not old as in older than dirt. It has been one helluva long time since we got together. We all seemed to have fared fairly well in each other’s absence.

Wayne made chili and hosted. Thank you, Wayne!

OMG! He looks so damned serious – maybe he’s listening to an inner voice telling him to get us to the hell out of there! Just kidding, Wayne. The last post has a much better picture of him – with a smile!

As usual…too much food and I grazed on everything. UGH! Good at the time, not good later and how the hell will I ever lose this 30 pounds that needs to be surgically removed (problem is where to start removing it from)? Why can’t they make some type of osmosis blanket that you just roll up in for about four days and sleep through it as fat is absorbed through your skin into the blanket. Kee-rist! Who would want to be the person cleaning up the blanket?

Moving on!

Chad has been so long absent from our pan crew meets…way long before we stopped having these meets. And he has someone with him…say hello to Ashley!

And they aren’t alone!!!

Marie came, Gary didn’t because they had company in town and he was designated entertainer or host or something like that.

Amy sending one of her ray of sunshine smiles at the camera.

I love mirror pictures and Greg gave me just what I wanted. And that’s his bro, Chad, father of Greg’s soon to be nephew, behind Greg in the mirror.

I took the Wii – we did play a few games on it, mainly bowling and tennis, Greg took a run at the boxing but we never did get into any competitive sports games on it.

Viv showed – long time since I’ve seen that gal. She looked great, still talking about playing poker (I’ve tried to get her to keep a blog but it’s a ‘no go’) and things seemed to be going well.

Claudia is in town dealing the Venetian Deep Stack tournament and she made our gathering after her shift was over.

Unfortunately – or fortunately for them – I had retired the camera for the night and neither Claudia or Viv had to undergo the scrutiny of the world here on the blog.

We played Big Deuce. It had been so long since I’ve played that I forgot how…almost. It comes back pretty damned fast. I think I won about 60c. WOW! That’s huge for Big Deuce. I’m not sure I’ve ever won before.

Gordon and Carole didn’t make it. Tami and Ryan couldn’t make it. Kram, we talked wondered about you, buddy. Better get back to Vegas to DEFEND! Just kidding. I miss you.

’til next time.