Monthly Archives: June 2019
Waco Bound . . .
Today was mostly a non-IT day at work. The AC in the manager’s office died on Monday so I Amazoned one that got here this morning, so I spent some time getting the old window unit out and the new one installed.
The old one is supposedly about 10 years old, and although it and the new LG model are both 5000 BTU, the new one is much lighter.
I’ve just about given up trying to recover the database for the Tattoo website, so it looks like I’m just going to have to reenter the data by hand. If I do 5 pages of the catalog per day, it should only take a couple of weeks.
Then later I followed my client over to his home to jump off a dead battery in one of his VW’s. But it turns out that the problem wasn’t the battery, but the ignition switch was kind of intermittent in the start position.
After I got home, Jan and I drove over to Dickinson to the Enterprise Rental office to pick up our rental car. I had asked for another Impala, and not a Tucson like last time. So I was happy to see an Impala sitting in the lot.
Then it was back over to Los Ramirez Mexican Restaurant for dinner, before a quick WalMart stop and then home.
We plan on leaving for Waco about 9 tomorrow morning, meeting our friends at the Saltgrass Steakhouse there about 2pm.
Really looking forward to catching up with them.
Thought for the Day:
Patience: What you have when there are too many witnesses.
dgh
It’s Blasphemy . . .
It poured down all night, complete with a lot of thunder and lightning, some of it close enough that it shook the coach and woke us up.
And it continued on and off most of the day, but we only lost power for a few minutes a little after 4pm. The only real problem with this is that it reboots our DirecTV receiver, which takes about 20 minutes to initialize and come back up, just like when it’s first turned it on from scratch. And it seems like invariably it happens when you want to watch or record something coming up.
A while back I talked to DirecTV to see if there is anyway to bypass this, but was told No.
So I think I’m going to get a small UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) for the DirecTV receiver to keep it going during power outages, just like the bigger one I have for my desktop computer. I’ve found several in the $30-$40 range that will do the trick, keeping the receiver going for 15-20 minutes.
A little after 1pm Jan and I headed out in the rain for lunch and some shopping. Our first stop was at the Santa Fe O’Reilly’s to pick up the rear brake pads that I ordered the other day. While I was there, I also checked the price of new rotors in case I do need them. And I definitely won’t be buying them from them.
They will be very happy to sell me new rotors for $80 each, or $160 for the pair. But RockAuto.com will also be very happy to sell me the same Raybestos rotors for $23.79 each.
Yikes! That’s a big difference.
And even with the $17 FedEx shipping, that’s still about $16 less than the cost of 1 rotor from O’Reilly’s.
Next up was lunch at the Yummy Yummy Chinese Buffet over in Texas City. Just as delicious as usual.
In the past, we have used King Food’s Hot & Sour Soup to compare to all others around the country, and the others always fell short. But today Jan committed culinary blasphemy by saying that Yummy’s H&S is just as good, or maybe even better than King Food’s
Blasphemer!
We had planned to make a WalMart stop on the way home, but by then it was raining even harder so we decided to put it off until tomorrow after we pick up the rental car from Enterprise.
But we did make a quick storeroom stop to pick up the small carry-ons we took on our Europe trip to use for our Waco trek.
Wrapping up for today, Jan has kept a daily journal, not only for our RV traveling, but also our day-to-day lives when we’re parked.
And of course she kept one on our recent Europe trip, too.
It’s full of postcards, stickers, photos, and menus, as well a written log of each day.
And as you can see, it’s about 4” thick. And heavy too, at about 6#.
And it’s fun to to back though, recalling all the fun times.
Thought for the Day:
Sometimes I look at people and think, “Really? That’s the sperm that won?”
ghsfg
