8 Years Ago…

September 11, 2001

Always Remember.

Oh Happy Day!!!

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY HAPPY HAPPY JOY!!! Tony is DONE with his chemo treatments!!! (knock wood everyone!) He has to have a catscan next month to make it official, but... unofficially... HE'S DONE WITH CHEMO!!!

A little lite reading…

In the past couple of months, I’ve been able to acquire a few books to help my pool game.  Most of them are filled with diagrams and pool drills, so they aren’t “just sit and read” books… I would say they are more reference books.  I have a new journal to use for pool… and one of these days I’ll remember to use it.  :)

One is actually a tennis book, but our good friend Doug W. suggested it for both mine and Tony’s mental game.  My intention is to review all of these books over on my website and open it up for comments to get other opinions on them…

ok… I’ll start reading them…

right…

about…

now.

They were ALL winners!

Well, we had fun at Luke’s Ladies’ Only 9-Ball Tournament yesterday (Aug 16, 2009).  Well, *I* had fun, I hope the other ladies did!

Again, we had only 8 players… but they were a different group than before except for me.  I *let* Tony help me out and he called most of the matches and was an all around great helper… (which means he pretty much ran the tournament, not me)

And my youngest monkey came along and took a few pictures… or rather attempted to take pictures, most of them came out a bit blurry.

• 7th/8th place:  SPetty and Ann Malone
  (yes, I went 2 and out AGAIN)
• 5th/6th: Monica Anderson and Ashley Simmons
• 4th: Rosa Rios
• 3rd: Lou Earl   $20
• 2nd : Amanda Lampert   $40
• 1st: Corina Campbell    $60

going thru pool pics…

and I found this picture I took of Tony while he was playing bank pool against Tommy S. after my league played one night…

why is this significant??  because apparently he was using MY cue… this must be the night he decided that he needed to start using my Joss for his break stick.

Ladies Only 9-Ball at Luke’s again!!

Luke's Sports Bar and Grill in Sherman, Texas will be holding another Ladies Only 9 Ball tournament on Sunday, August 16th 2009

$10 entry

-Sign up and practice starts at 2 pm
-Play starts at 3 pm
-True double elimination with races to 3 on both sides
-BCAPL rules
-Flip for 1st break - Winner breaks after
-Luke's will add $5 per entry to pot
-100% payout
-8 foot tables

We had 8 ladies show up last time and we had a blast! We are moving this to Sundays to give the ladies more time to play.
For more information send email to: amalone @ almalone.com

Lots of people with HUGE hearts!

Yesterday, July 26th, the Eagles (FOE) in Paris, TX hosted a poker run, pool tournament, and auction to help offset medical bills and such for Tony’s  father, Howard.  The day looked like it started off slow because the pool players were the few people that were there early in the morning.  Most of us drove in from Sherman.  Well, there was a poker run.  Where were all the people?  On the poker run. duh. 

The day was a GREAT success, Howard was tickled to death to see all his family and friends gather in his honor and to support him.  The total for the day was over 6 grand. 

We had 17 paid entries in the pool tournament, one was a “ghost player”, a person just wanted to donate the entry.  I went 2 and out after drawing Doug Winnett as my opening match.  I made 3 shots the whole match.  And when I say I “made” 3 shots, I mean I made contact with the cue ball only 3 times.  oh well.  It was Doug and he was (and has been) playing really really great lately.

My second match, I should have won.  But, as usual, somewhere right after I got into position to win, I just lost it.  again.  oh well. It was fun!

I then found out they were giving trophies for first and second.  That’s one thing I’ve been telling Tony that I really wish I could do.  Win a trophy.  Guess who won first and second?