Monday Meandering - 11.2.2015

Well, the big news hereabouts is that it's flooding down in Texas. Again. Not sure what it is about Central Texas and Holiday flooding. This is 2 Halloweens in a row, and any Memorial Day seems to bring a deluge.

We normally avoid bad weather by staying home and battening down the hatches, but as luck would have it, we really needed to be down in the UT area Friday morning during the worst of the hard rain. We got home safely, but there were a few scary moments.

I was sitting in the CVS parking lot the other day, checking my phone while waiting on Barb to run in and pick up a prescription. Every few minutes, a Capitol Metro login screen would pop on on my phone screen, courtesy of the free WiFi on city buses that would pass up and down the street. I guess if I ever needed free WiFi, I could hang out at a bus stop. Intermittently.

I noticed that Blue Bell has a plan for ice cream lovers that are not able to get their product yet. They will ship it to your door overnight! Four half gallons, packed in dry ice and delivered, for a paltry $130! To those family members that enjoyed the Blue Bell we brought to the Lake on Labor day - - the bill is in the mail!

Abby Wambach has announced her retirement from soccer and the U. S. Women's National Team. I wrote about Abby and the team here, in a post that I regard as one of my best. Not counting the final 2 Victory Tour matches yet to come, Abby has scored 184 goals in 252 matches for the U.S. women's team -- more than any other male or female player in history. She will call time on her 15-year career after December's meeting between the USWNT and China.

Who doesn't like free food? Especially really good free food. We enjoy dining at Pappadeaux and do so regularly. The other day we had ordered our meal and after a longer-than-usual wait, the manager came by to apologize and say that our meal had been prepared - but suffered a mishap in the kitchen and she was pretty sure we would not want it after they scraped it up off the floor! She assured us that our food was being freshly prepared and would be right out, compliments of the Chef!

And to all of you whose internal clock is as messed up as mine, have a good week!