Awake: 5:24am Temp 42 sleep 5+38 partly sunny overnight @
Newell campsite.
Mid morning, I visit the service desk & give the coordinators a head’s up
on our TV delivery today. According to the Bax Global.com web site, our TV
left the Tulsa, OK station @ 9:32am this morning heading for Miami, OK.
Then I visit John (vice Pres of service) & have a lengthy discussion on
recall notices for RV’s. I won’t go into minute detail, it’s much too
esoteric!
Kathy decides to make another trip downtown @ 1:40pm; there are still a
few stores yet to explore. During her absence, I hang around the area just
in case Bobby, the warehouse guy, gets our TV & the guys have the time to
install it. Meanwhile, I do some magazine reading & check the Bax Global
site a few times for updates.
Kathy returns @ 3:00pm & is surprised that: nothing has changed. I talk
her into going over to the factory & viewing the new bi-fold basement
doors that are now standard equipment on all new coaches. During our
visit, Brian in sales is showing a customer some of the new changes,
including the bi-folding doors & the remote controlled basement Joey bed.
His client ordered his first Newell months ago & it’s forecasted to be
finished in February. Since we are in the area, I introduce Kathy to the
Newell warehouse, which is next door to production, where the
inbound/outbound shipping takes place. Bobby & I discuss the phantom TV
yet to arrive. He suggests giving Sony a call. Back @ our bus, I do just
that & learn that for whatever reason, our TV will not be arriving today,
but tomorrow.
6:50 dinner: Stuffed peppers with a mixed salad.
Again, double feature night…..no popcorn. 1st movie: “Six Days, Seven
Nights” with Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, etc. A romantic
comedy about a N.Y.C. career woman (Heche), who’s forced to interrupt an
idyllic tropical vacation with her boyfriend (Schwimmer) for a business
side trip. Then her chartered plane crash-lands, & she’s stranded on a
deserted island with her pilot (Ford) who’s not exactly her type (& vice
versa). 1998. Not too shabby!
2nd movie: “The Al Jolson Story” with Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William
Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath, etc. Entertaining bio of all-time
great Al Jolson, with Parks giving his all in a story of brash vaudeville
performer’s rise in the show biz world. Many songs (all dubbed by Jolson).
The only shot of the real Jolson was on the runway during the “Swanee”
sequence. 1946. Afterward, we get on Google & find out that Jolson and
his wife, Ruby Wilson, were unable to have children and adopted a boy, Al
Jolson, Jr. who went with his mother upon her divorce from Jolson. She
remarried and had 4 children. When he was 14, Al Jolson, Jr. changed his
name to Peter Lowe after his mother's second husband, John Lowe.
High temp=54 Lights out: 11:45pm
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