Wee Woo........A Cold Spell Hit Us..........

plus a tiny bit of moisture last night. It was 49 outside when I got up this morning and maybe we'll make it to about 67 or 68 today. Freezing our buns off!!

Took the Rhino out for a little spin the other day, since I have plates for it we can drive it on the street (at least in Arizona). Drove it to the desert and picked up a cache that eluded us earlier and then had to make a "speed test" on the paved road.

Sunday we started the day with breakfast at Ligurta and then headed for the Eastern part of the Bombing Range to do a little caching. The "A Team" consisting of Larry, Theresa, Robert, Becky and myself hunted down a few new caches. We get them cleaned up and 2 days later someone else places some new ones in the same area! Boy, we staying poor, almost destitute just buying gas, for these little excursions. Sky looked a little angry when we started; but, it turned out to be a pretty nice day. After hunting down a few caches in the East side we drove back to the Western area so we could place some very large caches. JJ had three of them to plant and I had one. Original plan was to "bury" them with only the top showing.........we quickly abandoned that plan and just found some very thorny trees to place them under.

Yesterday "B" and I hung around home until later in the afternoon because of a very brisk South wind and then we went downtown and eventually to the Paradise casino. It was Old Folks day so we stood in line for about 20 minutes waiting to get $10.00 placed on our playing cards. Boy, it was crowded..........we had to use the $10.00 yesterday so I found a machine and played my free money. I left $17.00 ahead! Maybe my luck is changing so we headed to the Q Casino over in Californey.........it was old folks Two for One buffet day so it too was fairly crowded. The buffet line was looonnng; but, we had grabbed a soup and sandwich earlier so weren't hungry. The slot machines were though..........I was down to my last couple of bucks and hit a Bonus on the machine. I finally left and was $50.00 ahead for the day. Becky ended up losing $2.00 so we had a pretty good day.

Nothing planned for today........just playing it by ear. My damn Hughes Satellite has been giving me fits ever since we got here.............it works fine when we get up and then about 1100 or so it slows to a crawl and speed doesn't come back until about 2100. Still got a contract until May and then it's bye bye. Sprint is installing new equipment so we should have some 3G coverage.........supposedly in March according to the kid at the Sprint store so the air card should start really working well by then. Right now it's working but it too isn't very fast. Got a new phone last weekend..........a Blackberry Curve..........big mistake, hell I couldn't see the characters on the little bitty keyboard unless I was in bright sunlight! Took it back and now I have a Samsung Moment.........the keyboard is bigger, and readable for me, so have been playing with it and trying to figure out everything it does. A little bit at a time and maybe I'll get the hang of it. Should have gotten one of those Jitterbugs advertising on TV...........great big keyboard and all it does is make phone calls! Oh well, I'll get the hang of it eventually.........if I survive that long.

Guess I'd better try to publish this before the internet slows to a crawl again. W&B