Imagine a Sears, a Best Buy, and an Ikea got together and adopted the baby of two Boeing 747 assembly plants.
Welcome to Nebraska Furniture Mart.
Bevin is so excited by EVERYTHING. She may have a stroke.
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Obligatory airplane picture, again!
It’s basically the same as last week’s picture, except we’re one row further back, and Bev’s wearing a different shirt.
To be fair, I didn’t check the tail number, might be a different plane. But this flight just goes back and forth, so maybe not.
Going to be another whirlwind week of adventure! For now though, either audio book and game on tablet, or listening to music and reading, how to decide?
(Bev says I should’ve brought my knitting project so I wasn’t faced with such decisions. Like I need more stuff to carry.)
On the plane and headed back home.
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Good thing we checked in exactly on the 24 Hour early mark, 5 unlucky customers are getting booted to another flight as ASA 655 here is “oversold”. (weasel words if there ever were any!)
Homeward we go, a week back in PDX, then a week here, then two weeks back home, and then this becomes home!
Well that feels like home
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Texas… Waffle?
I’ve heard of Texas Toast, but this is a new development.
But wait, there’s more!
Bevin, as usual, is indecisive about her toppings.
Dangit, why’d we have to be in the syrup swamp? I could stand to adventure across the great Nutella plains and strawberry mountains.
Pretty sure there’s a movie idea in here.
The adventure continues
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Tomorrow is going to be a big day. Updates to follow, but for now, sleep.
Check out these dirty balls!
“Dirty Balls” appetizer was amazing, rice cheese grits and something else…
Catfish and shrimp time!
This seems Texas enough.
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Brisket tacos for me, and Tamale cakes with brisket for Bev. And smoked meatballs.
I’m gonna need to spend all night in the gym!
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Claiming to understand why the freeways around here are built the way they are is surely a sign of madness.
Nobody *seems* to be in a panic…
I just got my first “Tornado Alert – Take Shelter” alert. That brings today’s total to Severe Thunderstorm, Flash Flood, AND Tornado! Did I collect the full set in my first week?
It is, in fact, raining QUITE hard now, and that thunder sounds cool. Really big thunder. And visibility just dropped from infinite to about 400 meters, in no time at all.
Nobody in this Starbucks seems worried, so I’m gonna just stick with the herd. Some guys on the covered porch outside actually came in, but I think it was because they couldn’t hear each other over the rain. I guess this is normal now. 🙂
As the classic meme says:
Update: Just got a Tornado “warning”, which is apparently a step above Alert. I appreciate that DarkSky is keeping me up to date pretty rapidly here! The good news is that the region they mentioned is 17-30 miles north, and the weather is currently moving north by northwest. My biggest problem now seems to be that i’ll never be able to get the 60 feet to my car without being absolutely drenched, even WITH my jacket. It is really coming down out there.
Update 2: Well, it seems to be over. Just like that the rain stopped. What fun. Makes 2pm in Florida seem quite tame by comparison. Sending someone out into that rain has to qualify as assault or something, there’s just a LOT of mass falling from above.