Monday Meanderings - 12.10.2012

Had a service technician come and check out our noisy refrigerator. He was a friendly sort of guy and I learned... That he grew up in Brownsville and lived 4 houses from the back fence of the Gladys Porter Zoo... He and his friends howled back at the howler monkeys... Where he worked before starting his own company... That he had been doing appliance repair for 38 years... That he was 50 years old and last year weighed 340 pounds... That he has had 2 heart attacks and his last medical checkup was last Thursday... That he was working in a house when an airplane crashed into the back yard... That he attended classes in San Antonio to get his A/C certification... And that my compressor was going out and he doesn't replace compressors anymore.

A touch of bursitis in the hip sent me back to physical therapy; it was somewhat beneficial but I had to give it up. I was never able to convince the therapists that getting down on the floor to do all these stretching exercises was creating more muscle aches than they were curing!

Went to the new DMV superstore with Barb to get her driver's license renewed. The days of waiting several hours to get served by surly clerks seems to be over; this place is set up to handle a really big crowd efficiently. We walked in the door and got rushed by several folks wanting to offer help and lead us through the process. Cool!

Watched the Army/Navy game on Saturday. Couldn't help but wonder why the Army didn't wear camouflage uniforms; might have helped them.

With the cooler weather we added a blanket to the bed coverings - a nice wintery motif, as you can see:

But if you look closely you might notice that one of the little snowmen has antennae; feathery little things:

But the really odd thing is this little dude, a penguin, I suppose, with his hat pulled over his head. Plotting a stick-up, perhaps. And what's with the dirty snow?

I mentioned last week that Fran, the owner, was busing tables at our favorite breakfast place. This week, there were several additional employees at work when we stopped in. Our waitress confirmed that Fran decided that they were understaffed at this location.

Happiness is a new shopping cart - at Walmart! Yes, I am doing the dance of shopping joy.