Another update of the goings-on of my daily life
This past weekend I took Winnie to the boardwalk.
o She had never been there before. We went on what was probably the busiest day of the month.
o The traffic in Santa Cruz was so bad that it took nearly an hour to drive from the highway 17 exit to the boardwalk parking lot.
o We went to the 'fried terrible stuff for you stand' and ordered the works. We split a fried Twinkie, three fried Oreos, and a fried apple rolled in sugar. I felt sick for an hour and a half.
o We took advantage of the opportunity to drink outside. We shared two 24oz Heineken keg cans.
o We received our weekend dose of vitamin D by sun.
o It was fun.
I hosted poker night yesterday (Wednesday).
o Since I hosted, I expanded the audience a bit. The table was much fuller than it had been in months.
o We managed to eat tons of food and polish off several bottles. There was much food and drink.
o I lost $5.
o It was fun. We should continue another week.
o And yes, Wednesday is the true poker night, and Wednesday it will stay!
o If you'd like to poker, let me know. It's an open table.
I ran over a squirrel today.
o On the way to work a very fast squirrel went from totally camouflaged on the central expressway median, to an obstacle in front of me in a fraction of a second.
o He ran out so close to my car that there was no time to swerve or brake. Only to see that I was about to run him over.
o He missed the tires, but made a nasty 'clang' sound on the undercarriage of my car.
o I saw him scurry off the road in my rear view mirror. He was alive but probably mortally wounded.
o This is the third animal I've hit with a vehicle.
o I've never hit more than two animals with the same vehicle yet. I hit a prairie dog with my Miata, a squirrel with a U-Haul truck, and this most recent casualty.
o I tell myself that it's just Darwin in action, but running over an animal is always sad.
That's all for now