What a great week it is--the weather has finally started to clear up and turn into that elusive late-spring/early-summer goodness, I'm having a lot of laughs with Eddie B being around, and I don't have to work tonight. It just doesn't get much better than that.
Again I apologize for my less-than-regular posting schedule, but not only am I sharing the computer with Eddie (who's actually doing productive "work" type stuff while he's here), but I've been a busy fellow this week.
First of all, as far as that tournament poker dealing gig goes, it fell through. I showed up at noon on Monday, dressed in my finest black polyester pants and crispy white oxford shirt, looking every bit like a tearoom waiter, ready to wow them with my awesome poker dealing skills. Unfortunately, the first order of business was to go over the tournament schedule for next week and see if there were any conflicts.
Well, I have a relatively well-paying full-time gig at night, so all those 6:00 pm start times just weren't gonna jive with my schedule. Once I told them that I wasn't going to quit my full-time job for a four-day tournament, (and it took place Thursday thru Sunday, right directly on top of my work week), they pretty much told me to hit the bricks.
Oh well. I guess it wasn't meant to be. I don't know who schedules these things, but it would seem that the rest of the town is doing something right when they schedule the majority of their tournaments to start between 10:00 am and noon every day.
So I was in and out of there in less than two minutes, tops, just like on Prom night. (He's here all week folks... Try the veal!). Basically it was a wasted day because I got no sleep the night before, thinking about it, and then getting up early to spend the morning practicing. So I was home by 12:30 and spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on missed sleep.
Yesterday I went down to school and met up with Falcon Rob. He just got hired at my casino, and starts this weekend, so I wanted to help him out with all of our house procedures as far as the single, double, and six-deck shuffles go, along with all the little nit-picky things that the bosses have a hard-on for this month. We spent a couple of hours doing that before the instructors booted us off the table for hogging it, then we headed over to NYP&P for some lunch. Sadly, no pizza to report this time, but we had some monster-sized calzones to feast upon, and they were pretty damn tasty, too.
Later last night Eddie was in the mood for Chinese, so we drove around for a bit looking for a good spot (Did you know that there are absolutely NO Chinese restaurants of the non-buffet genre on Sunset Road between Pecos and Hwy 95? Neither did we, until last night!) So we settled on the one in the strip mall across the road from Casa de Mikey and munched on shrimp puffs and Kung Pao chicken.
Once we got home, we built the fire, poured a couple of rum drinks, and chilled out for a bit. Eddie went to bed early, as he has to get up at 5:00 am, so I stayed outside for a couple hours longer poking at the fire with a stick and smoking a Black Label.
As far as tonight goes, it's just another night of steaks on the grill, followed by smores and cigars. Falcon Rob will be joining us, also.
Mikey
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