Tony Brewer

I’m glad that they just opened up a new Starbucks in town. It has a drive through which is an important feature for me. I hate having to go some where, find a parking place and then to stand in line. Being able to drive up and drive away with all that I want and need is more my style.

Teri and I have been talking about taking a long weekend and having a nice romantic getaway at one of the Myrtle Beach Resorts next month.  We’ve both been very busy with work the past few months and we sure could some time away together!  I’d like to reserve a condo at an Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resort near a golf course so that one of the days we could play a round of golf. 

Ever since Teri’s mother gave her a nice set of women’s golf clubs Teri has been enthusiastic about playing some golf with me.   I’ve been promising Teri that we’d take a lesson from a pro while we’re at the Myrtle Beach Resort.  I think that adding to the day of golf we could take in a couple of shows and spend some time relaxing on the beach.

There are so many different Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resorts to pick from, I’m sure that it will take Teri a few days to pick out which one she wants to go to!

Come to think of it, I think we’ll need to take a little bit longer than a long weekend!  Maybe we’d better plan on five days there instead of three.  That way we can get in a couple of more shows and really enjoy ourselves!  We deserve the break!

My good friend Tom’s son hopes to be riding in the National Finals Rodeo next December.  He’s been in the Rodeo for the past couple of years, so there’s no reason to think he won’t be again.  So Tom and his wife have invited us to joining them in Las Vegas during the next Rodeo and have a little vacation and attend the Rodeo while we are there to see his son ride.  So Teri and I were looking online for National Finals Rodeo tickets for sale to see what kind of information we could find out about it before we made a decision.

We have always enjoyed going to Rodeos in the past, and we certainly enjoy going to Las Vegas!  So it seems like a logical thing to do, combine the two together!  Well, we were quite surprised to find that the best seats in the arena are $561 EACH!  Yikes!  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy going first class as much as anybody, but that is a lot more money than we expected!  I guess we’re going to have to ask Tom what his intentions are as to who is paying for the tickets to the Rodeo and where the seats will be!  I also see that the cheapest tickets are only $70, which is a lot more reasonable, but I don’t know how comfortable the seats will be!  I sure do hate sitting on bleachers – I want to at least have seats with backs on them!

I like listening to my aunt tell me stories about her life.  She’s only in her mid-fifties, but she has some good stories to tell nonetheless.  Like the time that she and a group of friends decided to “TP” a neighbor’s house and unbeknownst to them all her parents watched the whole thing!

One of her stories has to do with moving 800 miles on her own.  She used to work for a company that allowed transfers from state to state.  She was single and had a pet dog.  She had determined that she wanted to move from Virginia to Maine because she had gone on a skiing vacation with her boy friend and decided she liked Maine enough to move there in search of being able to ski more often.  Her boyfriend had relatives in Maine and thought he would be fun to move there with her.  So she put in a transfer request.

A week before the transfer request was granted her boyfriend broke up with her!  But she went to Maine without him, not knowing a single soul.  Fortunately she had been given the name of the Maine Senator’s field representative to call and ask for help with the move.  That woman was so nice; she invited my aunt to stay with her while she found a place to live! So my aunt recruited her brother (my uncle) to help with a a U-Haul and they drove from Virginia to Maine. They met up with the field representative and spent the night. The next morning the field representative took them to her office and then sent one of her assistants to take her looking for apartments for rent. It was a real challenge; especially since no one wanted to rent to a single girl with a dog!

But believe it or not, by the end of the day they had found the perfect place! The next day she moved in and paid for an airplane ticket for her brother to fly back home. My aunt stayed in Maine for 29 years after that, but that is a another story!

I was fascinated to read on the BBC news website’s science page a story about how pictures from a satellite show that the earth’s gravitational pull differs from spot to spot.  What that means is that there are some spots on earth where a person weighs more than on other spots!  I better not let Teri know about this map, she will want to move to where she weighs less!