An update just to be able to say I've posted every day since I turned 40. That will end tomorrow, but still...

I enjoyed my birthday, other than the day at work and the error and poor hitting on the softball field. But we won, and went to Angio's for pizza after the game and had a nice time.
I've started to really hate playing the early game. I'm going to start choosing 6:15 and 6:30 games as my games to sit out, because after a day behind a desk and the rush to the ball field, I always find I have dead legs and slow reactions and just generally no zip for the early games.
Fourth of July weekend was all very fun. I was busy and had a good time each day.

Saturday morning we played golf. 97 at Maywood, which is not good, by any means, but that's a very tough course and it was only my 3rd round of the year, so under 100 is fine by me.
We thought we had a groupon discount, but it was only for after noon on weekends, so we ended up paying about 50 bucks each, which really stunk.
Then a large group went to dinner at Outback, and we went to the casino that night, and to a bar after the casino.
It was all fun, but it had all the hallmarks of a very expensive day. I budgeted for an expensive day, too. I figured it was a holiday weekend, I hadn't spent much money lately, so what the heck? Have a really fun day and don't worry about it.
And I ended up waking up Sunday morning to more money in my wallet than I started with! So, yaaaay casino!
I've only been to casinos 4 times in my life, and I've left a winner three times! I need to go more often!

Actually, I know that's not true. But it's actually not that surprising. They give back about 90% of the betting money, so I figure each time I go I have about a 45% chance of winning. That's a reasonable percentage for a once-per-year good time. It's the people who go twice a week who are guaranteed to lose big.