This was a week of getting miscellaneous things done. Beth and I both had dental appointments, I had a routine appointment for an annual physical (which included a prostate check! Love those so much! Not. But it was a million times better than some I've had) and got a refill on my script, got my eye exam (basically no change from last year), bought some new jeans, and had our taxes done. Usually I do them myself, but there was a snafu for my 2019 taxes (due to Mom's IRA) that I paid for this year...a lot...and I started doing them myself for 2022 but decided after a while that I better have someone do them for me. Decided that when I was getting that I owed over $3000. A tax professional did things correctly and I owed $790 or so. That was because of not withholding enough when I withdrew some money to pay for the kids' college this year. So anyway, it's done and should be done right. Hopefully no surprises. 

Friday night Beth and I went up to the Four Winds Casino in South Bend! No, not for that. I was looking for live entertainment because we haven't gone anywhere for that in a long time. One of the restaurants in the casino was having dueling pianos, which sounded like fun! So we went up there for dinner at Edgewater Cafe, which is on the 4th floor of the casino. We were a bit early so we walked around the casino floor for a while, with the intention of maybe doing a little gambling with a few bucks while we were there, just for kicks. After walking around a bit, though, both Beth and I started feeling like it was all so sad. So many people just sitting there feeding the machines all evening...sad. Neither one of us was interested in gambling at all while we were there, so we saved the few bucks. Dinner was excellent, though. I had an incredible couple pieces of sea bass...so good...and Beth had the salmon which she thought was a bit overdone. At 8:30 the piano players started. Both of them are really good. There was a decent crowd (the cafe is very new, so maybe not as well known yet) at first, but as the evening went on there were fewer and fewer until around 10 it was just us, another group of about 8 people, and a few at the bar. Then just us and a couple at the bar. But they kept playing until around 11:30. They just had people shouting out a song to play, and we suggested more than a few, and they played them all except "I've Been Everywhere," instead doing "Ring of Fire." It was a really good time.