TimesToCome

The few days in San Antonio were fun and it was great to see relatives, but it’s better to be home.

I’m still amazed at how third world the Houston power grid is.  As far as I’m concerned we can’t throw those responsible out of office fast enough.  It is inexcusable that the nation’s fourth largest city still has half its population with out power. It is unacceptable that other half went about a week with out power.  Heads need to roll for this.

If we stay in this house and do the upgrades we’ll be adding a natural gas generator.  Those gasoline ones are nasty.  Too much noise and too much smell and too much work hauling all that fuel, thanks but no thanks on that.

While in San Antonio I went shopping to replace ruined blue jeans and shoes.  It was more painful than usual. There was not a single pair of women’s jeans that were 100% cotton.  They had built in girdles and spandex for holding in the bulges. I refused to purchase any. I did find some at Land’s End online and ordered them.

Guy’s jeans however are all still 100% cotton.  If worse comes to worse, I can buy guy’s jeans and have the tailor to take in the waist.  Why do women put up with clothing manufacturers pushing crap?  Just say ‘no’ my money and I are going elsewhere.

It’s going to be a very busy few weeks, the garden still needs lots of work, I have many things scheduled to do and I really want to get the rest of the basic iPhone programming down.

After cleaning up the mess we bailed for parts unknown. All my jeans and sweats were covered in wet mud from the cleanup and electricity was no where in sight.

We drove about halfway to 290 before we found an open gas station with gas and a line only about a dozen cars long. People were filling up cans and cans of gasoline for generators. The place stank of gas and I hated being there. It felt like an explosion waiting to happen.

We drove for another hour before finding coffee and dug out a map and settled on San Antonio. There are very few hotel rooms open here. There are tons of refugees from the Houston area here.

About halfway here we had a phone call telling us electricity was coming back online in The Woodlands. Our home wasn’t in the first batch but it is possible we are on now, at least according to Entergy’s graphic heavy map. The marketing dept. must’ve designed it. Entergy has a map of outages for hurricane victims but it is so over loaded with crap you need a high speed internet connection to view it.

I tried to buy new jeans yesterday with no luck. Every pair we saw was either cut lower than my underwear line or padded with a girdle. WTF? Girdles in jeans? I think not.

San Antonio is wonderful and we’re getting a chance to visit with the cousin and her husband.