Being laid off means holidays like Labor Day are just like any other day. It takes away some of the joy of sleeping in. Not that I sleep in most days. But I did today. Went to an all-day family get-together yesterday and ate hamburgers, chicken, hot sausage, two kinds of potato salad, pasta salad,…
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OK, here is the long-awaited post from my trip to the lake a bit ago. You’ll soon understand why it took me so long to write. I’m not a masochist, I don’t go looking for pain. And reliving the agony…it was hard. Ted and I arrived on Thursday afternoon, and while I took the JetSki…
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Apologies for my delayed lake report, featuring me GETTING CRIPPLED WHEN MY KINGS WERE BUSTED BY A (deleted) SIXTH-GRADER. But Bill Simmons finally posted a report of his World Series adventures and I must take up my pen like a sword. Well, my keyboard like a sword. “The keyboard is mightier than the sword.” It’s…
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Surfing the Net today I saw an article on Slate titled “The Art of Trash-Talking in Online Poker”. So I read it. Sigh. About online players, the writer, Jacob Lewis, says, “…half of them spend as much time calculating the pot odds as they do telling you that your mother’s so ugly she makes blind…
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The other day I talked about one of my favorite books, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon. I read it for the first time right after I graduated from college, at a time when the story reasonated a bit too deeply with me. I left Happy Valley not knowing what I was going to…
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Sigh. I just had my usual Lenten lunch, fish sandwich, fries. Got it from the cafeteria downstairs. It was good. Pretty good, actually. But it wasn’t as good as the fish sandwich at our old cafeteria. Now THAT was a fish sandwich! A thick plank of fish with tender breading served on a hoagie bun….
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Bill Simmons of ESPN is playing in the 2006 World Series of Poker, and he has a piece up right now about his poker past. Now, I enjoy reading Simmons’ stuff immensely, even if I think he’s not quite as smart as he thinks he is. Of course, I’M not as smart as I think…
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On several occasions I have waxed poetic about the fantastic cafeteria run by the company that just hired me. Well, the last two days they just suprassed themselves. Today I had the fish sandwich and it was even better than usual. Golden brown, crispy without being dry, and nice big flaky hunks of cod or…
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The guy who sits two cubes in front of me just got back from a week’s vacation. He went fishing, had a great time, good weather, fish were biting. I overheard him talking to someone about it and at one point he said, “Before I die, I’d like to spend a few weeks up in…
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Or, to be less sexist, women. Women playing poker last night. Can I say that I positively ADORE Isabelle Mercier? I admired her during her brief appearances during the WPT events in Paris, but seeing her play last night just made me swoon. Not only did she win, she won by playing tough, aggressive, confrontational,…
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