Everyday Is Better Than The Next

I got off of work at 5:30, came back to the house and debated whether to go eat at the Olive Garden with KK and CC. I ended up deciding against it and Shaun, Derrick, and myself headed off for adventure. We ended up going to Taco Bell. As we were pulling throught he parking lot, a guy on a motorcycle was coming the other way. As he passed us he flipped us off. When he did, he got that look like “oh, I thought you were someone else”, and gave us the “sorry about that” wave. He parked on the side of Taco Bell, and we continued to the drive through. When we stopped at the drive through Derrick saw a friend of his ahead of us and jumped out of the car at about the same time this guy was getting off of his bike. The guy kind of paused for a second like he thought that Derrick might be coming to throw him a beating or something. Then we ordered, me and Shaun order simple things like combo meals that are easy for the people at Taco Bell. I mean let’s be honest, they can barely get your order right when you have one order per car, we had three. Anyway, Derrick steps up to the plate and orders “a chicken wrap thing”, a meximelt with meat and cheese only and all kinds of complicated shit. I’m still amazed that he got it all and it was right. So we get up to the window were they give you your food and the guy asks if we want any sauce. Derrick says “mild”. The guy says “fire” and shuts the window. We all had a good laugh about that one.

We get back to the house, blee has arrived by this time, we eat, and then decide to play poker. So the four of us sit down and get everything ready to go. Before the game starts me and blee decide to play a face up hand of poker for a dollar. This turns into to hands of face up poker which I won both of. Poker finally gets underway about 7:30ish. I do my usual go all in a lot, and lose a lot. Right off the bat we forgot to post our blinds and blee says something like “I’m going to need to see Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles out there” Shaun and I start laughing because we get the joke (blinds, blind peole) Then about 2 minutes later after the laughter had died down Derrick starts laughing. He’s a little slower and the thinking curve for him is a little longer. From the on the blinds were referred to as Helen Keller, The boy who looked at the sun, and various other blind people riddiculing names. (remember this for later) Also, during poker Derrick invents a new word “curteosity”. It is the combonation of curteous, and curious. Kind of like when you see someone that you think you know, but you don’t want to tell them that you don’t really know who they are, and you don’t know their name. You are being curious and nice at the same time.

Towards the end of Poker, actually on the hand that I took out Derrick to leave only me and Shaun, the craziness begins. It was about 10:30 and the lights began to flicker. Then all of a sudden they went very dim. Still on, but dim. I kind of don’t really know what to do, so I start wondering around looking for whatever could be wrong. I notice that KK is running the dryer so I go and shut it off. When I do, all the lights go out. I mean completely out. So we figure out that if the dryer is shut off the power goes out. Ok that’s a little strange. I get out my volt meter and go down to the basement checking out different things. At this point Derrick completely loses it. He is talking about how it might be a short because a mouse was nibbling on the wires. He comes down to the basement with me and then runs back up stairs because he thinks there might be people buried in the basement. He thinks that he hears a squirrel running around in the attic. But the best he said was that he thought that since we were making fun of blind people all night that the ghosts of blind people decided to turn the lights out on us and make us blind. At one point we go outside and see a flashlight in the house across the street. We think “well maybe other people are having problems to” Nope, they are just looking for a cat or something. What a strange coincedence. I eventually make my way out the garage and check the voltage on the main disconnect. Something isn’t right. One side of the line is completely gone. At this point I’m not really sure what to do. It could be a blown fuse, bad wire, I don’t know. I end up calling the Utilities company at about midnight. They show up and discover that there is some screw in my meter box that is loose and “screwing” everyhing up. They get that fixed and power is restored.

At this point it’s about 1 in the morning and I am debating whether I should just stay up all night until I have to go to work at 5. At about 1:30 I can’t handle it anymore and pass out on the couch. I set the alarm on my phone for 4:15. When it goes off I, for some reason, wake up and set it for 4:20. I guess I thought five more minutes would do me a lot of good. After that I got up and went to work, and here I sit, tired and thinking about what a weird day it is.

The End.