Burgers, Shopping, Poker
Annie asked if Amber could come with us shopping for the last of her school supplies. “Sure,” I said.
“Yeah, I understand if you don’t like her…” she replied.
“I got no problem with Amber — what are you talking about?” I asked.
“…”
“Oh, she’s listening isn’t she.”
“Yep.”
“OK, you can let her think I don’t like her.”
I do not know what game she was playing but they were fine when they came from her house. (Amber, like Sam, has lived on our street her entire life and so the three are like sisters, which means I occasionally wind up standing them to burgers or chicken planks. Nice girls, all three very different. Amber is going to high school this year which I am certain will change the dynamic. But — we shall see.)
We went to Sonic which is having a promotion for a theatre group I work with — 25% of proceeds go to the theatre if I mention their name, so they got 5 bucks from us yesterday. Oddly, paying with a credit card, there was no way to sign for a tip. Our server was nice, she would have gotten a few bucks.
Then to Walgreen for the remainder of the school supplies. Walmart didn’t have graph paper! Office Depot had graph paper but only in $12 chunks. $12! AS IF is, I think, how the youth (of the ‘90’s) put it. When we got there we saw that Walgreen had the type of composition books Annie wanted. However, we’d already bought her composition books. I offered to buy her one as a token (she’s using 4 of them for school.) She then parlayed that into a big 8” long Pink Pearl style eraser marked, “Big Mistake.”
There was a mild drama on the way home: Amber hadn’t cleared the trip with her mom. “I told Ashton!” she whined into the phone. Well, brother Ashton’s phone was dead and so Ashton couldn’t relay the message to Mom. I counseled her: “You’ll come out of this a lot better if you admit you made a mistake by not trying harder to let her know what was going on, and promise to do better.” A few minutes after we got home, Amber was on the phone to Annie to spend the night. “I guess she did what you said,” said Annie. “I’ll give her the biggest high 5 ever if she did,” I replied. Turns out she had given her Mom her leftover Sonics foot-long Coney. No high 5 for you!
I watched the finale of Torchwood’s “Children of Earth” and then wiki’d Torchwood. Turns out the reason Tosh and Owen weren’t in it was because I had missed the episode where they’d died. Awkward! Great series, far too sad for me to recommend to anyone. My dad in particular would have hated it — all that tragedy wrapped in such a cool, lighthearted package. Of course, I only watch it for Eve Myles. I hear they’re filming more Torchwood, this time in America. Time for me to get my game face on.
After that, won a few bucks at Full Tilt Poker — I think I’m back to where I was a couple days ago. Didn’t bother with the tournaments (I’m doing 100 $2.25 tournaments as time permits.) The $2.25 tournaments are A LOT different than the $1.20. Much tighter, which means I play a little looser and wind up leading but then forget to tighten back up and wind up donking out. I like to go to Rush Poker Micro Limit Hold ‘Em and win myself a stake before hitting up the tournament. That provides a warm-up and I don’t wind up hating myself if I lose the tournament. I’m only down $1.80 at 12 games in on the tournaments so I’m not worried. I’m grateful for the ability to quantify the differences in the game styles. Depending on how I do in these I’ll either change games entirely or graduate to $5 tournaments which will probably be a whole nother style to get used to.
