February 12, 2007

  • I talked to Dave tonight and he had a very interesting idea that I'm overly excited about. See, our friend Steve (ok, so he is more of Dave's friend Steve) moved to Kentucky recently. For more about him, see the entertaining post from Saturday, January 13, 2007. Anywho, he hasn't totally moved yet, he is living down there with his in laws while his wife stays up here to sell the house. Why somebody would want to live with their damn in laws while their wife is 6 hours away is beyond me, but then again, Steve has always been weird like that. Anywho, Dave talked to Steve over the weekend and he told him that if he sold his house by May, we would go down there for the Kentucky Derby and stay at his house. Ohhhhh, I would LOVE to go to the Derby. See, I'm quite the gambler and even love horse racing (NO, I DO NOT HAVE A GAMBLING PROBLEM!!!) and as I'm sure you know, the Kentucky Derby is horse racing's premiere event; as far as horse racing goes, it gets no bigger than the Kentucky Derby. Anywho, even though our going is still a longshot, actually, our odds are probably going are at 150-1, wait, make that 168-1, wait, now its down to 135-1, that 115-1 that Mike and Dave will go to the Kentucky Derby. Holy shit, the odds are all the way down to 98-1, its never been a better time to get in on the Mike/Dave Kentucky Derby action. I just saw the price of the tickets which are tough to get, odds now stand as bad as ever, 200-1. But, wait, down the stretch they come, I was looking at the website, this looks like it might actually be do-able, odds are now 50-1! Wait, I have just been given a piece of info by Dave that make things very difficult  the odds have been revised, its now 1500-1 that we will actually go. And pulling up with a 10 length victory is Homer's New Job, making it damn near impossible that we are going to go.

    Still, I was looking into maybe traveling by train down there and as it turns out, for some reason, Amtrak does not have train service that goes from Chicago to Louisville. That sucks, people. I was all excited because not only the dwindling potential of us going there for the Derby, but also, our friend Julie is going to be moving to Louisville in a couple of months and I was kicking the idea around of everybody going to see her via train. I just think that a train trip with my friends would totally be the shit, we would have so much fun on a long train ride together. I guess that would be something to do if I ever became rich and all of the kids were grown.

    Heh heh heh.................I love hidden messages that nobody gets but me.