San Antonio Hams

I made the short trek over to Martha’s Mexican Restaurant this evening to attend the monthly AARO ham club meeting.  I got there a bit early to eat, so that I could pay better attention to what was happening during the meeting.    About 3 dozen hams and family members were there tonight, including two brand new hams, one who had his ticket about a month, the other for only 2 weeks.

During the meeting, it was announced that the annual awards / Christmas banquet would be on Friday, December 4th, at Grady’s BBQ on Bandera Rd.  Attendance will be prepaid RSVP only, last minute guests will be referred to the normal customer menu rather than the provided buffet. This change was due to a problem last year where some folks RSVP’d but didn’t show, causing the club to have to pay for the difference.

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Late this afternoon, heavy rains decided to visit San Antonio, heavy enough that the National Weather service issued a Flood Advisory until 9pm, due to the slow moving storm that was dropping 1″ to 2″ of rain in some areas. It’s now 8:30pm and still sprinkling, but the strongest storms have moved off to the SE side of Bexar County. 

 At my house on the NW side of San Antonio, near Seaworld so to speak, we’ve had 0.97 inches of rain since the storm began around 6pm.   Guess I won’t be needing to water my lawn tonight. 🙂

Source: This is forwarded to you by the State of Texas State Operations Center (SOC).
Date: August 11, 2009
Subject: New traffic, criminal laws set to go into effect Sept. 1

HB 2730 is the DPS’s Sunset Legislation, and many of the DPS-related bills this session were included in HB 2730.

Notable traffic and criminal laws that go into effect on Sept. 1 (unless otherwise indicated) include*:

Seatbelts:

HB 537 requires all occupants of a vehicle, no matter their age, to be secured by a safety belt, no matter where they are seated in the vehicle; changes the definition of a passenger vehicle to include a passenger van designed to transport 15 or fewer passengers including the driver; removes the current exemption for third-party Medicaid transportation provisions regarding the use of child passenger safety seats; and prohibits a motorcycle operator from carrying a passenger under the age of 5 unless the child is seated in a sidecar attached to the motorcycle.

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