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For Another Year.

Jan and I were up early and out the door about 7:45am, heading for Friendswood about 70 miles south. Normally it’s about an hour and fifteen minute trip, but because we’re driving through downtown Houston during morning rush, and we wanted stop at the Flying J for gas, we allowed a little over two hours.

And needed most of it.

We got to our doctor’s office just a little early and thought we were on a roll when Jan got called in early. With my appointment set for 10:15, 15 minutes later, I thought we were on a roll.

So I’m not sure what happened, but I didn’t get called in until 11:40, more than 90 minutes later.

But after we were poked, prodded, stuck, and EKG’d, we got a clean bill of hill and are good to go for another year. We were out the door a little before 1pm, and on our way down to Dickinson to have lunch at one our favorites, Monterey’s Little Mexico, although any place would have been fine at that point, since we’d both been fasting since supper last night.

Finishing up our delicious Tortilla Soup and Fajita Beef Nachos, we headed over to League City around 2pm to take care of some stuff on our friend Barbara’s computer.

We’ve know Barb and Tom for years, and always try to get together whenever we can.

First, I set her up a Business Account on PayPal so she can take credit cards and online payments through them. It’s wasn’t hard to set up, but there are a lot of hoops to jump through and it can be kind of confusing sometimes.

One thing new from when I signed up for PayPal years ago is that they now deposit TWO small amounts in your bank account for you to identify, not just one as when I did it. And now they tell you they will take the amounts back in a few days, not just leave them as they did with me.

Next up was to get iTunes downloaded, installed and set up. We had moved her music over last time when I set up her new laptop, so then it was just a matter of letting the new ITunes find the old music, and we were done with that.

Then I got the DirecTV app configured on her laptop so she can stream movies and TV shows, just like on her big TV. Again, not hard, but confusing sometimes about what you can watch live, what you can stream, and what you can record.

By now it was after 4:30, and we did not want to fight the rush hour traffic back to Conroe at this hour, so Jan called our friend’s Bob and Maria to see if they might be available for dinner at kind of the last minute. And lucky for us. they were. So we made a date for 6:30 at the La Brisa on I-45 in League City.

Mexican twice in one day. Yah!

Wrapping up, I spent some time with Barbara going over some things that are different with Windows 10.

Finally getting our hugs and goodbyes from Barb and Tom, we headed over to La Brisa to get our hugs and hellos from Bob and Maria, another couple we’ve known a long time. In their case, since the mid-80’s when Bob and I were both into Commodore Amiga computers.

Normally I really like La Brisa, but tonight was a real disappointment, at least for me. I ordered the Combo Fajitas with Jalapeno Sausage. And what I got for $17.95 was this.

In the photo everything looks much larger, but each of those fajita strips is only a little over 3 inches long, which make the sausage even smaller. The meat was lukewarm, and so was the iron platter, no sizzling here. I don’t even think the meat and onions were grilled together, since the meats had very little flavor.

In contrast here’s whet I got at El Bosque in Conroe,

Beef, Chicken and Shrimp on a sizzling platter for $13.99

And again at El Bosque,

beef and chicken for $12.99. Look at those big chunks of beef.

And even at the Jalapeno Tree up in Carthage when we were gate guarding.

That’s beef and chicken fajitas covered in cheese for $11.99.

I probably wouldn’t have been upset if the price had been $12 or $13, but not for $18.

But as bad as I though the food was, the company and the conversation really made up for it. We had a great time, talking new times and old times, and the time just flew.

But we finally said goodbye and were on the way back to Conroe by 8:30, getting here a little before 10pm, racking up another long, fun day, filled with good news, good friends and good times.

Just what RV’ing is all about.

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.†– Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

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Well, Jan’s Facebook account is still dead in the water, but at least they finally responded to my emails. At their request I sent them three pieces of ID for Jan, so hopefully we’ll hear back soon.

Some Facebook friends have said they can still see the bogus Janice White account, with Jan’s photo, while others can’t see it at all. And of course I still find it strange that Facebook disabled the real account and left the fake one active.

Jan joined me in being under the weather today, so we never left the coach, except when I walked next door to tell Brett and Frankie we weren’t up to dinner tonight, but hopefully tomorrow.

Although we never got the promised heavy rains, we did have a lot of wind all day, enough to keep the awnings thrumming most of the time. With the front coming through, our night time temps are back down in the 30’s and 40’s rather than the recent 50’s and 60’s, so that’ll be nice for a change, and the bedroom AC won’t be running during the night.

I didn’t really get anything down on the drain pump problem today, at least not physically. But I did try to work out how I’m going to mount the new pump. So far I’m going to bolt some bar stock across the bottom frame and then either use heavy tie-wraps or stainless steel clamps to mount it.

Tomorrow if we have time after our doctor appointments down in Clear Lake, I’ll stop off at a Home Depot or Lowe’s to also look for some way to adapt the hoses. I should be able to find some combination of  adapters and hoses that will allow me to hook up the new pump. Somehow I’ll make it work.

But one way or other, fixed or not, I have to get the washer back in its cubbyhole before we travel back to Columbus on Sunday. Otherwise I’m not sure if the slide will come all the way in. And I know we won’t be able to get back to the bathroom. I’m pretty sure I can get it working before then, but you never know.

Karma is a growing young girl. She’s really gotten bigger since she came to live us, and it’s only been three weeks.

She’s already bigger and heavier than Emma, our other cat that died in 2013. I don’t expect her to approach Mister size, but you never know.

She does like to spend time on the dashboard looking at the world, but she’s still shown no real interest in going outside. She’ll sometimes peek around the chair when the door is open, but that’s about it.

So far she’s turning out to be a really good kitty.

Tomorrow morning we’ll head out about 8 for our 10am doctor appointments down in Friendswood. Then after lunch, I got another get-together with a client.

So another busy day.

Thought for the Day:

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.†– Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

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