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Running out of time so briefest of reports again. I MUST get this one in and filed prior to the witching hour for today's date is numerically significant and I have a few worthwhile things to air out.

SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW ?

Going to ignore that one completely.

Today's date is a good poker hand. At least I think it is. A pair & four of a kind. Get it ? Emma, please fact-check this & let me know. YOU know I don't play such card games. Grandpa Jack said don't gamble so I don't, didn't (much) and never learned.

So midnight is rapidly approaching and my ‘work’ calendar has this as ‘Friday night’. After a grueling week of trials, tribulations, rude & obnoxious customers, getting up at 4:30 AM to open at 6:00 AM, the lone exception & highlight being Sandra B, I have the next three, THREE (3) days off.

A flurry of text messages this evening reveals a slight change of plan with the visitors arrival. The Count & Duchess of Rockdale, pulled in arrival to early from Friday afternoon to Thursday. What can an innkeeper say to royalty I ax you ?

‘Sure.’

Which expedites my plans for Thursday like cleaning, laundry & the ‘make ready.’

Good thing things haven’t had long to get messed up after MAST. In that regard, cleaning, organizing etc s/b fairly easy.

Must work in a long bike ride somehow. Lbs creeping back & weight moving in the WRONG direction. Friday noon hour S1 (aka Br12) & I were going to go skate at Stars Center in McK. A birthday present he wanted to do. Think ‘farewell tour.’ Might still be able to pull it off & skating would be both a good workout & great fun.

I had a weird dream last night.

I scored a hat trick all with the flukeist goals. One had the trajectory of a pitching wedge & went it. Another rang loudly off the pipe & went it and the last goal was so fast I was the only one that saw it go in. I started celebrating & no one else so much as reacted. I mean at all. They went on playing and eventually they collectively said ‘hey, where’s the puck?’ ‘The pucks gone.’

I said ‘it went in. It’s in the top left corner where your Mother hides the cookies.’

They looked & sure enough it was there right where I said. Wedged up between the netting and the pipe & crossbar. Then I had to wake up.

See what I mean ? What kind of mind brews up this stuff ?

OK. That’s all you paid for.

I got to get some rest, get up again and figure out a plan or new schedule to make this all work tomorrow. A couple days off so don’t look for or EXPECT anything.

I will be entertaining Royalty thru the weekend in McK & here at the cloud.