Guess I better start writing in this blog   before I get too bogged down.
Winter in OC   is very dreary,  actually  OC  is like a ghost town during the week.. Weekends offer a bit of excitement  usually from  the football games  in the local establishments. We have about 120 days of off season lock-down  and we are about 1/3 of the way through. This is the time of year when you or your friends are planning to get out of town  Anywhere!    For me  it was the desert in Arizona for a few weeks.  Unplanned though... My sweet mom passed into the great beyond  after a good run of 89 years...  so the family had an unplanned get together. Born in the Finger Lakes NY, survived  the Great Depression and aided the boys in WW2...successfully raised a family of five and retired to Sun City Az..  We gave her a great sendoff... She could have had heart surgery but made the decision against living into her 90's. Have to respect that.... GOD Speed mom ..    Save me a seat at Heaven's Bar.    So now its back to the resort deep freeze. Days are short, cold  and zip bye at amazing regularity. Really makes you feel like your timeline speeds up.
Jobs are fewer   money is tighter  bills are increasing....   Survival mode kicks in.   and then  
before you know it  we will be drinking green beer at Shenanigans...   that's when we turn the page in my book.... but until then  its  stoke the logs in the fireplace, keep the wine and beer stocked....  have the remote back-up batteries near, hit the gym and keep moving forward ......