Today I had a couple of guys come out to fix my crawlspace. As you all know my crawlspace was leaking. See, the reason being was for the first 5 years after my mother died, we kept her body in the crawlspace. ‘Til one afternoon the funeral director and his merry band of groomsmen showed up in a daring pre-dawn raid to get the body. The came in through the roof, which is now  leaking. They landed hard on the kitchen floor and cracked the hell out of it. They demanded the body because they said it wasn’t legal for us to keep the body down there; also the body still needed to be embalmed. So they take the body out and bury it in the backyard next to my dad and former president James Polk. But ever since they went into the crawl space it leaks. . Of course its always been wet down there because we used to send my brother down there to water my mom. We sent him because for him it wasn’t a crawlspace and for everybody else it was a crawlspace.

So I had to get it fixed before I get a nasty ass case of mold down there and then who the hell knows who will have to show up and what they will be with. Anywho, the guys that went down there said that there already is a little bit of mold down there and also I might have a leak in my bathroom as well. I’m guessing that I will have to have that fixed before the house is sold too. A leaky roof, a busted floor and the issues in the crawlspace……………shit, this is going to end up costing me a ton of money. Therefore if anybody wants to have sex with me for money, preferably large sums of money, I want to just throw that on the table. Oh, maybe paying for sex isn’t your thing. Then perhaps some naked pictures of me or maybe some phone sex. You are MY customer, I’m going to cater to you. Or, even better for everybody else, hows about you just give me the money. I’m not thinking anything major, just somewhere in the $10,000 neighborhood.

Oh, and if this is the first time you have visited my ‘lil blog, I didn’t really keep my dead mother in the crawlspace for 5 years. I kept her in the attic.

Just kidding about the attic. Maybe.

I’ve had about enough of fucking winter. Now I want to stress that I genuinely do like winter. Honestly, I like all the seasons. And I don’t mind either of the extremes; extreme heat or extreme cold. Neither seem to last for more than a few days. However, we are just getting so much snow lately. And its not even that its a lot of snow each time. For the most part its only an inch or two. Its that it seems to be always during rush hour. So that means not only do I have to clean my car off damn near each time I go to it, but also it takes longer to get places because the roads have snow on them and most people drive unreasonably slow with snow on the road. So both adds to more time spent getting home or to wherever I need to go. It sucks.

See, when snow starts usually sometime in November, its a novelty and everybody loves it. Winter is romantic and snow is beautiful. Football games seem more intense when its cold and there is snow on the field. Then comes December and everybody wants a white Christmas so they like it even more. Then comes January and its kind of like that relative that came for the holidays and refuses to leave. All of a sudden its like “Oh, you’re still here? Well whatever, just don’t totally overtake my life.” Then comes February. Mardi Gras, spring training, Valentine’s Day, you know, all that shit. You start to yearn for spring. After 3 months of this bullshit, you are just like “E-fucking-nough already! No more damn snow!!” Back in November you used to happily glide on the ice. Now all of a sudden you are slipping and falling and thinking “Who did I  fuck do to deserve this?” Your skin is dry and chapped because of the cold, dry air. You are so ready for it to be over but instead of it ending, there seems to be no end in sight, kind of like a bad movie or the Iraq war. It seems to be colder than Dick Cheney’s heart. I can’t think of a way to end this, so I’ll just stop.

The confusion continues with the primaries. Obama had a clean sweep again today, yet for some reason, he is only slightly ahead of Clinton. In one of the primaries he won by like 30% of the vote, yet somehow was only 2 delegates ahead for that state. In D.C. he won by 50%, yet only gained 3 delegates. Now I know if you win the state you don’t get all the delegates but instead they are divided up. Still, how the delegates get split  doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. I think it somehow breaks down by where the votes are being cast so that the counties with more people are give more weight. But, even by this thinking it still doesn’t make sense. Obama has more than doubled Clinton in states won and usually wins those states by a fairly significant margin, yet somehow is only beating her by 20 some odd delegates and is getting his ass kicked in super delegates. Meanwhile McCain has the Republican nomination all but wrapped up which means the longer this damn thing drags out, the worse it is for the Democrats.

I watched a movie last night called “Sex And Breakfast”. Although it was good, I think it amounts to false advertising. There just wasn’t enough if it. Its in the damn title of the fucking movie for shit’s sake, why wouldn’t they have more of it? There just wasn’t enough breakfast in the movie. Needs more breakfast.

Oh, and I guess it probably could have used a little more sex. Especially with Macaulay Culkin. I know people think of him as this little kid, get over it people he is practically pushin 30. But damnit he has grown into one HOT fucking adult, what with those pouty lips and pretty eyes.

Every time I see this one hot guy at work, he reminds me of hairy balls. I just think he has hairy balls. I think its because of the way he stands.

Will somebody please tell me how many delegates Clinton and Obama have. Yahoo has Obama leading 942-889, but that does not include super delegates. CNN.com has it 1,148-1,121 in favor of Hillary, which includes super delegates. The ALWAYS fair and balanced FOXnews.com (motto “You Decide………….What We Want You To Decide”) has Clinton with 1,136 and Obama with 1,108. Ewwww. Made me dirty just to visit their website. MSNBC.com has it 958-904 Obama. ABCnews.com gives Clinton a 1,149-1,127 edge. CBSnews.com has Obama leading 1,139-1,132. Sesame Street’s Count Von Count gives Obama 1,145, Clinton 1,129 and for some reason has Big Bird with 2,011 delegates. Geez, this thing is about as easy to figure out as the BCS (I’m not a college football fan, but any chance I get to rip on their system I do it). I even went to the Democratic party website and they don’t even list a count on there. Great, not even the fucking Democrats are keeping track.  I don’t like this, knowing the Democrats they will find a way to fuck this up. All of a sudden we are going to look up and they would have somehow managed to nominate William Jennings Bryan, who in spite of being dead since 1925 still has more life to him than John Kerry.

Politics. Just when you thought it was cool to vote, it gets confusing.

Yesterday I went to get my oil changed at Jiffy Lube. Honestly, I have said it before and I will say it again. What the fuck is it about Jiffy Lube? They always seem to have hot guys working there and yesterday was no exception. The dude that serviced my car was HOT. Not just hot, but like SMOKIN hot. Downright dreamy, with beautiful lips and amazing eyes. And with the terms “service” and “lube” that makes it even more hot.

I also bought Stephen Colbert’s book “I Am America (And So Can You!)” and have managed to read almost 70 pages thus far. Its pretty damn funny and pretty much a book version of his show. Its not as funny as “America The Book” which was written by Jon Stewart and the Daily Show staff, but its still entertaining.

Damn. I just don’t really have anything to talk about right now.

Those of you that don’t live in Illinois might not of had this problem, although if you are east of us beware, its on its way. We had a pretty significant winter storm yesterday complete with freezing rain, snow, wind, you know the whole bit. Well I came out to my car after work at about 6:15 in the pm. The car was of course covered in snow and ice. The ice around my driver’s side door was kind of thick and therefore the door wouldn’t open. The passenger side door would not open either. So here I am, freezing my ass off trying to get my car. I always try to go easy on the handle because I know that the handle could break off and then I’d really be fucked. Well, I mean I’m probably not strong enough to break the handle, shit I have a hard enough time opening the door when its not frozen shut. So what to do? Usually when this happens I start breathing heavily on the cracks of the door, you know like I’m some kind of phone sex operator. This wasn’t working. So I had to think quick. Oh, I know. I’ll piss on the doors. My piss must be about 98 degrees, so that might be my best shot. So I whip it out. I realize that although my cock is looooooooong, I’m short and its just not long enough to reach the top of the doors. I realize that I’m just gonna have to get on top of the car or on the hood. I get on the hood and start to piss, clearly though I’m too far. Amid the ice and snow, I somehow manage to get on top of the car. This has to work, I’ve got a great angle. But its so cold that my piss is nearly freezing midstream, or so it seems. My dick was freezing so much, it was almost trying to hide. This lady from work walks up and asks me what the fuck I’m doing. The conversation goes something like this:

Lady: “Just what the fuck do you think your doing?”
 
Me: “Would you buzz off, can’t you see this is none of your damn business?”

Pissed lady: “Oh, I think it is seeing as your stream of piss is blowing right the fuck into my face.”

Me: “Well I’m sorry about that, but I’m frozen the fuck right out of my car. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m trying to piss off my car!”.

So she leaves and I continue, however it just doesn’t seem to be working. Plus, because it was ball shrinking cold out there my balls had now ascended back to their original home next to my………..well, wherever the hell it was they came from. So I start to zip up when I hear somebody yelling at me. Turns out the lady went and got the security card. Great, now he is pissed.  I guess some of my piss must have gotten on his car or something, I really don’t know. Honestly though, who the fuck drives their convertible with the top down in the dead of winter anyway. So  I climb back down off the car mumbling obscenities because I just can’t believe my luck. If only my piss and gone more onto my doors and less onto that lady’s hair and face and the security guard’s leather seats. While getting off the car I slip on some ice. The security guard and and lady ask if I’m ok but refuse to help me up. The don’t want to touch my hands for whatever reason. I dunno, apparently they were covered in piss. I mean cut me some fucking slack here you fuckpods, I was just pissing off my frozen car for shit’s sake. So I stand up and now I’ve got to actually get creative with getting in my car. None of this old shit of pissin on my car the same way they did it in the 1950s. I had to be resourceful. I took my work badge and started chipping away at the ice around the door. After a few minutes I was able to break through on the passenger’s side and get into the car. Inside were flowers and Madonna cds and I’m like “What the fuck? Who put this shit into my car?” I got out to scrape off the ice and the lady was now there with the cops. Turns out she was so pissed because it was her car  I was pissing on!

Ok, so that whole story is not true in the least. All right, only 2 things from that story are true, the rest were made up by my fucked up imagination, can you guess which parts were true?

So the lady at work asked me again today about being an Atheist. She even brought it up to another lady who didn’t even know what an Atheist is. Once she found out what it was, she was stunned to learn that I am an Atheist. She even responded with something like “But you are always so happy and not mean.” I suppose I should be offended by that comment, but the reality is that she honestly just does not know any better. I figure I would take the time to explain Atheism, maybe once she understood she would not think that way. Also, the other lady he made the comment about Atheists voting even said that I was the first Atheist that she liked. I guess that is supposed to be a compliment. All of this has made me realize a couple of things. First of all, most people have some prejudices and believe in some stereotypes about Atheists. They don’t understand us, they don’t want to understand us or they are just afraid of us. Neither of these ladies fit those descriptions. Instead, they were curious (as everybody is) about Atheists. They had a lot of questions like ‘how do you deal with stress if you don’t believe in God” and the ever popular “why are you an Atheist?” As usual, I think both of them will try to convert me at some point. Another thing I realize is that much like the gay issue with many of my friends, I am their only connection to an Atheist. I’ve got to almost represent Atheists, I don’t want to sound too egotistical or overstate this, but I can influence their whole thinking and opinions on Atheists. Now I would like to present to you some interesting facts you might not know about Atheists.

• Instead of going to church every Sunday, we get together to discuss the previous week’s bowel movements.
• In lieu of praying, we just close our eyes and hope for the best.
• Atheists don’t believe in an after-life. We believe that when you die, the party is over and expect our ashes to be snorted and smoked by Keith Richards, you know, since he never dies.
• Most Atheists don’t celebrate Christmas. Because of this, we don’t spend the rest of the year breaking our backs to pay back the credits cards charged up in December.
• We don’t use the phrase “Oh my God!”. Instead we say “Holy fucking shit!” which might sound a tad bit hypocritical because of the term holy. But, we aren’t using the term holy in the religious sense, instead we are using it in the sense of having lots of holes because we Atheists have a lot of holes in our shit. This is why our weekly meetings about bowel movements remain so fascinating each week.
• We don’t say “God Bless You” after a sneeze. Instead we ridicule and beat the shit out of the person for spreading their germs. Ok, I should clarify. I beat the shit out of them and ridicule them, most other Atheists just ignore them. Can you blame me though? I don’t want to get some disease from a sneeze and end up dying. I mean after all, after you die there is nothing else. If only there was an after life………….
• Contrary to popular belief, Atheists don’t believe in Satan or Hell. Unless of course you are a Cub fan, in which every day is a living Hell. Fuckin Cubs. I’d sell my soul for the Cubs to win the World Series.
• We don’t believe Jesus was the son of God. Instead he was just some kick ass hippie dude who ran around spreading a message of peace, love and understanding. You know, kind of like the Grateful Dead, except totally different.
• There are no 72 virgins awaiting you in a an after life paradise. Instead their are 72 worms waiting to feast on your body should you not take the Keith Richards route.

So there, now you have it, a brief guide to Atheism. Hope you enjoy!

Does anybody realize that today is Super Fat Tuesday? Of course with the election, today is Super Tuesday. And because its Mardi Gras, its also Fat Tuesday, hence Super Fat Tuesday.

Being in Illinois, we voted huge for Obama today. And being the type of nosey person I am, I was asking everybody at work if they voted today and who they voted for. Almost unanimously, it was Obama. There was a buzz in the air, it was great to see everybody so excited about politics. Of course, most of the people I asked were blacks, but I did ask a few whites too and they went Obama as well. A lady even asked me what station to listen to on the way home for election results. The same lady asked me something that was totally off the wall and crazy. When she found out I voted she said “Atheists vote?” To which I responded “Of course we do, why wouldn’t we? I’m very passionate about politics.” The question kind of irked me. I mean, why wouldn’t we vote? Usually I can figure out why people say certain things, but I can’t quite figure this one out. I guess for some religious people, Atheists are a mystery; a kind of foreign and weird being who is nothing like them. That is, of course, until they meet us and get to know us. Still, I have worked with this lady for over a year, she does know me and from every impression likes me and is not intimidated by me in the least. I guess she just has a preconceived opinion of Atheists.

That’s all for now people. Happy Super Fat Tuesday!

Well tomorrow is the first of the 2 big election days this year. And we all know how important it is to vote, after all I have posted about that numerous times. That being said I want to stress how important is is to vote for Barack Obama. First of all I want to address those nasty rumors that have been floating around the internet. I got an email that said that he was sworn into office with a Koran. This of course, is not true. But, because it was in an email people though it was true. The email said to even go to Snoopes.com to verify the validity of this rumor. Well, I went there and you can too

http://snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp

This is a website that is supposed to debunk rumors. Unfortunately since the world is filled with morons, they don’t bother to read what is literally right the fuck in front of them. Its a classic case of only seeing what they want to see. The red bullets are the rumors that are not true, the green ones are the rumors that are true. Yes, it is true that Barack Obama has not only been photographed with his hand not over his heart during the national anthem, but a video is also out there too. Now some people might consider this un-American or not patriotic, but first consider what I witnessed last night during the playing of the national anthem during the Super Bowl. The camera cut away to about 15 American troops in Iraq. Not one of them had their hand over their heart. Also I have been to many sporting events and do not see many people with their hand over their hearts. This just in: there is nothing wrong with not putting your hand over your heart during the national anthem. As for the controversy about him not wearing a flag lapel, and although I’m certain there are a lot of people who disagree, I again do not see anything wrong with that. When most politicians wear an American flag pin, they do it just to get votes. I strongly feel that they do not do it as a sense of patriotism, but only because they know they will alienate certain voters (think Republican southerners, among others) who feel that failure to wear a symbol such as a flag pin basically amounts to treason. Obama is simply making a statement that one does not have to wear it to be considered patriotic. Just because you wear it, does not make you patriotic or any more of an American than anybody else. Sure, George W Bush routinely wears one, yet his flip attitude about the US constitution shows his lack of patriotism and disrespect for American ideals and values. The flag on his lapel does not make him patriotic, one has to follow through on the actions of being patriotic. Actions such as voting and upholding the constitution. I’m proud of the fact that Obama doesn’t sink to the level of pandering to those types who believe wearing a flag is more important than knowing and following the bill of rights.

Then there are the issues. I’m sure everybody knows his positions on the issues, after all he is a Democrat. But, in case you don’t here is a quick guide. Like every other reasonable person, he wants to end the war in Iraq. He is concerned for the environment and wants to invest in a clean energy future. He is deeply concerned about poverty and has plans not only to help the poor, but to put them on a path to help get them out of poverty. I can go on and on. Both being Democrats, he and Hillary Clinton are a lot alike with regards to the issues. Both would make fine choices. Yet, one stands a far better chance of beating the evil Republicans in November. That person is Barack Obama.

Allow me to explain. The past months has really focused a lot on race, at least between Obama and Clinton. I feel that unfortunately Clinton has alienated a lot of black voters with her (you can lump Bill in there too, after all he is is campaigning for her and therefore represents her) treatment of Obama recently. Blacks may not be so forgiving come November. Also, with Obama he will draw out the black vote in droves much in the same way Bush drew out the Evilgelicals in the 2004 election. And its not only blacks who will vote for him. Its also left leaning Republicans. I know a couple of Republicans who think very highly of him and not only are planning to vote for him tomorrow (ok, so one of them is only voting for him as an anti-Hillary vote) but also think he might be the best candidate out of both parties. One of them is a racist, I have heard him say many things about blacks and yet, he is voting for Obama. Let’s face it, Hillary is a divisive person, you either love her or hate her. She would scare off some independents where as Obama excites the crucial independent vote. Because of this, he is the better choice. Not only does he stand the better chance of beating the Republicans, but more importantly he would make a great president. Please give him a chance and just read about him and the issues. Check out his website:

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

But, enough about politics, its now onto the important stuff. Everybody is still abuzz about the Super Bowl. Before the game I was trying to size up the Patriots, could they be the greatest sports team of all time? I had a feeling they might lose the Super Bowl, but still thought they would win and we could start the debate. Although the game was amazing, the loss drops them from the discussion. To be considered the greatest sports team of all time you have to win the championship. You also need to finish with one of the best records, if not the best, in the history of your sport. That leaves us with the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls, the 1998 New York Yankees, the 1927 New York Yankees, the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the 1985 Chicago Bears and the old Montreal Canadians (sorry, not a hockey fan and can’t name the year) as the teams that one can make a strong argument about. Shit, I don’t have time right now to go into more of an argument, so I will just let the debate again.

Ahhhh, who am I kidding, most of the people that read this don’t care enough about sports to debate.

Yesterday was my cousin Desi’s 40th birthday party. Ok, so technically he is not my cousin but he has been dating my cousin Ann for almost 20 years so at this point, he is pretty much my cousin. The plan was to meet at Applebee’s at 6:30 in the pm. It was going to kinda be a surprise party for him. Well, it turns out Applebee’s was PACKED and more and more people were coming in. Everybody must have been out celebrating the holy and sacred holiday that is Groundhog Day. Since we had a party of 15 people, it was going to be tough to get everybody in the same place, they could seat us but we would be kind of spread out. So we decided to go to a place that can fit all us with PLENTY of room to spare: White Fence Farm. I have eaten the Farm’s chicken and corn fritters a lot but have never actually dined in until yesterday. The place was HUGE. Honestly, it has to be one of the biggest restaurants in the entire world. It seats and I’m not making this up, 15 people in the entire restaurant. Hmmmm…………that sounds a bit off. Actually, I think it seats around 1200 people. Don’t believe me? Check out the website:

http://www.whitefencefarm.com/chicago/index.htm

My brother and cousin’s worked there as busboys when they were in high school, but that was 20+ years ago. Still the place remains popular and good. They have always had good chicken but honestly, I have always really loved their corn fritters and cole slaw. Inside this massive place they have some old artifacts complete with some cars from the 1940s. And I don’t mean model cars, I mean full sized real cars. Since it is owned by the Hastert, they had a picture of Denny Hastert with Ronald Reagan from the 1980s. Yes, Denny Hastert was even hideously ugly back then too.

We got seated in a rather large room but all managed to be at the same very long table. Ok, so it was 2 tables put together, it was still pretty big. Ann’s friends made Desi a very cool over the hill cake with a grim reaper type of tree on one dark side of the cake and a guy with a surf board on a sunny side of the cake. It was very cool and actually tasted amazing. As for dinner, I decided to get the extra large t-bone steak, which was 23-25 ounces of pure aged meat. I wanted to see how big it was and if I could finish it. I was pretty hungry, but by all means was not famished like I have been in the past. John got a large t-bone and my cousin Chris got the regular sized t-bone. The steak came and it was very big, but not as big as I expected, in fact it did not seem very much bigger than John’s bloody steak and Chris’s piece of charcoal on a bone. Still, the damn thing didn’t stand a chance, I easily ate the whole thing, it was so damn good. Ok, well maybe not the entire thing, I did leave some stuff on the bone but that was only because it was hard to get off the bone and I was sick of cutting it, not from a lack of room. I even ate a pretty big piece of cake, all of my mashed potatoes and some side dishes. Good shit it was.

After dinner we hung out at Buffalo Wild Wings for a few hours before going home about midnight. Honestly, there really wasn’t much to talk about here.

Today of course was the Super Bowl. I went to Mark’s house to watch it. It was such a good game, although I was disappointed with who won. I really wanted to see history with New England being the first team to go 19-0. On the other hand, its always cool to see the underdog win. Plus the Pats are known for cheating a lot and their coach, Bill Belichick  appears to be a pretty big asshole. Then again, the Giants coach Tom Coughlin seems to be a pretty big asshole himself, I was very disappointed to see him win. On the other hand, its so cool to see the Pats get it stuck to them. Although they are team filled with team first players, they are also a classless team which starts with the coach.

Shit, that’s all for now. I’m tired and don’t feel like writing anymore.

Wednesday night I had a date with this guy I have been chatting with online. His name is Troy. As you all know, I like younger guys. He is a bit younger then me, but still very much legal. He is going to Columbia in downtown Chicago majoring in writing. It was agreed that I would meet him at his building in downtown Chicago. The drive from Aurora was not as bad as it could have been, I made it in about an hour. For the first time ever, I parked in a parking lot in downtown Chicago as opposed to a garage. Also, the cost was not insane like it can be, in fact, it was only $8 for the 3 hours I was there. In fact, I could have stood another 2 hours and it still would have been only $8. Why don’t these other places that charge an arm and a fucking leg understand this? Anywho, it was COLD as fucking shit on Wednesday. Single digits with wind chills below zero. I was going to meet him in front of his building but because I didn’t want to freeze to the ground, I instead waited in the building’s lobby. After waiting a few minutes, he came downstairs. He was taller than I expected (me being 5’6 everybody is taller than I expect, although he probably thought I was shorter than expected) but still cute. We walked a few frigid blocks to a pizza place called…………..uhhhhh, shit, was it Pizzano’s? Ehhhh, sounds right, we’ll go with that. They seated us in a very awkward spot, at a tiny table for We were right next to another tiny table for 2 which was next to the window, but it was so close to the other table that I could practically reach out and grab garlic bread from that table. Right behind me was this large uhhhh…………………thing????? in which they kept the silverware and napkins. The dude getting the shit out of there bumped into me several times as it was a very tight fit. I guess they were trying to maximize the space and get as many tables as they good in there and this is the unfortunate result of that maximizing.

We sat down and he took off his coat. Instantly I saw a rather large cross around his neck. Although I’m very open and accepting of others, being an Atheist, this made me a little bit uncomfortable. Not because I was offended or anything, but I don’t know how he would react to me being an Atheist. I mean, I’m pretty sure he would be accepting and cool with it, but honestly, there is always a chance that he wouldn’t be. That being said, a first date is not the time to discuss this. Instead, we talked politics! Again probably not the best topic to discuss, but we are both liberals. Also, the Republican debates were on the tv to my back so he was able to see it (although not hear) as we ate. Speaking of which, the pizza was pretty damn good, although I don’ t know if I would put it in the same class with Giordano’s, Geno’s East or Lou Malnati’s.

After dinner we had a cold walk back to his building against a stiff wind. To keep warm, we had sex the whole walk back! That might sound wrong but honestly everybody was doing it. Its how we Chicagoans keep warm on those long, cold, winter walks, we just fuck right there for everybody to see. Also, I’ve determined that pedestrians should automatically have the right of way when it gets this cold out, therefore I never stopped walking even when we didn’t have the walk sign. Once I almost got hit by a taxi cab, but I was able to get out of the way at the last second. I’m thinkin’ taxis should stop driving on the sidewalk.

As you might expect, he lives in a dorm with some roommates. Its not your typical college dorm, in fact, its more set up like an apartment complete with a living room and a kitchen. We went back to his place to watch Scary Movie but instead his 5 roommates all took turns having sex with me. Ahhhhh, good times!

Every year since my mother died,  in honor of my mother’s birthday I have a dealer’s choice card game at my house. Her birthday being February 1, I was able to actually have the game on her birthday. Scooty was supposed to play but he Sallied out because he was tired from hanging out with Keith, Randy and I at the bar Thursday night and he had to work today, even though it was only a half day. He called John to say he was not going to play. In the process of talking to John though, he invited John over to hang out with him. See, this is why Scooty is socially retarded. Instead of calling me to say that he is not going to make it to MY card game, he calls my brother who lives with me. Then he invites my brother, who lives WITH me over to his house to hang out. John got home at about 2 in the AM and we were still playing cards. Was Scooty dumb enough to think that I wouldn’t find out that he blew us off to hang out with John? Shit if he didn’t want to play in the first place he should have told me instead of saying he was going to play and then cancel an hour before the damn game.

Still, the game itself was tons of fun. We had me, Mark, Rusty, Dave, Mason and later on, Keith. Back in the day we used to play dealer’s choice every couple of months but haven’t played on a regular basis in years. Because my mother was the biggest gambler I knew and loved to play dealer’s choice, I try to honor her gambling addiction by turning February 1 into almost a gambling holiday. With the Super Bowl being this weekend (and being a huge gambling day) I consider this to be gambling season. This is the only time of year in which we play dealer’s choice and honestly, I have always had more fun playing dealer’s choice than Texas Hold ‘Em. Back when we used to play more often, it was very common for us to start at 8 and play until 3 or 4 in the morning. The past few gamblefests for my mom’s birthday have ended rather early, usually around midnight. This time though was like old school. Although Rusty and Mason left about 12:30, the rest of us played until well past 2. Mark left about 2:30 but Keith Dave and I continued on for another hour. Although Dave left about 3:30, Keith wound up crashing on my couch.

This afternoon I went to get my haircut and they had Groundhog Day on. I almost totally forgot that today is Groundhog Day. Anywho, the movie itself is a classic, I love it. For those of you that don’t know (first of all, you should drop everything and watch it) it stars Bill Murray as a weather man who keeps repeating the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over and over and over.  Once about 4 years ago Jt, Dave, Kelli and I were in a Louisville hotel room drunk and watching it late at night. I came up with an idea to drink every time he has to repeat a day. Needless to say, it got us even more drunk.

This afternoon I went to get my haircut and they had Groundhog Day on.
I almost totally forgot that today is Groundhog Day. Anywho, the movie
itself is a classic, I love it. For those of you that don’t know (first
of all, you should drop everything and watch it) it stars Bill Murray
as a weather man who keeps repeating the same day, Groundhog Day, over
and over and over and over.  Once about 4 years ago Jt, Dave, Kelli and
I were in a Louisville hotel room drunk and watching it late at night.
I came up with an idea to drink every time he has to repeat a day.
Needless to say, it got us even more drunk.

This afternoon I went to get my haircut and they had Groundhog Day on.
I almost totally forgot that today is Groundhog Day. Anywho, the movie
itself is a classic, I love it. For those of you that don’t know (first
of all, you should drop everything and watch it) it stars Bill Murray
as a weather man who keeps repeating the same day, Groundhog Day, over
and over and over and over.  Once about 4 years ago Jt, Dave, Kelli and
I were in a Louisville hotel room drunk and watching it late at night.
I came up with an idea to drink every time he has to repeat a day.
Needless to say, it got us even more drunk.

This afternoon I went to get my haircut and they had Groundhog Day on.
I almost totally forgot that today is Groundhog Day. Anywho, the movie
itself is a classic, I love it. For those of you that don’t know (first
of all, you should drop everything and watch it) it stars Bill Murray
as a weather man who keeps repeating the same day, Groundhog Day, over
and over and over and over.  Once about 4 years ago Jt, Dave, Kelli and
I were in a Louisville hotel room drunk and watching it late at night.
I came up with an idea to drink every time he has to repeat a day.
Needless to say, it got us even more drunk.

This afternoon I went to get my haircut and they had Groundhog Day on.
I almost totally forgot that today is Groundhog Day. Anywho, the movie
itself is a classic, I love it. For those of you that don’t know (first
of all, you should drop everything and watch it) it stars Bill Murray
as a weather man who keeps repeating the same day, Groundhog Day, over
and over and over and over.  Once about 4 years ago Jt, Dave, Kelli and
I were in a Louisville hotel room drunk and watching it late at night.
I came up with an idea to drink every time he has to repeat a day.
Needless to say, it got us even more drunk.