Leigh's Views

I love it when local restaurants have live music.   You get dinner and usually, a great show.   A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to a small café and had a meal.   We were pleasantly surprised to find that the place had a band playing.   The music was great, thing from when we were younger.   We joined with other patrons singing along and laughing at the antics of several older couple who were dancing.   It was a great evening.   At one point we asked our waitress if the place had bands often, and upon finding that they did this every weekend, we decided to do this again sometime soon.   So, this past weekend we went back to the same café.   Unfortunately, the band was, for the most part, not playing any thing we recognized or enjoyed.   And unlike the first time we were there when the place was packed and the atmosphere was upbeat, this time, the mood was sober and the place was almost deserted.   My friend commented that the ...

Ah, the Olympics.   Athletes from all over the world come together to do all kinds of crazy sports – some you just wonder why they are even considered sports.   Like luge, no offense, but that looks an awful lot like what we used to do as kids with a sled.   Okay, maybe we didn’t have that great track and didn’t go quite so fast, so maybe it’s different.   Cross country skiing, don’t many people do that every day to get to and from somewhere?   No, I shouldn’t be knocking anyone’s hard work to do what they want to.   The important thing is to find a few friends, turn on the TV and cheer on team USA (or whatever country you’re from from).   And if you feel adventurous, try to create your own Olympics.   A friend and I did, we played a few games, nothing on the level of those athletes on the TV of course.   We ended up having more than a few laughs as we ended failing miserably at the games we invented.   I ended up with more than a few ...