Super Tuesday, Super Dreams

Today is Super Tuesday.

Go vote if your state is participating.

The Texas Primary is on March 4 so I won't be voting yet. The Texas Primary comes at a very omportant time. As it happens it comes the week of TAKS testing. Since many schools serve as polling places also the state has had to reschedule the TAKS tests originally planned for Tuesday, March 4.

I was thinking about the City of Waco last night. The city is really wanting to develop the downtown area. They have several projects in the works. I have an idea. How about developing some of the vacant space in the ALICO building for a nicer restaurant. Imagine if you could place a restaurant on one of the top floors of the building. Think of the view. I was reading not long ago that the radio station WACO-AM broadcast from the building in the middle part of the 1900's. They even had the transmitter on top of the building. Imagine again if there was a station (radio or TV) that had studios there now and broadcast from there once again. I suppose I am just reniniscing of sorts and want to go back to a simpler time. Wouldn't that be nice?

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SB XLII

So where were the "Super' commercials last night? There were a few that were OK. I liked the FedEx carrier pigeon commercial. The Coke commercial with Charlie Brown was cute. I also like the Coke commercial with Bill Frist and James Carville. I think the best ones though were the E-Trade commercials. They were in the YouTube style with an infant making trades and beaucoups of money. Real Cute!

There were a few in the fourth that were good also. For the best commercial in the fourth quarter I think it's a tie between the Victoria's Secret ad and the Amp Energy Drink ad that came on after Victoria's Secret. Hmmmm! Decisions, decisions.

I still think the Coke ads were good.

There were several that were forgettable. I would tell you about them but I forgot them.

Better than the commercials though was the catch by Tyree with one minute left in the game. Everyone thought Manning was down but he wiggled out and made the throw. Tyree jumped and caught it at the 24 of New England to keep the drive alive and allow New York to go on in for a TD a couple of plays later and win the Super Bowl.

If you want to see the ads go to MySpace.

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Saturday was a beautiful day here in the great Heart of Texas. I was able to get the new truck tail light installed on the truck. Allen Samuels Chevrolet never called to let me know if the light arrived. I drove over yesterday morning just to check. They told me it was one and since they never called they would get it in right away. Super. It looks great. Afterwards, I went to Genie Car Wash and had the truck washed. It needed it.

I bought some echinacea for the garden yesterday. This afternoon I got out and planted them. I also started rearranging some of the plants in the garden. I plan on getting some aliums and planting near the echinacea. I still need to trim and cut back several of the plants in the garden in order to get it ready for spring.

I will post pictures as I get closer to completion.

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I Love Chris!

I love Chris! Chris is sort of like me. She has her opinions and it's often hard to change them. We went out to eat some time back at George's. Chris ordered Chicken Fried Steak. Shortly after we got our meal she said there was a problem. She said, "It taste's like meat." I told her it was supposed to; it's Chicken Fried Steak.

Yesterday we went to HEB to get some groceries. She asked me if she could get some more syrup. "Sure!" Chris said the syrup I bought last time was too sweet. I told her, "It's syrup. It's supposed to be sweet."

She also said she didn't like Pork Rinds when they taste like, well, pork rinds. She likes it when they have flavor. We bought a bag of rice cakes that were Cheddar Cheese flavor. She thought they were good. THEN, she saw that sour cream was an ingredient. She doesn't like them now. She does like Beef Stroganoff. Sour cream is an ingredient in it. Go figure!

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B-Day, Here We Come

Chris and I went shopping last night for Jace's birthday. The big day is Thursday, February 7. He will be 6.

We were at Wal-Mart. My goodness what toys they have. Jace likes cars and dinosaurs and dragons and most anything else. He doesn't like dolls though. But he does like GI Joe. GI Joe is not a doll; it is an action figure.

We looked at dragons and decided on one from Fisher-Price. It was an Imaginext Adventures Dragon. Then we saw a different toy in the Imaginext Dinosaur line called Mega T-Rex. The moment I saw I thought, "Cool!" This thing is really neat. There is a button on the tail that makes the dinosaur move and roar. It reminds me of a small animatronic figure from a tiny Disney World. Had to get it. Got it. Put the dragon back. It wasn't as cool as the dinosaur. Now the dinosaur resides in our closet until the big day. There are a few other things in the closet for him too. Those are surprises. His Mom has told him that he's going to just get clothes for his B-Day since he got so many toys at Christmas. I thought about getting him some underwear and telling him they were character building. I wimped out and went with the dinosaur. Chris was glad. Jace will be more ecstatic.

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Where The Rubber Meets the Road

I normally don't get into this whole "save the planet" thing, but there's something that's been bothering me for quite a while now. If I throw trash out of my truck window, I can see it fly away in the rear view mirror. When I drive into a parking spot, I can tell when a previous occupant cleaned out their ash tray. Their butts are all over the place. I can even tell when the folks that live around our back field have cleaned out their house or their yard. They seem to delight in throwing their trash over the fence and into our field. That's OK. I periodically drive the truck back there and throw it back. SURPRISE!!!

NO, that last one is not the thing that bothers me. What's been bothering me is wondering where in the world all the rubber from tires goes to. I mean think about it. As you drive along the road those tires on your car or truck wear down. That rubber has got to go somewhere. Think of the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road. Think of all the tires on those vehicles. And think of how long those rubber tires have been rolling on the roads. Now here it is. Where is all that rubber that has worn off the tires? I mean, shouldn't there be mountains of the stuff along the roads and highways? I throw paper out. I see it. I wear through nearly an inch of four truck tires and I don't see a thing.

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