Our RV Adventures

After another day of pretty much all-day rain, things are getting pretty soggy around here. But not too soggy to keep Jan from going into work with me so she could get her toesies done, and then do some shopping, getting stuff for our trip.

And it looks to rain all weekend too. In fact our fav Gator’s Bar & Grill  was supposed to have their Grand Opening this weekend, but they’ve put it off until next weekend, assuming it’s not still raining, of course.

But we still plan on eating there for lunch tomorrow anyway.

But it’s forecast to slack off Monday morning when we’re supposed to head out of town. We hope.

For all you Murdoch Mysteries fans, Jan and I just finished up streaming the 11 episodes of this year’s aborted season 14, so we were very happy to hear that they’ve just started filming a super-size Season 15 with a whopping 24 episodes.

Really looking forward to that.

A Change of Plans:

After getting a lot of input, both direct and online, I’ve decided to make a detour around Memphis, or at least enough of a detour so we don’t have to go over the I-55 bridge to Arkansas.

Everything I’m finding says 2-1/2 to 3 hours to get across the bridge during the day. So based on some other recommendations I’ve plotted a route around Memphis and up US-51 until it intersects I-155 which takes us back over to I-55.

And it’s actually only about 24 miles further than the route across the bridge.

When it absolutely, positively has to there in 40 minutes.

The U.S. Space Force is talking to SpaceX about using their rockets to deliver important cargo anywhere in the world in less than an hour. Called Rocket Cargo, the program hopes to send 30 to 100 tons of supplies, and later, maybe, troops to a potential ‘hotspot’ on the other side of the planet in minutes. And if it’s too rough or dangerous to land, the the cargo would be air-dropped into the area.

And strangely enough, the government has been talking about doing something like this as far back as 1963 with this concept.

Nothing new under the sun, I guess.

Thought For The Day:

Jan and I left the rig this morning, just in time for the bottom to drop out in the rain department. It had been sprinkling for a while before we left, but by the time we got to FM517 the gutters were already filling up.

Our first stop was at Texas Huddle Grille once again, for Jan’s Mushroom Cheddar (not Swiss) Bacon Burger, and my, of course, PB&J Ghost Pepper Cheese Bacon Burger, both with the Wedge Fries.

As has happened before, by the time I got my PB&J Burger photo, Jan had already cut hers in half and taken a bite. So no photo of her burger.

I’ll have to photo hers first next time.

We were talking to Tyler, our regular waiter, about their various Wing Sauces. They have 17 ranging from Golden Mustard with no heat, all the way up to the hottest, Texas Heat. But the one that attracted my attention was the second hottest Flaming Raspberry.

I mentioned to Tyler I like a very hot, but sweet sauce, like Buffalo Wild Wings’ Mango Habanero. Turns out that Tyler used to work at BWW and said that he thought that Flaming Raspberry was hotter than Mango Habanero. And then he brought me a small cup of it to try.

He was wrong.

Flaming Raspberry was not nearly as hot as Mango Habanero. In fact Jan tasted it and agreed with me. So I don’t have a lot of faith in the hotness of their Texas Heat. But we’ll see next time.

Then it was on over to WalMart to pick one of my last prescriptions that I haven’t bothered to move over to Kroger’s since it only has 1 remaining refill on it. And although Kroger’s is cheaper, it’s only a couple of bucks cheaper. So not worth the hassle.

Then it was back over to Kroger’s to pick up a refill there. For $8.40

For a test I checked both GoodRx and their competitor, SingleCare.

Looking at GoodRx, I found the following:

WalMart      $26.23
CVS             $37.42
Walgreens  $36.48

And looking at SingleCare, I found this:

WalMart      $49.95
CVS             $57.93
Walgreens  $61.29

And as I said, Kroger’s was $8.40.

Besides the big difference with Kroger’s, which is why I joined their membership plan, note the big dollar difference between GoodRx and SingleCare, which I had noticed before. I compared the two back when SingleCare started being advertised and was surprised at how much more expensive they were.

But I guess since they’re paying Martin Sheen and sometimes Charlie Sheen, to be their spokesmen, they’ve got to make up the difference somehow.

When we were up in Webster today, I noticed I once again had 5G service on my phone, but when I ran SpeedTest.net, I found it really slow, less than 5 Mbps. Which is slower than the usual 10Mbps I get on 4G.

So as a test I tried to turn off 5G and see what I got, but found no way to do that on my phone. And a little Googling told me why. Verizon made Samsung take that feature out of the S21 series of phones. And it also confirmed that because of the way that Verizon is introducing 5G into some areas, running the 5G on top of 4G, it was often slower because of the extra overhead.

But it turns out that there was a app that I could download called ‘Samsung Band Selection’ that would allow me to turn off 5G. And when I did, my Mbps went up to almost 10 again. And when I turned 5G back on, everything slowed back down.

But, as they say, “They’re working on it.”

Thought For The Day:

Who knew that windmills can produce both Power AND Light?