Monday Meanderings - 3.28.2016

Well, it's official. More people are moving to the ATX metro area every day than to anywhere else. Anywhere. We passed the 2 million mark sometime last summer but it has taken this long to count everyone. I guess they had to wait until no one was moving - WHICH HAPPENS EVERY RUSH HOUR! Duh!

What's more, another recent analysis shows the Austin-San Antonio region along the I-35 corridor, is rapidly becoming the next Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. I suggest we call it ASA. You heard it here first, folks.

Barb and I came to the conclusion this weekend that checkers at the registers in places like the market and Walmart must lead very lonely lives. We base that on the long, long conversations we experienced at both venues. In fact at Walmart, the checker spent so much time talking to the customer in line before us, that the customer, after she finally freed herself from an interminable, one-way conversation, turned to us and mouthed, "Sorry."

Burger King has been running saturation TV ads for their new flame-grilled hotdogs. Don't think that's working out well for them - at least not at the store on Lamar, closest to us.

Some local restaurants are doing away with the pagers issued for notification that your table is ready. Now they just ask for your mobile phone number and text you when it's your turn. Just don't get the number wrong; you might be in for a long wait.

Yes, we still have the blanket on the bed, and we may keep it there a while. Our A/C-heater is very confused about whose turn it is to run. We went ahead and moved the plants outside last week, and several times since we have looked out to see them lined up at the door, begging to come back inside. Pathetic.