Lucky

Megan, Kelsey and Jeremy left Stillwater early yesterday afternoon to visit Jeremy's parents in Bristow where they recently purchased a home.  They had an automobile accident in Oilton.  Oilton is a little more than half way between Stillwater and Bristow.  A teenager's car was on the shoulder of the highway and suddenly tried to make a u-turn across the highway in front of Jeremy's SUV.  Unfortunately, Jeremy was unable to avoid hitting the girl's car.  He tried to swerve and stop but could not do so.  Luckily, there was no oncoming traffic in the other lane.  Jeremy and Megan are a little bruised.  Kelsey broke the tibia just above her right ankle.  She might have some muscle and tendon damage.  Debbie is trying to arrange for Kelsey to see a doctor, but there appear to be snafu's with the insurance companies and which insurance company will pay for the physician services.  Gotta get the other person's automobile insurance to authorize stuff apparently.  But, at least nothing is life threatening and all three kids will be ok. 

Sunday Breakfast

Debbie made a new breakfast recipe this morning.  Very good. 

Scrambled eggs, potatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, bacon, sausage, onions.

Fresh jalapenos.

Very tasty!!  Thank you, Debbie!!

Fun Saturday.

Debbie and I went to Wichita yesterday to visit some antique stores.  Last year we passed through Wichita on our way back to Stillwater from Kansas City.  We found a huge store that we did not finish milling around in before it closed.  We have wanted to go back since.  We spent 3 hours in there yesterday.  Lots of stuff.  Debbie found another Whiting Davis necklace with earrings and ring.  She found a cool bracelet, too.  I found a few books.  We went to three other antique stores after that.  Long day but fun. 

We saw several large cans for lard and shortening.  One of the cans looked like a 5 gallon can for shortening.  It was about 3 feet tall.  I wonder how tall it was before they put the shortening in it? 

Debbie was looking at alot of jewelry.  Go figger.  Anyway, at the first place we went to, the person helping Debbie was asking about the Whiting Davis jewelry.  Debbie was telling her about it and the type of stones she likes.  Mother of Pearl.  Hematite.  Abalone.  When she said "abalone", all I could think of was, "My abalone has a first name. It's O-S-C-A-R.  My abalone has a second name.  It's M-A-Y-E-R."  Yeah, I was focused...

Hope everyone else had a good day.

Missing Mass solved

An Australian student solved an astronomy problem that has puzzled scientists for decades.  Pretty cool discovery if you like astronomy stuff.  I have a feeling most people would rather find a solution to age old questions such as where is the needle in the haystack, what happens to missing socks and tupperware lids, where do those tiny medicine tablets go when you drop them on the floor and how many licks does it take to finish a Tootsie Roll-Pop?

On again, off again.

Poor Megan.  She got a job as a physical therapy technician at a company in Oklahoma City.  It was a part time job until Monday, when they hired her full time.  On Tuesday morning, they told her they could not make her a full time person because of budget issues.  That should be a big emotional swing for her, but she seems to be taking it ok.  There is a diet technician position open at one of the OKC hospitals.  It is a full time job with hours that might allow her to keep working part time at the PT tech job, too.  Hope that works out for her.  She due for something good to happen job-wise.

Megan has been riding with Deb and me until her apartment is ready to move into in Edmond in a couple of weeks.  I've been trying to find routes to get from Megan's job in NW OKC to Debbie's job south of downtown OKC.  There is a bunch of construction on I-40 south of downtown OKC, so some of the roads are blocked off and you cannot go from I-40 directly to Deb's office.  There are only four ways to go, and during rush hour two of those arteries are clogged with cars.  So, I used one of the routes along Agnew, which goes through the stockyards.  That wasn't the best way to go because of all the stop lights.  With the I-40 construction, the Agnew exit is not clearly marked with the big green highway signs that normally are all over the place indicating the exit location.  Now, there is a small orange sign that you cannot see until you are almost on top of it.  Tuesday afternoon, I figured out that I can go a mile east of Agnew and use a better route to Deb's office.  Yesterday, Deb and I passed the Agnew exit after dropping Megan at her job.  As we passed the Agnew exit, I told Debbie, "Now that I know where that is I don't need to know anymore."  She thought that was funny.  Sounded logical to me.  hee hee.

Hope everyone has a good day.

School bus

On my way to a meeting this morning, I was following a school bus that had a bumper sticker that read, "This bus stops for RR crossings."  I had to think, "What are they doing in school buses these days?"  When I rode the school bus, we did not stop for rest and recreation anywhere along the trip!  Even on those long, long field trips.  Kids are way too pampered today.

Just stuff

Not sure where this is, but it's cool.

Bora Bora

Colored limestone

Stockholm, Sweden

Karen, is this what Jeff is doing with the lawnmower?

Why did the sloth cross the road?

I dunno, either.  But it's a good thing he had some help or it might take a while.

Sloth crossing the road in Costa Rica

Supersonic Aircraft

I wonder how much tickets will be to fly on this beauty?

Supersonic Green Machine

Long time no see.

Man, it's been really busy at work.  I just finished a huge project last nite.  I have been working every day of the week, several hours a day, just to meet the deadline.  I'd go pick up Debbie after work.  We'd go eat dinner somewhere and then go back to my office until 8 or 8:30.  Debbie was very patient with all of that.  She has always been supportive and understanding, which is one of the reasons I love her so much.  I'll get back to the ramblings as soon as I clear my head of that project.  It has been a long time since I put something on here that drove the bus into the ditch.  'Bout time, ain't it?  hee hee.  Have a good one.