Speaking of Pork

Speaking of pork...

I just ordered a cuban sandwich from a nice little restaurant a couple of blocks down the street - Chez Henri.  They have excellent bar food (Cuban) and also very good restaurant food (French).  I ordered the Cuban sandwich tonight.  I was real hung over this morning (back to that in a little) and had a salt bagel with cream cheese as I was leaving town this morning (Lyndonville, VT at  11.30am) and only had a small plate of chicken at 4.  So, I was hungry and I called an order in.

Me:  I'd like to order a Cuban Sandwich to pick up.

Bartender:  You didn't do it already, did you?

Me:  Pardon me?

Bartender:  You didn't do it already, did you?

Me:  No

In truth, I had no idea what he meant.  I thought about this hard for the five minutes before I headed out my door to go pick it up.  Anyway, I get there and there is a Cuban waiting that someone had ordered about 35 minutes ago and hadn't picked up yet.  He offered me the "tepid" Cuban (his words), but I choose to wait the 2 additional minutes for my hot one.  The bartender than offered me the option to pay by any way I prefer.  I wish I had a checkbook, because I would have paid that way.  I actually haven't had a checkbook in years (since 2005 when my last check ran out).  I use bill pay and online transfers all the time and rarely find the need for a check (maybe 3-4 times a year).  Let me say this.  I hate checks.  I think they are a huge waste of time and effort.  I think most 32 year old males feel the same way.  As I was waiting for my sandwich to come out, I thought about how interesting it would be to see the reaction had I tried to pay with check.  "Who do I make the check out to?".  It could be an interesting little social experiment to try and pay for everything with checks.  Does anyone want to do this with me?

This weekend the conditions were fantastic up in Vermont.  I got up there at about 10.45pm Friday night with Jen, Adam, & Kris in my car.  The ride up was traffic free.  We stopped in East Concord to refill (gas), and all take pisses.  No bathroom for us though, as the last person to use the fill station restroom locked the keys in the bathroom.  I didn't find out how long they've been locked in there, but you'd think a big Global company like Mobile would have figured out how to pay $50 for a locksmith.  So, we all pissed in the back of the store.  Me, I pissed on the side of a snowy dumpster.

Friday night we had about an hour of jump building/jumping.  Bedtime was at 1.30am for me.  We got off to an early start Saturday and were in the liftline by 8.45am for first chair.  We were the youngest people in line by about 20-30 years at that time - lots of seniors awake in the early AM.  Anyway, we skied hard all day from start to finish and I'm really sore today.

Last night I got pretty drunk.  Following a two hour jump session from 4.30-6.30pm, I came inside, took a shower (my first one in Vermont in 5 weeks!) and immediately poured myself a nice tall glass of bourbon.  Then played a 10 person game of Hold Em' where my best hand all night was a pair of 6's.  I had no chance.  So, after the game, I had some tequila shots and really passed out pretty early.  I was messed with by a few people, but awoke to a face with no marker on it...so that was good.

Drove home solo today as I had a little miscommunication this morning with all my friends.  I had a headache and wasn't very good about letting people know when I was leaving.  So, I had a lot of time to think about random shit on the way home.  

One thing I though about was how our softball team can improve this year.  I think we need to think about repositioning our outfield depending on who is up to bat.  I would say that 95% of hits in rec-league softball are balls that are pulled by the batter and since most lineups have only 0 or 1 lefty, this means that almost all the action occurs in left or left center.  I think that in baseball, with good hitters, you obviously need right OFs, but in a league where only lefty's and the very good hitters hit opposite field, we could probably cheat even more than we did last year and put 3 OFs in left, only 1 on the RF side.  Or, do away with the 2B in certain situations.  Anyway, I thought about these scenario's for awhile.

Another thing I thought about was inventing a word and how cool that would be.  Like "Google", except that I wouldn't actually do anything with my word like they did.  That was only about a 30-60 second thought.  I think it's because I've been playing too much Scrabble on Facebook lately.

Another thing I thought about was how much I hate it when people don't turn their headlights on in the driving rain.  That is one of my top 5 driving pet peeves.  Idiots.  If you are one of these people, get off of this page now.

Fisher has his cone on still.  Without it, he'll lick his balls (which are all stitched up).  I'll post this picture next time.