Like my buddy
Scott, I could dedicate this whole post to the World Cup and how the U.S. did fairly well despite the officials trying to screw us in every which way possible because they are obvioulsy afraid of our impending dominance of the world's sport. My only other thought on the World Cup is that I was so close to getting the best gambling payout of my life....90 to 1 odds on Uruguay to win the whole thing. Unfortunately they went down in the semi-finals today. even though I didn't bet a lot of money, at 90:1 odds, even a non-CPA can figure out that it's a nice payday. As with most things, gambling makes 99% of things more interesting!
Alright, been a few weeks since my last post. Highlight of those weeks was my Myrtle Beach w/ mom's side of the family. The trip was very fun. Despite that this is the first vacation that i've taken in like 5 years w/o one of my buddies going w/ me, I was able to keep myself entertained by playing w/ the 5 kids under the age of 10, my step-brother and his wife (Tad & Kimberly), along w/ the Heitkamps, my mom & step-dad, and my Aunt Pam & Uncle Terry. My 17-year old cousin Nick and I made the drive out to Myrtle, just the two of us in 12 hours flat. A fairly easy road trip. Most days went something like this... wake up around 8:30-9. at beach by 9:30. come in around noon and eat lunch/start drinking Bud Light. back out to the beach around 1:30 and remain there until 4:30-5. Continue drinking. Dinner, then an array of card/board games along w/ some Rock Band sessions. The older adults would normally be in bed by 10:30-11, while us younger adults would play more cards. I also won our big round-robin, 2-night, Euchre tournament.....never a doubt! (except for when I was in 2nd to last place after the first night).
I tried to load some pics but for some reason can't get them to attach to the posting...not sure what the problem is since i've added pics in the past. Tawnya Keitkamp and Kimberly Frahm have a lot of good pics from the vacation, so you can check their facebook pages if you are really interested.
Let's see. i went to Elkhart for the first time since Xmas for July 3rd-4th. Heather was home so I got to see her. Hung out w/ a few cousins most of the day on Satruday, then spent some time up at my Aunt Geneva's lake cottage on Sunday before making the car ride back. Sunday night was one of those disasterous successful nights. Craig, Buell and I ran up a $270 bar tab in about 5 hours celebrating America's b-day. Ummm, Monday, July 5th was essentially a wasteful day until one of my water heater pipes decided to spring a leak. That cost a few dollars today to get repaired, but now I have hot water again.
Summer tennis league is going OK. My team is 3-4, but personally i'm 4-1 in my individual matches, w/ my only loss coming in a 3rd set tie-breaker. We've lost some close matches as a team...could easiliy be 6-1, but oh well. I've been very active this summer playing basketball (Monday), softball (Tuesdays - although doesn't start for me until next week), tennis (Wednesdays) and kickball (Thursdays). Kickball is fairly interesting...a lot harder to score runs then you would think. Much more strategy playing against adults then what I remember playing as kids.
Also, since my last post 3 weeks ago, the Cubs are now 99% officially out of the NL Central Race. until next time (or year in the Cubs sake...)
