Quiet day. Steve cooked up bacon and eggs. His mother provided toast and fruit. His father came up with whipped cream for the fruit. Pretty good start for the day.

We went to REI for a new tire, new shorts and gloves for me. Michele was overcome by lust for a titanium spork.

There are some oddities here. Lots of "We buy gold" signs and "i buy houses" signs. More interestingly, there are signs announcing "We buy diabetic test strips". I figure this must be a Medicare fraud game. A person somehow gets Medicare or other insurer to prescribe diabetic equipment. The patient then resells the test strips to somebody who repackages them, possibly to sell to Medicare.

When someone bets you $5 you can't name the five C's of the Arizona economy, you'll be ready: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper and climate. A public service from your correspondent.