Possumblog

Well now--

--that was like upgrading from 5 horsepower trolling motor pulling an aircraft carrier to a TEN horsepower motor pulling an aircraft carrier!

The laptop, that is. It's not quite as sluggish as the other one, but there's still plenty of lag between slides, and it actually does make a pleasant chugging sound as it begins the initial startup to run the show.

Oh well.

NOW THEN, as I was sayin'--

Friday we were kidless, but sadly, due to the amount of time we had to wait before we could drop the older girls off at the spend-the-night-and-giggle party, there was no time left to be able to go see a movie. Not that there's that much out there right now. I would like to go see Serenity, just because I always like Firefly, but Reba wasn't in the mood for anything with any kinds of splodey stuff. The spooky crap neither one of us like, and after you take out all that and the REALLY stupid stuff, we had gotten it down to either Wallace & Gromit or Elizabethtown. Obviously, W&G was my pick. And yes, I realize that E'town has Kirsten Dunst in it, but she's not dressed up like Mary Jane, so who cares.

BEGIN DENNIS AND BUNNY WASHBURN TRANSFORMATION

So, we dropped the younger two at the grandparents, finally made our way to the drop-off point of the older two, and then took ourselves to Costa's newest barbecue and steak place in Trussville. (And yes, of course you can order sauce.) This is a nice place built in the shopping center across from the new Kohl's store, and so I was a bit surprised when we were seated almost immediately, and the place was probably only about half full of diners. On a Friday night, shank of the evening, and there's not a line out the door? Even the mundane chain places have trouble seating everyone, so this seemed a bit off. Maybe word of mouth will help out, because the food is good.

We walked in and one couple was in front of us, and it seemed the hostess and the take-them-to-their-seat-guy were having some sort of competition. I don't know what it was about, but the girl asked the couple the usual "how many" question, and then he rushed over and looked at the chart and asked how many, and then grabbed menus and ran off.

After those two were gone, we told her "two, non-smoking" and she had no sooner written it down, told us it would be fifteen minutes, and given us the flashing beeper thing than he was breathlessly back at her side demanding to know how many we were. "Two," and he grabbed two menus--even though we already had two menus to look at, and demanded we follow him. I don't know what was going on there--maybe he was trying to justify his job or thought that since she had a Spanish accent she must not understand something. There was certainly no reason for them both to be there since the place was so unbusy. He seemed a little too on edge, which was just sorta off-putting. Recommendation? Can him, and let her do her job without interruption.

After we were seated, we both had the pork plate--chopped, inside--with slaw. Reba got the baked potato and I got green beans. Service was good enough, although our waitress seemed, well, not inattentive, really, but distracted or something. I blame her mullet. It makes people act that way, you know.

But the pork was just right--tender and hot and just enough sauce. The beans were good, too--obviously, flavored with Mr. Other White Meat, along with some pepper and onions. Mmm. We couldn't eat it all, so we eventually managed to get a takeout box, and, well, took it out. About 35 bucks total, including a much larger tip that was necessary.

And thus ends my Dennis and Bunny Flashback. On then to Wal-Mart!

But right now, it's lunchtime!

Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 19, 2005 11:48 AM