Sunday

We've had a blast of Arctic weather this weekend.  Single digits this AM.  I'm not really sure whether that constitutes "unseasonable cold" or not...but it IS cold.

It was a successful visit from my pal Jake Thursday and Friday.  We spent a lot of time with our pal Pete...quite a bit of wine and lots of replays of old stories.  I'm not sure if this pic needs any futher explanation.

I had never been to the casino/hotel that they built a couple years back on the Illinois side.  But we were looking to change things up a bit and we figured that there had to be a couple of bars in the casino.  There were, but nothing very impressive...and a limited wine list.  I wasn't expecting the casino's controlled, secure entry arrangement where each patron was required to show a picture ID.  There wasn't a sports book.  Over all, it wasn't Vegas.  We elected to just go to the bar which was walled-off from the casino.

These gals were entirely window-dressing.  There was no show/revue or anything.  They were just walking around greeting customers and posing for pics.  The bar was on their circuit.

Moving on...

Props to all of our teams for victories yesterday.  We haven't had many Saturday's when all three had success.  The Hawks' victory was especially good since they gave up a pick-six on their first offensive play of the game, and were down by two TD's at the half.  Really, they lost the turn-over battle, failed on two first-half field goal attempts, and were playing against the wind in that fourth quarter.  So they shouldn't have won.  ND had to play well to beat BYU...it sure looked cold there.  And I know it was cold in Ames.  In all cases, I was glad I was inside watching the tube rather than out in the elements.

I have photographer friend Mark lined-up for family pics this week.  Somebody needs to make a choice on the best time and place for the session.  Wednesday night?  Thursday?

Not much else from here.  I entered this from the laptop on Maplecrest and Blogger locked-up again as I was getting set to publish.  I really think that I will make the move to the other platform...for which I have already paid the first year fee.  Really tired of these techie issues.

(And I have a tech issue at the office that has been driving me nuts.  The new data software that I bought last week is just fine.  But it "Saves" on an Adobe protocol.  Our LAN is programmed to use another pdf package for the SAVE function, and that is overriding the new program.  So I'm now printing from the new software, and then scanning those printed copies to create an electronic file that I can transmit through the computer.  Can you say, "Dumbing down?")

Looking forward to FFF.  Travel safe.

BCOT