Clipping along, Rose Center, my little buttercup, great steak, strawberries

Today I woke up at 3 a.m. after taking a tylenol p.m. last night at 11:30 p.m. That's all. 4.5 hours of sleep on a horse tranquilizer. Oh, well. At about 10, I picked up Loni and we went to the Rose Center to show cool experiments to the 4 and 5 year olds. They were 4 and 5 year olds: very short attention span, want to tell stories, etc. But one boy, Cole, is going to end up a meteorologist. He was fascinated by everything and when the egg shot into the bottle, he shot his fists in the air and yelled, "COOL!" He was the one who helped me with the experiment. I introduced Loni as my assistant, Vanna White, and all the kids said, "Hi, Vanna". She set them straight. It was fun.

We came home and I broiled a Porterhouse steak. She got the rib eye, medium rare, and I got the New York strip, medium well. After we sat down and watched "Three Amigos" and ate strawberries dipped in chocolate fudge, until she fell asleep just as Ned Nederlander was about to draw on the German. I switched it off to save it.

After that I went down and rode my bike 20 miles to the Oxmoor Country Club in Louisville, KY. Nice place, the Oxmoor. Here's what it looks like from the parking lot:



and here's the family membership requirements and benefits:

Unlimited use of golf, fitness, pool, tennis, clubhouse for member, member's spouse and member's children under the age of 23. Initiation fee $5000; $280 monthly dues;
Food & Beverage Minimum Spending of $150 every 3 months.

So that's 5 grand to join, then $3360/year to stay members, if you don't do anything, plus another $600/year to buy food and drinks. BUT...you do get to play golf (which we know everyone LOVES), lift weights and hurt yourself, swim and drown, hit a yellow at someone else and wear those stupid white shorts, and sit around in the clubhouse and spend money on drinks and tips.

OR...I could buy an exercise bike, do push ups and sit ups and use my ab roller which cost nine, count 'em, nine dollars, NOT swim, and sit around the house watching tv in my underwear BECAUSE MY WIFE IS GONE AND IT'S GETTING TOO QUIET, OK?!

But I'm not bitter.