HOWARD’S DAILY CHRONICLE
NUMBER 2 VOL 5
DECEMBER 2ND 2007
WEATHER; MISERABLE, HI HUMIDITY, 67 DEGREES
24 MORE DAYS TILL “YOU DID BOUGHT WHAT”?
IT WAS SO MISERABLY HOT AND WINDY TODAY I WENT OUT TO START ON THE LIGHTS AND TURNED AROUND AND CAME BACK IN AND DID SOME READING. MOM HAD TO GO TO TOWN AND GET SOME LAST MINUTE THINGS FOR HER COOKING. SHANNON INVITED US TO DINNER AND WE ACCEPTED, IT WAS GOOD, BEEF OVER RICE AND BROCCOLI! KONNER KEPT ME GOING THROWING TWO BALLS AT A TIME I WAS LUCKEY TO CATCH ONE. WE WATCHED THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND THEN THE “RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR”, MAN THOSE ROCKETTS ARE REALLY SOMETHING TO WATCH, THE PRECISION IS FANTASTIC! THE WHOLE PRODUCTION WAS FABULAS! WHEN THE CAMERA WOULD PAN DOWN ON THE KIDS THEY WERE JUST SETTING THERE WITH THEIR MOUTH OPEN AND EYES AS BIG AS SILVER DOLLARS STARING AT THE STAGE. SANTA CLAUSE DIDN’T GET THAT MUCH ATTENTION! IT WAS REALLY GREAT! KONNER WAS FASINATED BY THE ROCKETTS DRESSED IN WINTER COSTUMES, HE JUST STOOD IN FRONT OF THE TV AND DIDN’T MOVE DURING THE WHOLE SHOW! OF COURSE HE LOST INTEREST WHEN THE ROCKETTS DRESSED AS RAGGDY ANN CAME ON HE FOUND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO LIKE THROW ANOTHER BALL AT GRANPA!
MOM SAID THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON TWICE WHEN SHE WAS IN TOWN BUT IT DIDN’T WHEN WE WENT TO SHANNONS! I NOTICED YESTERDAY WHEN I RAN THE ENGINE AND GOT IT WARMED UP THE TEMPERATURE GAGE HADN’T GOT UP TO WHERE IT SHOULD HAVE SO I GOT OUT AND OPENED THE REDIATOR CAPS LEVER AND HAD NO PRESSURE! AH, HA, THIS SYSTEM HAS GOT TO HAVE ATLEAST 16 LBS OF PRESSURE OR IT DOESN’T GET THE HEATER OR THE TEMPERATURE SENSOR HOT, JUST WARM. THIS WOULD TURN ON THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT! WE HAVE A STANT RADIATOR CHECKER BUT THE FLEX HOSE HAS A LEAK SO KELLY’S GOING TO TAKE IT TO WORK TOMORROW (YES, HE AND MIKE ARE ON 12/7 TILL THEY GET SOME MACHINES OUT) AND HAVE A NEW HOSE MADE! THEN I’LL BE ABLE TO CHECK THE SYSTEM FOR LEAKS AND THE CAP FOR IT’S HOLDING ABILITY! I THINK I’VE GOT A BAD CAP BUT I’LL KNOW FOR SURE TOMORROW!
I HAVE SOME FORMULAS FOR CHECKING THE WATTAGE USE OF HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES, I PLAN ON PUTTING THEM IN MONDAY SO WATCH FOR THEM, THEY’RE EASY TO FOLLOW!
I LEFT SOME IMPORTANT THINGS OUT OF THE BIT ABOUT THE STARDUST! MY SON KERRY WHILE HOLDING DOWN A JOB AT TEXAS INSTRUMENTS MANAGED TO FIND TIME TO COMPLETELY REWIRE THE OLD MOVIE THEATER SO WE WOULD BE UP TO CODE! MIKE AND KERRY WERE THE BOUNCER PART OF THE CREW WE REALLY DIDN’T NEED BOUNCERS BECAUSE OF THE PAINT SCHEME I USED. ALL BIG BAND COLORS, ELECTRIC BLUE ON THE MAIN PART OF THE WALLS AND TRIMMED IN PALE BLUE AND SILVER! THE REST OF THE CREW WERE MOM AS ONE OF THREE BARTENDERS, ME AS WATCHER AND BACK SLAPPER WALKING AROUND TALKING TO ALL THE GUEST, BUYING DRINKS, THREE EXPERIENCED COCKTAIL WAITRESSES, COLLEEN AND LARRY HELPED OUT WHERE WE NEEDED THEM, SHANNON WAS TO YOUNG AND TIM WASN’T BORN YET! OPENING NIGHT WE HAD MORE THAN 414 PEOPLE SEATED AND STILL HAD A 30’ X 50’ DANCE FLOOR, THE BAND WAS ON THE STAGE, THEY WERE FROM GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE AND SPECIALIZED IN MUSIC FROM THE BIG BAND ERA. AS USUAL WHEN THE BAND WOULD PLAY A GLENN MILLER ARRANGEMENT THE DANCING ALMOST STOPPED AS THE DANCERS CROWDED AROUND THE FOOT OF THE STAGE! NOT ONE ARGUMENT OR FIGHT! ONE OF THE MEMBERS ON SLIDE TROMBONE WAS A PILOT FRIEND OF MINE NAMED CHRIS PEUTISCHE HE ALSO WORKED FOR THE KATY RAILROAD! TO EXPLAIN HOW GOOD THE ACCUSTICS WERE IN THIS BUILDING, YOU COULD STAND AT THE BACK OF THE STAGE AND TALK IN A VERY LOW TONE AND SOMEONE SETTING AT THE BAR 0VER 50’ AWAY COULD HEAR EVERY WORD SAID! TO REALLY TEST THIS I OPENED THE TWO PAIR OF DOUBLE DOORS TO THE OUTSIDE AND WALKED ACROSS THE STREET, ACROSS THE BANK PARKING LOT AND THE NEXT STREET TO THE POST OFFICE AND CHRIS WAS PLAYING TOMMY DORSEY’S SONG OF INDIA. WE COULD HAVE DANCED ON THE POST OFFICE STEPS TO THE MUSIC. TRYING TO SAVE THE CLUB WE BOOKED IN VINCE VANCE AND THE VALIANTS, THEY CAME IN ON SATURDAY MORNING TO SET UP AND THEY STACKED HUGE SPEAKERS TO THE CEILING 50’ ON EACH SIDE OF THE STAGE, I ASKED THE LEADER WHAT THAT MANY SPEAKERS WERE FOR AND HIS ANSWER WAS; “WE WANT THE PEOPLE TO HER US IN A BUILDING THIS OLD.” I TOLD HIM TO GET HIS GUITAR AND STRUM A CHORD FOR ME THROUGH THOSE SPEAKERS WHICH HE DID AND IT DAMN NEAR DEAFENED ME, THEN, I TOLD HIMTO TURN OFF THE SPEAKERS AND HAD HIS SOUND MANAGER WALK WITH ME TO THE FOYER, I SAID IN A LOW TONE, “GO AHEAD AND STRUM A CORD” WHICH HE DID AND THE SOUND MANAGER GRABBED HIS EARS AND WENT AND TOLD THE LEADER THEY WOULD USE THE SPEAKERS ONLY IF THE CROWED GOT TO LOUD, THEY NEVER TURNED THEM ON! IT WAS A GREAT, GREAT FACILITY BUT WE COULDN’T GET LOCAL SUPPORT! I IMAGINE I SCREWED UP IN ONE OF THE TV INTERVIEWS I DID THEY ASKED ME WHY I HAD BUILT THE STARDUST AND I MISTAKENLY ANSWERED I WAS TRYING TO GIVE SOME CLASS TO THE AREA WHICH WAS TRUE! OF COURSE THE PEOPLE OF DENISON, SHERMAN THING THEY ARE OVER FLOWING WITH CLASS, MORE POWER TO THEM BUT THEY’RE WRONG! CLASS IS SOMETHING YOU MUST DEVELOP NOT SOMETHING YOU NATURALLY HAVE!
THAT’S “30” FOR THIS ISSUE.
HOWARD
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