According to a recent U.S. Foods study, one in four delivery food drivers admitted to taking food from a customer’s order before dropping off the meal. Fifty percent of the deliverers polled said they had been tempted by the smell of the food they deliver. Hmmm. First there was the Blue Bell licker, now this.
There was a great article about all the food we throw out, (not counting the food that is tasted by our delivery people 😊…see above.) When you cut up a pineapple, don’t throw out the core. Pineapples contain bromelain, an enzyme that can reduce nasal and sinus inflammation, can help arthritis and muscle pain, and potentially fight cancer. You can add the core to fruit salads, slaws, salsas or stir-fries, blend it into smoothies, flavored water, tea or sangria. Hmmm. More foods you can save, next week.
Thank Goodness I don’t have to hunt for food. I don’t even know where tacos live…
In Huntsville, two prison system employees (a high-ranking official and his wife) were fired when another woman was arrested for allegedly buying and selling prescription pills in the prison parking lot. It gets better. The woman arrested was the mother-in-law of the high-ranking Texas prison official.
Johnny Manziel reportedly scored a 32 on the Wonderlic test, which boosted his chances among the teams considering the former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner.The Wonderlic is a 50-question test that measures cognitive ability. The test time is limited to 12 minutes. A score of 20 is indicative of “average” intelligence and roughly equivalent to an IQ of 100. Former Bengals punter Pat McInally, who attended Harvard, is the only prospect known to have scored a perfect 50 on the test. Perhaps there is now hope for this boy who changed his name to ‘John’ Manziel a few months ago.
Arsenio Hall has confirmed that The Prince of Zamunda will not be alone in the “Coming to America” sequel due to release on August 7th, 2020.
My most ‘recently hired paper delivery person’ isn’t with us anymore, so Connie was kind enough to deliver papers to Jones Creek (thank you, Connie) and my daughter helped me deliver to LJ, Brazoria and Sargent last week. I offered to pay Anne-Elisabeth by the hour, and she accepted. 😊During our Thursday morning run, she asked me if I was paying myself to deliver. I told her that I had already paid the carrier in advance to deliver so I was out that money, plus I was paying ‘her’ to deliver so if I paid myself, I would definitely end up even further ‘in the hole.’ Life. You end up in the hole quite a bit.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton.
It’s the end of Shark Week…to conclude the eventful week that ends on August 4th, the Discovery Channel will air on that day, all day, “encore presentations of the biggest specials from Shark Week 2019.” There are 18 new specials this year along with the nightly talk-show, “Shark after Dark” so there was a load of new information. I gathered there are so many more reported shark ‘incidents’ because there are so many more people swimming in oceans that actually belong to the sharks. Remember that.
Swarms of grasshoppers, so thick that you can see them from space and on weather radar, are invading Las Vegas. The National Weather Service has warned motorists that it could even impact visibility on area roads. The insects are harmless and will likely be gone in a few weeks. But for now, they are attracted to white light (not much of that in Vegas) and it’s mating season.
Public Service Announcement: Michelle says her phone died last week so that’s why you haven’t heard from her. Shear Spice Clients: call her. 979-297-2660. FYI: She reminds you to back-up your phone and your pictures. Yep. A Public Service Announcement. Back-up phone & pictures. More than one location.
RECENT BIRTHDAYS: Rock musician Simon Kirke is 70. Bad Company. Rock musician Steve Morse is 65. Deep Purple. Actress Lori Loughlin is 55. Perfect example of what not to do. Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is 85. Movie director Peter Bogdanovich is 80. The Last Picture Show. Jazz musician David Sanborn is 74. Law professor Anita Hill is 63. Actress Hilary Swank is 45. Rock musician Jim McCarty is 76. The Yardbirds.
Mick Jagger is 76. We celebrated with him and a few friends at the No Filter Tour at NRG stadium on Saturday night. Part of the kids Christmas gift last year were tickets to see The Rolling Stones. First a lovely dinner at Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen across the street from NRG, then we prepared to rock-n-roll. We parked, enjoying our short walk in on such a pretty evening, snagging a fellow fan on the way to take a picture of the three of us standing in front of the Stones banner. They were the first band to play NRG when it opened in 2003. The concert had originally been scheduled for April this year but was postponed when Mr. Flamboyant, Mick Jagger, had heart surgery. You would NEVER have known by the way he was strutting his skinny little stuff on stage, changing outfits more often than most Vegas acts,but I must tell you that they sounded surprisingly good for a bunch of old guys. In fact, from Midnight Rambler to Satisfaction, they were better than good, they were great.Charlie Watts was ridiculously calm, never giving up those drumsticks. He just turned 78.Rolling Stones, me, my kids. Such a nice night.
So, let’s say you’re driving down 288 and you have a flat tire. There’s no shoulder to pull over to safely change the flat so you don’t get flattened in the process. Or perhaps you see an older person that has had car problems. Or you see an intoxicated driver. I’ve told you this before, but someone suggested that I can’t say it often enough. Pull out your driver’s license and look at the back where it says TEXAS ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE 1-800-525-5555. It’s in tiny print. This is for motorists to use to report a need for non-emergency assistance. It is not a substitute for 9-1-1 and it is not a Customer Service line to answer driver license questions. It is for motorists who have a legitimate need for assistance on Texas roadways. It could be city police, sheriff’s department, or highway patrol. You can also call if you see hazardous road conditions, debris in the road, suspicious activity at a rest stop or obviously intoxicated or dangerous drivers. You will have to provide your name, cellphone number, vehicle description, highway location, mile marker and/or county or city location. I’ve had to use this number twice in my life; once near Gonzales when I had a screw in a brand-new tire and another time near Iowa Colony, where there was no room to pull over for anotherscrew-infested flat. State police showed up both times with lights flashing while the tires were changed. You just never know when it’s going to happen.
If you grew up in Texas, then you had Dr. Pepper, queso, and Miller Light in the ‘icebox’, along with a tin of bean dip and Fritos set out on the cabinet so there was some substance close by before you hopped on the couch to watch the Dallas Cowboys. Anyone outside Texas probably looks at a can of bean dip and says “yuk,” but we know it is really good stuff. I came across this recipe for bean dip so I thought I would share it. One can refried beans (I personally, would use leftover pintos), 6-8 pickled jalapeno nacho slices, 1 tablespoon of brine from the jalapeno jar, ½ teaspoon each of salt, sugar, & onion powder, ¼ teaspoon each of paprika, chili powder, & cumin. Dump into food processor and zap. Little Fritos work best to scoop bean dip…personal opinion only.
Saint Arnold Brewery will be celebrating Root Beer Float Day, August 4th from 11am to 4pm. FYI.
A 16-year old boy has won $3 million as the first Fortnite World Cup Solo Champion which is more $$ than Tiger Woods made for winning the 2019 Masters Tournament. What now can a mother say about her children playing video games? Not much. “Bugha” says he spends about 6 hours a day practicing.
Thank you to Donna at Texas Gulf Bank drive-thru for assisting me last week. Thank you to Dr. Sam Shandley for taking time to have the loveliest conversation with me this morning. He was out for his 5-mile morning walk and I was on my way to feed a neighbor’s cat. We couldn’t have planned a better tete-a-tete and had it work out so perfectly on such a hot July morning.
Someone scammed a 55-year-old grandmother by posting a picture of Channel 2 weatherman, Frank Billingsley along with a fake identity, then somehow convinced a woman that he wanted to put $4 million in her bank account in case something happened to him. The woman believed “her prayers for finding true love” had been answered and she proceeded to send $40,000 for service fees so the money could be released into her account. The woman never met the man in person. The woman’s son said that he wants to,“help other sons and daughters to watch out for their aging parents (wait, she was ONLY 55-old enough to know better and young enough not to fall for it) but when he looks back, there were signs…long romantic emails that looked like a novel, bad grammar that was obvious English was not a first language, and phone texting instead of ‘real’ phone calls or video phone chatting.” Whew. Any ONE of those should have sent him into an immediate tailspin. They reached out to Billingsley who said later, “I get this email from this woman asking if I’d been talking to her online…No, that’s not me.” He also said that he’s been contacted before about someone using his images online. Scammers!
This afternoon I received the following email. I cut and pasted it exactly like it came to me.“My Dear, My name is Miss. Sirah Abdelqader. I’m the only child of the former Central Bank Governor of Sudan, Hazem Abdelqader, whom am sure was poisoned to death by his colleagues on their visit to Turkey in 2018 but the government of Omar al-Bashir gave a report that my father died of a heart attack, they killed him in order to appoint a new governor but I left everything to GOD to judge. My mother died 2 months ago of cancer. Because of the ongoing crisis here in Sudan, I decided to relocate to another city since my mother is dead and cause of moving our properties I discovered a bank document in my late father’s briefcase indicating that my late father deposited huge sum of Fifteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$15.500.000.00), with a prime bank in Abidjan Ivory Coast which my name was the next of kin according to the document. Please advise your reply to me urgently as I want to go to Ivory Coast by this week for this inheritance claim but only want you to stand by me and provide your account details to transfer the fund because with the ongoing crisis it’s not advisable to transfer the fund to Sudan. Thanks, and good day. Miss. Sirah Abdelqader” DO NOT FALL FOR THINGS LIKE THIS…
Only in Los Angeles. Police were pursuing a man wearing a clown mask and green wig, sitting on top of the sunroof of a black BMW sedan while driving 2-3 mph in the fast lane of the freeway, all while holding a (prop) chainsaw. As the officers tried to pull the car over, the driver then led officers on a chase at speeds of more than 70 mph before heading towards the beach. As the car came to a stop, the driver got out and ran, but then stopped to help scoop sand to cover an individual lying on the beach. A reason for the bizarre behavior and pursuit was unclear. Hmmm.
In Abilene, a nearly $350,000 fire truck that was delivered just last month, went up in flames during a test drive to check the brakes. Hmmm.
Freddie Brown of Brown’s Auto Sales is easing into a new chapter of his life after 64 years in the car business. The Brazosport Chamber of Commerce will present its first Lifetime Achievement Award at a luncheon at noon on August 29, at the Dow Academic Center and will honor Mr. Brown for his MANY contributions to our community. You should give him a call to say congratulations. 979-265-2651.
Nothing I say or do is done by popular demand but writing this column sure is fun. Thanks for reading. Lisa
