First thing this morning I want wish my beautiful bride a happy 44th Wedding Anniversary!

I love you, sweetie!

Jan with our daughter Brandi at Gulf Shores, AL in 1975.

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Here she is making new friends in Puerto Vallarta in 1997.

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And this is in Billings, MT in 2008, still as beautiful as the day I married her.

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This morning started with coffee, lots and lots of coffee. Anything to wake up. 7:30 is just too early for any sane person to awaken.

Of course then, some might ask why it’s a problem for me?

Jan and I headed down to the Vendor building about 8:30 to check out the doughnut selection and then Jan headed off to her 9am seminar while I went back to the rig to finish stapling the handouts for my seminar at 1:30.

About noon I picked up Jan from her second class and then rather than going back to the rig, we decided that the cold, rainy weather called for more Chicken Tortilla Soup so it was off to La Carreta again.

Getting back to the fairgrounds a little after 1pm, we got set up for my seminar on the “Do’s and Don’ts of Computer Security”, We ended up with 35 people in the class and once again had a lot of good questions, and hopefully some good answers. At least everyone seemed to be happy with the class..

After resting up and talking with our daughter Brandi, we headed back down to the meeting room for Pizza Night.

It’s always amazing how Miss Terry has everything organized so that several hundred people get served their pizza in just a few minutes.

After everyone had their fill, it was time for the much-anticipated Buckeye Beauty Contest.

First off, Nick modeled the latest in beach attire for the chunky stud muffin. Doesn’t he look handsome . . . pretty . . . whatever.

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There were six entries in this year’s pageant, a fine selection of pulchritudinous womanhood. Why, any man would be proud to have one of these ladies on his arm.

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Here’s Nick during the Interview session with one contestant. I think that hat came from Target’s new Lady GaGa line.

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And here’s Nick crowning this year’s winner, Rachel Rupugness. That’s one fine looking woman . . . er . . . man . . . er . . . whatever.

I’m very confused right now.

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Thought for the Day:

GET READY FOR THE BIG MERGERS OF 2012…

Making money in the stock market is easy. Just buy stock in companies that will merge. Here are the merger predictions:

1. Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W. R. Grace Co. will merge and become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2. Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers will join forces and become: Poly, Warner Cracker.

3. 3M will merge with Goodyear and issue forth as: MMMGood.

4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge and become: ZipAudiDoDa.

5. FedEx is expected to join its major competitor, UPS, and become: FedUP.

6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become: Fairwell Honeychild.

7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become: Poupon Pants.

Call your broker now.

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Jan and I were both up by 8 this morning for the first full day of the Gypsy Rally. With the cold, rainy weather, the hot coffee and doughnuts in the Vendor Building really hit the spot.

After Jan headed off to her first class I spent some time checking out the vendors and checking in with old friends and new acquaintances. Then I headed back to the rig to finish up printing the handouts for my class.

During the morning Jan met up with Mill and Nancy Pierce, who are doing oil field gate guarding down in Texas, something we’re thinking about doing next year, so we had an interesting talk. Hopefully we’ll have some more time to spend picking their brains before they head out.

At noon I went down and picked up Jan after her class and we drove into town to have a big hot bowl of Chicken Tortilla Soup at La Carreta. And with this weather it really hit the spot.

At 3:30 I gave my first seminar on “Ten Things to Never Do With Your Computer”. We had a good crowd of over 45 people and a lot of good questions.

I try to structure the class so everyone will have plenty of time to ask questions as we go along. When I first did this class back in Yuma last March I only had an hour and ran short on time. But Nick was nice enough to give me 90 minutes this time and we used every bit of it.

I got a lot of good feedback on the class, and pretty much everyone seemed to be happy with it, so I’m happy too.

We started up again at 7pm for our nightly door prize meeting with Nick Russell in his usual MC role. Once again we had a lot of great prizes, including Roger Marble’s donation of 4 raffle tickets with a 1 in 10,000 chance to win $24,000.

WOW!

Jan and I won a nice tote bag from Dennis and Carol Hill and the RV Driving School.

And here’s Nick demonstrating the latest in orange safety cone bras. Come to think of it, he did say something about ‘man-boobs’ (no whipped cream).

After Nick finished with the door prizes, we had a great 1 hour set from Judy and Whitt McKinney, The McKinney Washtub Two. They performed for the Gypsy Journal Rally last year in Elkhart, and afterwards I referred to them in my blog as The McKinney Washboard Two, and was severely chastised by Judy. Well, she did fuss at me a little bit.

During the show, Judy played the washboard (see I knew there was a washboard in there somewhere), the washtub (or thump bass). the ukulele, and the mandolin. A very versatile lady.

Whitt just played the guitar. (But very, very well)

They play a lot of new takes on old songs and a lot of humor ensued.

They’re doing a different set on Thursday night and we’re really looking forward to it.

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Thought for the Day:

Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

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