Another Week, Already?

Been kind of a weird week... done so many things but it doesn't seem like more than a few days since my last post. Which I see now was Valentine's day. Which was completely uneventful because we had out-of-town company for the week. Which got me a free pass on the obligatory wining and dining of the wife! Woot!



And since I'm always ranting and raving about the Mini-Eggs when I mention Valentine's Day, I did stop by 3 grocery stores last Wednesday morning to stock up for the office, but none of them had their Easter candies up yet, just discounted V-day stuff! Boo! Luckily, the Albertson's by the office was right on schedule and I was highly chocolate'd up by lunchtime!

Lessee... had a pretty important interview for an IT-related job that could get me back on the right career track. Unfortunately, I had a bit of a brain fart during one of the technical questions. I knew I knew the answer, and I told them if I had a computer in front of me I could show them what they wanted to see, but I just couldn't think of the correct terminology sitting there in that conference room. Of course, it came to me half-an-hour later as I was driving away. Other than that though, I think I did pretty well, and I actually have two good references on the inside who tell me I should be a shoo-in. Should know either way within a week's time.

Went to see Final Destination 3. Part 1 was an amusing concept, I really liked #2, but the third installment has just become a parody of the series. Which isn't to say it's not worth seeing. Just make sure you're not in a "horror" movie kind of mood, because this movie seems more worthy of ending up in the Comedy section. You know the deaths are coming, and there was only one scene that made me startle. The rest were just laugh out loud funny. ROFL'ing at the gory demise of teenagers made me feel kinda shameful and dirty, kinda like after watching a porno, but without the satisfaction at the end. Ummm, porn, death, and teenagers is probably not a good combination of things to talk about all in one paragraph. I'll move on now.

So much going on in the world... VPs shooting lawyers, Muslims bounty-hunting cartoonists, ice-skaters hitting the ice... I just honestly couldn't give a rat's ass about it all right now. How lame is the American media to swarm down with the wrath of a Spanish Inquisition just because a shooting accident wasn't reported within 24 hours? Shouldn't they put their efforts towards inquiring about more pressing issues, like the BS the President is shoveling down the public's throats? And those crazy Jihadists out there... I understand if you want to protest the fact that other societies typecast you as a violent and barbaric group. But bombing embassies and killing innocents doesn't go far towards moving you away from that stereotype. And Bryant Gumbel is now the world's biggest racist... there's no black athletes in the Winter Olympics because blacks, errr, 'scuse me, African-Americans, are descendants of Africans, from Africa, which is generally not known as a ski-resort type destination. I used to be such an Olympics whore, watching the Medal Tracker and keeping up with all the sports; but the US coverage has become so lame over the years. When I'm feeling up for Olympics, I turn it on to the Canadian's broadcast... I might have to put up with some extra coverage of Hockey or Curling, but at least its sports and not more commercialized sappy human interest stories.

Okay, so that was probably a bit more than a rat's ass for those topics, but that's all I'm gonna say about that.

Put in some solid time at the tables down at PJ Pockets. With most WA state casinos now raking an extra dollar for the Jackpot pool (yea, -$5 a pot, not including tip); the Monte Carlo Jackpots are starting to grow at a quickened pace. Case in point, Quad Jacks at PJ's will net you $1500. Quad 8's are at about $900. Everything else is at least $200. I held JJ at least 3 times, but couldn't even catch a 3rd on the flop. And one particular dealer was dropping 2 Jacks on the board about every 3rd hand, but nobody had 'em those times!

So like the BBJ tables at Party, the bigger Jackpots are attracting the fish in droves! While I was playing, I heard the floor take a phone call, "Live game? Yea, we got two of the juiciest games I've ever seen going on right now!" Hell, even without the heightened Jackpots, it's always a wild game there. Do a search for "PJ Pockets" on the 2+2 forum and you'll see someone calling it the best 4/8 game in the US. My wife had a run-in with one of the $5 pros there (as Heafy likes to call them), but I've rambled on long enough so I'll save the story for next time.