All right, finally I have enough time to sit down and drain my head of all the crap that's in it and into this journal.
First, a big Thank You to klaire for the Happy Birthday song. And love to all my friends and family, especially to Ma and Pa, although the blood test is still pending.
Today is also the day that I freed Cloud from the boarding house. I missed not having him curled up next to my head and massaging my neck with his paws. But I don't miss his sudden urge to leap across the bed, making my crotch a landing/take-off point.
Yesterday was Pa's Day, and I called him up and thanked him for all the swift kicks in the ass that he had given me. Make no bones about it, I deserved them, but I wish he didn't wear them shitkickers all the time.
Yesterday was also Poker night and I actually got to play in both tournaments. The first is $10 dealer's choice, then a $5 Winner-take-all Texas Hold'em tourney. Even though I had some good hands, a few good bluffs, and came back from almost total annihilation twice....I lost a dollar in the first tourney and was the third person (out of 5) eliminated in the second. Even though the money isn't much, I'm starting to see why people are addicted to gambling.
While attending the training courses in KC, I actually had a few days to go to Iowa and visit family since I left the state 2 years ago. It was also the first time I got to see my 1 1/2 year old niece, Taylor. She's cute as a button, but I know that "666" has to be on her body somewhere. Besides playing a game on people that we call "Psyche," she has already made me bleed. I have some Psoraisis patches by my eyes that are succeptible to being cut. I was holding her in my arms when she decided to have a closer look at the patch just below my right eye. She dug in with her fingers and squeezed as hard as she could. From this painfull incident, I can take comfort that I provided her some amusement. I can only imagine the Hell she'll create when she becomes a teenager. I think her father knows this as well from a conversation we had later.
"So...do you want one?"
"One what?"
Nods toward his daughter
"You giving up already?"
First, a big Thank You to klaire for the Happy Birthday song. And love to all my friends and family, especially to Ma and Pa, although the blood test is still pending.
Today is also the day that I freed Cloud from the boarding house. I missed not having him curled up next to my head and massaging my neck with his paws. But I don't miss his sudden urge to leap across the bed, making my crotch a landing/take-off point.
Yesterday was Pa's Day, and I called him up and thanked him for all the swift kicks in the ass that he had given me. Make no bones about it, I deserved them, but I wish he didn't wear them shitkickers all the time.
Yesterday was also Poker night and I actually got to play in both tournaments. The first is $10 dealer's choice, then a $5 Winner-take-all Texas Hold'em tourney. Even though I had some good hands, a few good bluffs, and came back from almost total annihilation twice....I lost a dollar in the first tourney and was the third person (out of 5) eliminated in the second. Even though the money isn't much, I'm starting to see why people are addicted to gambling.
While attending the training courses in KC, I actually had a few days to go to Iowa and visit family since I left the state 2 years ago. It was also the first time I got to see my 1 1/2 year old niece, Taylor. She's cute as a button, but I know that "666" has to be on her body somewhere. Besides playing a game on people that we call "Psyche," she has already made me bleed. I have some Psoraisis patches by my eyes that are succeptible to being cut. I was holding her in my arms when she decided to have a closer look at the patch just below my right eye. She dug in with her fingers and squeezed as hard as she could. From this painfull incident, I can take comfort that I provided her some amusement. I can only imagine the Hell she'll create when she becomes a teenager. I think her father knows this as well from a conversation we had later.
"So...do you want one?"
"One what?"
Nods toward his daughter
"You giving up already?"
~cheers