DAY # 9

TODAY IS FINALLY DAY #9 OF NINE STRAIGHT DAYS OF WORK. I'VE FOUND MYSELF MAKING MORE MISTAKES AT WORK LATELY DUE TO THE NINE DAY STRETCH. I GUESS A FIVE DAY WORK WEEK IS BEST.

THE NEW "GODFATHER" FROM LAS VEGAS TOOK DELIVERY ON A NEW PICK-UP TRUCK THIS WEEK, I WONDER IF HE WILL LET UNCLE NEIL TRY 4-WHEELING IN THE DESERT AT "VEGAS 80"?

I GUESS I BETTER EXPLAIN "GODFATHER" FROM LAS VEGAS. MY GRANDSON, JOEY, WAS BAPTIZED IN ALABAMA LAST WEEK-END WITH GRANDMA STANDING IN FOR THE NEW "GODFATHER", PAULIE. THIS WAS ALL MADE POSSIBLE, I UNDERSTAND, DUE TO PAULIE'S "GODMOTHER" DOING THE NECESSARY PAPERWORK FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH FROM POSTVILLE, IA.

ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A GANGSTER MOVIE PLOT WITH AN OLD AND FRIENDLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE SWISS AND IRISH?

I WONDER IN 20 YEARS WHAT KIND OF FAVORS THE YOUNG MAN, JOEY, WILL ASK OF HIS LAS VEGAS "GODFATHER"?

DESPITE THE "WAR" BETWEEN THE PACKERS AND THE BEARS PAULIE AND HIS "GODMOTHER" COVERED EACH OTHER OVER THE YEARS AND STAYED IN CONTACT, AND I'M SURE TERESA WILL CHEER FOR THE PACKERS IN THIS YEARS SUPER BOWL, JUST AS PAULIE BACKED THE BEARS, MOMENTARILY, IN LAST YEARS SUPER BOWL.

(PICTURES OF THE NEW TRUCK TO FOLLOW)