Bands, Old Cars, NTN, Name That Tune, and a Festival-- Part 1

After some serious boating Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, it was time to enjoy other good things in the area.

THURSDAY-- After working in the yard, we went out and relaxed on the boat. Just floated, read newspapers, and listened to the radio. This is definitely one of our favorite things to do on the boat.

Then, I drove to the It's Thursday (Very creative name) party in Amtioch, Illinois. They have a band shell behind Main Street (Il. Highway 83). A 50s-60s band, the Fairlanes, were playing in the free concert and did quite a few songs you don't hear oldies bands doing. A classic car show was going on in conjunction with it. Old cars and old music, just the thing for an old guy like me.

One of these days I'll have to remember to bring a sweatshirt as it gets cool. Before the end of their show, I went to the Sequoit Lodge and found that they had just installed NTN-Buzztime, so, of course, played it. This is a true North Woods kind of place with an August special of $1 Bud Light pints everyday. This site gives me a total of 108 new sites for this year. Some day, I'll have to get a life I guess.

FRIDAY-- No boating because the weather folks were right, it rained. Just don't like boating in the rain. I took the '85 Firebird out and did some shopping at the the big boxes out on Il- Highway 31 in McHenry.

Even though I no longer teach, I just can't get away from those back-to-school sales. How can you beat 70 page spiral notebooks for 5 cents apiece?

We got together with Kevin and Kelly and drove to our home base for NTN, Donovan's Reef (named after the Lee Marvin/John Wayne movie) in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, and had seven top twenties, including two double-doubles. We all got our free drinks for getting more than 12,000 on Countdown. I notice Countdown still goes through the motions of acting like there might be some chance that the magic number to get the players plus bonus will be something other than 9,000. It's always 9,000.

Also, hard to beat the Friday special: $1.50 pints and bottles all day.

Came back to Margaritaville, our basement bar, and played Name That Tune off the Ultimate Juke Box.

And Saturday Wasn't Bad Either. --RoadDog