Went over to the Cajudo pad for some Thai food and to 'kick it'. 'Kicking it' in the midwest means a completely different thing than it does on the west coast. Let's just say I was relieved that there weren't any body fluids exchanged when we all 'kicked it' together.

Anyway, this was my first try at anything social since my mom passed away, and even though Dave wasn't with me, I held up pretty well. It was great to see Rod, Rick, Lanie and Rocena again (Rocena's friend was there, but I forgot his name). Since I missed the last poker party, and I've never really played poker before, they all taught me the different games that they play. To tell the truth, I don't remember half of the games we played, but some were 'Speed', 'Texas Standoff', 'Omaha', 'Crazy Eights', 'Five Card Stud', 'Chicago Low', and 'Screw Your Neighbor'. There were a ton more, and chances are I didn't even get the names right of the ones that we did play, but all that matters was I was winning 'em all. Totally first time luck. I think it helped that we weren't playing with real money, so I had nothing to lose.

It was nice to socialize, it's been so long since I've hung out with anyone my age who wasn't either married or related to me. We had a lot of good laughs. I'm lucky to have friends out here.

I also got a chance to see some of the SLC footage, and watching it all just confirms the fact that I HATE MY VOICE. That, and I speak at 100 miles an hour. I apologize to Rusty, Apolo, Stephen, Andy, and everyone else for talking so fast and sounding like a chipmunk on speed during the interviews.

But it was fun to relive the memories of SLC. I forgot how fun it was doing all of that. Next time, if there IS a next time, I'll speak slower, not jam the mic in my mouth, take the word 'um' out of my vocabulary, and touch up my nailpolish.

Unfortunately, I couldn't concentrate too much on it, since I was too busy taking everyone's money with my card playing skillz.

Because I am the MASTER.

Posted by Yano at December 15, 2003 01:52 AM

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