Video Keno: 200, T.J.: 0

Well, that's another 10 bucks down the drain.

Poppa got his ss check the other day, and today, he, myself, and a good friend, B, went to the casino and blew a bit. The machines were cranked up tighter'n Tilly.

On a good note tho, the lunch special ( 8oz top sirloin steak sandwich, fries, soup and salad bar, $4.99) was outstanding. The steak was a bit overdone, but then I'm kinda hard to please when it comes to a rare steak. Most chefs, and rightly so, I might add, think that people don't really know what they want.

Take, for example, fried eggs. There are 3 ways of ordering fried eggs. Over easy, over medium, and over hard. The distinction is vital to good eggs.

Over easy means eggs cooked on the bottom, flipped over in the pan, and slid onto a plate, the albumen mostly uncooked on the 'top.'

Over medium means eggs cooked on the bottom, flipped, and cooked on the top, yolks still runny (my fav, btw).

Over hard means yolks broken, cooked top and bottom.

A lot of people will order over easy, thinking that it means yolks unbroken, and then complain because the whites are uncooked.

It's much the same when you order a steak. When I say rare, I mean rare.

Sit it down, give it a stern talking to, and send it my way rare. Or, if you're a cowboy, Knock it's horns off, wipe it's ass, and run it through a warm room rare.

The steak, just a bit less than a good medium rare was outstanding tho, so I can't complain too much.

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In other news, my mother took me out yesterday and bought me some shoes and socks as the last part of my birthday present. This has put me in a rather unique situation. I'm a guy, you see. I usually have, oh, I don't know....like 1 or 2 pairs of shoes. My daily drivers, and some form of dress shoes. I now have in my posession, 7 pairs of shoes.

That's a record for me, I'm sure of it.

I have to make this short, at least for now. I have, conservatively, 5 loads of laundry to do before I go to bed tonight.

I'm fucking stoked. Can you tell?

Well, time to start the first load,

Peace out,

T.

P.S. in rereading this, i realized that there is a fourth way to order fried eggs, and that is sunny side up. that's the same as over easy, but not 'over'. t.