Just some thoughts

So, having had David here all weekend was pretty darned fun. While he worked this weekend, I ran around with Robert or did the church thing.

Yesterday, Robert and I attended the Hyundai Genesis "Discover Genesis" tour here in Houston. It was .. lame. I know that it was raining cats and dogs, and the thunder had them turn over the power inverters, so we couldn't demo the stereo, or other electrically powered features of the cars. The cars (I drove both the V6 and the V8) were really quite lovely. Beautifully put together. The demo was crap. Either Hyundai went dirt cheap on this, which was a huge mistake, or they're not being well represented by their contractor. The cars were driven around a closed parking lot track that lasted just over two minutes. The babysitter chattered on the entire time - uh, shut up?

Robert loved the car, hated the presentation, and really was not impressed with the people who were there to see it.

Before going to the Discover Genesis tour, we stopped at the Houston home of DeLorean Motor Cars, which was closed, but was viewable through the open bay doors and through the showroom window. The owner was getting into his Nissan Titan pickup, and we chatted him up a minute.

After the Genesis was Discovered, we were walking out to the car and Robert said "let's go watch airplanes." Well, twist my arm, Buck.

We drove around the perimeter of the airport, and stumbled across a non-parking area at the very foot of one of the primary runways. We stood there about an hour, as two strong thunderstorm systems converged on the airport, and saw them (the airport ops people) shooting arrivals in between the storms. At one point, as we watched a British Airways 777 coming in on final, the wind shifted from north to south and inceased. We watched him reverse his crab and he landed that beast at about 15 degrees off center. It was so cool.

Right after that, a Continental 737-800 came in - engines screaming on high power, all the flaps and slats thrown out, gear down, condensation rat tails pouring off of the deployed flap edges. He was crabbed pretty hard, also. Seconds after he roared five hundred feet over our heads, we heard the wildest whiffling noises overhead. I think it was the following vortices from his passage that we were hearing.

David and I had Star Pizza last night, which was great. This morning, off to church at the normal time, and got home around 4:00 p.m. Dinner at Mission Burrito, followed by some quality floating time in the pool. Now, it's nearly midnight and time for me to get some sleep. Hopefully, I'll make it until sunrise before my brain awakens me with detailed plans for worrying and decision making.