It's Poker Night!

 As it happens every Thursday evening, the VFW has Poker Night tonight. It's not a bad little thing, and gets some of the younger members in to play. I think it is like a $5 buy-in, with 1 extra buy-in at $5 before the break, and 1-$10 buy-in after break. Or something like that. I don't know, because, well, I don't play. But I always tell the Wife it is Poker Night, so I can get out of the house. She doesn't directly ask me how I play/played, and I don't offer.

I have never been much of a gambler, and I have no idea where that comes from. Maybe my younger years, I don't know. The Wife and I were given a trip to Las Vegas several years (like 15 years or more) from the company I worked for at the time. They had booked us a room at the Mirage for Fri-Sun, paid for the airline flight, and gave me $500 for "spending cash". By the time we were leaving Vegas, we had spent the $500, and I pulled $40 out to pay for parking when we got back to Phoenix. That $500 paid all our meals, the Star Trek exhibit at the Hilton, and a few penny and nickel slots. Had to do the slots just to say I pulled a handle on one in Vegas. Oh, and we did Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, too!

There are several casinos around the Valley. I have only been to one of them and that was more than 20 years ago - when it was the only one, and wayyyyy out on the east side of town. Since then I think they have added like 6 or more around the metropolitan area. I just have no desire to play slots. I consider myself 'decent' at poker, but really am not good with blackjack. Craps - I've tried it, but just not my thing either. I don't mind doing a little roulette. I think I pretty much have tried most gambling things a casino would have over the years with 12-hour turn-arounds to Laughlin. Just not my thing.

The Wife and I tried a new breakfast place today. It is a little more East of us than I like to drive for food, but she insisted. Was called the Original Breakfast House, and the food was okay. Staff was great, and the prices per serving size seemed good. I guess they had been there for years (I never heard of them, but that doesn't mean much) and had a California surf/Hawaii theme going on. Lots of people going in/out and on a weekday morning around 9am. 

Anyways, I'm tired of ramblin' on about nothing.

PeacE