1. Ed and I rendezvoused with Jake at the Rose Lake Conoco station where I parked the Camry and we packed into Jake's new Toyota Tacoma and blasted off to Winning Wednesday at the CdA Casino.
We had a great time. I came out a little bit ahead on the machines. I enjoyed eating Buffalo Wings and a garden salad for lunch. It was a lot of fun being with Jake and Ed throughout the morning and early afternoon.
I hope we'll join up and do this more often.
2. I had one odd and fortuitous experience at the casino.
As a club member, I always swipe my card in one of the kiosks and check my player points and see what modest benefits the casino has granted me.
Today, however, when I swiped my card, I got a message telling me that my ID was expired.
That message didn't make any sense to me, so I hotfooted it over to the Player Club counter and asked about it.
A very enjoyably sassy woman working next to the woman helping me overheard my question and said, "Ah! Someone's just had a birthday!"
I was still puzzled about the expired ID message and thought maybe nowadays my player card ID had to be renewed every year around my birthday.
So I handed the woman helping me my driver's license.
She said, "Do you have your temporary license papers?"
I didn't know what she meant and she told me my driver's license expired on my birthday.
Oh. My. God.
I didn't even think about my driver's license on or around December 27th and said something lame and elderly sounding about how I thought it expired in 2026.
No harm done. I just couldn't use the kiosk.
But the first thing I thought of was that Debbie's license had also expired, hers six days before mine.
I texted her.
She contacted the state DMV in Boise and they worked with her to transmit paperwork to and from Virginia and she got an and can renew when she returns to Kellogg.
3. So, upon arriving in Kellogg, I stopped in at the house to check the mail and make sure all was in order and then I headed up to the Sheriff's office in Wallace.
I hadn't been there since the Dec. 26th shooting.
The security measures in the aftermath of the shooting are temporary. There were about five people ahead of me, a person being served, who could be in the lobby where licenses were issued, and four of us waiting our turn in a chilly little area just outside the lobby. Only one person at a time could be in the lobby -- but, the lone employee at the counter didn't like seeing us in the cold little room and told us we could all come in. Kindness trumped the rules.
I arrived at the office figuring it might be a slightly inconvenient wait, so I was in the right frame of mind to patiently wait my turn.
The woman working the counter was lovely and made the short process of renewing my license most enjoyable.
So, thanks to a CdA Casino kiosk message, Debbie and I are set -- me for four years, Debbie with a one year extension, but her plan is to renew her license as soon as possible when she returns to Kellogg.
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