The second week of any month is pretty busy for me. I have regular meetings on Tuesday evening and Wednesday at noon. It's usually not a big deal, but looking at the schedule always reminds me that I have stuff to do.
I didn't have to work Monday, but I had a meeting of the Many Complete Count Committee. Not many people showed up, but we persevere in our mission to make people aware of how important the 2010 Census is to Many and Sabine Parish.
On the second Tuesday of every month we have our council's Knights of Columbus meeting. This month we didn't have enough for a quorum, but we had some delicious gumbo and some good fellowship. We also had a good laugh at my expense. I'll explain. After a couple bites of gumbo, I noticed a bottle of hot stuff at the other end of the table. I walked over, picked it up, and put three drops in my large bowl of gumbo. Now, I had noticed that the name of this particular hot sauce was "Spontaneous Combustion." But I assumed it was marketing gimmickry. It was not. As I drank more coke and the beads of sweat starting forming on my head, I realized that this hot sauce was not fit for human consumption. But I ate the whole bowl. And I got laughed at. By everyone. The other consequence was that two glasses of Coca Cola at 7 pm meant a late night and dream-filled sleep when I finally got to bed.
On Wednesday at noon I had our monthly Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce Board meeting. The Honorable John Kennedy, the Treasurer of the State of Louisiana, spoke about his ideas for balancing the state budget. He talked a lot. Wednesday evening I went and played cards at Wayne and Tina's. I won a little money, but had to leave after the first game to fill in for Deacon Mike at Eucharistic Adoration from 9 pm to 10 pm. I hadn't been to adoration in a while, and I had forgotten why I like it so much. Perhaps during Lent I will make it a regular part of my prayer life.
On Thursday morning it was snowing when I woke up. The forecast was for snow and sleet all day long, so by the time I got to work the boss told my co-workers to head home. Lonnie lives in Lafayette, and Pat about half an hour away, and the road conditions were going to deteriorate all day. I live two blocks away, so I manned the office. There wasn't much going on. I stayed home Thursday night for the first time in a while and caught up on my DVR'd shows. Once it got dark, I noticed the sleet was beginning to accumulate on my porch. I kept checking all night as the sleet turned to snow, and by two in the morning when I went to bed there was a significant amount of snow on the ground. I finally decided to go to bed, but woke up at 7:30 am without the aid of an alarm to find at least three inches of snow on the ground. It was still snowing, so I bundled up and went out to take some pictures and experience the winter wonderland. I snapped the shot above across the street from my house. I made a snowman with Addie, I threw snowballs at Billy Lafitte. The office was closed, and I just played in the snow and rested all day. Friday night I watched the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. Pretty neat show. I wanted to eat something Canadian since the Olympics are in Vancouver, but I couldn't think of any Canadian food except whale blubber. My sister suggested Canadian bacon, so I made a pizza with bellpeppers and goat cheese and fresh tomatoes and Canadian bacon. It was very yummy.
Saturday morning I woke up and cleaned house. I picked stuff up and put things away and reordered book shelves and cleaned and scrubbed and swept. But I was done by noon and at one I left with Tammy and Mac headed to Lake Charles for some casino action. We met Tim and Ruth and Wayne and Tina and Dale down there, which is about two-thirds of a group with who I regularly play poker. I'd never played poker in a casino before, but I really liked it. I played limit Texas hold 'em for about ten hours. I probably lost about $15 all day, but I gave some cash away and drank a lot of the casino's beer. We left the casino at 3:14 am and I was in bed by 5:30 am.
On Sunday I woke up in time for Mass, then planned on coming home for a nap while the Daytona 500 was on. Before I could get to sleep, Buck came by, and I went with him so he could break in his new Polaris. We got it and ourselves muddy, but all the rain and snow made the road impassable so we didn't get very far. We were gonna go out on another trail, but the weather changed and it got too cold to get muddy. We had a good time shooting the breeze the rest of the night with Melvin and Linda and Kelly and Jesse. At ten pm Buck and I decided we were hungry, but everything in town was closed. So we made dinner with what we could scrounge at Buck's house.
Today I had to get up and go open the office so the carpet cleaners could get in. They were done by noon, and I am off until Wednesday morning.
Lastly, here's the picture from the Mardi Gras Ball that I promised last week. Happy Mardi Gras to everyone.
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