Texas

Well I made it.

I'm in Texas. I'm visiting a Chemical plant tomorrow morning. Today I spent in safety training. I didn't sleep much last night. My departing flight was delayed by over 2 hours. By the time I got to my hotel (over an hour from the airport) it was 12:20 local time (left my house 3pm eastern time). I was so tired. The good news is I drove out of that huge airport, through downtown Houston, and all the way to my hotel without one wrong turn. Whew.

I have a crummy rental. I think it is a Saturn Ion or something like that. It is very new, but the stupid rental place couldn't bother to clean the inside of the windshield. So I drove through Houston at night, peering throught the smudgies.

I saw a cool bird today. Saw it before in my bird book but we don't have these in Ohio. Boy do they make some crazy sounds. I guess most people wouldn't be too excited by these, there are so many of them that the locals might consider them a nuisance, but I was very happy to see at least one new bird on my trip.

I am going up to my room now, to wash my hands. You can imagine some of the past google searches that have been done on this PC (saw them listed when I was typing in Grackle). Oh yeah, this is either a Boat Tailed or Great Tailed Grackle I think. My guess would be that those are two names for the same bird.

Maybe I'll check back this evening. This might be the most idle time I've had in quite awhile.