Monthly Archives: February 2019
No. He’s Not Dead . . .
Our friend Nick Russell is not dead.
Back when our blog was down, people were emailing Nick wondering if we were dead. Nick even did a blog about his experiences with that.
Nick and Terry are traveling out west to take care of a family problem and just haven’t had an opportunity to post a blog.
Again, he’s not dead.
I spent a good part of today at work trying to get the webserver configured to install the new SSL certificate for our credit card processing system. Last year I got a nasty surprise when the certificate expired without me getting any notice from Godaddy. But that wasn’t Godaddy’s fault, because the previous IT guy had all notices sent to his personal email, not a company one. And since I didn’t have access to his personal email, I never knew about it.
But by the time I got it all set up and ready to go today, it was almost time to head home, and since after I install it, I need to shut down the shopping cart, shut down the server, and then reboot, letting the all the tables and databases rebuild, I’d rather be there watching over it when it’s happening. So it’s all put off until Wednesday.
I did receive my 1/2” extensions from Amazon for my oil filter removal/install.
With a 3”, 5”, and a 10” one, I will have an 18” reach to get my filter wrench into position. I was also able to dig out my 1/2” ratchet handle from the bay underneath our slide. My normal socket/ratchet set is 3/8” and 1/4”, but I have the 1/2” for when I have to manually crank the slide in and out.
I’ve only had to do this twice over the years, once for a broken shear pin due to a loose floor tile under the kitchen cabinet jamming the slide, and the one due to a broken screw that was jamming the gears. So it’s easier to just leave it in the bay where I always know where it is.
Looks like Jan and I will be attending the Houston RV Show this Thursday. It starts Wednesday, and it’s a BOGO ticket day, but with the tickets only $12, and the fact it seems like all the vendors aren’t set up the first day, we thought we’d hold off a day.
While we’re up there, we’ll make a day off it with lunch at Katz’s Deli in the Montrose area, before coming back down by iBurn, our local all-things-hot store.This should get us to the RV Show about 1pm.
Really looking forward to it.
Thought for the Day:
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
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You Know You’re In A Country-Western Joint When . . .
After a do-nothing morning, Jan and I headed out about 12:30 to once again have breakfast at The Egg and I. Love their Hazelnut coffee.
Then it was on over to my client’s office to install some new software. UPS has recently released their Worldship 2019 software, but it takes about 30 minutes to install, which would tie up the main computer during the day, so I came in today to take care of it. Then while I was there I also tracked down and repaired another problem with our Point of Sale software’s remote terminal.
Finishing up and heading home, we made a Costco gas stop at $1.75/gallon. Up a penny since last week.
Catching up on last night,
You Know You’re In A Country-Western Joint When . . .
There’s Cornmeal on the dance floor to make slide-stepping easier.
BYOB means a bottle of Crown Royal on the table.
And you pee in a trough in the Men’s Room.
Thankfully no photo for this.
After eating dinner at the Monterey’s Little Mexico in Alvin, we headed on up SR35 to Pearland and Billy’s Event Hall, a country-western venue that we’ve been to twice before, both times Tony Booth–related.
The music started right on time at 7:30 and the crowd hit the dance floor.
Tony gave us his usual great show and we had a chance to catch up with him during the break.
Strangely enough none of our Alvin Opry regulars were there, except for one we have not actually seen in years.
We first saw Miranda preforming at the Alvin Opry in the late 90’s when we first started going there. And she was great.
We told her we still remembered her at one of the Alvin Opry’s Legends shows. These were where the performers dressed up as their favorite stars and then sang their signature songs, mimicking them as closely as possible.
And some of them were dead on. One guy did a perfect job as Johnny Cash, and another one was a walking, talking, singing George Jones. After his “He Stopped Lovin’ Her Today”, you had tears in your eyes.
But one Legends show, Miranda brought down the house. The first set she came out as Tina Turner, complete with the gold fringe dress. She proceeded to strut the stage, belting out “Proud Mary” to the point that when she was done, the audience was stunned to the point that it was a few seconds before they burst into a standing ovation.
But believe it or not, she topped it all when she came out for the 2nd set as Dolly Parton!
She said she still sings at clubs, but mostly jazz now. That’s certainly country music’s loss.
Even nicer, she asked me for a dance.
Thought for the Day:
Whose cruel idea was it for the word ‘lisp’ to have ‘s’ in it?
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