Thursday, Feb 11th

Another gorgeous day in the Valley of the Sun, temps in the 80's without a cloud in the sky. Looks like it will be this warm for at least a week or better and the tan is starting to happen, sort of like making toast, I guess.  LOL
  Marg & I went to coffee & donuts this morning, good thing too as the donuts were free.  We did pretty well in the draw for the order of tables, got to go second, so choices were very good.  It was pretty well attended.  There was a bit of visiting after this AM, seems no one was in a hurry to get on with the days' activities.  Didn't even get all the comments about Marg being a new person in the park.
  After we got on the road to go to Mediacom to pay the bill.  Their office is just down Ironwood, so only a few minutes from here.  I went as well because I wanted to tell them we are still unhappy with the wifi service and that it is no where near what it was in the past 2 years.  The girl was great, looked up the account right there and asked about the service call we had earlier.  I guess she must have done something when I told her it was a bust, the guy came to the door, saw 2 other crews working in the park and left.  Anyway we got a service guy out today, well sort of.  He came by to say he didn't have what he needed and would be back tomorrow.  You can't make this stuff up, it's really what happened.
  Marg had to get going because she was driving Lynette's daughter to the airport at 11 AM.  It was the Gateway airport in Gilbert, not the big one in Phoenix.  There are 5 or 6 airports in the Phoenix area and the Gateway airport is larger than anything in Alberta, but much smaller than Phoenix with its 4 million passengers a year.  Marg asked Nancy to go with them as she doesn't get out that much and they were planning on stopping for lunch before dropping Tammy off.  It turns out they had to go right by the American Furniture warehouse, largest one we have ever seen and none of them even knew about it.  Then they stopped at the Sweet Tomato restaurant that none of them had ever heard of.  Its one of those salad, soup and stuff of that ilk, anyway they all loved it.  They think Marg is a star as a tour guide, I guess.  The dropped Tammy off after and made their way back in good time, pretty darn good for Marg who is directionally challenged.
  I had to make my own lunch again and this is becoming a regular thing for me.  Then it was on to the pool tournament today, to play Mountainview.  We had a pretty good turnout with 10 players as did the opponents park.  My partner and I won one game out of 3, so we never held our own and I think as a team we took a beating.  They had some very good players, had to be to beat us, LOL!
  After we went to happy hour at Blanke's.  They had a big bunch tonight, must have been close to 2 dozen.  Marg didn't go as she had a lady come to our unit to cut her hair.  It's the same one who has done it in prior years and she generally cuts several others on the same trip.  The good news is she is always happy with the cut she gets from this lady and believe me that is not normal, it's usually a lot of handwringing after a cut.
  It was out for supper tonight to Ihop.  Marg had enjoyed the chicken dinner there so much last time that she had the same tonight.  On the way back we stopped at Safeway.  I wanted to pick up a 6 pack of Michelob beer for one of the pool players.  I had talked him into playing against his objections and he ended up partnered with his objection, so I felt I had to complete an act of contrition.  Marg had picked up a few things, so when we got back she wanted to give a few people a cream puff.  She had a container of the large [as a bun] ones and 3 of her buddies a couple of them.  She said it was just to put a smile on their faces.