This weekend was active.
On Friday, I scripted some before playing poker from 7 to midnight. On top of keeping my initial buy-in, I earned some 250Kc on top - that's about $10. Since I bought in with about $20, that's a 50% return. Not bad for an amateur poker player.
On Saturday, I headed to the gym, worked on some more scripts, and went to a friend's birthday party. The same friend's wife is very pregnant, due in some 3 weeks, and had a scary bout recently when she basically came down with amnesia. He said there were times when she didn't even remember that she was pregnant. That's kinda frightening.
On Sunday, I did some more scripting before hitting the gym, again. After the gym, I had a very necessary and good chat with a friend here who regularly does business interactions between the U.S. and Europe - he basically laid out for me what I need to do to start the business. This was an A+ thing to do and I now have a good understanding what's immediately in front of me. Should the website get up as planned, I'll be in the states at the beginning of the summer on a matter of business.
I topped off that meeting by taking in Dreamgirls, shopping and then scripting a bit before bed. My bedtime book right now is Czechs in a Nutshell and is giving me a little fuel for the scripts. Not too much, but it is clearing some things up for me that would otherwise remain a mystery.
Maybe I'll post some photos later. It's been awhile since I've done that.
Getting on the plane back from Paris, I heard some folks (3 folks, to be precise) coming down the aisle speaking very American English. Like most I disregarded it, though.
As I left the Prague airport, I went to the bus stop to catch the bus into town. The three Americans were standing perplexedly in front of the ticket machine; I stopped and asked them if they needed help. Indeed, they did.
Long story short: as we rode into town I discovered that the two guys were cousins of one of the girls who lived on my junior year floor at Carleton, where I was an R.A.
I just spent the past week (Wed-Wed) in France, but I had forgotten my deodorant in Prague...
I was curious about this game and I certainly thought the first quarter was one of the more exciting sporting events I've ever witnessed, and I got to see the first half between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. on France's channel 2 en direct.
It's weird though, because where American channels cut to commercials every minute for commercials, the French don't. For that reason, there was a continuous feed being shown and I got to see the players standing around chatting - y'know, "how's your mother, Peyton?" type stuff. Very weird. You see them standing in a circle, just talking, for a minute as the U.S. stations take another opportunity to inundate the American viewer with more ideas of junk to buy. It was a very humanizing moment, for these dieties of sport.
So, my question to my very limited Bears fan readers is: how much do you hate Grossman now? He made some ugly ugly errors. So much for my former high school's best hope for a Super Bowl ring.