Monthly Archives: November 2017
That’s Hedley!
Jan and I left the rig about 11:45, heading up to the Clear Lake area for lunch and new brakes.
But our first stop was at our old favorite, King Food. So good that after almost 40 years we still love it.
I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of photos of our fav Chicken with Hot Garlic Sauce and Jalapenos, XXXXX Spicy, so I’ll spare you this time. But it was as delicious as usual. Especially with the Hot and Sour Soup.
Then it was on over to our son Chris’ for our scheduled brake job. As usual Chris was well prepared with his floor jack and jack stands at the ready. And once he got started it only took him about 45 minutes per wheel, replacing both the rotors and the disc pads.
In between Jan and I started going through stuff from the attic, especially a bunch of old slides and photos from over 50 years ago.
Here’s one of me and my little sister Beth in 1965-66. I was probably 16 or so.
Brake job finished, we drove over to the nearby SuperCuts so Jan could get her hair cut. Jan still uses the same lady that’s been cutting her hair for about 15 years, as well as her mother’s when she lived with us.
Then after a quick stop at Krogers for a few things, our last stop was at Tuesday Morning for Christmas cards. Jan likes the high end, expensive cards she finds there for very cheap prices. Apparently they’re last year’s cards, but with no dates on them, who knows, or cares.
This is a Frilled Shark.
Supposedly it died out about 80 million years ago. Or maybe not. Last week scientisi caught one of them off the coast of Portugal.
With over 300 teeth arranged in 25 rows it makes short work of its prey. However like a snake, it can open its mouth wide enough to swallow prey whole.
Tomorrow Jan and I are meeting Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at Sugar Land Ice, the rink where Landon does his ice hockey. It’s starting up again so we’re going to be at his first practice this year.
Then we’ll have a late lunch at the nearby Floyd’s Cajun Seafood where we eaten several times before. Always good.
Then Jan will go back home with Brandi, et. all, while I’ll come back to the rig. Jan’s going to be Landon-sitting until Tuesday since Landon’s out of school all this week.
I’ll go back and pick her up around Tuesday noon and drop Landon off at Brandi’s work.
Really looking forward to it.
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Headline of the Day: Navy acknowledges pilot drew male genitalia in sky.
Thought for the Day:
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” – Hedy Lamarr, co-inventer of the spread spectrum, frequency hopping technique used in today’s cell phone system and Bluetooth technology.
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If Men Were Angels . . .
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My new toy, my Harbor Freight Circuit Detector, worked perfectly this morning, finding the correct circuit breaker in about 15 seconds.
I just plugged the small transmitter into the plug strip, and seeing the light was on, went to the circuit breaker panel and ran the detector down one side of the breaker row and back up the other side. And then did it again.
As the directions said, the first trip up and down gave me a couple of false beeps, but the second loop narrowed it down to one particular breaker. So crossing my fingers, I flipped the breaker and went back in to check the power strip. And finding the light on the transmitter light off and everything else still on, I had my separate power outlet and was now clear to move the server.
After being sure that no one in-house was logged in, and no users were in the shopping cart, I shut down the server and unplugged everything.. First thing I moved was the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) and got it plugged in to the AC power. Then the server followed and 5 minutes later it was back up and online.
At this point I started scrounging up a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for the server so I don’t have to keep switching them back and forth.
While I was letting it all settle in, I drove down to the nearby O’Reilly’s Auto Parts to pick up the parts for a front brake job for our truck. Two new rotors, and a set of pads ran me about $160.
I don’t worry about having the rotors turned down. I just replace them every other pad change. It’s worked great for 267,000 miles so far. And lucky for me I have a son who’s really good at this stuff, so we’re going over to his house tomorrow afternoon and let him take care of it while I supervise.
When we were in Krogers the other day, I came across this new flavor of Lay’s Potato Chips.
Really? Chicken and Waffles?
What’s next? Liver and Onions?
And there’s more.
OK, I’ll give you Sriracha. But Cheesy Garlic Bread?
We’re bordering on heresy here.
The Word of the Day is: Esemplastic
Thought for the Day:
If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” – James Madison
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