January 21

Well, our fodder's day is over and the results were mixed. The food at the buffet was rather a poor selection the first day but good the second. I ate too much both times but fortunately most of it will be eliminated in the end.

The food for thought that I acquired for my notes wasn't much. The gaming bit for me had a good run but it didn't last and in the end it turned into crap too. Thankfully Dory's had a good run that stayed with her. It enabled her to more than cover my little loss but not quite enough to cover the pickup transmission repair of $309.48.

I did my three mile trek before we left then with rain in the forecast for Wednesday morning I took a money saving break and did another three miles to cover that day. Got up Wednesday to a rainless sky so with rain in the forecast for Thursday I did another three miles to cover that.

To make up the three miles there, I walk part of the Katy Trail across the bridge over the Missouri River to Old Franklin. Then back across and through downtown Boonville before going back to the casino. The walk takes just over an hour and has some interesting sites as well as some interesting sights.

For Wednesday mornings walk it was a bit windy which makes it a lot windy crossing the bridge. It was also fairly foggy. The bridge sits very high above the river which if I accidently look down at the water my knees get week. In my old, I've developed a terrible fear of heights. Anyway a flock of geese must have been lost in the fog and nearly flew into me. It's good they were all honking at me as I was able to duck them. I'm gonna tell you that had I wanted to I could have goosed one of the geese.

Other things I saw or noticed was the oncoming traffic consists of mostly female drivers by themselves and 60% have a cell phone to their ear. Saw a blue condom on the trail about the middle of the bridge. Wondered some about that. Can't imagine anyone screwing around on that bridge. Noticed a very old building in the downtown that had a couple Nazi swastikas built in high on the front. Wondered some about that too.

This is getting to long, way past note size. Of course if no one reads it ......... it won't make any difference anyway, but I'll stop here just because.

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Sometimes it's more interesting to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht