cold weather

Casino on an apparent slow day

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It was another frigid cold Saturday in Central Indiana. After a trip to a local winery we noticed that there weren’t many cars at the Indiana Grand Casino. We thought let’s drive around a bit.

Street level view of the Casino, Main Entrance behind the large sign

Apparently there was some construction ongoing as there was equipment around the entrance and Valet Parking was closed. We drove into the parking garage. There were a decent amount of cars on the first two levels. By the time we got to the open top level, there were less than a handful of vehicles.

Few cars in the open air parking lot. This view is from the top level of the parking garage.

View of the empty race track from the garage roof. Racing will start again in April

We chose to not park and go into the casino. It’s a miserable and cold day. With the Omicron covid still a threat it did not seem like a wise thing to partake of today. We’ll just head back home and enjoy a glass of wine.

Colorful sunrise and some reminiscing

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This morning was quite frigid, with temps in the high teens resulting in a hard freeze. Today will be cold, period. Mid thirties is the best we can hope for this afternoon.

Pretty sky outside our front door this morning

A nearly perfect contrail cut across the sky

It is hard to believe that it is actually 2022. Sher and I were chatting yesterday how back when we were younger the year 2000 seemed so far in the future that it was hard to imagine. The epic movie  2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968, and my did the year 2001 seem impossibly far away. And yet here we are.

Remember when you’d always mess up and write the wrong year on the checks you filled out the first week of January? Heck the only check I write each year is to pay the county property taxes. And then there were roaming charges you had to look out for. For crying out loud, I used to have an eight person party line in the mid seventies! Enough of this, I feel old enough.

Stay safe out there friends. Have a good January!