We had bbq for dinner last night! The supermarket was selling those small camping grills for 20 bucks, so we picked one up.
We had chicken, hot dogs, and a portuguese sausage that Kerri’s mom brought up for us on a recent visit. Kerri cooked them right out on our patio.
Good times! It was nice to have bbq again. Our patio’s miserably small, so that’s about the biggest grill that can fit. It’s perfect since it’s just the two of us anyway, though.
I ate 12 oysters tonight and it was great! I would have had more but didn’t want to push my luck. I also ate a bunch of crab legs and was pleasantly surprised when I saw crawfish on the buffet line (a new addition). I ate like, 30 of those buggers.
Dinner was only 2 bucks for the both of us because of these $30 food vouchers they keep mailing me for the Cal and Main Street (the buffet is $15.99 per person).
After dinner, I drank gin and tonics while playing video poker. I think we played for over an hour and I ended up only being down about two bucks. Kerri hit 4 aces and won 50 bucks!
All in all, tonight’s night out ran the two of us:
It’s like we got paid 27 bucks to pig out and drink! Good times.
So our washing machine broke a little over three weeks ago. Since then, two different repair guys came and neither one fixed it. The last one said that they were going to call the Property manager to see what they wanted to do. That was last Wednesday.
I was wondering what was taking so long so I just called the Property managers. They said they hadn’t heard anything from that last company. Uhhh….. looks like our washing machine’s going to be broken a little while longer.
If nothing else, though, the washing machine at least still fills with water and spin-dries at the end. So I’ve been kind of doing laundry by hand in the machine (letting it fill, then mixing it manually). Not as bad as when mom had to wash everything in a small plastic basin and washboard in Malaysia, but still.
I was walking back from the mailbox just now. At first I thought it was a really big bug flying around the flower bushes, but I’m pretty sure it was a hummingbird! I’ve never seen one in real life before. AWESOME!
followup: Man look at this video! It makes me want to steal that bird feeder hanging on a tree a few doors down. That thing’s been hanging around empty forever and I don’t think anybody even knows it’s there. THIS COULD BE OUR HOUSE!!
After some really great weather this past weekend, we’ve been getting temperatures in the 90’s all week so far. After a day and a half we gave in and turned on the AC for the house (btw, Happy Earth Day everyone!). Today’s not so bad though, because of all the clouds in the sky, but still. Just a few weeks ago we had to huddle under the covers. Now I need to take several cold showers a day just to get by. Crazy!
Get this - Matthew Perry hurt his hand playing Fallout 3. Should’a used a stimpak.
Seriously though, who the hell hurts their hand playing Fallout 3? Did he never use VATS? The instant-warp to previously visited areas? Or even the pause button? The game’s awesome, but I don’t know how you could hurt your hand playing it.. unless you don’t know how to hold the controller.
I can’t help but wonder how many achievement points he unlocked on that game. I’m guessing it’s not too many. Anyone know his gamertag?
(To Chandler’s credit, though: I know firsthand how you can end up playing too much video games when you don’t have a job)
It’s a shakedown!
I was in the kitchen when a commercial came up on TV. I had the water running and couldn’t hear anything, but it showed taxi’s passing people by and the phrases “mafia style practices” and “shaken down”(!!!) flashed on screen. At the end, was a website: wedontdobusinessthatway.com.
The website explains that Strip Clubs tip out cash bonuses to cab drivers who bring customers in (I already knew about that part - I’ve seen the billboard for Little Darlings announcing that they tip cab drivers out $50 per paying customer). And because of that, cab drivers are ignoring women passengers. I remember seeing on the news the other day that the strip club owners were complaining that the taxi cab drivers are the ones extorting them for the customers.
I don’t know. I was just really psyched about seeing the term SHAKEDOWN!! Joel and Joel, I know you guys like it! And you’re right, Vegas is a big hustle!!!
Actually, our washing machine broke last week Tuesday. I’m only writing about it now because it looks like it’ll be down a little longer than expected. I called the property manager that day, and heard back from a home repair company on Thursday who said they’d send somebody on Monday.
So this past Monday, some dude came over to look at the machine. I don’t think he was Mexican, but he wasn’t a native born American. I think he was Spanish, and didn’t button up his shirt all the way, which was pleasant (and by that, I mean ‘it wasn’t pleasant’). I told Kerri that he looked like a male stripper (the tall skinny kind).
Male stripper looked at our washing machine and said something I couldn’t understand because he had a strong accent and talked really softly. I think I heard the words: “transmission”, “they’ll have to call you back”, and “have a good day, sir”.
Then yesterday, I got a call from a different appliance repair company who said they’d send someone over today. Today’s guy spoke english, looked at the washing machine, and told me that the transmission on the washing machine broke, which burned out the motor, and that they’d have to get in touch with the property manager, who’d have to let them know what to do.
When he left, he also said “have a good day, sir.”
Anyway, in a week and a half, two different companies have sent two different guys over to tell me the same thing (more or less). And our washing machine is still broken.
Fortunately, the washing machine still fills with water and spin-dries at the end, and our dryer still works. So I can (and have) kind-of still do laundry by stirring everything by hand. Good times.
Man we just saw a commercial for bird food. BIRD FOOD!!! The commercial was for some sort of ‘wild bird feed’ made by Scott’s (who I thought only made weed killer). The commercial was talking about how their food attracts more colorful birds to your bird feeder, or something like that.
Since we moved here, we’ve seen a lot of commercials we otherwise wouldn’t have - last year’s election commercials were going nonstop when we first moved up. But I think this is the first time I’ve seen a commercial for something I never knew existed (ie: ‘high-end’ birdseed).
Ever since we moved here, we’ve watched the Megabucks jackpot climb higher and higher. It was around the upper $32 million this past weekend. One of the casino flyers I got in the mail recently even tried encouraging people to come in to play by pointing out how high the jackpot was.
But the jig is up. It was just reported that a woman in Reno won said jackpot. $33million - the paper says it’s the second largest in history (the highest was $39 million in 2003).
Luckee!!! Man, what would you do if you won that much money? I think I’d fly all my friends over, buy us all houses in a huge complex, and hire a private army with trained laser-mounted hamsters and grenade-throwing hummingbirds.
