Monthly Archives: August 2017
Chicken Fingers and Powerballs . . .
Today was another travel day, with Jan and I heading down to the Clear Lake area for a client visit for me, a Chris and Linda visit for Jan, and a King Food lunch for all of us.
So we were out the door by 9:45 and heading through downtown Houston a little bit later. We were mostly past the rush hour traffic, and luckily encountered no accidents, so we pulled into the King Food parking lot right at 11am and found Chris and Linda, our son and daughter-in-law waiting for us.
And after our usual delicious lunch, Jan headed home to spend the afternoon at Chris’, while I drove over to my client’s to spend the afternoon there.
I’ve spent the last few days telecommuting in to the office computers using TeamViewer, but there are some things better/easier done in person. I’m still trying to unravel some of this installation, which is really squirrelly in many places.
In fact one of the things I’m trying to straighten out is the mail program, aptly named SquirrelMail. And so it goes.
I picked up Jan about 3:45 and headed back up to Conroe. All things considered, the traffic wasn’t too bad, even getting through downtown Houston. Then coming out the north side of town, we took the 610 loop east for a couple of miles until we got on the Hardy Toll Road. Then it was 70 mph all the way up before it dumps back on i-45, passed the heaviest going-home traffic, and about 20 miles from the park.
Along the way we had decided to stop and have dinner at the Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Conroe before heading back to the rig.
Cane’s has become pretty much our favorite chicken place since we first tried them in 2014 when we were on a gate near Bryan/College Station. Always really good.
Coming home we made a stop at a nearby O’Reilly’s for some hookup wire and then a convenience store for some $700+ Million Powerball Tickets.
They’re really made a lot of progress on the park paving, with all of the entrance way done,
and down pass the Activity Center and the new large parking area.
What I haven’t seen yet is any paving on the actual site roads, which is where it’s really needed in places. Hopefully they’re not stopping with just prettying up the entrance.
And even the new sites are progressing fairly well.
Though I don’t think they’ll be ‘done by August’ as was initially said.
Brandi originally had Landon’s birthday party scheduled for this Saturday at an outdoor entertainment center, but cancelled it due to the possible oncoming bad weather. But since the main attraction is a big waterslide, the kids probably wouldn’t mind.
Thought for the Day:
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
fghsfg
ButterBurgers and Dollar Tree . . .
I spent the morning tidying some client’s website stuff before Jan and I headed out a little before 1pm to the nearby theatre to see Despicable M3. the 3rd one in the series.
As we were leaving the park, I was happy to see that they had started to pave the entrance road from the turn-off, pass the ranger station, and passed the Activity Center, including a new larger parking area directly across from the Center.
Even better, it looks like they’re doing about a 4” layer, thick enough to stand up to the heavy rig traffic.
Our senior tickets were $13.50, and a medium popcorn and a medium drink were $13.50. There’s a problem here.
The movie was good, a little slower than the first two, mostly because they did a lot of character development, setting up the premise for the next few movies. We both enjoyed it.
After that we had Butterburgers at the nearby Culver’s.
Mine had two patties, cheese, bacon, mayo, mustard, pickles, and onions. Really good.
For us it’s pretty much a toss-up between Whataburger and Culver’s. It’s like apples and oranges.
I do like Culver’s big crinkle cut fries better than Whataburger’s shoestring ones.
After lunch, we headed across the Interstate to the Dollar Tree to pick up a jug of Awesome and a container of the new Awesome Orange powder that we’ve seen online.
Supposed to be really good. We’ll see.
Coming back to the park about 4:30 it was good to see that they had almost completed paving both side of the road around the ranger station. So far though, I haven’t seen any sign that they’ll paving the interior park roads, but I hope so.
We’ll see.
My friend Nick Russell’s new book, Big Lake Tragedy is now online on Amazon.
Get your copy now before they run out of electrons.
Wrapping up, ESPN has pulled sports announcer Robert Lee from the play by play calling of an upcoming college game, due to the fact that his name is similar to a Confederate general.
The problem is . . . he’s Asian.
And ‘Lee’ is about as common as ‘Smith’ in his culture.
And finally, Anderson Cooper’s relatives owned Michelle Obama’s relatives. What should we tear down now?
Thought for the Day:
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” – Leo Tolstoy
fgdfd
