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This year my wife decided that she wanted a Weedwacker from Costco as her Mother’s Day present. And who am I to argue. Any dummy can get that done and I definitely qualify. So I made the trip over to the grown up version of Disneyland. I immediately put something in my shopping cart, as I always do, and headed back to the free samples. Note to you Costco rookies:  As long as you have something in your cart, it doesn’t look like you are just there for the free food. Of course, the eleven empty wrappers inside my cart, next to the package of 72 rolls of toilet paper may have told a different story. Hey, can you blame me? Within minutes, I hit all of the food groups -- taquitos, egg rolls, chicken cutlets, cheese and crackers, sourdough bread and coconut pie. It’s the best meal plan since college.  Buy an annual $100 membership and eat a free meal everyday. Just make sure you wear a different mask every time so the vendors don’t recognize you. Anywhoo... Once the snackin was done...

They must’ve been having a sale on Mother’s Day, because this year I got two for the price of one. I told my wife that I was going to take the kids to visit my mom at her assisted living home early in the day so that we could be home for a nice family dinner. Instead of that plan, my wife said that I should invite my mom over to have dinner with us. “It’s the right thing to do,” she said. And who I am to argue. For those of you Sir Bacon long-timers, my mom is doing much better, thanks for asking. It took a while, a LONG while, but I think/hope the docs have finally found the right recipe to end THIS manic episode and get her back on track. For now. At times she is still changing gears faster than a trucker heading down a hill. For example, on the ride home today, she told me that the chef at her facility used to be a cook for a high ranking military official. Then the next sentence -- literally, the NEXT sentence -- was, “I knew David Letterman was messing around with that girl.” No c...