Monthly Archives: July 2021
‘Catch’ing Up . . .
Jan and I headed up the Almeda area to have lunch at The Catch. Our friends, the Hurlburt’s, introduced us to the one up in Conroe last Saturday and we really liked it. So we were happy to find out there was a new one just up the road right off I-45 and Almeda-Genoa.
Blackened Catfish and Shrimp with Green Beans and Hushpuppies. Just as delicious as Conroe, and a lot closer.
Next up was stop at the office to pick up some Amazon stuff that had come in, and take care of some PayPal invoices that needed to be sent out. Then it was on the the WalMart and the HEB down in our area before finally getting home around 4pm.
Want to get out of work or class? All you need is a fake cough and some OJ.
Apparently kids in the U.K. have discovered that using OJ, or other fruit juices, or even Coke, you can fake a positive CoVid test.
Better than when I was a kid, I guess, when all I could do was hold the thermometer over a light bulb. Of course, my mother usually didn’t believe that I had a temperature of 140°.
A few days ago I mentioned that one of our favorite Alvin Opry singers, who we’ve known since the late 90’s, was killed along with her father in a traffic accident while vacationing in Germany.
Father and daughter, both Houston-area educators, killed on ‘trip of lifetime’ in Germany
Finally a local station has a little further information on the story, along with a link to a GoFundMe account.
Leighan, a school teacher, leaves behind a husband and six children. And according to the article, it’s going to take weeks to get them and their belongings back home. The GoFundMe account is up to a little over $18,000 out of the hoped-for $40,000.
Jan and I have contributed, so if you have a few spare bucks, I’m sure it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Finally it appears that a new sequel to Ghostbusters is coming out this November. Delayed a year due to the WuFlu, it ignores the disastrous 2016 reboot and Ghostbusters: Afterlife picks up 35 years later in the present day.
The original Ghostbusters team, and what happened in New York in 1984, are almost completely forgotten and faded away. But it seems that Egon’s grandchildren discover the original ECTO-1 hidden in an old barn just in time to battle supernatural occurences.
There have been a couple of trailers released that really look good, and it looks like a number of old faces, and ghosts, will be back.
Check ‘em out.
I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghost.
Thought For The Day:
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” – Richard Feynman
Planning Our Next-Next Trip . . .
Well, I got our front AC back up and running this afternoon. And it didn’t cost me anything.
This was the Culprit
This is what remains of the wire nut that connecting the black power wire coming from the circuit breaker to Power In on the AC Control Box. The joint apparently got hot enough to melt the wire nut and allow the bare joint to contact the uninsulated ground wire inside the Romex cable that feeds from the breaker box and short everything out.
At first I thought the problem was that the AC was pulling too much current, enough to overheat the connection. But when I hooked things back up temporarily and used my clamp-on ammeter I found the unit pulling the standard ~ 14 amps.
So when I hooked up the new Control Box back in March, either the wire nut I used was defective, or I just didn’t get a good joint when I put it together.
So when I put all back together, I first coated the joints with dielectric grease and used different wire nuts. So we’ll see how it does this time.
While we’re planning our next trip, Christmas time in Branson, MO, we’re also talking about our next-next trip, this time back to Alaska. But not a cruise this time.
We’ve had two Holland America cruises canceled out from underneath us, one in September of 2020 and its replacement, one in May 2021. So this time we’re just going to do it on our own. And no, we’re not RVing up there, we already did that it 2008,
We’re just going to fly up to Fairbanks, probably next May, and spend a couple of weeks just wandering around. We were already planning to kind of do this anyway, combined with our cruise(s). Since our cruise(s) both started from Fairbanks, we were going to fly up a week early and do our own thing for the first week. So now we’ll just do it for both weeks.
Around 10am this morning I ordered something on Amazon and this came up.
First time I’ve seen this. And I thought Next Day was fast.
It’s Always Pool Time at the Morrison’s.
Looking forward to our next visit.
Thought For The Day:
So this why masks don’t really seem to work?
Too Much Looking At Each Other?
Who Knew?
