Our RV Adventures

Being an off-day from work today, you’d think I could have goofed off some, but noooo.

As soon as I got into work yesterday, the office manager told me she was getting calls from customers saying that the website’s credit card checkout was no longer safe to use. Turns out our SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate had expired this past Saturday. News to me.

But it was news I should have gotten about a month ago, but my boss didn’t forward the renewal notice from Godaddy to me. But I was able to catch up by tracking down the replacement certificate and downloading it from Godaddy.

Bu then things came to a screeching halt as I spent the rest of the day trying to figure out where the previous (dead) IT guy had installed it. As I’ve mentioned before our website is hosted on an in-house Linux server, in this case running CentOS. But the certificate is not installed where it normally would be. And not any of the other places that it could possibly be either.

So I spent today here at doing a lot more research and making a couple of phone calls, trying to figure out what he had done. But no luck so far, but I’m back on it tomorrow.

Right now there is a notice on the website inviting customers to call in their orders.Hope this will hold things for a short while until I can get this fixed.

I did take a few minutes this afternoon to go outside to fix a broken spade connector on the driver-side turn signal on the rear of the truck. Recently I noticed that often the left turn signal would fast-flash and then work the next time. Checking it out while we were up Brandi’s, I found that there was a  cracked connector on one wire, but I didn’t have a replacement with me.

So it was just a couple of  minutes today to crimp on a new one.

For you Camp Verde/Cottonwood/Verde Valley devotees, there’s a new, large RV park coming to the area later this year. The 425 site, high-end park will be located just a mile or so north of the I-17/SR260 interchange at Camp Verde, between there and the Verde Valley Thousand Trails park.

Thought for the Day: 

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After letting Miss Kitty and Baxter out one last time, Jan and I headed out about 6pm, with a quick stop at the nearby HEB for gas. It’s still at $2.05, while gas down in our area jumped 6 cents last week, up to $2.19.

Out on the Westpark Tollway and then the Sam Houston Tollway on the way home, it was my first chance to see how my new LED headlights were working.

The answer is “Greatâ€!

The pure while light really lights up the roadway, much brighter, with a wide beam that gives me a better view of the roadsides. And although they lit up the roadway further out in front of me, they didn’t seem to be too bright for the on-coming vehicles since no one flashed their lights at me.

We got to Plucker’s down in Webster about 7:15 and found ourselves with a 25 minute wait to get a table.

Really didn’t expect them to be this busy this late on a Sunday night.

I started out with a side salad, but went a different direction with the dressing.

I asked for some of their Ginger Peach Sriracha, the same sauce that I get on my drums. Really good, and a perfect match for the salad. And I reallty like their quart Mason jar tea glasses.

Jan bumped up her salad a bit and got the Blue Cheese Chicken Cobb version, with the homemade Ranch.

In fact all their dressings, sauces, and dry rubs are made in-house, and are really great.

For our wings, we got 5 each, both with the Ginger Peach Sriracha sauce. As usual I got all drums with the Ranch dip and some extra sauce.

I don’t know what it is about weird flavors of things, but I think it may have started with the Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans from the Harry Potter books/movies. And when they say every flavor, they mean it. You know, flavors like earwax, liver, sardine, booger, and vomit.

But now the strange flavor concept has been extend to more common household items. Like these at Brandi’s –

Sage & Pepper Shampoo

or maybe this –

a ‘Naked, Butt’ candle.

Makes sense that Brandi’s never lit it.

I certainly wouldn’t.

The Headline of the Day:

Digital addiction is creating a generation of hunchbacks.

Well I guess it beats ringing a bell.

Thought for the Day:

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