Dinner Out Tonight, Blogging Not So Much.

Image from source, Silverton

The Other Half and I are taking my bosses out to dinner, along with our friends, Mr. & Mrs. Lesto (yesterday was their 25th anniversary). So, blogging will be light or nonexistant tonight. I'll try to return to put something up for Thursday morning. If you don't see anything, you'll know why. It will be interesting to see if the Silverton Casino & Lodge has "down-scaled" their ala-carte steakhouse, Twin Creeks, due to the economy. Hmmm, maybe a restaurant review is in order?

Check Out: Silverton Lodge & Casino's Twin Creeks Steakhouse

Ziggy Marley & Me

The Other Half and I spent some time with our good friends on New Year's Day, at an annual dinner of crown roast of pork. It's become more of an event than New Year's Eve in our circle of friends. This year, there is a new addition to the group, a dog named Mr. Ziggy.

Ziggy is one of a couple of dozen dogs used in the movie Marley & Me. Apparently, his specialty is jumping into water on command, and taking himself for a walk. He's a gangly, rambunctious fellow, and cute as can be. But he is a chewer. Oddly enough, he picked a hardback copy of Marley & Me to chew up! And the book is subtitled "Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." Funnily enough, when they opened the book to see if the spine was intact, it was opened to Chapter 11: The Things He Ate.

Welcome to the family, Mr. Ziggy!

Greenlee Gazette Office Gets Makeover

I intended to flood the blog with posts today, since yesterday consisted of one solitary post. But starting somewhere around 12:30 pm, I decided to clean my office. While I'm glad it is over now, it took me nearly all day to complete.

Chief among my tasks was to do something about our DVD collection, which has gotten out of control. We had three slide-out tubs that have served us for a few years, but they'd spilled to over-flowing. A make-shift small bookshelf, and some space on my main bookshelves have served a (dusty) duty for quite a while, but I've been very unhappy with them for a long time.

So, I enlisted the aid of my friend (and reluctant blogger) Lesto, to build me some half-shelves for my big book cases. Those cases have stored many and sundry items from my bygone eBay days, but were too deep for DVDs. Les' ingenious notion was to build these tiers, to allow two rows of DVDs on the same shelf. So, thanks to Lesto (and my willingness to divest myself of many of those quirky bookshelf items), I now have order for the first time in a long time.

Now, back to blogging.