Charlie's Rants & Raves

i wonder if anyone actually reads the stuff i put out there...

oh well.

OK, so we've only won 1 game the entire season...which is now over for us. But hey, we're leaving on a win streak.

I know I had a good time...it would have been better if we won more and made the playoffs, but oh well...I saved all my injuries for today. I don't have a laundry list of injuries, but i've got several hardwood floor burns. It was worth it. Call me a sadist...

Pictures from my trip to Lake Buchanan. It was kinda cold, but really windy. Because of that, there was no kayaking....just went hiking through the "rugged" trail...ever been stuck by a cactus? Not fun. Guess I just nudged one with the top of my foot. The quills(?) went through the mesh in my shoe and into my toe. I was like "ow!!!! what the hell was that?!?!?!". Nothing like pulling out small needles from your toe...

Picture above...panoramic of the section of the lake I was at.
Dead tree along the trail...sign of things to come.
Peeking at the lake through the trees
Lake view from a higher elevation
One of the 5 armadillos I encountered...not much wildlife like they said there would be..
Lake view descending from the summit of the hill (some 1250 feet high)
Panoramic from the same point
Descended that...it was pretty steep

Bald eagle nest about 18 miles from the lake...waited 10 minutes, but no bald eagle showed its head...

I recently bought a new toaster oven because the old one died on us. It's a Euro Pro toaster. It has some neat features, but something was a bit off on it. Remember, it's a Euro Pro toaster.

So we went to the Galleria yesterday and got the kids McDonalds....

I ordered two hamburger kids meals...only to find out that they were out of hamburgers. What the hell?!?!?!? I looked up at the sign to make sure that I was at McDonalds. And I was like, "isn't hamburgers their staple food? How can they be out of hamburgers?"

Anyway, it was weird, so the kids had chicken mcnugget kids meals.

Never ran into a McDonalds that ran out of hamburgers.

I'm bored. Another Saturday sitting at home. What to do...what to do?!?!?!?

Well, went to the dr. to get her to sign some papers OKaying Ale to try out for track.

Went to Target and bought a new toaster oven (we needed to replace the old one)

Went to Papa Joe's BBQ place over by Memorial City mall. Had the sliced brisquet sandwich...which was awesome.


Came home, watched some TV.

Took the kids to Toys R Us and Katy Mills Mall. Walked around and played some air hockey and skee ball

Now I'm home. Gave the kids a bath. Washed bedsheets. Now...nothing, sigh.

Maybe I'll go do a light workout...or maybe not.

Kai is now a yellow belt in karate. Here are some pictures. Here's the full thing of pictures