Our RV Adventures

I  thought that I had the website working this morning, but then discovered a problem when I turned on the SSL certificate. But I was able to get than fixed in just a few minutes after I got to the office.

And within about an hour we had orders coming in. You can take a look here.

Texas Electrolysis Supply

About 11am I got a call from Mike’s Auto Repair with some good news. The problem with our Dodge Dakota was, as I had hoped, just a cracked water pump, and not something more serious, like a cracked block.

And the even better news was that the cost would only be $280, and it would be ready this afternoon. I was very happy with this since the last time I had the water pump replace, in 2013 while we were gate guarding, it was almost $500.

And as soon as I heard back from them around 3pm, I put in a call to Enterprise letting them know that I would be bringing our Tucson back this afternoon.

The only regret about this is that I just filled it up yesterday, thinking I’d probably have until at least the weekend, especially since it was at about 1/8 tank when I picked it up. But unfortunately they don’t give rebates on the  gas in the tank.

Jan was ready to go when I got home at 4, so we drove over to Mike’s to pick up the truck. It runs nice and cool, but kind of rough. But I expected this since when the battery died while we were gone on vacation, it clears the engine computer settings. However,after I drive it for a few days, it should recalibrate and settle down.

I say, should. We’ll see. But at least it’s back home and working.

With me driving the truck and Jan following in the Tucson, our next stop was right down the road at the Red Dirt & Blue Jeans Café.

A pretty unassuming location in s small strip center, it’s gotten really good reviews so we thought we give it a try. ]

Like Boudin Barn it’s really small with only 4 tables, but they apparently do a lot of take out.

Jan and I both started out with a cup of really good Tomato Basil soup,

then Jan got the King Ranch Chicken, with Green Beans and Squash Casserole,

while I got the Andouille Sausage with Red Beans and Rice, with the same sides.

Both delicious, though Jan says that her King Ranch Chicken was a little better, since she uses corn tortillas, and Red Dirt uses flour.

One of the things that the reviews raved about was their homemade pies, especially the Triple Chocolate Meringue Pie, so we shared a piece.

With our forks dueling over the last little piece, I think we both regretted the fact that we were sharing. It was that good.

Really, really good, and we’ll go back.

Then it was on over to Dickinson to drop off our rent car, and then back home.]

Tomorrow Jan and I both have dermatologist’s appointments, mine in the morning for a checkup on my Devil’s Easy Bake Oven treatment

for the pre-pre-cancerous lesions on my bald head. And Jan’s in the afternoon.

Which leaves Saturday for me to install the new brake pads on the truck before we drive up to Katy to meet up with Brandi, Lowell, and Landon on Sunday.

Thought for the Day:

A friend I hadn’t seen in a while asked if i missed him.

“I sure did” I replied, and continued “I won’t next time. I have a newer, better scope and I have that thing dialed in dead on”

Yikes!

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I spent the morning putting the finishing touches on the new website. Once I have it working I have to move onto the domain where it will reside. Then I have to go in and redirect everything to the new URL.

Finally, I’ll install the SSL certificate onto the domain name so the credit card usage will be secure. Hopefully I’ll be able to wrap everything wrap before I go to bed tonight, though it might not all be working until the DNS stuff gets upgraded.

I mentioned yesterday that I was having trouble with the shopping cart problem sending out the order emails. Turns out it wasn’t the program but Gmail. Because I was doing so much testing with a lot of the emails coming in, Gmail decided that they were SPAM and was sending them straight to the Trash. But a filter fixed that.

So I’m on the home stretch, I guess.

Around 1pm, Jan and I headed out for lunch, but also to drop our truck off at Mike’s Auto Repair. Since it was only about 3 miles I was hoping that I would be able to get there without it overheating. So I topped off the radiator, filled up 4 gallon jugs with water just in case, and headed out with Jan following me in the Tucson. I did leave the radiator cap off so that the radiator wouldn’t pressurize and force the coolant out quicker. And it worked, since the engine temp had only come up the normal range by the time I got there.

After dropping it off, Jan and I drove over to Texas City to have lunch at Yummy Yummy Chinese Buffet, and I was even more impressed than last time.

Not only are they cheaper than East Star up in Webster, but they have stuff on their lunch menu that East Star only has on their more expensive dinner/weekend menu.

And everything is hot and fresh because they have a lady wearing a headset walking up and down the aisles, and when she sees something that needs replacing, she requests if from the kitchen and then a couple of minutes later another girl comes out pushing a cart with the food on it.

Neat.

Coming home we stopped off at the Super/Cuts next to the WalMart so Jan could get her hair cut. So I took the opportunity to duck over to the nearby WalMart/Murphy station to fill up . . . at $1.96 this time. It get’s cheaper every time.

Nice!

Tomorrow hopefully I’ll have everything back online and I can move on to other problems.

Thought for the Day: 

“No problem is too big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from!” – Charlie Brown

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