I met a friend, through my site, in December, 2001. His name is Clark and he’d been reading the ‘dear diary’ and sent me an email. We’ve corresponded off and on for two and a half years now. I find his emails to be exceptionally refreshing, funny, and ‘off the wall’. I want to share this one. He sent it right after my post about Sam G. sending me the ‘hate ray’ looks in the post on 7/1/04.
Truthfully, I thought I’d fall on the floor and die laughing when I visited the link in his email…although his email had me in stitches also. Enjoy!
Need help reflecting the hate rays?
You are WELCOME.
Friends have a Sunday night game I’ve been invited to, so I’ve been going. Sort of. They’re kind of dorky about it–of course, one of them has to be there to be the bank and such; but they don’t seem to talk to each other about it, like who’s going to be there to do that and what time they will be available. They claimed the start time was 1900, but when I got there, it was obviously not the case. Next time, 1930 was good, but the time after that, they hadn’t started by 2100. I had been waiting about an hour, and you know, life is short, plus had to go to work the next day, and all that.
I talked to one of them about it, and she said that’s the nature of the beeste. Guess I need to find a different beeste. As much time as I waste just wrangling their logistics, I should drive to the casino. I would, but I have to sit down with $100 instead of $5, and that’s a big difference to me.
On the positive side, I played a total of four times there, and was up three and zero once. I thought that was good since we were playing dealer’s choice and not much hold’em.
They like a lot of wanker games, like Substitution and Shopping. I found out I like Deadwood a lot (7 card hi-lo 8 qualifier).
Anysway, I’m trying to play online at ultimatebet, but they require a PC, which I don’t have it, except at work, where I am afraid I will be busted down to my skivvies and shown the door with all deliberate speed if they catch me playing from their computer, even after hours with the door closed. So, I just spent a week trying to rehabilitate an old PC laptop my son gave me. I finally found the screen that told me there wasn’t any way to do that, so now I’m on the hunt again.
We had a card party and had a poker table going to be the “steno pool” for the games that require specific numbers of players (like bridge). I dealt most of the night instead of playing, and that was fun, too. Learned one of our friends is actually quite good at poker, although I don’t think he had played before. He’s not the kind of guy you expect that from, but there it is. I imagine he would be a very good player at the real deal because he is a very deliberate fellow. Anysway, I had quad 2s once, and that was nice.
Saw you on the tee vee at Aruba. Did you not deal WPT Bellagio (the one that just showed–the “championship”)? Are you watching the WPT this year? Does it seem to you like they are showing a lot less poker than last year–more stuff and nonsense? It really seems light compared to *Late Night*, *Championship from the Plaza*, and *WSoP* on Fox.
Man, we saw a GREAT semi-final game on *LN* a few weeks ago. They were all playing fast and tough and cutting each other in half. We felt wounded just watching, but it was GREAT POKER. We’d like to see Lucy Rokesh play over here in WSoP or some such.
Hope things turn out well w/your screenplay. I got rejected from *Weird Tales* about a month ago, ostensibly because what I sent them was science fiction and not a “weird tale”, whatever the ph*kk that means. It’s getting clearer to me why it is people start with books instead of short stories, but shorter stuff is what’s coming out, so…
I’ve been pricing a Vegas trip for my vacation next year. Any tips? Maybe I’ll see you at the table, if I can persuade Loui to go.
cjs