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Yesterday was an expensive day, as Evie went to the dentist, got a cavity filled, hit Sam's Club, and the plumber, Terry, came over to fix our heat. We were not getting heat in one of the upstairs zones; it ended up being a valve which would not open, allowing the hot water to go upstairs. He was here almost two hours, so you know what that will cost. He also set up our remote phone, in case the heat goes off when we are on the road, and did a furnace/antifreeze check, to make sure we are ready for the winter. He's a talkative guy, lots of stories, and explains things pretty well. I did make my breakfast at the Bemus Point Inn. Joe Johnson I were the only two, as the others were out of town. We talked books and politics; he mentioned how all of his red neck buddies were going crazy over the election, and he had to tell some of them to stop sending the offensive, often racist emails. I had to do the same thing to some of my friends. It's amazing the scurrilous stuff that's passed on, especially by retirees my age or older, as if it's the truth. It's as if we believe anything that's in print.
We didn't do much in the afternoon, took a walk in the woods, read some of my Lincoln biography but I am already slowing down, having reached a boring part of his life, as a would be legislator in Springfield, IL. I do wonder what draws people in to politics? Is it a particular personality type. I know Obama loved and played basketball, Clinton was not particularly athletic but was class president, Bush was a cheerleader at Yale, Romney was manager of the ice hockey team, member of the Pep club and ten other clubs in high school. Nixon, of course, was a loner, did not fit in, the square or nerd, I suppose, the last kind of person I woud think would go into politics. JFK was charming, confident, aristocratic and wealthy, so I can see how he would.
We decided to suck it up and go off to JCC to watch the regional volleyball finals at 8:00 in Jamestown. Before going to dinner, we stopped at the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown and I picked up a couple of Ian Flemings' James Bond books, to see if I still like them, and a new novel called Istanbul Passage, which got decent reviews and is set, obviously, in Istanbul. I looked for a burger place near the JCC campus, found two names, and we ended up at a dive called the Puzzle Lounge. It does not look as though there is a campus hangout because the other bar we looked at had one person in it. The Puzzle Lounge was not much to write about though we did kind of like it, the beat up look. There were about eight people sitting at the bar, regulars it seemed, another table of eight drinking beer and enjoying wings. The bar tender was named Louise and she did it all, ran the bar, served the drinks, fried the wings and burgers, even served them, quite effortlessly I might add. I wonder what it's like if the place was busy. We sat at the bar, talked some with Louise, found out she cooks her wings for twenty one to twenty two minutes, whereas most people cook theirs for seventeen. They were quite tasty and we both like their crispness.
We drove to the JCC, about a half mile away and were shocked to find an empty parking lot, no game. We didn't know what was going on, so we went home, disappointed, and watched some TV, two episodes of Parenthood and went to bed. I did check the local paper and the game was scheduled for Thursday night at 8:00, at JCC. Well this morning they had the results of the game in the paper, Ellicottville easily beat Chautauqua Lake on Wednesday night, not Thursday despite the fact that the paper said it was being played on Thursday. I cannot believe the Post Journal got something wrong.
Ron and Linda Mc Clure are returning to the lake today, so we are having them over for dinner. It will be good to see them again. Hope to kayak soon Time Warner has yet to call.
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