{"id":3883,"date":"2015-09-15T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2015-09-15T03:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:47:01","slug":"update-8-wednesday-9915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/?p=3883","title":{"rendered":"Update #8, Wednesday, 9\/9\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our \u201cshipment\u201d update contains better news today. Our stuff has arrived at the local distribution point, and is scheduled for delivery on Friday, 9\/11\/15. We\u2019re not sure what time exactly yet, but it\u2019s nice to know it\u2019s close, and the end is in sight.<\/p>\n

Had a fun visit with Josie. I forgot to mention our Wednesday tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in North Fort Worth. It\u2019s one of two sites in the US (the other is Washington, DC) that prints US currency. The level of security and all the printing countermeasures to defeat counterfeiters is really interesting. Stacks and stacks of cash were sitting everywhere.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning we took the Segway tour of Trinity Park and the 7th<\/sup> Street district. We did a lot of off-road riding on this tour. Judy joined us for the evening trip to AT&T Stadium and the Dallas Cowboys last pre-season game. I wasn\u2019t expecting a big crowd, but by half-time, the stadium seemed nearly full. The game itself was very average (no starters played), with lots of guys working hard to make the team before the final cut.<\/p>\n

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And our Segway tour begins.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ve been around the stadium several times before, but it’s still impressive, every visit.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Friday, I took Josie to the Stockyards. We wandered down a few of the streets and had a chance to watch the Longhorn herd drive down Main Street.<\/p>\n

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The longhorn “herd” waiting for cattle drive.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Time to go to work!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Those are some “long” horns<\/p><\/div>\n

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I took Josie to meet a friend in Grand Prairie. They were going to catch up on \u201cold times\u201d during their drive to Love Field to catch Josie\u2019s flight back to El Paso. Josie is still not sure what her Visa status is. With the big \u201cDefeat of Japan\u201d celebration going on in China, and the upcoming Autumn holiday, Josie\u2019s not sure when she\u2019s ever going to get her paperwork finished and actually depart for China.<\/p>\n

Our Labor Day Holiday was quiet. We enjoyed some family time. I made it over to the DFW table tennis session on Saturday. Tuesday and Wednesday were spent deciding about our \u201cestate sale\u201d. We have a site, and now the planning for when and how to get our stuff delivered is underway. Trying to figure out when and where to sort the stuff we want to keep, and then how to deliver it to the correct destination is the struggle right now. It\u2019s not life or death, but it\u2019s the biggest problem we have right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our \u201cshipment\u201d update contains better news today. Our stuff has arrived at the local distribution point, and is scheduled for delivery on Friday, 9\/11\/15. We\u2019re not sure what time exactly yet, but it\u2019s nice to know it\u2019s close, and the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gordonandjudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}