Kate and family are doing well. Here's another picture of her.
It's Friday morning and raining. Fortunately I got in 9 holes of golf after Rotary on Wednesday, and then 18 holes yesterday. Yesterday I golfed with two other rangers at Treesdale. I was very pleased with my round. I actually got 2 birdies (both on par 3 holes)! I haven't had a birdie in over a year, and yesterday I had two! Amazing, and in front of witnesses to boot. God is Good.
Today I'm returning some "woods" to a company called Warrior. They had a deal for a free hybrid golf club if you'd try their 1,3,5 woods. And have a money back guarantee. Today they go back. I had to get a "return authorization number" before I could return them. Getting that number was a trip. They offered to let me keep the clubs and return half my money, then they offered to send me a "free" set of irons if I kept them. I was insistent that I wanted my full refund. (I did all this on the phone, just as the movie was starting at Showcase Cinemas.)
I had stepped out of the theater to go to the bathroom and my cell phone rang. It was the customer service department of Warrior. They'd left a message. I returned the call right then because I wanted to get that authorization number and had only been dealing with phone operators. So, for the next 20 minutes I talked with the guy about my refund. (Dee thought I'd gotten sick from the popcorn and came looking for me. I assured her I was okay and that I was trying to get the authorization now that I was actually talking with a person.) Although I missed the first 20 minutes of ANGELS AND DEMONS I did get the refund code #.
Since I'd read the book, I knew the plot of the movie, and enjoyed the rest of the movie. It's a MUST SEE flick. Good stuff. Great mystery. Dee and I hadn't been to a movie theater in a long time. We decided to go, and then discovered that our Cranberry theater closed! So we went to the Showcase Cinemas on McKnight Road. As it turns out Wednesday is seniors day. All people over 60 get in for $4.50 all day! Cool. We even used the coupon they gave us for a discount on drink and popcorn. Very nice.
On Sunday I read an article in the Post-Gazette entitled "They Died for You" by Rick Atkinson. It was about WWII. The things every American should know about WWII. It was a great article and I was motivated to buy his book "An Army At Dawn" (the first of three books about WWII).
I'm clueless about that war and this writer is a good story teller and packs in loads of facts. I'm 100 pages into it and am enjoying it very much. I didn't realize WWII had been going on for 27 months before the United States got into it. Nor did a realize that 1,150 men died every hour in it - for 7 years! Atkinson is working on the third book in the series. This first book is about our invasion of Africa; the second book is about Italy and the third is about France and Germany I think. Good rainy day reading.
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