my normally calm little bayou (which is directly behind my apartment and comprises a big part of the nice view from my balcony) is becoming a rushing river in all this rain. yesterday on our way downtown, my car had to slog through 6 inches of water on the feeder road. poor little sentra. it’s been raining pretty much constantly for the past week now, the only exceptions i can remember being sunday and wednesday afternoons. i’m ready for it to quit already, but it looks like there is no end in sight. more thunderstorms are predicted until tuesday.
the houston airshow is this weekend; we saw an f-14 landing last night as we drove past ellington. i haven’t been since 1997 (the last time i was in houston in october), and was looking forward to going this weekend, but i think the rain will put a damper on things. i suppose all the static displays will be out, but i don’t know how much flying they’ll do in the rain. i really wanted to see the thunderbirds.
rich came into my office yesterday afternoon to inform us that there’s another hurricane headed towards houston…the catch being that it is currently in the pacific and will cross all of mexico before it reaches us. 😉 the west coast of mexico is in trouble though; it’s a category 5 storm headed smack for them. and it’s quick-moving. the eye is supposed to be over houston at 11:00 tomorrow morning. more rain.
so we went to the cheesecake factory last night and it was yummy as usual. i got chocolate tuxedo cream cheesecake, the only cheesecake that edgar has ever ranked a 5 on his cheesecake ranking scale. he has a list of all the cheesecakes he has tried in his palm pilot, and tries a new one each time and ranks it. now most people would think that’s dorky, but i think it’s awesome. anyway. chocolate tuxedo cream was very good.
phil and jason are supposed to teach me how to change my car’s oil filter this weekend. i hope they actually meant it when they said they’d do it. it would be quite a useful skill to have. and my car desperately needs an oil change.
i finally got my papasan chair yesterday after work. 🙂 i bought it for $25 on the swap shop (a jsc webpage for employees to sell their crap) and had arranged to meet the guy at 5:00 at the wendy’s. well, it was raining really hard, and he didn’t think it would fit in my car. i maintain that it would have fit, but i didn’t argue with him, especially because he volunteered to just drive to my apartment and drop it off. and that was easier than transferring it to my car in the rain! so he brought it over, and i carried it in when i got back from the restaurant last night and it wasn’t downpouring. it’s great! the cushion is white, and stained on one side (though he did wash it for me; it smelled of laundry detergent), but the other side is ok, and i covered it with a blanket anyway. i may buy a new cushion sometime, but no rush.
when he dropped it off, he said “wow, this apartment complex is really nice!” hee hee. i love my palmas.
that’s all she wrote.