Mercy, Mercy Me

I'm looking at the front pages of several newspapers this morning and I started hearing songs in my head. If you are too young to remember or frozen in a hip hop / rap /dance rut, then you should look up the lyrics to some of these songs; Mercy Mercy Me and What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, Ball of Confusion by The Temptations, For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield, and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan. In fact go through Bob Dylan's catalog and you'll find a bunch of them. They were singing about the economy, the war, the ecology, (One of the ecology signs of the times was a green peace sign.) race, and injustice. Funny how things never change. And then I think of "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. Sigh.....

A January Wedding in Nebraska

Are you kidding me? Why would you have a wedding in January in Nebraska? It's like going all in with a 3 outer and the donk folding to the right of you, declares he had one of your outs! You know you are risking the farm. It's not the best decision. I don't know why I forgot to ask the Groom! Such is life. In any case, the weather was simply mahvelous, around 50 degrees, the sun was shining, and a dear friend got married to a very decent guy! We hit the gutshot straight at the river!

The good deal is that I flew into Omaha on Thursday, comped at Harrahs Council Bluffs for the night, and was able to play in the Bounty Tournament at Horseshoe later that evening. The bad deal is that, out of 100, I busted out at 12th and didn't cash! I also got into a ring game on Sunday when I returned to Harrahs on Sunday, cashed decent, AND started a hot steak on the slots. Nice.

I returned home on Monday night, just in time to see LSU cash big over OSU for the National Championship. Geaux Tigers! (Sentimental fave since I grew up in N'awlins and my sis was born there!)