living in alaska

You learn things no matter where you are.
There is this new truck commercial, where a guy throws a fish to get a bear out of the road. Have you seen it? It's mildly funny, but it takes on a different life depending on who you see it with.

My friends and I saw it Friday night. These were the comments:
"Daddy, why is he getting the salmon out?" ( R.'s 5 year old daughter)
"Is he HIGH?"
"Take the other fish, at least."
"Another tourist dies tomorrow...."

We ended up playing poker instead of Halo, but it was a nice change. Actually, the guys played, I watched. It will probably be another two poker nights before I buy in. I like to get the feeling of the game. R. might have picked up on that when I watched him and G. play Burnout3 one night. we started the xbox up at 9 and I didn't ask to touch the controller until around one a.m.

Come to think of it, I did that in Baltimore, too. I watched Rook games for about three weeks before I joined in. Now, out here, there's so damn few mennonites that Rook is out of the question. I wonder at times what they'd do if I dug out a game of Dutch Blitz.