On the road again..........

Our repairman gets to us quickly, within the promised 45 minutes. He gets right to work, unfortunately its an inside tire and when it came apart, it wrapped itself around the axle. He does a great job, and within the hour, we are on our way again. Just in time to hit the peak of rush hour in Dallas. Rush hour and rain are not a good combination. We can't say adios to Dallas soon enough. The temperatures are a good 50 degrees cooler today, down from 90 to 39.

I haven't seen any “tent cities” in our travels yet, but we do see evidence of a lot of homeless living under the overpasses in TX. I don’t know where they go during the day, but you can see their belongings staked out, tucked up in the corners as high as they can go.

We stop at a rest area and spy a little roadside cafe advertising the best organic BBQ. Its been our experience that Texas has the best BBQ (outside of Famous Dave's)and usually these tiny, very unimpressive roadside stands are the best. We slough across the flooded parking lot in the pouring rain. I've chosen the smoked chicken sandwich (on grilled Texas toast, naturally) which Joe claims is much better than his certified organic angus mushroom swiss burger. The food and the hospitality are great, as the owner stops by our table to talk some 'que. No wonder I am gaining weight.

We had some fun last night playing some of the quiz games on Sporcle.com. My son, Dave, gave me the heads up on this site and now we are addicted. I highly recommend that visit their site and play one of their hundreds of trivia quizzes. Its amazing how many things you just know you know, but just cant think of the word!! I say “I can picture his (her) face, but I cant think of their name” a lot when I play. If you enjoy that site, there are also some fun quizzes at mentalfloss.com and msn.com has some good quizzes on their Encarta site as well.

I've been pondering something all day (we are after all in Texas and one does ponder here). I spotted a headline today about the space shuttle launch being postponed due to a fuel leak. Ummm, I have absolutely nothing against science, but where is our governments priorities??? Obviously where the sun doesn't shine.

We have, what, 754,000 homeless Americans and more every day, and we are worried about spending a "jillion" dollars.......sending up a space shuttle??!! Am I the only one that thinks there is something wrong with that picture? Are we going to find the answer to our current problems here on earth during a freakin' space walk???

And how about this headline from today as well, "Feds spending millions to preserve Kennedy legacy in Mass." Ohhh-Kaaaay. Shaking head slowly back and forth, I am literally speechless at that one, which is probably a pretty good thing at this point.

I think Mr. Buffett (the Jimmy one, natch') sums it up the best, "We need people that care! Im mad as hell! and I dont want to take it anymore!"

Welcome to Arkansas, its still pouring.