Monthly Archives: January 2017
When I Said I Wanted Some Winter Weather . . .
I didn’t mean like this.
Today the high temp was 68° with a low scheduled tonight of 33. Then tomorrow’s high is 34° with a low of 25.
I do not like the direction this is going.
Jan and I had originally planned to take in a movie as part as our San Antonio day trip today, but that didn’t happen. I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night due to the fact that I’m normally working when I was trying to sleep.
So we dropped the early morning start and left the rig about 2pm with our first stop at Lone Star Real Estate to pick up two days work of Amazon deliveries. Then it was on to the Sam’s Club/Wal-Mart in the City Base area of San Antonio for some shopping.
Finishing up there we met our long-time friends Jim and Peri Dean at La Fonda on Main for dinner.
Besides Magic Time Machine, La Fonda on Main is our other go-to place in San Antonio, and it’s another place we been eating since the 1980’s. And the place itself has been open since the 1930’s hosting such notables as Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Yul Brynner, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and of course, us.
Between the four of us, we all went for something a little different.
Jim went the in fish direction with their Salmon selection,
while Peri went for the vegetarian course with the Sweet Potato Enchiladas.
Jan got her go-to dish, the Chile Relleno,
while I had my usual beef selection with the Carne Asada.
Once again Jan and I only ate about half of our entrees, with the rest to take home. This left us with enough room for Jan and I to share our usual Tres Leches.
But this time we got an upgrade with their new special, Chocolate Tres Leches. And following our lead, Jim and Peri split one too.
Even better.
After spending another hour talking, and then saying our good-byes, and making a pit-stop at the Valero in Floresville, we got home about 8pm.
Passing through Floresville even as full as we were, we drooled as we passed the Whataburger there. This again brought our question about why Kenedy/Karnes City doesn’t have a Whataburger of our own.
At first we wondered if the population was too small, but the K/KC has a combined population of about 6300, plus all the surrounding countryside. This is only about 100 people less than Floresville.
Plus with all the oil stuff going on around here, they’re losing a lot of money from the oil workers. Oil guys loved Whataburger, and some of them eat there every day when they can. And when we’ve been on gates with one nearby, the guys would regularly bring back burgers for Jan and I.
When we stopped to pick our packages at the real estate office, I ask Nancy Christian, the owner (and the owner of our RV Park) why K/KC doesn’t have a Whataburger. She said, “Because they’re stupid.”
She said that a while back she and her husband had been at the one in Floresville and saw what were obviously some big-wig corporate types visiting the location. So her husband went over and talk to them about it, and was told it sounded interesting and that they’d look into it. But nothing so far. But even then we certainly won’t get one in the next 5 or 6 weeks that we’ll be here. Bummer!
WE WANT OUR WHATABURGER!
Thought for the Day:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. And those who benefit in the racket will defend it with passion.”
ADFSDF
See I Told You So . . .
Well, no new Gate call today, so to guarantee one for tomorrow we’ve scheduled a day trip into San Antonio once again.
So if I don’t hear from Todd tomorrow morning, we’ll head out about 11am with a first stop at the Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club in the City Base area. Then it’s on to see Passengers at the Alamo Quarry theater. Then to top off the night we’ll meet up with Jim and Peri Dean at our other favorite San Antonio eatery, La Fonda on Main.
Of course scheduling this much fun is almost sure to attract a new gate job. So we’ll have to see how it goes.
Next up, I want to thank everyone for their kind words of encouragement on my blog topics. It’s always helps to know that there’s somebody out there on the other end of the Internet who appreciates my efforts. Thanks again.
As I mentioned I’m working on a couple of other articles, one on Global Warming, and another on the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact(NPVIC).
This is an agreement between states that they will give their Electoral Votes to whoever wins the Popular Vote. So far 10 states plus D.C. have signed up. The compact will only become active when enough states with enough Electoral Votes join to guarantee the result.
There are various ideas on the legality of the whole thing due to the fact that Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution states that: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power.”
And actually the last time a group of States made a compact, it led to what we call in the south, ‘The War of Northern Aggression’. You Yankees call it the Civil War.
So there is that.
See I Told You So. Regular readers know about my (and Jan too, to a lesser degree) love of hot stuff. Hot wings, hot Mexican food, BBQ, pretty much anything. And I’ve seen articles in the past about the possible health benefits. And now here’s another one.
Chilies could help beat cancer as research finds capsaicin destroys diseased cells
Though in this one, they think you won’t get the full benefit from eating the capsaicin, but that it must be part of a drug treatment. But other articles say different.
Of course it may just be Big Pharma trying to keep me away from the hot wings so they can sell me something expensive.
Thought for the Day:
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
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