Moving On Down . . .
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I decided not to make the Clear Lake trip this morning for a couple of reasons. One, I just didn’t feel like it. And two, we were going to meet up with some friends at the Fish Pond Restaurant about 4, which would have meant that I would have had head back toward Conroe by 2pm, not leaving me a lot of time down there anyway.
And now it looks like I won’t have to worry about the long trips much longer, since, at the recommendation of some friends, we found an opening at the Petticoat Junction RV Park down in the Santa Fe area, and we’ll be moving down that way this coming Thursday.
This means that I will only have a 15 mile drive to work instead of a 70 mile one. Very Nice!
And a lot less wear and tear on the truck. It already has 266K+ miles on it, and another 83,000 miles being drug around the RV.
By the time 3pm rolled around, Jan decided she just didn’t feel like getting out and about, so I contacted Debi Hurlburt to let her know we weren’t going to make it.
Then about 5pm I drove over to Raising Cane’s in Conroe to pick up some dinner. We each got the 6 piece Caniac Combo, which will give us two meals each. Really good.
A number of you commented that you took advantage of the La Crosse Technology Weather Station sale I mentioned yesterday. Glad it worked out for you.
The Word of the Day is: Perlocutionary
Thought for the Day:
“Individuality is fine as long as we all do it together.” – Frank Burns, Maj., 4077th MASH , aka Ferret Face
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It’s not the cars, it’s the oysters!
Jan’s feeling a lot better today, and I’m pretty much back to normal. Or as normal as I get, anyway.
A while back, I mentioned UpTimeRobot, a free service that let’s you monitor up to 50 websites, checking every 5 minutes to see if your website or blog is up or down, sending you an email for any change.
If you need to monitor more sites (more than 50?), want UpTimeRobot to check every minute instead of every 5, or want to receive text messages as well as emails, it’s only about $5 a month.
Any way, about 1pm I got two UpTimeRobot alerts saying that both my Clear Lake client;’s websites had gone down, so I was immediately on the phone. Turns out that the phone guy was there, and had unplugged the wrong wire, taking the Internet down. And now he was scrambling to get everything back up.
But apparently he did, since while I was on the phone, I got emails telling me everything was now up and running again.
A great service, and it’s free.
While I’m mentioning good deals, I thought I’d pass along this email I received from La Crosse Technology, a well-known maker of weather monitoring and atomic clocks.
They’ve just announced a line of WiFi-enabled weather stations and are introducing them with large discounts.
For example:
A great deal at only $50 and the one I ordered.
And if you don’t want something quite as fancy, check out this one.
Only $25. Both this one and the one above are WiFi-enabled and connect with the National Weather Service to give the latest forecast in your area.
Or for just a plain-jane inside/outside temperature and humidity display, try this one.
At only $19.95, this one doesn’t connect to the Internet, but still show inside/outside temperature and humidity, atomic clock time and date.
Just click on the link(s) and enter the related Promo Code to get your discount.
And just to be clear, I don’t make anything from either UpTimeRobot or La Crosse. Just passing on a good deal.
I mentioned the other day how we were thinking about moving down to the Clear Lake area to cut down on my 450 miles per week drives down there. And as I had thought, it’s going to be hard to get a space. I’ve still got a number of places to check, but so far it’s not looking good. The one place that has responded put me on a list behind 15 other RV’s. But I’ll keep checking.
It’s not the cars, it’s the oysters!
According to a recent article in Scientific Reports, oyster farts are a major cause of global warming, producing “one-tenth of methane and nitrous oxide gases in the Baltic Sea as a result of digestion. Therefore, researchers have warned that shellfish “may play an important but overlooked role in regulating greenhouse gas productionâ€.
“Shellfish flatulence is not the first bodily function to be blamed for having an impact on the climate. EU lawmakers in 2015 decided to exempt enteric methane, mostly found in the burps of ruminant animals like cows, from caps on methane and ammonia.â€
It is nice to see someone acknowledge that methane is 20 times more potent and nitrous oxide is 300 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
So eat more oysters, and beef too, just to be safe.
The Word of the Day is: Efficacious
Thought for the Day:
“Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.†– What’s legal for the gods is not legal for mere cattle.
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