Wow, already a weekend coming to an end!  Time to start thinking of preparing for Monday morning,  well maybe I will need a beer before then.   And will try to catch the Marquette game tonight.   So the weekend NOT over yet.  the Wisconsin team came through and lives for another weekend,  let’s hope Marquette can pull another upset.

Last week went quickly also.   Last weekend we had some fun and relaxing.   Went to a great local restaurant in Borth last Saturday night,  and then listened to some good live music.   Tuesday night was more good live music in Milwaukee.   Willy played like he was much younger than 78, and c’mon Wally he never crooned a song!   I am glad we went, there was some issues with the Riverside’s sound system, and the band did not sound like they had it all together at the start;  but it kept getting better and they worked their way into a groove.  And it was an interesting crowd.    We had started the night with a nice dinner at John Hawk’s Pub with John and Mary.   The only downer of the night was driving home at the end!

Short sleep Tuesday night I decided to skip the homebrew meeting Wednesday night.  Sounds like I missed a good one.   But Thursday I stopped at O’Marro’s to have a couple to St Patrick.   Forget that green beer stuff though,  had a great Belgian La Choeff on tap and another great beer from the Breuery in California.     Then headed home for some of Chris’s super corned beef and cabage, as after 2 they would have been way too easy to continue.

Friday night brought another fish fry at St Rapheal’s.   This was a very busy week, as per history for them.   They served until 7:30 and it took most of that time to catch up with orders.   Before the end we had run out of baked potato’s, baked Haddock, macaroni and cheese (for the kids), and cole slaw.   So it was a bigger night than the historical data would say!  Chris and I ended up stopping at Culvers on the way home to pick up a couple of fish fries!   So hopefully that continues for them through lent.

Saturday I spent some time on the computer.  We have used Outlook at home for our e-mail client and as our Outlook version has become older we have had more issues.  And we have never liked Charters web version, even though they have made improvements.  At work they are moving our Corporate e-mail to G Mail, and I am on the early adopter team to check it out.  I like what I see.  So also knowing we will move out of this house at one point and lose Charter anyway, I decided to switch my e-mail address now.   So I opened a G-mail account,  rtomb78@gmail.com .   And started work on importing my contact list and cleaning up years of contacts.   And listing as many companies that I can think of that have my e-mail address and deciding whether to unsubscribe or change the address.    There is a lot of them to think of!  But no hurry as the other account will remain active so I can go back and check for things I have missed!  And Chris will eventually change over, and I will upgrade Word Excel and not worry about Outlook.

Saturday afternoon we headed to Milwaukee.  Did some shopping for Mom, and met Skip and Claire for a nice meal.   I bought a certificate for a restaurant on a MPTV online auction earlier in the year.   Mia Famiglia on Forest Home ave.   Very good Italian,  nice place and well presented.  We all enjoyed.   We will go back.   And we all went back to Mom’s to spend some time with her.  And Skip and I got to watch the end of the Wisconsin game.     This morning a few things for Mom and she took Chris and I to brunch at her place.  After too much good food Chris and I headed home.    And now you here from me here.  The fireplace is going, taking the cold dampness out of the air.  Luckily it is not raining buckets here like it was a good part of the way home.  The water draining out of the woods is barely staying below the road the way it is!   The snow piles are continuing to get smaller.  But there were a lot of people on the ice yesterday,  so I think there will be ice on the lake for a number of weeks to come.  So I sit here with a glass of Bloody Mary Meade made by a friend of mine.  Spicy and warming.  So I won’t be overly productive the rest of the evening,  but what the heck it is the weekend.

Enjoy!