The good news is Beth doesn’t have shingles inside her ear. The bad news is her ear is infected badly enough that it is swollen shut, hence all the ear pain and headaches and fever and such. She called in to see Dr. Dick on Monday because she was worried enough about the possibility of shingles after going in to the ER. He gave her a different antibiotic than the ER did and added some drops. We’ve been putting olive oil in her ear for a few days because of the itching. Anyway, hopefully that will sort itself out pretty quickly now. 

The softball season has ended for FCC-Knight. We were excused from the tournament Tuesday, losing to one of the two teams we had beaten during the regular season (once out of 2 games). It was a good game, we did our best but were lacking our best player and the only one likely to hit a homer during the game. Even so it was back and forth, we led multiple times during the game but never held a lead for more than an inning. In the end we couldn’t hold a lead in the last inning and they walked us off. We lost 14-13, which guaranteed us last place in the tournament (at 0-2) AND regular season standings (at 2-10) in the lowest division. But we have fun! The other FCC team will compete for the tourney championship next week.

Friday my group at work went on our annual boat ride. One of the team members lives on the Barbee Lake chain. We met at her house and all took a cruise on their boat around the lakes and pulled in to Lake Life restaurant, where they have some pretty good burgers. Then cruised around the lakes again after lunch for the rest of the afternoon. Unlike last year, the weather was beautiful. I wasn’t there last year (I think Alex and I were going to Washington) but everyone had all the stories about how they got caught in a huge downpour while out on the lake. This time, it was sunny the whole time. Nice afternoon.