B! I! N! G! O!

Yup.

I listened to 151 games of BINGO! being called this weekend. I kid you not. Brian called 150 games and his dad called 1.

Our former church has a big fall festival/fair thing each year in September and Brian has been in charge of the BINGO! booth for the past few years. Usually, I'm away on the weekends because of App. games, but because they were on a bye this weekend, I was at home to help.

Brian, being the highly trained radio professional that he is, is rather good at calling BINGO! numbers and has it down to a science. He was averaging about 6 minutes per game (including the time it took between games to collect money). This year, we did something a bit new though and we created a spreadsheet and macro to track our earnings. The way it works is that half of the pot is paid out in winnings and the other half goes to the church. Well...we made $1,979 for the church. Pretty sweet, huh?! Our little macro was banging...it quickly calculated the amount per pot and per church (with any odd quarters going to the church) and then recorded all the earnings on another sheet that was time stamped so that we could see how we were doing per hour. Since Brian was on the mic, I was pretty much in charge of all the money...for every single game. He charges 25c/card and $1/5 cards for regular BINGO! and then charges $1/card for coverall games, which are the ones that pay out the best. Brian's mom won $68 during one game and we gave away two pots on Saturday night that were more than $100 each. Very cool that it's all going to a good cause.

I can still hear BINGO! numbers in my head.

On Sunday, we went to church and then pretty much vegged out all day, going to Brian's parents' house for dinner and the Steelers/Browns game Sunday night. Sadly, the Browns were not victorious. However, the Panthers were victorious Sunday afternoon and, in fact, are starting 2-0 for the first time since they went to the Super Bowl. This is a good thing.

In other news, we also have a new neighbor. We haven't met him yet, but we know that he exists.

Yay for neighbors.