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01-14-2005 Driving Range, Movies and Moo Shu Pork

Friday, January 14, I crashed on the couch last night and woke up in the wee hours of the morning. I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and played with the new camera instead. It was 38 degrees this morning. I made it most of the way through the 125-page manual by 9:30 a.m. The camera seems easy to learn and to use so far. The next step will be downloading pictures to the laptop. We'll see.

I practiced my putting and then we had breakfast. Shortly after that we went in to Elgin to Blockbuster to drop off the movies that were due before noon. We got a paper at City Cafe and returned home to enjoy it. I called Wolf Camera's Bee Caves location to reserve a space in their Photo I and II class tomorrow but it was full. I signed up for classes next week. We got cleaned up around 2:30 or 3:00 and went to the driving range. It is 59 degrees and sunny; a perfect day to practice your golf swing. I was hitting the ball pretty well today. The head did not fly off of my newly shafted driver, so the epoxy must have set up completely. A six or seven year old girl at the driving range was practicing with her Dad. He had a great looking swing so maybe she'll get started the right way. It was nice to see him taking the time and being patient with her.

In town, we stopped to rent a few more movies. Then we killed 15 minutes in Family Dollar until Hong Kong opened at 4:30. Bob had Sesame Chicken and I had Moo Shu Pork and Wonton Soup. We both took home half of it. I mailed a letter at the post office on the way home and we had to fight our way through the downtown Elgin rush hour traffic. We were back home by 5:30. I laid down for a bit; been feeling kind of puny since yesterday. I'm still trying to track down my recently developed food allergies. I eliminated drinking water problems by some tests at my doctors. So now I'm trying to pinpoint food sources. Bob put John Hiatt on the CD player for me and cranked the speakers in the bedroom. In about an hour I was feeling mellowed out. So we watched 'Alamo' that we rented earlier. We snuck in an episode of CSI and then hit the sack early.