Thanks for the help and support HS, cliffy and Nomopo, I appreciate it wholeheartedly.

I forgot to mention that when I got out of the shower this morning I had a missed call from my wife. I called her back and she said that she was at the auto dealer getting her car serviced and had tried to call me about the items they wanted to service on the car, but it was too late and she'd already told them to take care of it. She told me what they wanted to do and I told it all sounded fine. We talked a little about the kids and them going camping for the weekend with their friend. She told me the auto dealer's shuttle van had dropped her off at the mall and she was shopping. I asked what she was shopping for and she told me "nothing that she needed, that's for sure." She told me that she had the day off and I asked if she had to work this weekend and she told me no, she is off. I told her I'd better go get some lunch before my meetings this afternoon and goodbye.

This evening at dinner I took a pic with my cellphone of the lobster that one guy ordered and sent it to my sons and my wife. The two boys replied right away with "cool" or "I want some" and I also sent them a pic of my plate with a nice steak on it. My wife replied with "nice" about an hour or so later. I was on my way to watch her brother play blackjack and sent my wife a message that said "Night, wire me $25k for poker" as a joke and after 10 mins or so she replied with a "nite" since it was late for her she might have been sleeping. I watched my BIL lose $5k at blackjack, then he got a marker for another $5k and lost that, so he got another $5k and was starting to win a little before I left. The last hand I saw he bet $2k on, then double and won $8k on the hand. We have to get up at 4:30am to go play golf before it gets too hot (107 or something here), supposed to be a nice course, I'm not very good at golfing but it should be a fun time with everyone before we all fly home in the afternoon.

-JDK


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