el pollo loco is an alright place
el pollo loco is a fast food grilled chicken place, pretty damn good for fast food. we ate at the one on the east side near the base but supposedly the one on the west side is better and its right next to the cold stone creamery…so we will have to check it out.
if you dont care, well at least you can say you know someone who ate at the crazy chicken restaurant…
you know its bad when you hate people so bad…
that you dont even want to go out to your favorite stores…
In El Paso on the west side BestBuy is situated by target, office depot, linens and things and a bunch of other stores. unfortunately for me it at the end of all those friggin stores which means it takes like 10 minutes to drive 200 meters because every slow, fat, stupid ass person either doesnt look before they just walk into the street or they dont use the crosswalks or they dont stop at the stop signs…its incredible.
now i know i am the pot calling the kettle black but jesus christ… look before you cross the street, if a car is coming… hurry up a little bit to catch up to the people in front of you so you dont have about a 50 little ducks in a row crossing the street to go to Target or whatever store you are going in… so the poor bastard waiting for you doesnt have to grow old and die waiting for you.
at bestbuy i had to buy a VCR so we could watch TV upstairs, the TV’s we bought in Europe arent cable ready, in fact they dont even have coax inputs. it costs me about 12 bucks a month to rent the cable box so i went the cheap route and bought a VCR that is cable ready so we can watch TV upstairs.
i finally got my video camera out, dont know why it didnt occur to use to take video of the baby when she was tiny tiny but now we are taking video and hopefully i can post some up soon. she really hams it up for the camera its too funny. she also loves the laptop which makes daddy happy… see the flickr pictures for more. also if you care, the awesome plumbing job i did is in the flickr pictures too. i was trying to replace the connector for the washing machine cold water hookup, well while i thought i was turning the connector i was actually twisting the pipe in the wall, oops. yeah so suffice to say when i turned on the water it blew a hole in the wall, flooded the garage and laundry room, go me! $126 dollars later on a sunday nite the plumbers fixed my pipe and left me with a big ass hole in the garage, at least i learn how to do some sheet rocking now…
guess thats it
-Chris
goings on…
well not too much has been going on but we did get our household goods so we have been unpacking. a couple of bowls were broken, a glass ornament from germany was broken because the dickhead movers just threw it in there and then piled stuff on there, they also broke our tv stand. all in all i feel lucky and nothing was stolen which is a good thing.
we dont have an attic at this new place so i think we will be having a garage sale or some massive ebay’ing going on soon to get rid of all this crap we still have that i just shoved in the attic in belgium
work is going ok, people are discovering that i am in the job now so i am having all kinds of stuff pile up on my desk. i guess that’s good, i guess…
jamie has been staying busy, she has been doing mommy and me swimming and there is a play group she is going to start going to so faith can get out and about and meet other babies.
no much else going on, trying to unpack, trying to get settled, trying to get used to the heat. we have had a couple of massive thunderstorms which in term cause flash flooding. thankfully we live on a hill so we dont have to worry about any of that kind of stuff.
i guess that’s it for now, i cant think of any witty gripes and bitches today.
-Chris
Couple of Pictures of the baby
I put a couple pictures of the baby on Flickr…they should show up on the side bar thingy if not click on the more pictures link and you should see them.
i’ll try to upload some more tomorrow
-Chris
funny post on another blog
I found this post on another blog its Adam Carolla telling off Ann Coulter. too funny.
here is the link to the clip, also in the above post
People that fly airplanes are dumb
ok so we have a bunch of pilots in the unit i am in. i am baffled that these dudes come in a say how hard they think IT stuff is. Hello, you fly airplanes!!!! changing an option in my outlook cant even remotely be as hard as flying and landing a damn airplane!!!
anyway i have heard that a couple of times and am just baffled by it. of course its making the job of who to go on training flights with easy. the dudes that cant create their own email signatures in outlook i probably will not be flying with. call me an optimist on the subject 
Weekend activities
last weekend we went and looked at a few furniture stores looking for some southwesterny furniture. we didnt buy any furniture but i did buy a big porclein rooster, once olive saw it she barked at it for a good 5 minutes until i sat down with her and the rooster and she saw that he was a cool rooster, now she and him are homies.
On sunday we took the girls to petsmart, they were actually better than me and Jamie predicted they would be so they got some dog treats and some ID tags for their collars. we will go back this weekend to make sure their chips work in the US and get them new chips if we have to.
Found Celis White
ok i found celis white, glazer’s didnt sell it but told me who around town does so i went and picked some up, still not hoegaarden which bums me out. gonna have to see if someone close in new mexico sells it and make a run then horde my good beer.
transitioning into work, had a half day on wed, they brought our unaccompanied goods today, nothing was broke and jamie got her dyson back so she was happy. had a good amount of dog hair to get up. our downstair air conditioner is working like crap and we are waiting for the land lady to bring her butt over and fix it.
we had a storm today with flash floods and all that. its amazing that usually it snow that people cant drive in. in el paso, its rain people cant drive in, who would have thought there would be a bazillion wrecks when it rains, craziness. luckily jamie and I are pros at driving in the rain, so thats good.
guess thats it.
-Chris
Celis White in El Paso
well i have a lead on locating Celis White in El Paso.
Glazer’s of Texas – El Paso
7801 Trade Center Blvd
El Paso, TX 79912
Tel: (915) 877-5511
Fax: (915) 877-5568
its only a couple of blocks away, i’ll do a drive by on it today but i am sure its closed on Sundays
Picking up the cars in Galveston and Dallas
So we went to pick up the cars from Galveston and Dallas. we had to wait a day on the customs form for my car so we didnt get to pick it up until Tuesday and Jamie’s got there late so it worked out ok. the BMW had some minor damage on the hood, looks like a rock hit it.
Jamie’s battey was dead, so we got a jump and let it run for awhile but i wanted to check to make sure it would start when we got gas so i turned the car off and of course it wouldnt start back up. we got another jump and we drove over to the auto parts store where i “thought” i would have the easy job of just swapping the battery out. well alas, the negative cable was completely stuck to the negative post and pulling on it just pulled out the entire post (yeah that sucked). so i went in and bought another battery cable, well the jeep has some crazy two wire negative battery cable and of course they store didnt sell one, the solution ended up being cutting the cable adding some little clips so i could screw them to another top post terminal…all of that took about 2 hours.
my favorite quote from the whole trip was stopping in some hole in the wall dairy queen between galveston and dallas this guy walks in and orders the “belt buster” triple cheeseburger and then asks if he would have room for ice cream after. plus he topped it all off with a diet coke. gotta love it.
my patch job on the jeep got us back home and i am gonna get it fixed up this week and hopefully pass the texas safety inspection.
pictures of the house off to the right
-Chris
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