Back in Brisco County

Maddie really enjoyed her class this morning at college, talking all the way home about a lesson involving rocks and building materials and deep scriptural insight that she hadn't thought of before.  In other words, a fantastic day at Free Chapel College, and we're just getting started.  Maddie's new Free Chapel College notebook is already broken in with lots of notes from Maddie, who is really locked in and enjoying the classes and the experience. 

I was over at the main campus working on our booklet for November.  We're doing a great job with this one, moving forward with it quickly.  We have a five-weekend November, and our messages are just spilling out, and that's a great thing.  Just a few more activities, and the booklet will be completely done.

Maddie had Team Edge practice tonight, and yes, it's a Wednesday night.  She'll have a few practices on Wednesday nights coming up, although not next Wednesday.  Things were busy for the studio on Saturdays so they had to move to Wednesday nights.  It's okay, as it all works out with the schedule.  

Mom and I are still on this detox program, which requires a precise schedule with various supplements and droplets.  It's been a bit rougher on Mom, but it's definitely doing something inside the both of us.  We have various videos to watch and all kinds of dietary changes.  It's been good to do this together.

Now that Cracker Barrel has reverted to what was, or at least made the appearance of reverting - they've brought back their old logo for a start - we might even swing by there again for a low-carb meal.  They took a tremendous hit this weekend, and it's funny because we were just there not long ago, and so not showing up this weekend wasn't a huge issue for us.  Still, reportedly, the parking lots of these locations were sparse, and that must have send the administration heads into panic mode.  First, there was this corporate-speak letter about the value of customers and so on, one that looked crafted by AI, and sort of went around in circles without making any big commitment in any direction other than to say that they were listening to customers.  And no one liked that.  So then came the next blunt letter which said, "Okay, fine.  The new logo is gone.  The old one with the guy and the barrel is coming back.  Now please, can you come back too?"  Along with that, certain things on websites and other changes were made.  An expensive lesson learned.  But hopefully the company can make a comeback.  We really are loyalists, and it was like our experience with Disney. We don't enjoy seeing these places suffer, but we couldn't reward bad choices.  Okay, time to move on!

Tonight we watched the pilot episode of "Brisco County, Jr."  This was a great, great series from the 90's, and I've seen it a few times, but each time I forget how much fun it is.  I actually have an autographed photo of Bruce Campbell somewhere, and I remember "Army of Darkness" and how much fun that season was.  Mom got me some "Army of Dark Chocolate" coffee recently, and it's actually really good.  But yes, "Brisco County, Jr." was a fun western science fiction series, a really wild mix of genres that just clicked with an amazing cast.  I forgot how long the pilot episode was, basically a full-length movie, but we stuck with it, because you just had to see what happened next.  The old-school serial western format is really fun, so yeah, we'll be probably revisiting all these episodes the next few weeks or so.  

Before bed, we read from Discworld for just a bit, about the nobility of Corporal Nobbs, and of the attempted poisoning of the Patrician.  "Feet of Clay" is just getting started, but we're enjoying the mystery as it gets started.  Reading has been great each night, and I'm glad to be going through all these Discworld books.  We prayed afterwards, and then it was time for some sleep.  Got another school day tomorrow!