Okay, so they aren't really quotes of the "day" per se.
How about quotes of the "whenever I damn well feel like it?"
If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw another party next year.
What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if they've been indicted for anything. You want your guests to be so anxious to avoid a recurrence of your party that they immediately start planning parties of their own, a year in advance, just to prevent you from having another one ...
If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless your party is very successful in which case they will lob tear gas through your living room window. As host, your job is to make sure that they don't arrest anybody. Or if they're dead set on arresting someone, your job is to make sure it isn't you ...
-- Dave Barry
So Mary is away recharging her italian solar panels (or getting a tan, whatever; mine sounds cooler).
Her first trip since she moved in (okay, it's been a week, so I'm stretching a bit with that milestone).
It's been a great week, actually sharing life with someone. Having them be there when you get home (or vice-versa). The little "goodbye kiss" in the morning.
Yeah, I'm a disgusting sap, I'm well aware. But SHE likes it, so you can kiss my pale-blue scottish arse ;)
I've spent the last few days while she's away hanging with our cat "L.C" (the feline artist formerly known as Chloe). She's absolutely adorable...
I have to say that I have missed having a pet, even one that leaves her own bodyweight in hair on you when she snuggles with you (I swear she's buying more of the stuff online every night).
Right now she's sitting on a storage bin next to me in the geek room (aka, my office), staring out the window. A neighbour was just walking their dog, so she was keeping a close eye on the interloper.
So anyway, yeah. Mary is out of town, so I'm heading down for my first trip to Foxwoods tomorrow morning (bright and early campers!)
It's my first trip to a casino since the poker bug fully grabbed me a few years ago (Blackjack was always my game before that). Hopefully it will go well. I feel centered and ready, which hopefully means one half of my the problem with my game (my head) won't be an issue, and I'm going to put a greater effort into paying more attention to what I think the other players have (the other half of my game's problem), so we'll just see...
I'll endeavour to post about it saturday night after I get back or possibly sunday.
Ciao for now!
Posted by Campbell at July 15, 2005 07:46 PMOkay, it's Sunday - give us the Foxwoods report already!
Posted by: JD at July 17, 2005 06:20 PM