This has been quite the day.  I backed out of the garage at 4:20 this morning heading to MD Anderson in Houston.  That is about a 270 mile drive.  10% the way there, or 27 miles, I was at 75 and Mockingbird.  Go figure.  Ennis was just past the quarter mark on my trip.  My appointment was at 10:00 am, and I arrived at 9:30.  Not too bad.  I did hit some Houston traffic, but the Dallas traffic I deal with seemed worse.

Sunrise was right around Buffalo, Texas.  It was kind of fun to see night turn into day.  The sky went from black to a real dark blue to a purple to a light purple to sunlight right in my eyes.  I stopped in Madisonville for breakfast with the lights on.  I left with my sunglasses on.  I also had a pit stop right before hitting the worst part of the Houston traffic.  That was timed well.  I did not know how smart that actually was.

My two test took about an hour and a half, I spent about an hour exploring different parts of MD Anderson.  The people in nuclear medicine seemed a little cranky.  I guess they don’t like explorers.  All I wanted was some isotopes so that Trey would have something cool at show-n-tell.  Sheesh!

After that I drove to the hotel, unfortunately it is a different one from last time.  It’ll do.  I had lunch at Subway (thanks Life Group) and saw the new James Bond movie.  The movie was $7.50 (matinee price) the theater parking was $3, and a small popcorn was $5.75.  I skipped the popcorn and drove four blocks away, parked at a strip mall and walked.  I still had to pay for the movie though.  I then got a cafe mocha grande from Starbuck’s after the movie.  I have Starbuck’s card, so the mocha grande was essentially free.

Tonight is Mexican food with Cousin Di then Clone Wars!  ttfn

…and probably should be.  This takes talent, and we think he actually had to write the sheet music for this just to keep up.  Enjoy this tribute to John Williams:

..and the sky grew black as the night…

My six week project ( that mushroomed to ten ) is finished. I have worked sick, missed very many moments with my kids (from Cub Scouts, trips, activities, bed time stories, etc), and after being told my option was to do it or quit, I give you this:

more graph humor and song chart memes

Yes, what option did I have. “Do, or do not, there is no try.”

All that being said, I think I did a great job on a project that will come in millions over budget and have to get VE’d. That is Value Engineering for you non architectural types.

I get all my good news from KRLD….

Actor Roy Scheider has sold his Long Island beach home in the Hamptons for about $19 million (+/- a few hundred thousand). Uhhhh…aren’t the Hamptons near Amity? Isn’t that where 25 foot GREAT WHITE SHARKS EAT PEOPLE!!!! Chief Brody, what were you thinking? Yes, sell the house to Billy Joel and run as fast as you can! Get away from those large GWS’s! Why even buy there in the first place? You have already killed two of these monsters. How many more do want on your wall? Is the wall even big enough? Yes, sell! Take a loss, just get away as fast as you can!