Chili Gut Extraordinaire

You can tell by the above title that the chili was indeed excellent, topped with shredded cheese, sour cream and a corn muffin or two. For dessert the wife had popcorn and I had Tums. Somehow I have to get to sleep tonight about four hours earlier than usual so as to make a 7 am appointment. When I am working I am up at 5:30 but with work being slow I tend to play poker online until three or four in the morning. It's a living, right? I talked the wife into getting an oil change on her new car with only about 1400 miles on it so I can also get a new remote starter put in it for her birthday. She hates winter and especially hates a cold car with ice on the windows. Of course they tell me to bring it in first thing in the morning. Well at least that gives me time get the starter installed. We are big Syracuse University fans and so we bought a 2008 bright orange Ford Edge, and she assures me it's not because Derek Jeter is in the commercials. We call it the Rally Orange and take it to evey home game at the Carrier Dome, and even have a sign hanging over it's garage stall. Silly? Yes. Lucky? Most definitely. (Well as long as she thinks so. As a poker player I know there is no such thing as luck, just probabilities, odds, and random card distribution.) The Orange are undefeated at 8-0 at the time of this post so here's to hoping I didn't just hex them. Yes luck doesn't exist but hexes are real, man. For awhile it looked like Cornell might pop their cherry but our bench is too deep and our talent is exceptional. Tournament bound hex, be gone!

I think I am becoming addicted to Todd Caputo's commercials. You may know him as The Used Car King. He is always on television and the set is just so far across the room. Since a sleeping cat is guarding the remote I don't dare startle him. I miss the little Caputo kid in the commercials though. He was hilarious. Okay I am not the least bit sleepy and I am down to a possible seven hours of sleep. At 3 am I will be doing the same math so tomorrow it looks like it will be zombie Thursday. Now my other cat is circling my feet and demanding some rubs with the most annoying of yelps. A full five minute scratch is soon forgotten at the turn of the hour. So let's call the job referral line to see if I will be working soon.... There are currently no manpower requests at this time. Thank you. Well Merry freakin' Christmas to you too union hall! Therefore I need to be playing in about three or four poker tournaments at once, but knowing my luck I will win one and be up until I need to be up. (Double phrase score! Sweet!) I think there is an old M*A*S*H rerun on soon so I think I'll wrap this post up. Fret not however, as you won't even notice the time lapse once my next post is posted to where posters post posted posts. (Mega-word score, minus redundancy error penalty.)