Silenced No More

The Dell contracted repairman showed up late yesterday afternoon as promised. After replacing the screen portion of our laptop, it was once again up and running. This allowed me to get our tax spreadsheets printed and all the info sent off to the tax man yesterday. Hope Uncle Sam is good to us and sends a check.

While I don't remember much of what we did this weekend, two items stick out in my mind. One - the weather was fabulous and we swam on Saturday. Two - Saturday evening a group of us went to the "Mary and Terri Sing-a-long." A couple of weeks ago we walked by to hear what was going on - at that time we decided we would NEVER sit through that. Our friends managed to persuade us to go due to lack of any better entertainment (or so we thought). Oh my - nothing like one elderly woman singing love songs to her girlfriend in front of 150 retirees. After an hour of this, there was a "Newlywed Game" played with four couples who were married anywhere from seven to 35 years. We've seen this before on cruise ships. This was the G-rated version, and not so funny. Alcohol did not help the evening. This we swear to - we will not be back. Pam and Dennis - you two are on your own if you want to go in March.

Last evening was our belated Valentine's Day dinner at the St. John's Seafood restaurant for all-you-can-eat crab legs. One more trip for this delicacy when Pam and Dennis come for a week in March with their new trailer. Our stomachs should be sufficiently stretched out by then for another pig-out.

The morning's local news out of Orlando was great. They showed the Atlantis shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center after being in orbit for 10 days. Since we got to see it lift off in person, I wanted to see it land safe and sound (at least on TV). It was a beautiful sight.

Today we tried out a different golf course in Gainesville. Even though it got mediocre reviews on-line, we decided to give it a try anyway for something new. Joe and Marilyn and Mark and I were off. The course was not great, and neither was my score. I'm still trying to figure out the new clubs. At times it feels like I've never golfed a day in my life. Mark assures me that eventually everything will just "click" and I'll do much better. It's still fun though - how can it not be when riding with Marilyn. We both love to laugh a lot.

I'm not sure we'll be able to see the lunar eclipse tonight - much too cloudy to see anything. Can't wait to hear about the spy satellite being shot down tonight. Sounds like the makings of another Bruce Willis action thriller in the near future.

We're having a SEVERE WEATHER ALERT here in Orange Lake. It's for dry air/low humidity which can result in fires if smokers are careless with their butts. We're sorry for all of you back home who will be dealing with WINTER STORM WARNINGS tomorrow. Drive safely.

And one final note to our oldest son and his fiance - we are happy and thankful you are feeling better; you gave us quite the scare. It just proves that no matter how old your kids are, you still worry to death about them. You two have fun in Tucson next week.