Good Evening

Dinner is over and I now have time to sit back and contemplate the happenings of the day with my feet up on the ottoman, the laptop propped on my lap and a good cigar smoldering in an ashtray next to me. I look forward to this moment when I can relax at the end of the day. Some evenings I use this time to play a little on-line poker at Pokerroom.com. Sometimes I use this time to watch Dog - The Bounty Hunter. I'm flexible.

Dog kicks ass.

It has been raining here for the last two days (off and on). Last night it was raining so hard it woke me up. We had hail, too. Sort of unusual for Phoenix, and certainly a nice change.

Dinner tonight was a nice New York strip, a baked potato and a bottle of wine that I bought from the Firestone winery in early August when we went on our "Sideways" trip. I bought 50 bottles of wine on that trip and I have 5 left....I like wine.

I don't like wine in the "I detect a slight flutter of edam cheese" way. I like wine that tastes good to me. I really don't feel the need to analyze why I like it if I like it any more than I need to analyze a song that I like. I like it because it feels good to me in some way. When I start analyzing why I like it, it becomes far too much work to be enjoyable.

Cigar, wine, rainy night, dinner with the wife and three kids (I now have 3 - our 20 year old, our 14 year old and my 16 year old nephew that is going to live with us from now on). It has been a pretty nice night. I do wonder why my 20 year old son is so uptight. Wonder where that came from?!?!

I went to physical therapy today at 3:00. My physical therapist is about 5'0" and probably weighs 98 pounds. Today she wrapped me up and popped my back. It probably looked like a chipmunk attacking a grizzly bear (a hairless grizzly bear?). I have been diagnosed with a compressed nerve between L5 and S1. All I know is that it hurts...but I didn't cry.

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