Monthly Archives: January 2022
Scramblin’. . .
Jan and I were on our way up to the TGI Friday’s in Almeda area to meet up with some of our old Alvin Opry friends for lunch.
Bob and Maria, the couple at the far end of the table and on the right, had been our friends since the mid-80’s, and the others since the late 90’s. So long-time friends.
We try to get together every month, and we’re already scheduled for February.
Jan and I both got versions of the Classic Combo Platter, with wings, potato skins, and Mozzarella sticks. Plus I added a side of Pork Pot-Stickers.
And we both had about half to bring home.
While we were eating I got a call from our daughter Brandi asking if I had heard the news. When I asked, “What news?” She said that they had heard from our motel in Kingsland that they had lost their water heater, so they would be closed this weekend.
I guess they heard first since they had booked directly while we booked through Booking.com. So I called the motel myself to confirm and was told that if the part came in tomorrow, they would be open this weekend. But he said don’t count on it, and he would recommend I cancel.
So I thanked him for his honesty and used the Booking.com app on my phone to cancel our reservation. Normally I would have had to pay the entire fee, but since it wasn’t my fault, that was waived.
Then we started scramblin’ to find new bookings, and ended up at the Motel 6 in Marble Falls, a place we’ve stayed before.
So we’ll be on our way by about 8:30 tomorrow morning, heading for Marble Falls now, instead of Kingsland.
I mentioned in yesterday’s blog that Karma has never been a box cat, pretty much just ignoring them. But for the first time she at least got box-adjacent, laying on the open lid.
But maybe the problem was that she just never found the right box, until now.
When we looked around this evening, she had parked herself in the box itself and seemed very comfortable.
So it might be that she’s a box cat after all.
Thought For The Day:
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? – Princess Diana
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The Next Few Days . . .
We’ve got a busy next few days coming up.
Tomorrow we’re meeting some of our old Alvin Opry friends up at the TGI Friday’s near Almeda Mall.
Really looking forward to it.
Then Friday morning we’re heading up to Kingsland to join Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at Chris and Linda’s. And Piper and Derek will be joining us from over in Austin. Since we couldn’t all get together at Christmas since Linda and Piper had to work, this is our makeup get-together.
Coming home this afternoon, I stopped off at a UPS store to drop off a couple of Amazon returns. And they make it really easy now. Just hand them the items, not box or packing, let them scan the QR code Amazon gives you, they hand you a receipt, and you’re done.
And by the time I got home, they had credited my account with both returns.
Nice.
Several readers commented on Karma’s Box-Adjacent experience. And Chris Yust reminded us of all the times our late, very-lamented Mister tried to fit into various boxes.
“If it fits, I sits.”
“If I can’t sees you, you can’t sees me.”
Thought For The Day:
“An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.” – Tom Wolfe
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