It's always busy being a captain, an awesome one no less, but somebody has to do it so it might as well be me.
I burned a lot of gas this week. I hate it. The Earth probably lost a couple seconds off of it's life due to me this week. It all started on Wednesday. Me and my buddy Jacob (Yes that's right, "Me and my buddy" not "My buddy and I." I know what it's supposed to be that's not what I want), we (much better) went to Tunica, Mississippi after work. (Here comes my first "outside" as in "outside the state of Arkansas" story) I had one of those free weekly hotel nights that they always send after you sign up for their membership card. If you go to any casinos you have to sign up for these cards. You would be stupid not to. Then, go around to all of the table games and just change $100 into chips to create activity on your card. They will send you all kinds of free stays and freeplay coupons. Anyway, we left Little Rock at about 6 and got there around 9. We didn't even have time to eat. We were on a mission to gamble the night away. I headed for the Craps table. I love Craps. Craps is a game that you can be best friends with someone who you know nothing about all for the sake of taking down the house. All you have to do is roll a couple hard 6's, make a few points and don't roll a 7 unless you're coming out. Follow those simple rules and you will have a table full of best friends. They might even buy you dinner. My luck was about like it always is. I was doing pretty good, hit a real bad rough patch and lost all my chips at one table. The table turned bad cold so I moved to another table and cashed in for some more chips. I lost all the way down to 20% of my chips again and I was about to cut all my losses when I got hot. In 30 minutes I went from having 10% of the money I walked into the casino with to 40% profit above what I walked in with. I quickly forced myself to walk away. Next up was the roulette and blackjack table. I made a couple of bucks off of those, but quickly retired to bed (It was about 12:30 AM)
Things calmed down until Saturday. I have been looking into buying a canoe or kayak. I found a canoe for $295 and a kayak for $250 both up near Rogers, AR. I had decided on actually splurging and buying one of them, but I had to wait on the result of my Tunica trip. If I lost $200 I wasn't going to buy anything. Luckily I won a little bit. It still took a little coaxing to make the long trip up there though. I called about the canoe and sadly it had already sold, but the kayak was still up for grabs so I hopped in my truck and headed out towards Beaver Lake near Rogers. I stopped by St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayetteville on they way and went to mass. Long story short, I bought the kayak. Now I need a paddle. . . Since I was up near Fayetteville, I called my buddy Andrew to crash on his couch. Saturday night, I did something that was long overdue. I went to Dixon St. We painted the town. Clint Eastwood couldn't paint a town like we did. I realize that Dixon St. is overrated and all that yadayadayada, but coming from Little Rock, it was an improvement. I remember going to the Smoke and Barrell Tavern, but before that we went to some pool hall. All of the beer on tap was $1.50 to $2.00 and we were drinking Shiner Bock ($1.50). In Conway and Little Rock I probably would have paid $3 to $4 for the same glass, and that wasn't a special price. No happy hour or nothing. Also, the pool tables were free. It was like a much much cleaner Midtown Billiards which isn't saying much. You could actually breathe the air inside. We ended up crashing at around 2AM.
Today, actually yesterday by now, I went to an Arkansas Naturals minor league baseball game. They were playing the Arkansas Travelers my home team from North Little Rock. It was a great game. The Travs won 8-7 I believe. They hit 4 home runs, 2 by the same guy. Anyone interested the ticket price for general admission was $7 and parking is $3. I went ahead and splurged for the $10 ticket which got me right behind home plate. And if you're thinking about skipping out on the $3 parking, forget about it. It's not like North Little Rock where you can park on a side street. The stadium is in the middle of a field so there is nowhere else to park. You are forced to pay the $3 parking fee unless you want to walk 2-3 miles. All in all the game was great and the stadium put on a good show. They actually do a little better job with the music and all than the Travelers do. The moral is if you haven't been to a Travs game or a Naturals if you live up in NW Arkansas you need to go. It's good cheap fun.
I think I might have to start posting twice a week. These weekly posts are too long and I summarize way too much. I did get my first visitor while I was gone this weekend. Somebody from Alaska! I'm excited I really am you have no idea. Thanks for stopping by. Please come back and comment. You are why I am here.
P.S. The pictures will get better as well as the writing. I promise.
