November 24

Good morning,

We've already let yesterday slip by failing to accomplish a whole heck of a lot. Tis' a shame and now it's too late to go back and redo it. I'm not saying that we completely wasted an important day of our lives. Every one of allocated days are important. I'm just saying that like a lot of other folks in this world, we didn't do all that we could have. A terrible waste! Do I sound sorry? Well I'm not! We had a good time and enjoyed the whole day.

Sam's Town took a little money from us but they allowed us to decide the amount and how we wanted to turn it loose. At the machines I was staying ahead but we decided to play bingo. The last game made me a nervous wreck. It was a coverall with three chances to win. I had two cards needing three numbers. The caller called one of my numbers leaving me two shy of winning on two cards but another won the first game. The first number drawn for the second chance was one of the two that I was left needing on both cards but it turned up the second winner. Now I was down to needing only one number for either card. If they pulled the correct number on one of my cards (orange) it would be a $500 pot. On the second card (tan) it would be a $750 pot. How could I miss? I was sitting there thinking how high I should jump when I yelled bingo as and the caller called a number. The only two reasons that I couldn't have danced under a limbo stick set 12 inches off the ground was because of my girth and the fact that I was shaking so much I would have made the stick fall just by getting close to it. Sad it was but the excitement of the moment before the last call remains fresh in my mind as a big natural high that will probably cause me to play several more times. Hey, maybe I can win the next time.

Today a free, (ha), pumpkin pie each at Sunset Station and a free, (ha), apple pie each along with the last scratch on our ticket for this week. We don't eat pies so what to do with them is something we're working on. We know two people here in the park that we're pretty sure would enjoy one apiece leaving us looking for a home for the other two. A giveaway shouldn't be too complicated.

To lessen my complications I'll end this now.

"Slavery and torture were outlawed a long time ago, but, for some reason, marriage is still legal." -- humorist Ashleigh Brilliant