Three

This past week, Ive been working my butt off building a walkway from the front entrance to the driveway and street using Three Rivers Rock. It's a flagstone kind of product that was imported from Colorado. No surprise there since Colorado sure has a lot of beautiful rocks. The Do it Yourself show made it look simple, but I didn't find that to be true. Had I access to those SoCal illegal aliens hanging out at Home Depot, I would have considered renting a few. But there are none here..

Friday evening, the local draw bridge over our Siuslaw River (one of the Three rivers in our hood) opened to allow a fishing vessel to leave the harbor. But it go stuck as it began to close due to an electrical fire. That cut off all the tourists pouring into town from the south, and the sand rail nuts going to the Dunes from the inland areas. A crew was called from 60 miles south to lower the bridge by hand crank. That snarled traffic for Three hours. What a mess.

Saturday evening we went to get a burger at Three Rivers Casino. The coffee shop has a one-pound burger called the Jackpot. It's huge, about the size of an 8 inch frisbee, and a full one inch thick, with fries and fixins.

The casino floor was packed. At first, I thought the Stimulus Plan was surely at work. But then, I realized that most of the patrons, unable to make their rent with the few quarters they have left, stuff them feverishly into the machines hoping for a big one. Then it was announced that someone playing a machine in the new non-smoking section, hit one for 10-Thousand Dollars. And then they announced a Five Million, Two Hundred Thousand pot was awarded just the night before in that very same non-smoking section.

Now I thought the Stimulus Plan was surely working, and there would surely be a third, because 3's were all around me. So, I converted a 20 into quarters and promptly fed a Keno machine to no avail. Guess I should have picked a machine in that Non-smoking section to play, since thanks to the pressures of friends and family, I'm on my way to being smoke free. But the Obama Plan ain't working for me.

Ain't going to the Dock now because it snowed this morning and it's cold there. I wonder what Al Gore is thinking now.