OK.
After my near-disastrous lunch with mom on Saturday I *did* have a good rest of the day on my birthday.
We went to her house and hung out and she showed me some stuff she learned at her computer class and then she gave me a really pretty homemade card that she made (these things are like works of art the way she does them) and for my gift she bought me a ticket to the Lions’ Super Breakfast. What a great gift!
The Lions’ Super Breakfast is this great big, huge event the Lions have twice a year as a fundraiser. It’s sixty dollars a ticket which is a LOT of dough for me to just toss out on entertainment, being a broke bum who runs her own business.
I’ve gone to these before and it’s great fun. It’s always at Willie’s Hidden Harbor which is this bar & banquet hall right on a marina on the Mississippi, and there’s a huge buffet with every breakfast thing you could want, eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, hash brown casserole, corned beef hash, omelettes, gourmet breads, croissants, and muffins, and then giant fruit baskets made of watermelons and filled with pineapples, strawberries, grapes, and melons.
There’s also a bar and you can make your own screwdrivers and Bloody Mary’s and a giant aluminum trough of ice and beers (mostly domestic and watered down stuff but still free, all you can drink, with your ticket). Then they have raffles the whole time, pull tabs and quick picks which are kinda like pull tabs but they draw a number after you pull your tab off the board. The raffles are fun, most people like them, they give away sports jerseys (Vikings, Gophers, Northstars, MN Wild, Twins, etc.), gift certificates and cash.
I’m excited. It’s generally a day of sloth and food and drunken merriment, lots of friends and people I know are going so it will be a blast.
Another highlight was when I got home, my iPAQ pocket PC came in the mail, which I bought from eBay, as a birthday gift to myself. It’s really cool and I can’t want to trick it out with tons of cool stuff. Some people buy these buggers so that they can instant message their buddies, play games or mp3’s while away from home. Me, I’m gonna use it to keep track of contacts, addresses/phone numbers, meetings, to-do lists and check mail while I’m out and about. I have to get a network card for it but it should be fairly easy for me to find one for under $40. The pic above is a pic of the model that I purchased..
And here’s what the screen looks like (not mine but similar)
Same day, different year..
Other posts on this day:
- Tomorrow will be 1-2-3-4-5-6 – 2006