Recap

So, it's been a busy couple of months.  We travelled to DC to spend a week celebrating youngest daughter's MBA from GWU.  Rode a Segway for a four hour tour; almost hurt myself laughing when my brother careened his unit into a marble wall on the north side of the Mall.  The DC ESPN Zone did a really nice job on the party we threw for the girl and her friends.  You can tell a lot by the kinds a people a person attracts as friends.  That girl is doing just fine.

Finally got the foot cut on that I've been whining about for 2 1/2 years.  Tendon graft, reconstruction of the medigaldinostrum or something, and pin with a little blue bead stuck right down the middle of my second toe into the foot bone.

That was a month ago tomorrow.  I'm supposed to get the pin pulled Monday.  If the surgeon refuses to do it, I have several offers pending.  This "starve a cold, feed a surgery" thing has really taken a toll on me.  Sitting around in my blue chair with a tub of Rocky Road on my lap has not made me svelte.  Has made me not svelte.  Not svelte that I ever was, svelte.  Decided to diet, but that only made me hungry.

Most recently, we bought an eighth share of a nice little cabin in the woods outside Show Low.  This should be fun.  Take a peek at lindenpines.com

Noteworthy News

Poachers have shot the last two white rhinos in Zambia, killing the female and wounding the male, at the heavily guarded Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park near Victoria Falls.  The dead rhino's horn was removed.

A 50-ton bowhead whale killed off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt around 1890 when that type of explosive projectile was last manufactured.  The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month; the older device was found as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.

Eric Clapton will be paid $1.5 million to perform a 60-to-70 minute concert at a private party in late July organized by Raymond T Dalio, president of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund with more than $30 billion in assets.  The performance is expected to be attended by 350 invitation only guests.