Lately I have been noticing that we have a lot of camps here… seems since the first of June we have had some sports camp going and sometimes 3 or 4 at once every week… Big groups doing soccer, Basketball, Football, baseball, etc.… guess we are just getting more important or camps are a good way to get kids to campus for a visit…
I got up and hit the road today… literally I got out and put in my 2+ mile walk before it got hot… I noticed that in going to the gym, you miss a lot of what is happening around here… for instance they are building a new condo at Golden Oaks area… and before that they are tearing off the wall and roof of a house across form boulder creek? not sure why but looks like they intend to expand that house and attach to the pool house? or maybe just new roof?
Anyway got my walk, and then some breakfast and out to do some weed eating… it is now dry enough to do that… I also set a post for the NE corner of my planned 160 meter loop antenna. Will get the supports measured up and holes drilled next week when the concrete is strong enough to test that first part up… hope it works out ok… doesn’t have to hold much weight, but some lateral stress due to wire pulling and all but should be ok… need to get the NW corner figured out how to support it… ? With that done I got my self ready and went to town for lunch… while waiting for Sherrie I noticed a new Suburban driving on the sidewalk between the engineering buildings… they had to have driven by the library… when they got to my end they found that there were posts in the way and that they were not on a road, but the sidewalk but they had to turn around and drive back… thought at first it might be a university vehicle but wrong color and had a Texas tag on the front… so someone else was lost… ha! too slow to get a picture… but did get pictures of a whole big herd of kids… heading toward GIA arena… ? Like I said we sure have a lot of camps now and a lot of them are staying several days and spending that time in the old dorms…
This was the middle bunch… there was a bunch just this big already through and more to follow…
Not sure what the expression was here? The group was a bunch of guys (boys) but this? not real sure…
Some appeared to be a bit small? but why not… ?
After lunch I got home, picked up some coupons and a list and went to the local Walmart… always another adventure in that … today I wanted to pick up some fresh pork loin chops and veggies… and a few other needed things… my Daughter was here over the weekend and said we don’t have any food in the fridge… well yea… we are older and don’t eat that much and if I buy food like they have to and have the fridge full we would be throwing out more than we eat… although we do eat out a way too much but on the other hand we do not keep a lot of stuff anymore to go to waste either… but tonight I cooked the pork on the grill and we have some mushrooms and fresh corn from the Saturday Farmers Market… we will have some squash and ? maybe Wednesday night? we still have a free Dads Day Burrito from Qdoba to eat as well… We find that if we buy one thing and most restaurants we can split it and have plenty… like today we hit Slims Chicken for lunch and split the 7 piece tender meal and in reality we probably should of opted for the 5 piece… ? I was kind of stuffed all afternoon…
Just another great day, putting up with the humidity by staying in during the afternoon… in Walmart for most of it… I got there, picked up most of what I needed, and checked out the registers as I had more than 20 items (barely) so I picked one out… then noticed the one next only had one lady there so moved over… then found out that the checker on that isle was a bit slow ? humm to late to move back… ok, I am not in a big hurry… so I got all my stuff on the belt… the guy got all the stuff checked for the lady and she wanted to cash a check but it was made out to her husband and her ID didn’t match so that didn’t work … ok, she used her debit card, entered here codes and … poof… the damn register came up with “BUFFER OVERLOAD” I had not see that before… and the new checker couldn’t get it to clear… and the line foreman couldn’t and the service desk people couldn’t and finally the manager came over and asked if I would move to the next line and the checker would move over while they dealt with the problem… ok, So I got all my stuff back in the cart, moved to the next line and unloaded it all again and … guess what… the checker couldn’t open that register cause he was still locked into the other one… At the same time the lady that had bought the stuff in front of m me was explaining that she had already put in her card and paid and it was just waiting on her receipt but they couldn’t get that out and wanted here to re-check all the stuff… (“NOT DOING THAT… I ALREADY PAID”)… so the manager came over to my line, keyed the machine… typed in a bunch of codes and then it worked so the checker could run my stuff through… but when I got all mine done and paid the other machine was still showing buffer full… ?
I was just glad mine worked, I got done and out before the milk and meat spoiled…
WD0AJG