Have you ever had a day where things were just kind of "blah"? Today was one of those days for me. It started out where I didn't want to run my errands in the morning, since I was meeting someone here at the house at noon. I was not certain I could be home in time, and would rather run the errands all in one shot. So, here I stayed.

Noon came. And went. One o'clock. Two o'clock. I knew that sometimes she was late, but now I was watching in frustration as the day slipped away. I called her house and got the answering machine. I tried to take care of a few other things while I waited, but I was becoming more and more irritated. I played a little bzflag and only got MORE irritated. Several of the players were acting up, but one in particular was just over the top! Since I'm an admin there, I have to help things run smoothly; so I was administrating instead of just playing. So much for something to relax and relieve some tension...

A few minutes before 4, I called her house again and the person who answered told me she now has a cell phone and gave me the number. I called her -- she had had something come up. She still would come by, but now it would be around 6 or so. I had a very short time to do a lot of errands. First and foremost, I needed to run over and do my tutoring session with my friend's son. After an hour of that, I dashed here and there to finish things up.

When my friend did finally arrive (I hadn't seen her since we returned from our RTW), I found out that she is going through a horrific time, personally. We talked and cried for a bit (not what I was expecting at all). Ultimately, she left with a promise to be back later. Kirk and I will certainly be praying for her and her situation. Of course, I felt horrible for being so angry and frustrated. My inconvenience is nothing compared to the trauma she is experiencing right now! It certainly helps to keep things in perspective, huhn?

Kirk and I headed over to Bill & Sue's house for a nice little evening of dinner and craps. If you are wondering whether you misunderstood me, I am sure you did not. I don't even know how long ago this little tradition of their started, but when Kirk and I first started dating, I was invited over to one of their dinner/craps sessions. It was the first time I had met any of Kirk's work friends (with whom he had been working about 14-15 years) and I was terribly nervous. But they were all very nice, and we had a fun time playing craps (with chips only - no money exchanges hands in our little games). So, tonight, the tradition continued... Ken and Bill are pretty good croupiers. We had an excellent dinner of Chinese food (I'm not sure where Brad and Christine picked up the take out...it's not as good as Hu's, but it's the best I've had in the South Bay). There was certainly a lot more food than we had room for.



While playing craps, we all started out with $200 worth of chips. Sue went on a nice long run (she was the first shooter). She must have rolled the dice for 20 minutes or longer! Of course, action around here doesn't move as fast as in Vegas... In the end, the big winner had over $700. Kirk and I were not the big winner, but did perfectly well ourselves!

Tomorrow, we head up to Big Bear. We are meeting up with some others from the KJWest club - a group of Jeep Liberty owners - to take a few 4WD trails.

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