Off to a Good Start

Hey Gang!

I know, I know, but it's tough for me to post on Mondays--usually I'm dead tired or not home at all. I was home, but I literally slept all day. And I had a venom-spewing rant all lined up to post due to my being surrounded by farking morons all weekend at work (there is absolutely no farking reason for me to be stuck dealing Let It Ride for an hour and forty minutes straight at 2 am on a Monday morning...), but I mellowed out...

Sunday, the birfday, was good--I heard from lots of the family and used up a bunch of my night & weekend minutes in the process. Also, later that night Steph came down to the casino to visit me at work and hang out at my table for a little while, so that made the evening that much more enjoyable. She had a paper to write for school, so we couldn't go out afterwards, but a few people mentioned that they might go out, so I didn't go straight home.

I'm glad I didn't, because I ran into another gal I know that's a bartender at one of the big casinos in town. I didn't know it at the time, but it was her birthday this past weekend, also, so we hung out, played a little video poker (and we hit a 4-of-a-kind for quick hundy), and had a few drinks. Once the sun started coming up we decided to head out, and I must've had my 'A' game going because I managed to talk her into coming over.

Best birthday ever...

She went home around 9:30 or so and I went back to bed until it was time to get ready for work. Of course I was there till the bitter end this morning, then I came home, did my usual Tuesday morning ritual of watching last night's episode of 24, then slept until nine before getting up and going to school.

I spent four hours there before coming home, and it was a good time--we worked on big-limit Stud for all of the guys dealing in the WSOP, and I managed to pick up a few things here and there. Of course, starting with $500 worth of chips and turning it into almost $4000 was pretty cool, too. As a bonus, the Asian gal Sara I was helping out last week wants to take me to lunch tomorrow, too.

Speaking of which, tonight I'm meeting reader Dave P for dinner--we're going to Capo's Italian Restaurant on West Tropicana for some goomba food and Goodfellas atmosphere.

Word is that you won't go hungry in the place, so I'm looking forward to it. All I've had to eat so far today is an Almond Joy, a diet coke, and a scoop of potato salad. Dinner should be the highlight meal of the day...

Mikey