October 24

A lazy start to a lazy day. Looks like the water is reaching out to the sun as the fog raises from the water toward the big bright beautiful thing. It's only fifty right now but the talk is for it to get into the mid seventies today. Sounds good to me!

We started a small neighborhood baseball pool yesterday. It pays out only $25.00 but it makes the game a little more interesting. A sheet of paper with 100 squares, 25 cents per square and so everyone can play, 8 squares per person max. Across the top is Cardinals and along the side is Red Sox. After the squares are all sold we draw numbers from 0 to nine and put them across the top of the ten squares. Then we draw numbers to put along side the ten squares. Your squares will then take on meaning as from the left, a number, then to your square, then from your square to the top number. For example if the number on the left is a 1 and the number at the top is a 2, then if and when the an inning ends with the score of Red Sox 1, Cards 2 you'll win $2.50. You will continue to win every time an inning ends with your numbers. We set it up to pay $2.50 per inning up to the ninth inning with the last $2.50 going to the one holding the correct score at the end of the game.

Last nights game produced six winners with the biggest winner, Keith Truesdell, raking in $7.50. Joe Thomas won $2.50, Glenda won $2.50, Mary Jo won $2.50 Ruthie won $5.00 and I won $5.00. Well after you deduct the cost to play nobody won very much but Keith didn't do bad. So far for today's game we still have 12 empty squares. If you want a few of them at 25 cents each, let me know. Your credit is good here.

There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the advice of experts, which is the most certain.