Jan 5th

  Seems so quiet today, miss our family already.  It sure was nice having them here for the last week.  It challenged us to explore new things & gave us lots of laughs.  It was a pretty nice day, the temp was in the 60's and sunny.  The wind blew a bit, but not like some of the days in the past week.  They did leave me with a nice souvenir, a Taylor Made driver, that I can hardly wait to try. 
  Started they day off with a pancake breakfast in the hall.  Marg did not go, so I sat with a bunch of the bachelor herd.  Mostly guys whose wives do not do breakfast either.  It was good, a great way to start the day.
  After we went over to Best Buy to see the Geek Squad again.  It seems the problem with the new laptop is an overly sensitive track pad.  When I was typing my palms and thumbs were causing the cursor to move around.  I always thought I was all thumbs.  Anyway it turns out there is a way to disengage the track pad - f5, no -- it was that simple.  I really am a techno-peasant.
  They also handle Trac Phone, but never had the model we want in stock.  After we went to a couple of Walmart's looking for a new phone, same story, but the last one showed us an option that solved our problem.  It was a day for the technology challenges with anything containing the word trac/track to really show us up.  Also looked at a few bikes.  I never brought mine, with plans to get a new one down here.
  Stopped for a few groceries at the Superstition farm market, picked up a bag of fresh oranges.  They had cucumbers 8/$1, the oranges were $3/bag.  It's a great place.  Then stopped at an rv parts store to get light bulbs.  Ate in tonight, Marg had a small roast in the slow cooker, it was great.
  Had a walk around the park.  It almost seems half the park has the nasty cold Marg has been fighting over the last 10 days.  Some of them were right in bed with it.  While I had some of the effects for about 2 days, she had the nasty version of it.  She thinks she may have turned the corner on it today, apparently feeling quite a bit better. For a while there I was worried that she had the valley flu, but fortunately not.  Apparently last year was one of the worst for it, but this year is looking much better.
  Looking at the hits on our blog, we had 50 hits on Jan 3rd, a record number for us.  There must be a lot of lurkers out there, or someone's enter key was stuck - LOL!