Friday, Feb 17th

A nice day in the Apache Junction.
  Happy birthday Kennedy, on your sweet 16 today, a special birthday.  Hard to believe but she has her driving test scheduled for tomorrow, not wasting any time with that.  They grow up so fast.
  We lazed about in the morning as we had some things to catch up on.  Marg did some laundry to keep it from piling up.  I worked on a pool cue that I was putting a new tip on.  At the pool room they have breaking cues, you know to break the rack with the first shot.  It's because so many guys have 2 part cues and smashing the rack of balls with them eventually causes problems with the connection and is tough on the tip.  Anyway one broke off and the guy who looks after them was under the weather so I just took it home.
  After lunch I went to play pool.  I played with 3 guys, two of whom are very good and we had some good games.  We also had some very good laughs, you had to be there I guess.  For example I only had one ball left, then the 8 ball to win.  One of the guys said well he has the game unless he misses, so the power of suggestion, I missed a very easy shot.  The 8 ball was right in front the pocket, looked like you couldn't miss, so I said well looks like he has the game unless he follows it in.  Well you know what happened and we had a real belly laugh, well 3 of us did anyway.  LOL  Marg went out for a few things.  It may seem she goes shopping quite often and she does, but it's partly because we don't have a lot of room to keep large amounts of food, especially in the fridge and she is still working on loose ends for the shower.
  We went to happy hour and knowing there would be a group wanting to eat fish tonight.  We told people it was date night, that we never went out for Valentines day, so were going tonight.  We were originally planning to eat out on Saturday, but Marg signed us up for a sampling at the chili cook-off that night.  Apparently the gals gave Marg quite a razzing about what date night means, but I missed it, so if you're curious, you will have to ask her for details.  We went out to Red Lobster and although the line was about a half hour, it was worth the wait.  She had a plate that included 2 lobster tails, I had a plate of coconut shrimp.  Both were delicious and more food than either of us could finish, so 2 doggie bags to take home.  I think lunch is looked after tomorrow.  There was a big serving of pasta with lobster, shrimp, scallops in it that she never finished and half a dozen huge shrimp with sauce.
  Had lots of phone calls, some facetime and emails from home today, lots going on.