Ok, sorry I've missed my 1/month blog update.  Been HUGEly busy at work the
past month+.  Working on programs that had some seriously tight deadlines.  It
got to the point, I stopped playing Bat for a couple of weeks while I worked
through it all.  Still plenty busy, but I'm to the point I can play an hour or
2 now and again.  Good time to be busy, with all of the layoffs and rumors of
more layoffs in the coming July.  

Just got done with the Memorial Day weekend.  Work gave us an extra day off
instead of Good Friday.  So, a 4 day weekend and I spent it doing the
following.  Saturday morning, I went out and tried morel hunting one last
time.  A little luck, but the ground was fairly dry and was pretty late in the
season.  Fortunately, we had some left in the fridge from my previous 2
weekends worth of hunting.  I had an awesome year in mushroom hunting.  Got
over 2 breadsacks each weekend.  I hit a spot that all I saw were yellow
mushrooms and got a breadsack worth.  Best find for me ever!  

Anyways, I did that Sat., and then the folks and I hit church.  Sunday, Dad
and I cleaned the cattle shed out while we got the opportunity to borrow the
neighbor's skid loader.  In the afternoon, my great aunt Elmeda stopped over
along with my sis and 2 of her kids for the last of the morels and some BBQ by
Dad.  Monday, the folks and I tried our hand at fishing by the Mississippi in
Guttenburg.  Once again, our neighbors from up the road showed up by our spot.
 Last weekend, we were fishing at the same spot and they parked next to us. 
Anyways, fishing was poor again, (wind out of the east, cloudy and cool
weather).  It sure hasn't felt like late spring around here lately.

Today, the folks and I went to the new casino in Dubuque  to check it out. 
While Mom and I were puttering with video poker, Dad got a nice hit on a 5
dollar machine, and then got a nice smaller hit later on to finish way, way
up.  In fact, he hit it about 10 minutes there, and about 60 minutes later, he
was ready to leave so he wouldn't spend too much.  Hit and run gambling
basically.  Unfortunately, Mom had no luck though, and from the looks of
things, not too many people were either.  

Otherwise, I've played through Baroque.  Ok game, storyline made almost no
sense as the motivation of the main character was unclear as the ending
unfolded.  Kindof a DOOM like clone, and fortunately it was relatively short
(about 20 hours), otherwise the grind would have been pretty bad.  Started
playing Dark Cloud, since I've never played the game, but have had it for
years.  Hope the storyline picks up soon, otherwise I'll get tired of what
this game has to offer.

Oh well, I'm tired and it is late.  Put on a couple pounds, up to 175 8(. 
Darn hard hours and too much home cooking on the weekends.  I'm hoping to cut
them down a bit in the coming weeks.  Tonight's blog brought to you by "Hot n
Cold" by Katy Perry.