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Peewees in Adventureland
Random Road Ramblings
Today I tried to answer two intriguing emails from friends. Both men are…after unplanned layoffs….working, although in Mitch’s case he is nearing retirement and in Raoul’s case he is not yet 30. I consider both guys good friends. Otherwise I suspect Mitch and Raoul don’t have much in common, except that they both admit to [...]
Compared to these guys, I have no work ethic at all.
In fact, I’m sitting pretty today, typing away in an amazingly tasteful and even more comfortable customer lounge, (and, hey, you wanna look? Check it ooouuutttt….), Irene and I just waiting (and OH how we love waiting!) for six things to simultaneously get done on [...]
June 10, 2009 in Eating, People We've Met, Pickleball, Places We've Been, Poker, RVing and Motorhomes
I just re-read the excellent little poker-story book “The Biggest Game In Town”, written a few years back by the equally excellent London-based journalist Al Alvarez. This book chronicles, more or less, the birth and growth of the World Series of Poker, at least of its early days, and, while it’s at it, captures the [...]
Gus is the fella on the left, and a knife-buying ol’ customer of his, also named A. J., is on the right. On a whim, waiting for Irene to get back from the Roswell Tourist Information Bureau, I wandered into their store, directly across the sleepy street from the Alien Museum in Roswell, NM. A. [...]