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August 18, 2006
As Luck Would Have It
I finally broke down on Wednesday evening and went to the Hiway Pizza poker tournament. Jeff, Vic, Jacob and others have been trying to get me to go to that for several months, and I decided to give in and just give it a shot for once. It's a completely free tourney, and that definitely played a role in my decision to show up and give it a whirl. So there were only six people there total, including myself, and two-thirds of us were Meteo grads, the aforementioned Jeff, Vic & Jacob. I slowly and steadily increased my chip total while the three of them were the first ones eliminated, giving me enough of a stack to use my apparently unorthodox playing style to pull off the victory. Woooo. So what did I get for my win? Not a $25 Hiway gift certificate like they'd give away if there were more people playing, but a free t-shirt which admittedly is kinda cool. So all in all it wasn't too shabby. I don't know how many more times I'll be back to Hiway for poker, especially since Men's Group for PSCG is gonna be starting up pretty soon here, and I place a much higher priority on that than poker.
Last night was Week 5 of Wing Challenge, and this week's big draw was Quaker Steak & Lube "Best Wings USA" (which did have very good wings, as advertised, especially their Asian Sesame flavor), though the American Eatinghouse (or whatever it was called, I can't remember) had some amazing Italian wings. The biggest disappointment of the night was Kelly's, the really nice and expensive steak & seafood restaurant in Boalsburg. I was expecting big things from their Jamaican Jerk flavor, but it had absolutely zero spice, and very little actual flavor. They were less than ordinary, actually. At least the weather cooperated again, for a beautiful evening for the second week in a row at Wingfest.
After a few weeks of not living up to our potential, we finally returned to 1st place in Friday night team trivia at G-Man, coming back from 3rd place entering the final question to win by a point. Our team name this week? "Maurice Clarett's Prison Boyfriend." I had no input on that, I thought Jeff was gonna go with "The Maurice Clarett Gun Show" or somethin, but whatever. I'm just happy we won.
I gotta get me some of these t-shirts!
Posted by Jared at August 18, 2006 11:47 PM
Comments
camden yards is a great place! i loved it... hope your seats were better than ours. as for the t-shirts.. you should start dropping more hints as your birthday gets closer.
Posted by: caren* at August 22, 2006 03:21 PM