eyes Of Texas Engraved Sun Glasses.

They will engrave and color your desired text, name, or nickname, or one of their standard graphics, with more being added all the time. Or for an extra charge, you can submit your own company logo or drawing for engraving.

PPA_Logo

And we also have specials for Breast Cancer Awareness and Blue Lives Matter.

Check it out.

 


Thought for the Day:

“He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.” — Samuel Johnson, 18th-century author

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