Father's Day

Another Father's Day, and another long day. 2005 was the year of the kidney stones, and 2007 was a stomach virus of some sort. Shortly after lunch, my stomach painfully knotted up. I ended up hitting the sack for the next six or seven hours. As I drifted in and out of sleep I managed to catch the US Open on tv. Sometime around 8:30 pm the ailment began to clear itself up. As I remember now, as I waited at the ER two years ago, I watched the US Open on a tv there as well. After my hernia surgery back in 1994 I watched all four days of the Masters on tv. That was the year that Greg Norman had his horrific collapse in the last round losing to Nick Faldo - and I got to watch that in all its painful glory.

In other news, Samantha and I went and got a root beer float from Sonic the night they were free, about a week ago. As we're leaving the house about 9 pm, I run over a snake, both driverside wheels, in the road just around the corner from our house. I hit it where the Far Side guy might have drawn a belt, right in the snake's middle. I backed up and shown the lights on the snake that was now all knotted up. After pointing it out to Samantha, the snake uncoiled itself and then began to crawl back towards the far side of the road. One tough snake - I let it go because the yard it was going to crawl into has 3 pit bulls living there.

Samantha's float was too high on the ratio of ice cream to root beer, and mine was the opposite, too much root beer to ice cream.

Speaking of ice cream, we found an ice cream freezer in the attic that was given to Sean and me as a wedding gift that we have never used. Samantha and I decided to give it a test run. I scrubbed all the parts clean and tested the motor which still ran perfectly despite being stored in a super hot attic for 22 years. We managed to whip up some decent ice cream too.

Inside the box was the card from whoever gave us the freezer, and is signed by the givers. This person who gave us the freezer is now somewhat slightly famous (or rather infamous). I laughingly proposed selling his autograph on Ebay, but then reconsidered - that might be in poor taste because we were pretty good friends at one point.

Where in the world is Tory?

Tory is spending the week at a leadership conference at Mo Ranch. If you've got some time and perhaps a large Snicker bar, check out these photos posted on the Mo Ranch website - Tory is in a few.