This morning Travalon and I went to Mass and then got coffee on North Street, as has become our habit, and then since it was such a nice day, we took a long walk at Pheasant Branch. In the evening we went to Rich's house for his famous lasagna as a farewell dinner for Anna Banana II, who heads back to North Dakota tomorrow. Jilly Moose, OK Cap, Kathbert, Cecil Markovitch, the Single B-Boy, R Van the Terrible, some of the Night Prayer regulars, and the guy who makes amazing desserts and his son were also there, and Prairie Man came for dessert. People brought all sorts of salads, and I brought chocolate cherry wine from Door County that I had purchased at Schultz's Cheese Haus during our recent visit there on the way back from Horicon Marsh. We were planning to leave before dessert, but the baker's son brought us each a piece of the eclair pie (or whatever it was called) that he had made - so delicious!
Travalon and I had to leave the party early because we were going to a concert tonight. It was halfway between a tribute band and the remnants of the Electric Light Orchestra, and we desperately hoped there wouldn't be an opening act, but a guy came out with a guitar and sang songs about his failed relationships, which is my least favorite type of performer. However, he only sang about four songs, and then the band started immediately with my favorite song, "Evil Woman." Oddly, Travalon had gotten us very bad seats by the wall, where the sound wasn't so good, because he said it was almost sold out, but there were a lot of empty seats - did people buy tickets and then remember there was a Packer game tonight? The band also did another favorite of mine, "Last Train to London," during the first half, then they took a short break and we grabbed way better seats. So mysterious! It wasn't a huge crowd, but it was enthusiastic. During the second half they did "Shine a Little Love," another favorite of mine, but really I like most of their songs, except the ones where they try to do rockabilly. However, even those were better live. Travalon's favorite is "Strange Magic," and they did that one in the second half.
The concert got done at a merciful hour, and we listened to what was left of the Packers game in the car, but they were ahead by four with a minute and some change to go and couldn't stop Dallas, who scored and were ahead by three, and then somehow in just a few seconds the Pack got back down to make a field goal and tie it up. "Oh great," I groaned, "overtime!" They held Dallas to a field goal in overtime and then got down into the red zone but couldn't score, so they kicked a field goal to tie 40-40, the second highest tie in NFL history, or so the announcers said. So now it's late and I have to get up early for the first time in days tomorrow, so I'll wrap this post up now.
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