Nando Parrado (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nandoparrado) wrote,@ 2008-06-02 16:24:00 |
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Forced out of bed by the world around 1pm today which seems late but doesn't feel so good when you go to bed at 8am. I was up playing online poker and reading wikipedia and watching PBS. At least i didn't go out to the club. It's about time i took a Sunday night off. I've been bad this week with abusing my body. Plenty of drinking and now i'm to the point where when drinking the resistance to cigarettes is negligible.
I almost got banned from the pool hall last tuesday. After getting trounced 4 games to 0 by Toby who's a five skill level, same as me, I hung around drinking and supporting my team. I texted Cailin to come up and join me. She's a waitress there but she doesn't work tuesdays. So she came up as a customer to play some pool and hang out with me. Of course she's friends with every single guy in the entire joint and that's a lot of guys. She bought me a shot or two and things get a little fuzzy after that. It was only the second time I've hung out with her and I began acting really cocky, at one point standing on a stool, another time bragging that my mom was a high-powered attorney. I'm laughing at myself while writing this. I try so hard to suppress the douchebag behavior rampantly evident in my father and brother but it's there in me too and when it comes out it's even worse than them.
But what almost got me banned was nearly coming to blows with Casey, the manager and part-owner of the place, when me and Cailin were leaving. Casey is pro-active in caring about his employees and customers. This is probably a good thing for a bar owner, but I took it as overbearing when he fussed over giving Cailin back her keys that he had confiscated. I said I could give her a ride home so let's go. I guess he persisted in some way and that would've annoyed me. Plus there was this other issue where Cailin was a bit upset about the first time she and I hung out there and she ordered shots for us thinking that she'd get an employee discount but did not and was hit with a seventy dollar tab. So I said some shit like "if you wanna be her daddy why don't you give her a discount on her 70 dollar tab" and he's like "don't come back here." I expressed my willingness to settle things physically (cockiness, women love that shit you know) but luckily we backed down. My enthusiasm may have been laughable because while I am taller than Casey, he's stocky as hell and works in bars whereas I'm a skinny computer-jockey who's managed to build a little bit of tone after 2 years in the gym. I then told him i was sorry and i was happy about his new management of the pool hall which has definitely been an improvement and we shook hands. I took Cailin home. It's a good thing Christopher is good friends with Casey or he might really have banned me. I wouldn't blame him after the way I acted that night.
I'm leaving for my first vacation of the year on Wednesday. Vegas, Caesar's Palace, the five-star resort! I went to the bank today and withdrew a bunch of cash. Jeff is already registered for $1,500 buy-in World Series of Poker event (there's a whole bunch of WSOP events at the Rio in June leading up to the $10,000 entry main event in the first week of July). There's a 1,500 event i'll try too, unless the line is too long or i chicken out. Lord knows it's probably a better financial decision than buying Countrywide stock last year at 15 dollars a share. We'll also be seeing my old friend Brian who's been a professional poker player for the past 4 years and is living out there now.
The summer is here. Why can't it be a healthy one? All my teacher girlfriends are free. Which one will get to go to Antigua or some other island with me? Another summer without keith. How did I become so entangled in feelings for the wrong girl. Just because she's sweet and smart, just because I could see a future together, was no guarantee she'd return me to her heart. It was a hope and a firm belief, that turned into just another lost gamble.
I almost got banned from the pool hall last tuesday. After getting trounced 4 games to 0 by Toby who's a five skill level, same as me, I hung around drinking and supporting my team. I texted Cailin to come up and join me. She's a waitress there but she doesn't work tuesdays. So she came up as a customer to play some pool and hang out with me. Of course she's friends with every single guy in the entire joint and that's a lot of guys. She bought me a shot or two and things get a little fuzzy after that. It was only the second time I've hung out with her and I began acting really cocky, at one point standing on a stool, another time bragging that my mom was a high-powered attorney. I'm laughing at myself while writing this. I try so hard to suppress the douchebag behavior rampantly evident in my father and brother but it's there in me too and when it comes out it's even worse than them.
But what almost got me banned was nearly coming to blows with Casey, the manager and part-owner of the place, when me and Cailin were leaving. Casey is pro-active in caring about his employees and customers. This is probably a good thing for a bar owner, but I took it as overbearing when he fussed over giving Cailin back her keys that he had confiscated. I said I could give her a ride home so let's go. I guess he persisted in some way and that would've annoyed me. Plus there was this other issue where Cailin was a bit upset about the first time she and I hung out there and she ordered shots for us thinking that she'd get an employee discount but did not and was hit with a seventy dollar tab. So I said some shit like "if you wanna be her daddy why don't you give her a discount on her 70 dollar tab" and he's like "don't come back here." I expressed my willingness to settle things physically (cockiness, women love that shit you know) but luckily we backed down. My enthusiasm may have been laughable because while I am taller than Casey, he's stocky as hell and works in bars whereas I'm a skinny computer-jockey who's managed to build a little bit of tone after 2 years in the gym. I then told him i was sorry and i was happy about his new management of the pool hall which has definitely been an improvement and we shook hands. I took Cailin home. It's a good thing Christopher is good friends with Casey or he might really have banned me. I wouldn't blame him after the way I acted that night.
I'm leaving for my first vacation of the year on Wednesday. Vegas, Caesar's Palace, the five-star resort! I went to the bank today and withdrew a bunch of cash. Jeff is already registered for $1,500 buy-in World Series of Poker event (there's a whole bunch of WSOP events at the Rio in June leading up to the $10,000 entry main event in the first week of July). There's a 1,500 event i'll try too, unless the line is too long or i chicken out. Lord knows it's probably a better financial decision than buying Countrywide stock last year at 15 dollars a share. We'll also be seeing my old friend Brian who's been a professional poker player for the past 4 years and is living out there now.
The summer is here. Why can't it be a healthy one? All my teacher girlfriends are free. Which one will get to go to Antigua or some other island with me? Another summer without keith. How did I become so entangled in feelings for the wrong girl. Just because she's sweet and smart, just because I could see a future together, was no guarantee she'd return me to her heart. It was a hope and a firm belief, that turned into just another lost gamble.
