Friday night it appeared. A double rainbow, as we were leaving Waycross to return home to Blackshear. Alison was able to take a picture of it, and also some traffic. There is a railroad crossing ahead, and given that it was Waycross, it was almost a miracle that there wasn't a train there.
Waycross is one of the few areas where CSX, the railroad company, hasn't made tremendous cutbacks yet. They recently hired a CEO whose major function is to cut costs, consolidate, and eliminate jobs. I know a good number of people who either they or their spouse works at CSX. If they do cut back here, it will have a major impact on the community. We have very few employers in the area who pay a living wage.
Meanwhile, why we were in Waycross on Friday night? We were trying a new pizza place! Stoner's Pizza Joint, a title that seems somewhat redundant. It is highly suggestive of a, uh, certain counter-culture, but, unlike Mellow Mushroom, it had none of that ambiance once you got inside.
We ordered to pick up, and told the wait would be thirty to forty-five minutes. Alison and I left for a quick errand, leaving Benjamin there to listen out for our order, and he had some friends there to talk to. When we got back, we continued to wait. For an hour. I finally went to the front and asked what the progress was for an order under the name of Strait, and, lo and behold, it was in a red warm-up bag on the side-counter. I had been watching the activity since I had come back, and I knew that red bag had been there the whole time. Shyness has its price.
The food itself was very good. The cheesy bread was spectacular, and Benjamin's Stromboli was excellent. The BBQ chicken pizza was good, at least in places. Topping distribution was uneven, leaving some pieces with very little on them. I also don't need to order hand-tossed crust anymore - it was a little tough for my TMJ mangled jaw. I think the thin crust, or the New Yorker crust, should be pretty good.
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The flood waters continue to recede in Texas, revealing substantial property damage. It will be a very long time before that area is restored, and it will cost a lot of money. Hopefully, we are up to the task. And aren't we grateful we have a President who visited and saw a lot of "happiness" and told everyone while he was leaving, "Have a good time!"
Harvey, as devastating as it was, is not the only weather related problem in the world. Last week, there were also terrible floods in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. We currently have destructive wildfires in California and Montana. And Hurricane Irma is churning and strengthening out in the Atlantic, with a potential turn towards the U.S. East Coast.
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In a direct confrontation with the SEC, Michigan beat Florida, 33 to 17. That means their national title hopes are still alive. Currently, power rankings put Michigan at No. 4 - IN THE BIG TEN. Oh, well. Right now, they're undefeated. We'll take it a game at a time!
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Our Sunday Movie of the Week was Westworld from 1973. It was pretty good, and you could see echoes of the HBO series that ran recently. Yul Brynner's single-minded robotic pursuit of Richard Benjamin was impressive, and seemed like the pattern used for Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator. I also enjoyed the glimpses of Medieval World and Roman World, something the HBO series has not done much of.
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A couple weeks ago I had heard from my dwindling group of Trumpeteer friends, that Trump's bully browbeating in connection with North Korea had caused them to surrender and stop challenging us and others. Yeah. How's that bully-bating thing going now?
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Happy Labor Day! I'm sure all of you are taking the day to be grateful to unions, who had brought so many of the worker's benefits that too many of us just take for granted. Yeah. That's happening.
Until next time,
T. M. Strait
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