Leaving Las Vegas

Fasten your seat belts. Another takeoff from Sin City. Leaving Las Vegas. To Rochester. To Moline. To Des Moines. A jackpot, black jack,a hard six will bring you back to this special city.

As you fly over the western side of Las Vegas, a vast area of sparse development is seen. All of this is land Howard Hughes bought after the Pearl Harbor attack in case the West Coast would be the next Axis target in the 40's.

The Vegas land was called "Summerlin". This was his Grandmother's maiden name.

We live in Summerlin, thanks to Howard Hughes.

Catastrophe Looming

Jim Rogers. famed investor, called for a global commodities rally in 1999. He was spot on, for commodities have dramatically outperformed stocks since then.

An eccentric, he's made numerous motorcycle trips in the remotes.

He still sees a continuation of these trends as he finds many commodities in under supply mode. He is most bullish on agricultural products.

Rogers finds a catastrophe looming. "The world is going to have a period when we cannot get food at any price in some parts of the world."

In parting, he feels "instead of getting an MBA, get yourself a farming degree. You'll make a lot more money."

the Candy Kids

Denver had a female semi-pro basketball team. One of the players was a patient of mine.

We set up a scrimmage between their team and our team for an upcoming Saturday noon.

The gals had a lot of ink from the Denver press, so when I disclosed the news to my team, everybody knew about the gals.

When I checked my answering machine an hour before the workout, I heard, "Hi this is Fonda, we aren't going to work out today...........Click."

So I went over to the gym at noon to tell the news.

You couldn't believe what I saw !!

New basketball shoes..new sweats, haircuts, fingernails cut and clean, teeth brushed, noses plucked.

I barely recognized these DUDES

Basketball Tenure

I played rec basketball until I was 50, made a lot of friends, learned many lessons of life from team ball. Very therapeutic. We even formed a team to play in the over 30 YO league. Over 6 years our team, the L & M Steakhouse, won 95 % of our games.

If we lost a player or two through transfer or such, we had the pick of the litter--everybody wants to play for a winner. Likewise, everybody wanted to beat us too.

One will see little stories from time to time from this mid-life activity.

Poo-Paw

Broncos

Best Bet of this weekend.

Dallas Cowboys play at Denver on Sunday; Dallas favored by 3 points.

Take the 3 with Denver !!!

Poo-Paw the Swami