Our RV Adventures

I spent part of the morning on the phone with Godaddy again, trying to work out the problems with my PHP script that connects with my MySQL database.

Actually, I’m pretty sure the problem is not with my script  but with the info I’m getting from Godaddy, since I can’t even get the script to open the database. All that needs is the hostname, the username, and the password.

I know the username and password are correct because I set them on the database. And Godaddy tells me that the hostname is the server’s IP address and port number. And I know the script is actually executing, because it gives me the programmed error message saying it can’t connect right now.

So the only thing that makes sense is that the hostname info is incorrect. But I know the IP address and port are correct themselves, since that’s on the database page. So maybe the hostname is not the IP/Port name.

So it’s back on the phone with Godaddy tomorrow.

Jan and I often buy the King’s Hawaiian Buns to make slider-sized sandwiches, and King’s has come out with something new that bumps the taste up a notch.

It’s a jalapeno version of their regular ones, and they’re really good, and fairly hot. For lunch today Jan made us each a couple of Pimento Cheese sliders using the new buns, and with Jan’s great homemade Pimento Cheese, they really hit the spot.

A little before 5pm Jan and I headed right down the Interstate to meet up with Dick (not Ed) and Judy Mott for dinner at Mama Juanita’s Mexican Restaurant. They had their grandson Logan visiting them so he was there too.

We had invited our friend Randy Lazarine to come along with us, but he already had plans, so it was just us.

Dick and Judy had been here before, but this was our first time. Our friend’s Brett and Frankie O’Neal had also recommended the place, so with two great recommends, we knew it had to be good.

And it was.

Jan had the Combo Fajitas Gratinada and I had the Beef Fajitas Poblanas,

with Dick and Judy both having the Lemon Shrimp.

But even better than the food was the company and conversation. And as many times before, we were there over 3 hours, talking, laughing, and comparing stories.

We finally shut the party down a little after 8pm and headed home for the night. Hopefully we’ll be able to get together again before we leave for Colorado River on Sunday.

Tomorrow afternoon we’ll be driving down to our daughter Brandi’s in Katy to have dinner and pick up our packages, including the part needed to repair our Sharp Microwave, which Jan is really looking forward to.

Thought for the Day:

Don’t knock on death’s door. Hit the doorbell and run. He hates that.

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And no, that’s not misspelled.

I had planned to work on rebuilding my rig armrests today, but got rained out.

I wanted to work outside at the picnic table since I needed to drill holes in each piece, and then use spray-on adhesive to hold the surrounding foam rubber in place as I install the leather cover. It’s supposed to rain again tomorrow, so maybe later in the week it will work out.

Around 4pm Jan and I headed down to The Woodlands for a movie and dinner. The movie we wanted to see was Love and Friendship, a Jane Austen story.

Well, kind of.

Jane Austen did write a story called Love and Freindship when she was 14. And yes, that’s the way she spelled it. But the story that Jane Austen wrote, was not  the story that ended up in the movie called Love and Friendship.

That story, not published until 54 years after her death,  was originally called Lady Susan. But I guess the movie people didn’t think Lady Susan screamed out Jane Austen period piece, so they borrowed the title from Love and Friendship, spelling it correctly, and echoing her other novels like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. And then there’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Lady Susan Vernon is a recent widow, almost destitute, and now dependent on her husband’s well-to-do relatives, moving from one to another as she wears out her welcome.

Lady Susan is scheming to find both herself and her teenage daughter, Frederica, a rich husband.. The story swirls around the rumors of Lady Susan’s scandalous private life as she uses her charms and wit to seduce and beguiled her way though the cream of English society.

It seems like Susan’s plots are being stymied at every turn with Susan breaking up with her younger suitor, Reginald, and her daughter Frederica spurning her older, somewhat daffy suitor, Sir James.

But with the end of the movie, it all wraps up nicely, when you realized that this is all part of Susan’s cunning plan, with a happy ending for everyone involved. Well, almost.

One lady starts out unhappy, and stays that way throughout the movie.

Jan and I figured that the best way to describe the movie is that it has the manners and dresses of Downton Abbey and the backstabbing and morals of Desperate Housewives.

Check it out.

After the movie we drove right down the road to Torchy’s Tacos for dinner. Since we had popcorn at the movie, we only ordered one taco each, but couldn’t pass up an order of their Chips and Green Chile Queso.

Jan had her usual Brushfire Jamaican Jerked Chicken Taco, and I had my Jalapeno Sausage Taco. All delicious, as usual.

Leaving Torchy’s, I wanted to get gas and then we were going to stop at Krogers up in Conroe, but looking around we found both a Krogers and a Shell station right across the parking lot.

So that sped up our trip home, wrapping up a very nice day.

Thought for the Day:

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken

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