From: "Michael Patterson" Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:25:44 -0800 Subject: [ESCARGOT] OT: mickdog's 2004 ESCARGOT Trip Report (zero poker content) Monday before ESCARGOT: Post rOOling trash talk about last longer bets and how the "NotCal" group would dominate. Tuesday morning: Confirm all information about flight, hotel, and Bike pickup (forshadowing: oops I forgot to cancel that - apologize for me will ya Marc?). Starting to get pretty excited to go. But first, my wife has a doctor's appointment... Tuesday afternoon: Those headaches and tightening in the chest Peg was having over the past few days appears to be pregnancy induced hypertension. Bad Beat #1. Doc says monitor overnight at hospital. I call Russ Fox and say 90% chance I'm not coming. Wednesday morning: Doc says things aren't getting better, maybe we should induce a month early before Peg gets worse. Okay.... {fall on floor}. Bad Beat #2. Get up, and call Russ and say "refund please!" Cancel flight and hotel. Wednesday afternoon: Peg induced. Wednesday night: Peg delivers Aidan James Patterson. Good Beat #1!(Note initials are AJ - obviously my new favorite starting hand!) Pictures are here for those who care about such things: http://www.midmod-pdx.com/Aidan Thursday - Monday: We all stay in hospital while baby oscillates from doing well, to not so well, to better. Send out baby arrival emails. Get swamped with replies including a friend in Oakland who sends me a gigantic file wthl pics of his kids... this causes email to crash and burn. Talk to scottro via phone finally, and North Shore via email. Mike (and Chuck) helps me resubscribe to the BARGE and ESCARGOT lists - thanks buddy! Monday night: We finally get to go home (Good Beat #2), just about the time I'd be leaving the Bike to head back to PDX. Tuesday: Find out the results of ESCARGOT, see that the NotCalers needed my help, and I vow to lead us to victory, next year. -mickdog P.S.: thanks to those who emailed or posted with good wishes (or good jokes), they were very appreciated. P.P.S: I noted that there was a long thread about off topic posts.... so who do I send my check to again? P.P.P.S: I noticed that the BARGE archive link on conjelco is empty. Anyone have last week's digests still saved? Especially Wed-Sun. Thanks in advance.