Wow that weekend went by entirely too fast again.  Bad stuff man.  Oh well, a few days of vacation are on the way.  We kicked off our weekend Friday with a short happy hour down at the Brooksider.  The only reason we went there was to hang out on the deck for a bit and enjoy the weather.  As it turned out, it wasn’t really that nice out, so we didn’t stay very long.  After that we went to Donette’s school for a big shrimp boil.  Can’t go wrong there for dinner;  They even threw in some crawfish for variety, which I pretty much had my fill of because everyone else in attendance seemed a bit skeptical of them.

Saturday I once again headed out to Mom’s to give the ol’ motorcycle a try.  After a delicious lunch at The Best Burrito, (chile relleno, yum) I went over to her house and fired it up.  Unsuccessful once again.  My battery charger said it was ready to go, but it turned  over once and gave it up.  I guess I will have to break down and buy a new battery.  In all fairness, it is a five year old battery, I’m sure it’s due.  But for what they charge for those little suckers it should last the lifetime of the bike.  Oh well, given the weather changes I probably shouldn’t be in such a hurry to get it home anyway.  Saturday night entertainment consisted of going in to work and playing with all kinds of neato stuff.  Wanna hear about it?  I didn’t think so.

Sunday I went out get the paper, and was fully prepared to stay inside for the rest of the day.  Snow??!!!  You gotta be kidding me.  Luckily our friend Susan called and shamed us into going to the gym for a while, so we actually left the house.  After that, since I was out anyway, I headed over our friends Mark & Anne’s house for a little PC tuneup job, then went back home and helped Donette make a few tons of sausage.  The flavors of the day were kielbasa and a summer sausage.  Unfortunately we ran out of casing rather early in the project, so we now have some enormous “loafs” of sausage sitting in the freezer.  Oh well, it all tastes the same.  For dinner I met Munkirs down at the Brooksider, so we could have one last planning session before Float Trip this coming weekend.  After an hour and a half of planning, our itinerary consists of:  Drive very far to the river, try to stay warm for two or three days (depending on our threshold of pain), drive very far home.  That’s been the Easter schedule for the last few decades, why shake things up now.