I don’t drink a lot of soda or pop any longer so I ask for a cup for water when I am at a fast food restaurant. It never fails that I end up getting handed a plastic shot glass, if I am lucky I will get the kiddy size. Literally how much more could it cost to just give me a decent sized fucking cup so I do not have to go back 14 times to refill my measuring cup. I get it, they want me inconvenienced to the point of frustration, it just seems that is contrary to good customer service and it is not like I did not just buy $8 worth of food that should cost $3.50.

I have not been playing a ton of poker but when I have it has been at Absolute Poker. They recently updated their software and have picked up a lot of volume, not to mention that the software is hella cool now. Absolute has always been a good place for soft games on and off, this newest change should not hurt that at all. I have mostly been playing $200 heads up sit and go’s, I do not use Beanie on Absolute so it is quite refreshing to not have that target on my ass. Even being semi known does give your opponent an edge that you do not have on them. Clicking this link will get you the max allowable comps (paid directly into your account) that you can get on Absolute and $650 in bonus.

Every other month my wife and I alternate with my in-laws watching each others kids, we call it date weekend. The last few we went to Vegas and LA. This weekend we decided to just stay home and relax (for once), it usually isn’t my wife’s fault I seem to always want to cram these weekends with the most excitement. This weekend we ended up at the State Fair. When you are from Minnesota the State Fair is a big honkin deal, the night we went Fergie was playing in the Grandstand and as we walked the grounds I just couldn’t get Fergalicious out of my head. It was splurge day so diet be damned, I ate so much I woke up at 6am the next morning half sick which I will likely repeat again next year.

The State Fair is known as “The Great Minnesota Get Together” and if it wasn’t for the State Fair I don’t think I would associate with 99.8% of these people. Here are a couple of things I observed:

1.            I am not sure if it is a chicken or egg thing but it seems like any woman that has a half shirt on that says “I live for beer” shouldn’t be pregnant and should have more teeth. It got me thinking that maybe it was the shirt that started it and one night of drunken bliss after knocking down a few this lady got in a bar fight and lost those teeth and the guy that helped her get off the ground put that bun in the oven. That is the type of stuff my wife and I think of as we judge the masses at the State Fair.

2.            We kept running into a big black dude carrying around a giant Spider Man. I did catch him checking out my wife’s ass as I came out the restroom. It sure is a good thing she isn’t the type that would trade sex for a giant stuffed Spider Man otherwise I could have been in trouble.

3.             I cringe at the thought that I was once a teenager and that I acted like these imbeciles. This week I pulled out of my driveway with a teenage girl coming down the hill driving like a bat out of hell as I pulled up to the stop sign not only did she not stop she passed me. In a residential neighborhood, where there are tons of kids. It was one of those moments that is so baffling you have no idea what to do. Her friend in the passenger seat just gave me a look like “that is how we roll”. All of her friends seemingly were at the State Fair being rude and it took everything I had not to choke a few.

These weekends are good for catching up on current events and apparently Michael Vick is trumping the miners from Utah in anticipation of his admission of guilt on Monday. Why is it that he somehow represents black people, as well as Barry Bonds? But Floyd Landis and Mark McGuire do not represent all white people? You just know there are closed minded people out there that see Michael Vick as the embodiment of all African Americam males and it doesn’t help that the NAACP gets behind him. Note to the NAACP, you are not advancing anyone backing this jerk off. I read that he could lose $100 million dollars for his role in this scandal, he would have been better off sexually assaulting a woman, that is what Kobe did and now he is dunking for USA Basketball. I know he was never convicted of that crime because the woman technically did say “yes” she just didn’t say yes where Kobe wanted her to say yes. Either way the actions of Vick, Kobe or Pac Man reflect three idiots, they don’t reflect all of mankind and they certainly don’t reflect all African Americans.