Our church had a sock hop for the little kids last night. Beth and I aren't doing anything else for Halloween this year so we dressed us as '50s as we could. Me in a white t-shirt with a deck of cards rolled up in the sleeve (don't have cigarettes, and soap was too heavy), hair all John-Travolta-as-Danny-Zucko (they say a little dab'll do ya, but I used most of the tube), jeans, black shoes, and navy issue sunglasses. Beth with Peg Bundy hair, a scarf tied around the neck, white shirt, jeans cuffed, bobby socks...we should have a polaroid to scan soon. I won a Twist contest (prize: a plastic jar of bubbles) which I attribute to the John-Travolta-as-Vincent-Vega fingers in front of the eyes move from Pulp Fiction. One of the kiddies almost choked on a Life Saver so I turned him upside down and whacked his back until he spit up a whole bunch of slime all over my arm. Good times.

I haven't been to work in a week now. Last Monday I was visiting the Baxter plant in Cleveland, Mississippi to check out their molding stuff. Cleveland, I think, is best described as Mountain Home without the glamour and excitement. Anyway, Tuesday through Thursday I was in Tunica again for more 6-sigma training. Tunica is Mountain Home with casinos. And Friday, I was sick and spent almost all day sleeping or blowing my nose. Beth's sister Pam and her husband Marve are visiting us for the weekend, so we've been showing them all the sights of Mtn Home.

Well I haven't posted much lately, but not for lack of anything to post. Beth and I went on a church retreat to Shepard of the Ozarks a couple weekends ago. That was just what we needed, really, to get out of town with friends for a couple days. If you check out the link, we stayed in the Indian Lodge at SOTO, the most luxurious lodge I've ever stayed in. It was like a really nice hotel. Our friend Mike from Michigan visited us last weekend. Monday I drove out to Tunica MS for company training. Why Tunica? Probably it was the cheapest place where there were convention type places roughly halfway between Cleveland MS and Mountain Home, the two regional Baxter plants. Tunica happens to be a big casino place. The Las Vegas of Mississippi, I guess. Beth and I are doing pretty well still. The other day we got the pictures of our baby the hospital took, and they made both of us cry, but overall I think we're OK. Last night we went to our first Mtn Home High School Bombers football game with Titus and Lesli and the boys. We left after the halftime marching band show because it was getting too cold for the kids. The band was really good, but the football team was behind 35-3. The final score was 49-9.