Games

Friday Night Crazyness

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Friday night I ended up going out with Jayson, Gretchen, Jennifer, Cari, Nelson and others. We had a good time even though Nelson cannot shut up. We ordered pizza from a bar on 3rd and 23rd. We drank, ate, some people played darts. I did not. I have no aim without drinking, so I decided not to throw pointy things after a few drinks.

I have confirmed my previous suspicion that nelson can control what he does and says just as much as I can control fire. He just says what is on his mind. In principle I respect that, but he has some vulgar and not really funny things on his mind allot. he tries to be funny. Sometimes it is funny, but it is also just mean or insensitive.

All of us ended up at Dan’s to play scrabble and poker for a while. I showed Danny, Jayson, Anthony and Nelson how to play Texas Hold-um. We didn’t play for money. Jayson surprisingly did well. I did good, but not the best.

After Dan, and others finished their game of scrabble Dan wanted to play Hold-um for “real”. Not many of us were in for it, but Cari, Dan, Jennifer, and I ended up playing. I ended up being the big winner, but pissed everyone off by leaving at 11:30 before everyone was done playing. They couldn’t win back any losses. Jenn was like, “i will make everyone remember that you left early”. My response was, “ok. I will remind everyone that you lost big time”.

It was in general a fun night. Nelson is still an ass, but I get along with him anyway. he is in he means well, and doesn’t mean to be a dick, he just is sometimes.

The Casino Trip

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So I made the casino trip. The trip is the reason why I haven’t blogged in a few days. I have been away and the only internet access that I had in the room was my mobile phone. I didn’t want to goto the biz center to use the internet.

The trip was fun. Thursday night we all ordered room service in Glenn’s suite and played a friendly round of texas hold-um. We took people who didn’t play poker and teamed them up with people who could play. Dean our company president and I were a team. I told him I don’t know how he does business deals, because he had no poker face what so ever! I had a ton of bad hands, but in the end I actually won. I got $200 to share with Dean. I took my $100 and went to the casino.

Dan showed me the basic’s of craps. It was allot easier to learn with a table in front of me. Keith had been trying to teach me for 2 weeks to no avail. What he taught me made it easier for dan to show the fundamentals.

My first time out playing craps I went up $70. By the second night a bad run at a more expensive table caused me to loose all my winnings and also the $200 from poker and other winnings. I ended up putting up a hundred of my own money to keep playing. I figured that I was going to have spent that money anyway, so why not. By 11PM on friday I was down to my last $15, then Carrie and Alyssa came along to the craps table.

One of the guys running the table convinced them both to put money down and play. Alyssa sort of ticked the guy off the day before when he was a dealer at poker so he was razzing her. Glad they both decided to play because my luck turned around and the next thing I knew I had all my initial money back and I was up $50. By the time I called it a night I was down $30 of my own money. It was my fault because after I lost all of my winnings I dipped back into my initial cash like I said I wouldn’t. All in all I had a great time.

I need to play craps again and get better at it. It was way more fun than black jack.

Air Hockey

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I went to Jillian’s last night with Alison. That place is a fun diversion, but only after 10PM. Before 10, it is filled with kids. After 10, it is 21 and over. I had a good time even though I got beaten at air hockey 3 times:( I would be lying if I said it was a close three games. I got beat bad 2 out of 3 of them. I am going to stick with Skee ball and foose ball. Not sure if that is how you spell it, but I always liked foose ball. Of course I blame the lack of alcohol on my air hockey loss.

We had dinner at TGI Fridays. As homer simpson would say: Mmmmm jack Daniel’s grill.

The Game Place

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Rich, Amanda and I went to Jillian’s. it is a game complex out on the island near Roosevelt Field Mall. It is cool. you can do arcade games, play pool, bowling, skeet ball and other stuff. They are on a budget, and I should be so for $20 we got an evening of fun and entertainment. We didn’t realize how late it was when we wanted to go bowling. We decided to put that off for another time.

Jillian’s is not as good as Dave n buster’s, but it is allot closer to everyone. I went to a Dave n buster’s in Chicago. it is really cool. Same concept but I think they do it better. It is just expensive.

We went to a decent Mediterranean restaurant in the source mall for dinner. I still have to get used to getting my meat on a stick!

We grabbed cheese cake from the Cheese Cake Factory for take home desert. it was awsome as always. I had the special edition godiva chocolate cheese cake. I still have half of it left. I am saving it:)

Halo

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So I played Halo for the first time ever Sunday night. it was fun, but I can see myself loosing tons of time playing that game. It reminds me of all the time I played half life back in 99 – 2000. John, Jayson, David, Cindy, and some others played at John’s. he hooked up 2 xbox’s and we had 8 people playing. it was fun.

I got to see Cindy and Dave for the first time in like 2 years. it was good to catch up.