I go to Mexico and it’s sunny and 70 in KC;  I come back and they predict the first snow of the year.  What can ya’ do.  Entertainment was precious thin this weekend, if not non-existent.  Matter of fact, I just might go with the “one paragraph” update here, and sprinkle in a few more throughout the week.  ** GASP **  That’s how I roll.  Because, while the weekend was rather dead, I do have a few exciting items lined up for the week.  That is including, but not limited to, making a pot of mussels this Wednesday.  Exciting is a relative term, people.  Anyway, Friday night we went to happy hour, mostly just for the sake of happy hour.  Bleh.  Lasted an hour or so, then got hungry and went to Cantina del Ray for dinner.  It was solid as always, although I sort of wonder how long they are going to stay open.  They’ve been pretty empty the last several times we’ve been there, and they sure aren’t gonna stay open off our $12 dinner tabs.  There was a stretch after the KC Star gave them a good review when you couldn’t even get seated, but I guess people have moved on to the next “spot of the moment.”  Saturday I worked all day.  So went Saturday.  Sunday I took Donette to the airport, where she was flying to Vegas to try and win me an early retirement.  Since it’s a forgone conclusion that she is going to win at least $10k or so, I stopped by Costco on the way home and picked up a new camera.  After hours and hours of reading and researching on endless online sites, I went with the first one I ran into at the store, which happened to be a Canon T1i.  My only regret (so far) is that we perhaps should have bought it before going to Mexico.  Oh well.  After Donette gets rich in Vegas we’ll just take another trip.  (Speaking of Mexico and cameras, I did put up some pictures.)  The rest of the day was essentially rained out.  I read camera manuals, watched boring football games (except that night game, that was rather exciting,) and surfed the ‘Net.  And looked for mussel recipes.