One June 2015

A Monday, a new month, the year is nearing the half-way point & the rain has stopped with the return of sunshine & seasonably cool temperatures for the time being anyway.

Yes Fans, yesterday was sunny & perfect and today starts sunny & cool with prospects for more warmth. Biggest news is the rain appears to be over for a bit so this is one of those times when one can truly feel fortunate and say a prayer of Thanks for all tihngs good.

Estate mint tea this morning very heavy with mint as the recent rains have made the bumper crop MORE abundant. I read somewhere recently that mint was good for you & I had almost forgotten how good it could be hot, fresh with the tart, fuzzy litte red sumac berries.

So I was up early, read some short chapters from the latest book, took a short nap & tried to get out of bed again.

WEEKEND RECAP

The weekend plan came off like clockwork. Michael Crichton’s Pirate Lattitudes is a terrific read & already past the first 100 pages. Pure fun, fast & very entertaining. I found out the book was a first edition & now probably worth a bit more than I paid for it. I am already thinking it is worth reading again. This is the only other author in addition to John Stephens & myself of course whose work I would read again.

Wicked Strong Racing has three registered for the HH100 this year. Patty, Mikey & me as none other of the deadbeats pony up. Others will pay more but the Team has increased membership & riders for this years race already. FB is the emergency contact so there by default is Medical Director Wicked Strong Racing. Others will fork over extra $15 after today as entry fee jumps from $30 to $45.

Stanley Cup Finals begin Wednesday night with a dream matchup. Bolts dispositioned NYRangers Friday & the Bhawks embarrassed the ‘Mighty’ Duck Saturday night. The DRed Sox were similarly humiliated by the TXRangers in a four game series 3 games to 1.

Saturday afternoon the value of having an organized plan was demonstrated in full.

Va jets in for Mass & the concert Saturday in Frisco with Huey Lewis & J Buffet. We took some time to make a plan & decided we needed some booze for the show. Out of Makers & leftover Uncle Dick’s ‘Top Dog’/’Dawg Daze’ margarita mix from the Cinco de Mayo event waiting to be disposed of properly & responsibly so the shopping list was short. Makers & tequila.

Couple in photo bottom right from the floor seats for Huey Lewis APPARENTLY were NOT impressed with the bouncing beachballs & could not wait to get home.

We run short on time & speed North up 75 a few exits to Fossil Creek Liquors, Beer, Wine & massage. Second base/stop is Mass at 5:00. Time is now squeeeeezing the dynamic duet.

A stop at the cloud was going to be required sometime before the show (and Mass) so we plugged into the algorithm a number of factors, digits, formulae including the weather. Besides, she forgot to grab the tickets but we WON’T GO THERE.

Rapidly filling the baby Makers & filling all other such ‘life support’ party gear, we left quickly for Mass at a new venue in Frisco closer to the concert site.

St Francis of Assisi was a large complex and first walking into the nave of church, it seemed small. Almost too small. However once inside the vast size was staggering. The alter, priest & servers were far in the distance & the flock could have been 1 or 2,000. There was a bustle of activity borderline read distractions but not so in a church. One father led a son out to the back that had thrown up. You heard me correctly. Ushers later came with paper towels & mops which was way over kill then ‘slippery floor’ signs to mark the area.

We were out & looking for a place to park before you could say or sing a couple days off or wasting away again whereever …

Traffic was the usual nightmare & even though we were slightly on the early side, the crowd of revelers were already milling towards the gates. And a finer collection of drunks cannot be found than at a J Buffet concert. I was there mostly to see Huey Lewis & the news play a couple days off. He did enough of his ‘hits’ to pacify the local older crowd but for the life of me U am thinking NOW maybe the older geysers could not handle a couple days off. I told Va what a let down.

Between shows we make way to our paid seats. We saw HL&the news from the floor as Va had some connections but only for the opening acts.

So we find a concession stand & Va goes to that line whilst I line up with the boys for urinal space available. It takes only a matter of minutes which would delight my urologist.

When I meet back up with Va, she informs me that they do not have Coca-cola ANYWHERE in Toyota Stadium !!

MOTHER OF PEARL !!

You mean we should have smuggled in the Coke as well?

‘How about Dr Pepper?’ she says.

‘How bout we go HOME’ I reply.

‘What about an RC?’

‘Fine.’ Well, I LIED & it wasn’t. I couldn’t finish it & switched to a beer which I sipped gingerly.

Whoever heard of a Dr Pepper & Makers? I mean Makers & Dr Pepper doesn’t even work.

Makers & RC? WHAT? Reclaimed ?

Apparently we found the way out & home for Sunday morning was perfect for a bike ride. Original plan called for hitting golf balls but the range was flooded & closed.

There were little minutia not included but worth mentioning just to let you know that I, like everyone, has domestic chores & affairs to attend to. Things like laundry, lawn, plant watering, yard & artistic project all showed signs of activity. Small but steady.

Finally, the next IIE article was worked on. Progress is slow & much more difficult than first anticipated but again, keeping focused & going forward.

I could go on but I fear now if I did that Iwould run out of material by mid-month.

10:38 PM

Once again technology goes bust. Shortly after completing this entry, the netwrok connection failed. No problem just wait til later, right?

WRONG. Rechecking at this late hour, still down & new acronym found here … POS.

See 2 June, Six Two & Odd for continuation & you will be current. For now.