Had to go to town today to get prescriptions filled and to get some things from Wal-Mart. While I was waiting at the pharmacy I chanced to meet up with the chief of the New Llano fire dept. He was telling me there's this set of old blueprints at the New Llano Town Hall that I simply must see. They were for a huge shopping mall that was to be built where a couple of small hotels and a Waffle House now sit along with some other smaller properties. They had no idea where these blueprints came from or who had them drawn up. He started telling me how the mall would have laid out and I just started laughing. The more he talked about it the more I laughed. He asked me what was so funny and I told him my father designed that back in the early 70's. He was the one who filed the blueprints there. There was a whole set. Floor plan, schematics, electrical components required (all above code), materials to be used, load bearing strengths, everything. Obviously it was never built, for several reasons. The company fronting the money went bankrupt and then the owner of the company died. So there was no money coming from the company and his personal funds couldn't be touched. A contract was being drawn up with the government then the worst thing that could happen happened. All government funding was frozen. Watergate was in full swing. So the plans ended up being abandoned and that's why it's in the Town Hall with no name to match it to. They had been wondering for many years where that came from. Even the former mayors that were still alive didn't know. Today the mystery was solved. Now one funny little thing, every time someone argued that a mall had never been planned for the area they trot out those old blueprints. Argument snubbed!
I got all but one of my meds refilled. That one isn't too important, just the one for my prostate condition. Got a call from my father that he needed to be picked at the local auto shop so I went and took care of that. He's still having trouble with the brakes on his RV an d he told them to find the problem and fix it. I stayed at my parents place afterward and found that my free gifts for being selected a Life Member for the History Channel Club had come in. There's quite a pile of 'em too. A credentials portfolio, an LCD travel alarm clock, key chain tag, a guide to historic America, a nice little display book to keep my American history collector's coins in, a nice little reading light that shorts out as soon as it's clipped to a book. I'll figure out how to fix that eventually. A pack of History Channel Club Life Member playing cards, the US constitution and the Bill of Rights in handy pamphlet form, A nice looking walnut trimmed pen and a nice magnifying glass that does a better job than the one I've been using. There's also a Civil War Officers sword letter opener. Last on the list is a magazine holder that when turned around looks like a three volume set of books. It's made to hold History Channel magazines but Walthers catalog will fit in it just as well.
I stayed around for dinner, which I cooked. My cooking skills are still top notch. Pork chops, home fries, green beans, cream corn and for dessert blueberry pie.
I did get the new pieces of track cleaned and GLEAMed and I got the trash packed out.
