No calls. I slept as normal people do except for the upstairs neighbor with the tank engine vacuum cleaner that decided ( Read more... )

“Just calling to remind you that Oktoberfest is this weekend.”

“I'm in the MidWest through the weekend”

“Oh, that's right. Well if things get canceled, maybe you can come back early for the fest.”

MadreDiablo always knows what to say.

Tex-Mex Plus Chainsaws & BanjosBroke my vow of never having Tex-Mex outside of Texas and was pleasantly ( Read more... )

In North Texas, Metal shows -here and there- are being held at taqueriasThis makes sense to me, aside from my lust for La Comida Mexicana[full bar!], these joints have stages for bands playing on a regular basis ( Read more... )

No calls. I slept as normal people do and re-crashed after sending the morning report.
I almost worked the entire maintenance window but there were no additional hardware failures. The repairs worked.

Repair #1 Power cycle of central processor card in storage switch - command didn't work ( Read more... )

No calls. I overslept but made it in time for the first obligation of the day ( Read more... )

No calls. The hand-off worked. Got to bed late and got a call at 0755 -a check-in for a prearranged repair.
No biggie, better than 0455. I celebrated with a walk to a taco joint for breakfast. Yee haw.

Now to bide my time until the machines call me to say they’re broken.

7am wake-up call but none during the night -I slept as normal people do ( Read more... )

“$1.99 Margaritas make the gringos go crazy” -restaurant manager.
Wednesday's $1.99 margaritas at Desperado's make great people watching.


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Xmas eve at Peaches' and now Xmas day/night as well due to being
"snowed in" by Dallas metro standards -slushy roads and bad drivers +
Little prep/highway maint since its going to be gone by late tomorrow morning.

Belgian beer, champagne and Tex-Mex fare tonight.

Enjoy the day/evening, all.

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No calls -third night in a row. I slept as normal people do. Babysitting International Beer Mafia went smooth:
-”start”, “are you done?”, “you're done? thank you”. Less than 48 hours to go.

Meeting some friends for late afternoon drinks/eats at Mi Cocina, need to figure out a light lunch
to hold me over until then. I hope that's the extent of my ( Read more... )