re: #88 Targetpractice

Nah, it was a fairly tame night, all things considered. Just busy with people coming in way later than normal, but otherwise I didn’t have to tell anybody to turn things down and I wasn’t breaking up any fights, so it was all good. Though it’s a sad commentary on America today that I couldn’t tell whether the popping I heard at midnight was fireworks…or gunshots.

Good to hear that things were fairly tame.

And yes, loud unidentifiable noises, where one real option is gunshots, can be a pucker factor. At least for me.

Probably the most surreal hotel visit I have ever had was at a cousins wedding in Ocean City, Maryland.

There was a NASCAR race in nearby Delaware. Which led to a lot of fans staying in large numbers per room. And they were not examples of high fashion.

There was also a deputy sheriffs’ convention going on at the same time. And there was convention for llama related businesses in the lobby.

When I turned into the parking lot, past groups of less than sober men, saw that it was full of police cars and uniformed deputy sheriffs, then saw someone walking a llama, I knew that it would be a very different kind of weekend.