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We are making plans for the big Super Bowl Party. My buddy, Jeremy, is having the party at his place. He has this really nice condo downtown with a big community room that can be used by the residents. He booked the party room, which is really sweet. It has a 52 inch flatscreen TV, theater seating and a full kitchen, bathrooms and even an area off to the side with a pool table. I love that party room better than any other friends with a man cave.

So the rest of us are pitching in to cover the food and beverages. I told him I would spring for a keg, pick it up and deliver it an hour before the game. My girlfriend, Janice, is going to cook about $100 worth of chicken wings and bring them on a huge platter with 4 different kinds of sauce. You know, you can get a lot of chicken wings if you buy them at the Sam’s Club and cook them yourself.

It’s probably going to be too cold to barbecue or grill anything. But we do need more food than just chicken wings. I hope someone bring s a party platter from Subway or something substantial. We are going to need good food to keep this party going.

Spent today chilling with my buddy, Dean. It was a cold and rainy day and I just didn’t fell like doing much that couldn’t be put off until tomorrow – or next weekend. Dean happened to call and said he had a craving for buffalo wings. That was all I needed to here – I was outta here.

We went to the new restaurant called Buffalo Wild Wings. Its more than a sports bar – it has pretty good food. I like the huge selection of sauces they offer – no where else in town to pick from that many sauces for your wings.

Got a nice card from an old friend today, Lindsay. She apologized for being late with the cards but she has had a lot going on at her house, so she wrote a nice long letter and enclosed it with the card.

Her husband was on his way home from work a couple of weeks before Christmas and some woman with two little kids on the car ran a stop sign and broadsided him. He has been in the hospital in traction since the accident. To top it all off, the woman who hit him did not have insurance.Of course, his car was totalled. Thankfully he was driving a big Mercury or his injuries could have been a lot worse.

I feel really bad for Lindsay and her family. Just when you least expect it, something catastrophic like this happens and your whole world grinds to a halt. Of curse, she is lucky that no one was killed. But that is small comfort when your husband is lying in a hospital bed and not able to work for an unknown length of time.

At a restaurant last night, we made friends with people at both of the tables next to us. I don’t know why we got so friendly and rowdy. Everyone was just in a good mood. We had a lot of fun.

The odd thing about the whole thing – I’ve been rowdy plenty of times! – was that three of the ladies there were named Katelyn or Caitlyn or however you spell that name. I had no idea that Katelyn was such a popular name. And each of those ladies was gorgeous!

We currently have too many cats.  It wasn’t planned, it just happened.  My wife and I had two cats, Oliver and Sugaree,  that are more like our babies  than pets.  A friend asked if we could “babysit” her two cats while she was in between homes, and she hasn’t retrieved them!  Four cats is a lot.  We have multiple cat boxes and way too many cat food bowls around the house.  They also make too much noise at night while I am trying to sleep!  I am calling the friend and asking her to come back for her cats soon!  I can’t take this much longer!!