Our RV Adventures

Well, no new Gate call today, so to guarantee one for tomorrow we’ve scheduled a day trip into San Antonio once again.

So if I don’t hear from Todd tomorrow morning, we’ll head out about 11am with a first stop at the Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club in the City Base area. Then it’s on to see Passengers at the Alamo Quarry theater. Then to top off the night we’ll meet up with Jim and Peri Dean at our other favorite San Antonio eatery, La Fonda on Main.

Of course scheduling this much fun is almost sure to attract a new gate job. So we’ll have to see how it goes.

Next up, I want to thank everyone for their kind words of encouragement on my blog topics. It’s always helps to know that there’s somebody out there on the other end of the Internet who appreciates my efforts. Thanks again.

As I mentioned I’m working on a couple of other articles, one on Global Warming, and another on the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact(NPVIC).

This is an agreement between states that they will give their Electoral Votes to whoever wins the Popular Vote. So far 10 states plus D.C. have signed up. The compact will only become active when enough states with enough Electoral Votes join to guarantee the result.

There are various ideas on the legality of the whole thing due to the fact that Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution states that: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power.”

And actually the last time a group of States made a compact, it led to what we call in the south, ‘The War of Northern Aggression’. You Yankees call it the Civil War.

So there is that. 

See I Told You So. Regular readers know about my (and Jan too, to a lesser degree) love of hot stuff. Hot wings, hot Mexican food, BBQ, pretty much anything. And I’ve seen articles in the past about the possible health benefits. And now here’s another one.

Chilies could help beat cancer as research finds capsaicin destroys diseased cells

Though in this one, they think you won’t get the full benefit from eating the capsaicin, but that it must be part of a drug treatment. But other articles say different.

Of course it may just be Big Pharma trying to keep me away from the hot wings so they can sell me something expensive.

Thought for the Day:

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

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Well, Texas’ weird winter weather is on a roll again. Yesterday and today were in the 80’s, but in the 40’s at night. Then for the next few days, it’s high 50’s/low 60’s with 30’s and 40’s at night.

Jan wanted to get some groceries today so we combined it with Fried Chicken/Roast Beef day at Barth’s before ending up at HEB and then home. The HEB is really nice here and closer than the Wal-Mart, so we go there a lot if all we need is groceries.

Tonight looks to be my last night at this gate . . . for now. But it seems like I keep getting rotated through the same ones over and over. But I would be perfectly happy to not come back to this gate, or the last one either, because of all the Internet/Phone problems.

So hopefully I’ll have a new gate in the next day or so.

I mentioned in last night’s blog that the Internet had gone down about 8pm and was still down at 11pm. Well at midnight it all came back on like someone had flipped a switch. Which I figure is what happened.

Then tonight everything was great until about 7pm when it died, only to come back on at 8pm.

And on the subject of the Internet I recently had a comment from a new blog reader, or at least a new commenter (I have to approve all first time comments) complaining that my blog about Internet service was boring, and I should be blogging more about RV’ing.

Here’s how I replied.

Sorry to disappoint.

We’ve been full-timing for 9 years and blogging about it for 8.

Our blog is not necessarily an ‘RV’ blog, but ‘our adventures’ as we RV. And I can tell you from experience that cell phone service, Wi-Fi service, and Internet service are prime topics as we all move around the country. In fact over the years I written whole blogs on the problems and solutions to getting Internet service in a particular area.

And of course without Internet service, this blog wouldn’t exist.

And of course right now we’re not RV’ing as such, but Oil Field Gate Guarding in south Texas about 60 miles south of San Antonio. This is something a lot of RV’ers do, and a lot of other RV’ers are interested in. In fact my wife and I give very popular seminars at the Escapee’s Escapade RV rallies on the subject.

I also write a lot about repairing things around the rig, also very popular with our readers. I’ve written blogs about repairing washing machines, toilets, rooftop AC’s, and much more.

But the main thing I can tell you is that after doing almost 3000 blogs, what I write about has to interest me. It’s not always easy coming up with 500-1000 words a day, believe me. That’s why you see so many ‘abandoned’ blogs around. They go gung-ho for about a month and then it peters out.

To keep my interest, I write on a lot of different subjects. If you check under Greg’s Musings on the top right menu strip you will find a number of well-received articles on the Election, the Electoral College, the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, and losing our past through Political Correctness. Right now I’m working on another article on Global Cooling-Global Warming-Climate Change.

Hopefully we’ll manage to come up with enough stuff to keep you reading the blog. Keep in touch and feel free to post any more comments you have.

That’s why you see so many varied topics here. Otherwise I’d get bored. And that’s also the reason I started doing the articles for the Greg’s Musings area.

And on that subject, thanks for all the kind words about yesterday’s screed on Simple But Not Easy Solutions to the immigration problem. I’ll try to get it posted as a separate article in Greg’s Musings in the next day or so.

A large part of the problem with the immigration problem is that a lot of people, especially in our government and industry, don’t see it as a problem at all, just as cheap labor.

And those who question the influx of this ‘cheap labor’ are called ‘anti-immigration’ and even racists.

Personally I have no problem with immigration, that is ‘legal, controlled immigration.’ My grandmother, my father’s mother, was born in England and around the turn of the century  immigrated first to Canada and then to the US where my father was born in 1909.

Meet Baxter.

Baxter is a new addition to the Morrison household, and a new little brother to both Landon and Kitty, their 125# Black Lab.

Landon and Kitty have been together since Landon was born, and although Kitty is very protective of Landon, they still scuffle over toys and stuff like siblings

Looks like he’s fitting right in with the family,

even to Baxter and Landon napping together on the dog bed.

Thought for the Day:

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” – Richard Feynman

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