Saturday boredom (updated)

Ok....here's what I'm think'n. Gonna take me a lay back day an' do nuttin. Ya see, it's a bit on the cool side out on "da porch" an' I ain't a sit on "da porch" cool side type of guy. With all the snow and wind a couple hunnert mile to the north, I'm expect'n it's gonna be cold in Deming 'fore I know it. I rekon as long as my water hose don't freeze solid, I'm good to go. It just now hit the 65 deg mark, an' climb'n, on that cheap Walmart thermometer I got hang'n outside. Gonna be another beautiful day in the desert southwest.

Speak'n of cold. Me an' first mate Vickie Lynn had left all our winter clothes back in San Antonio and we are in Big Bend State Park headed for California. It's the begin'n of winter in the mountains. I'm talk'n cold. We had a full tank of propane an' one cheap Walmart battery. That battery run that furnace for a couple hour an' it die....slap dead....no heat. I swear I froze to death that first night....an' we gonna be here for 3 nights. Goodwill, we gotta find a Goodwill. Had I knowed at the time that a regular Walmart battery is gonna die in 2 hours of run'n the furnace, I would have bought me up a blasted heater to sit on the floor what don't use no electricity. Learn'n curve for RV'n an' boondock'n.

As with any house in suburbia, RV's also have little "rodent run a round" problems. These little critters seem to get into everything, especially the freak'n oven. Why the oven? Well anyhows, I fount me some evidence of their presence a few days ago. Foot prints....(let's see how many bite on that one). I grabs me up one my special mouse critter catch'n thingys and load it up with peanut butter. Put it in the oven. Snap, pop, squeek....I done catched me up a mouse in the oven. But wait....I ain't supposed to have no little mices run'n round "Sally da house". I bought one them electronic thing a bobs what supposed to run them off. Apparently, they don't work an' I'm out another $15. Who would'a thought an electronic device made in China wouldn't work.
Just to be on the safe side for all the animal rights people, I did not beat, harass or harm this mouse in any way or fashion. He died of a heart attack when he see that wire loop thingy gonna squish his nasty disease infested little ass.

I didn't tell ya bout my golf ball swak'n exercise program the other day. The first half of the exercise program, that's 9 holes, I had me a pretty good score of 45. I'm git'n all excitis now. Well, on the 10th hole, I fall slap apart and hit a double bogie....two over par. It were all down hill from then on. Ended up with another somewhat decent round of 94 (after some spectacular shots)....what I should have struck a round of 89 or 90. I ain't never gonna learn how to play golf.

Don't know if'n I'm gonna have to cut my trip through Texas short or not. My plan was to spend a month get'n to way down south Texas where the OFM Barney is hang'n out. The coastal bend of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. Ya see, I still ain't fount the ignition/starter problem on "Sally da house". There ain't nobody in Deming what knows anything bout motorhomes or big ol' 496 cubic inches motors, so I gonna have to wait till I get somewheres where I can get it fix. When the motor don't start, I start.....worry, worry, worry.

Maybe laundry today. I got me a basket full back there in the bedroom what is begin'n to smell something awful. Well, it ain't that bad consider'n the "old man" smell that lingers back there. I done wash everthing from sheets, pillow cases and blankets....still smell like a old man lives back there. What the hell??? No ladies, it ain't near as bad as you might be think'n. I exaggerate sometimes ya know. Actually, it smell pretty good back there....if'n you is a man.

Ok....gotta figger out what to do today. "Ride the "billy bike" Billy Bob, put the dishes up, take the trash out, do the laundry...git off your ass".
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Engine starting update:
 This is one then fandangled new computerized 'everything' type of motorhomes. I ain't worth a crap with computers. But I did make some progress. Since I have never had the engine not start up on the first turn of the key I never knew or suspected there was any kind of starting problem. So I spent what was left of the morn'n on investigat'n and analyzing what happens when ya turn the key to start. If all is ok, the computer says to "go ahead and start engine". If'n it don't start up on the first try, the computer says "wait a total of exactly 5 seconds before you try again". I did that and it works perfectly every time. So maybe there is NOT a damn thing wrong an' I been los'n sleep for nuttin. A google search for the 5 second delay produced no results, but I'm still look'n.
As far as I can figger out, this 5 second delay is built into the computer system or that big ol' box full of solenoids, relays, a hunnert fuses, a gazillion wires and a circuit board under the hood.