A tail of two glasses

I typically wear glasses in only two situations.

1. At work after about 40 hours (this usually occurs by Friday at Big Time Consulting, LLP).

2. Driving long distances at night or towards the sun.

When I wear my glasses in these situations, I find I have left them in the car or at home and do not have them for work. Or they are sitting on my desk when I want them in the car. My prescription and need is not strong enough to have them with me all the time. Usually, I throw my most recent pair in my laptop bag and regulate the old pair to the car.

I actually went all of last year without wearing glasses. They were uncomfortable. It turns out my eyes had gotten stronger and my prescription is now weaker. Time for new glasses! But that also means, I cannot just dump the old pair in the car. And insurance only pairs for frames and lenses every two years.

Enter Zenni Optical. Instead of dropping $150-200 a pair, a decent pair of glasses can be ordered online for $18 after shipping.

So I bought a "real" pair of glasses from the local walli-world eye-mart ($148 for discount frames) and a nerd pair for the car from Zenni.

Walgreens sells socks

OK, I forgot to wear socks to work!

I began Friday morning letting the doc take some of my blood. He likes to keep tabs on my thyroid, you know. Anyway, I knew I was swinging back by my apartment before finally heading to work, so why wear real shoes...

It wasn't until I hit woodall rogers that I realized I was still wearing sandals. Luckily, I have a fear of loosing digits and I always insist on closed-toed sandals. With socks, my feet looked professional enough for casual Friday.

Cub scouts at football

Scout night at SMU Football! We spent Halftime and most of both the 2nd &3rd quarters in line for pizza and pretzels.

By the 4th quarter a pokemon game had broken out.

7 minutes to go. 27 27 tie game and I don't think the boys remember there is a game....

UPDATE:

Tulane wins. The tie was up to 34 with just a few seconds left. The crowd was in the game and the boys were watching now. Tulane scored in their overtime procession and then recovered a SMU fumble to end the game. Dad, who had been relatively quiet stood up and cheered... clapping for the crowd. He could hold in his Tulane support no more.

We listened to LSU on the way home... I checked the score via-Treo from the stadium and LSU was behind. By the time we found the game on Sirius, LSU was ahead. And then they were behind and then they went ahead again with one second left.

While we were looking for the game, we tuned n WWL AM and thought we had the wrong station, until we realized we were listening to the Jindal acceptance speech.

All in all, I think it was pretty good night for Louisiana.

Finger...

my false severed finger is looking nasty.
the yellow-orange goop that looked like a urine sample to begin with is turning darker
and the finger keeps rising to the top.

REDBOX

I have been shopping at Redbox [www.redbox.com].  (Don't get confused.  My fiancee should not get excited and expect something from Red Envelope [www.redenvelope.com] which is an entirely different website)

 

Redbox is that big DVD-dispensing machine that is starting to show up in grocery stores (and supposedly McDonald's).  Push buttons on the touchscreen, see what's inside and rent a movie for a dollar a night.  Considering that the local video store no longer had dollar rentals but instead wants to give me 5-night rentals for $2.50 or something, Redbox is cheaper.  Not cheaper by night, but cheaper by use... assuming I return the movie in the morning.

 

The selection is limited by machine and location.  Customers can return a movie to ANY Redbox machine.  So some locations may be short on titles while other locations may have extra titles.  But by running out to the Redbox.com website, I can browse the selection by location and even reserve the movie, to be picked up later.

 

This really isn't all that exciting.  But I come from a town that got excited when they built that no-attendant/pay-at-the-pump Shell station.

It is Texas State Fair time and my baby wants fried food for her birthday! Normally, I'll take in the Fair with the kiddos on whichever day the school district designates. But this year their mom took them. Dang, last year the kids and I won a DVD player at the Mutual of Omaha exhibit.

This year, I just met Katrina after work and we used Dr. Pepper cans to knock the price of our tickets down to $3 ea. We saw the pig races and joined the nighttime parade. We ate our fair share (pun intended) of fried goodness and wandered the midway. I think this is the first time she had ever tried boudin. We will have to acquire some more this Thanksgiving. Fried Boudin Balls at the fair in Dallas; who knew?

Oh yeah, the hats were free from the GM tent.

Happy Day

On Thursday, 'Trina and I went to celebrate my birthday at the MasterGrill Churrascaria at Firewheel Mall in Garland. She had never eaten at one of these Brazilian type restaurants before, so it was a treat. The Picanha with Garlic was our favorite. But the salmon from the salad bar was also especially tasty. And I did not die when cajoled into trying the grilled pineapple.

This was a nice little place. Not as swell feeling as Texas de Brazil on Cedar. I always had the feeling that Garland and the mall were just a few yards behind me. But it was tasteful and tasty all the same. The value reminded me of the first of these places I even visited, Rodizio in the Salt Lake City Trolley Barn.

I must say, even though it was 5 year's ago, Rodizio was the best. But I'd gladly go back to MasterGrill on another special occasion. I'd even take the kids if Lainey weren't working on the vegetarian thing and Paul wouldn't ask if they had one of those skewers with a PB&J on it. I wonder if Lainey remembers going to the churrascaria in San Antonio?

Yumm indeed

Halloween trees

Kids wanted to look at Halloween stuff today.
After we found our way past the Christmas trees,
I think we found a New Zoo Hat
and the perfect costume for Paul...