on vacation
I don't know for sure what I'm going to do over the next couple of days, but I know I won't be going into the office.
I rented a car--a spunky lil Hyundai Accent--packed a bag and bolted out of town. Unfortunately, it's not as spontaneous as it sounds. I have a wedding to attend on Saturday, but when I saw the Mets were playing in Oakland the same week as the wedding, I took it as an opportunity to get out of town and away from my job for a couple days. The Mets better win tomorrow. I got my jersey and everything.
I love how they still show the LiveLinks dating line commercials with Evangeline Lilly from Lost. I wonder if she even knows; it just serves as proof at how unknown that cast was before the show--except for the hobbit and the dude from Party of Five. Does anyone remember that show?
I took a different way out of town this time--another combination of farm roads and state highways. On the way, I stopped off at an Indian casino to partake in the buffet. It wasn't a large buffet, which kind of negated the all-you-can-eat aspect of the thing. My first time up, I took a slab of some nondescript beef kind of thing and some wild rice with shrimp in it. The second go 'round, I went for some green salad and the tilapia filet. That was about it for choices, but I was glad that the food was palatable. The tilapia was actually really good. Oh, and I had some hush puppies. I still don't know what those are, really. It was better than fast food, in any case, and that's pretty much it when it comes to road food.
It was just about the smallest casino I'd seen, even small for the ones up here, but it looked like they were trying to expand it. The doors were held open for me as I entered and exited, and some dude in a cart gave me a ride all of 20 feet from where I was parked to the front door. I'll have to save some money for the trip back. There's a seat at the Pai Gow Poker table just wating for me.
I rented a car--a spunky lil Hyundai Accent--packed a bag and bolted out of town. Unfortunately, it's not as spontaneous as it sounds. I have a wedding to attend on Saturday, but when I saw the Mets were playing in Oakland the same week as the wedding, I took it as an opportunity to get out of town and away from my job for a couple days. The Mets better win tomorrow. I got my jersey and everything.
I love how they still show the LiveLinks dating line commercials with Evangeline Lilly from Lost. I wonder if she even knows; it just serves as proof at how unknown that cast was before the show--except for the hobbit and the dude from Party of Five. Does anyone remember that show?
I took a different way out of town this time--another combination of farm roads and state highways. On the way, I stopped off at an Indian casino to partake in the buffet. It wasn't a large buffet, which kind of negated the all-you-can-eat aspect of the thing. My first time up, I took a slab of some nondescript beef kind of thing and some wild rice with shrimp in it. The second go 'round, I went for some green salad and the tilapia filet. That was about it for choices, but I was glad that the food was palatable. The tilapia was actually really good. Oh, and I had some hush puppies. I still don't know what those are, really. It was better than fast food, in any case, and that's pretty much it when it comes to road food.
It was just about the smallest casino I'd seen, even small for the ones up here, but it looked like they were trying to expand it. The doors were held open for me as I entered and exited, and some dude in a cart gave me a ride all of 20 feet from where I was parked to the front door. I'll have to save some money for the trip back. There's a seat at the Pai Gow Poker table just wating for me.
5 comments:
Hush puppies are little fried glden bits of heaven. Ok, they're really fried cornbread with green onions usually in them. They call them hush puppies because the cook used to feed some to the dogs to shut them up. They shut Wonder Killers up pretty well, too.
I likehush puppies, too. I always get them with fried seafood.
Yeah let's see if the Mets can string together a couple of wins.
They sound yum, i wish we had them here. Drive carefully and have a great time! Hang on!! A single guy at a wedding....heheheehe.....we want the stories :o)
r...thanks for the dissertation on hush puppies.
steve...i still can't tell if i like them or not, but every time they're available, i eat them. i'm never impressed or turned off.
anonymous...guess not. no surprise there, but it was nice to see them win.
michelle...i never have single guy at a wedding stories because i'm what many people would call a spineless wimp. plus, single women never seem to go anywhere alone and all the women who were there were there with boyfriends. I did have fun however. as my next post should relate.
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