Day: 18 March 2004

The Casino

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For the past few days my status regarding a trip we are taking to Foxwoods casino has been up in the air. Most of the management team of my company is going to celebrate a good year last year. Some of the Tech department cannot go since we are releasing a major product on friday morning. My role would be as backup in the event something went wrong with the infrastructure. Today Gus decided that I can go to the casino after all since I have a cell phone and the hotel has high speed internet. Gus and Bob will stay back in NYC and go up to the casino Friday afternoon.

This is good for me. With Gus gone I have one less good poker player to contend with on Thursday nights game we are scheduling!!!

I now have to go home and do laundry and then pack. We leave Thursday afternoon at 3PM.

The Birthday That Was

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My birthday turned out better than I expected. I ended up going to my sisters place for little while since my friend Rich had to work late and Carrie wanted to see me on my birthday. I got to see Morgan (she is running now) and Mike. Carrie got me a pizza size cookie. it was good. I ended up bringing it to work today since it was so big. I was never going to finish it.

Amanda cooked Rich and I dinner. We had some fillets. They were good. For someone who does not eat or cook meat, Amanda knows how to cook meat! Even the cheese and crackers were good!

The best part was the chocolate volcano desert. It is this individual size cake with molten chocolate in it. It explodes like a volcano the first time you cut into it. I burned my mouth on the liquid Hershey chocolate inside. Mmmm burning chocolate. It was fantastic.

Amanda was not to happy. She cut her hand on a knife, had the bathroom flood, and she claims she ruined the desert. It was a stressful night for her, but it turned out great. Thanks guys.

And to finish the day off, it did snow. For that matter it snowed today also. Doesn’t anyone know that spring starts next week?

One last bit of advise. I will quote the card my sister gave me. 30, it is a joke to everyone until you turn it:)