Vindicated!

We beat that dratted couple of rascals Christina and Jim at Spades last night.
Last time we played, we set them right off the bat and sped ahead full force. They played sure and steady and beat us by one point at the very end. :(

Last night, we played after feeding them crab and shrimp and while sipping on Long Island Iced Teas. We set them right off the bat and again at the end to win by a whopping 40 points. YES! We are vindicated.

Randy has been purging and consolidating his file cabinets to make more room. We have decided to organize all our "stuff." Anyway, he keeps hauling out little goodies to show me before he throws them away and I grab them back and say we should keep them.
Things like old report cards and old blueprints he drafted. We can't get rid of those.
We definitely can't throw out the 4 molars he had pulled sometime in his 20's. (They are huge, roots and all -- great archaeological find.)
It's hard to get him away from his Pirate game. He enjoys pillaging and sword fighting and the bilging and sailing.
He became a citizen on a different island from the one he started on and lost his shack. His pet rat was in the shack at the time. So he had to go back and find his rat and claim him. The rat had been wandering the island all alone with no name until Randy found him curled up, sleeping on the floor of a store. Happy reunion. Randy picked the little guy up, named him, and hasn't put him down since. :)
Now he is out pillaging in order to make enough pieces of eight to buy a shack to call home on his new island.
I've been reading books. Last one I read was called "Breakpoint" by Richard Clarke. It's set in the near future and deals with cyber attacks, transhumanism and other technological gizmo's. Pretty cool reading.
We're going to visit Kara and Joel and Aidan and Theo and Auntie Mo in early February. Can't wait.
Love Mom