Drawing A Blank

Hey gang! I hope you all have recovered from your food comas and such and are enjoying the long weekend. Me? Well, I had the same response yesterday when people asked me if I had a good Thanksgiving...

Well, I'm stuck here at the casino dealing to all these degenerates, how good could it be?

Ah well, it's the life I've chosen, for now. Weekends and holidays no longer belong to me. Actually, it wasn't that bad. We were busy, we seem to be making decent money this weekend, and aside from ASU completely shiatting the bed against USC, it was a pretty good day. Rose bowl? Forget it--somebody else from the Pac-10 will have to do the dirty work and beat down those dorks from Columbus.

I feel like I should have a whole bunch of stuff to write about today, but I'm kind of at a loss. It's a boring day so far, but then again, all I've done is download a little bit of Christmas music, browse around on Amazon, and drink a pot of coffee. That new vanilla/rum creamer isn't nearly as good as I'd hoped. Once I finish of this last cup and motivate myself enough to put on shoes, I've got to go and get the truck taken care of.

It needs an oil change, badly--I think I'm almost 1500 miles past due. Oh, and for being a year-and-a-half old, the truck just hit the 10,000 mile mark this past week. Not bad, but I guess the miles really don't add up when it's just 6 miles to work, and I don't really go anywhere else except to school three times a week. Also, I noticed that I had a slow leak in one of my tires a few weeks back, but I topped the air off and it was fine, but last night it was down again and I saw that there is a screw embedded in the high part of the tread, so it must be just barely breaking through and causing a bit of air to escape, so I've got to get that fixed today too. Shouldn't be a problem, though. We got a load of coupons in our weekly junk mail, and a place over off of Eastern and 215 is offering a $13 oil change and free flat repair, so that's where I'm headed.

And in case anyone is interested, a gallon of gas here in America's Playground now goes for $3.11, which means that it cost me $62 to fill up last night. Most expensive tank ever. Damn--it didn't seem like it was that long ago that it only cost me $25 to fill up my old Z or my other Nissan trucks. Then last year, fifty bucks would do it. Now it's starting to sting a little. I'm just glad I don't have a 60-mile daily commute like I've had for most of the past ten years.

Mikey