Consolidation is a process

We went to see our friendly neighbourhood banker about getting a consolidation loan.
The good news is our credit rating isn't too bad. The downside is we have to wait for approval on a five-year term which, apparently they don't like to do.
Wife feels as though - and I agree with her to some degree - that banks are upfront about helping you--so long as it is in their best interest. I guess making multi-billion dollar proifts annually only makes you want more.

The day capped off with an evening of amazing food and wine at the spring wine festival kickoff. I love any type of social gathering that involves wines, especially when there are dozens that you haven't sampled before.
We now have at least a couple more stops on our wine tour tally ... and were forced to take on a tiny bit of sugary hangover for the day.

I had some passes for the movie, Gunless, starring Paul Gross. It's a spoof on the gunslinger style westerns where Gross' character, The Montana Kid, is on the lam from a group of bounty hunters. Good show.

Our slopitch team is riding a streak, a losing streak. I dunno what's happening but the bats aren't banging and we're still making errors we don't need to make. We do seem to be better than last year when we had perfect zero-and-however-many-losses-I-stopped-counting-record. In spite of getting 10 runs for the first time in our last three games, it seemed like a lacklustre showing on our part.

I managed to get my wife to watch the TV show, Pawn Stars. It follows your typical "reality" format and seems similar to the late, Orange County Chopper. There's a friendly-enough pawn shop owner and crotchety old guy that houses all the business experience and knows a thing or two about making money, the lazy, shiftless son and his loveable sidekick. They profiled a guy that wanted $5,000 for an "original" playbill from the the Ford Theatre the night president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. It turned out to be fake and the poor guy had shelled out $500 to buy it at some antique store.
The son purchased a couple of medieval swords for $250 and it ends up they were made in the 19th century and are worth somewhere between $800 and $1,000.

Score!