I Had a Horseshoe Up My Blog!

I am back home from my weekend trip with my college buddy Greg. We had a pretty good time and I really watched what I was eating and drinking as it is just a hobby of convenience of mine to be more healthy these days. It is weird to think that Louisville, Kentucky is only 5.5 hours away. In case you are not from the Chicagoland area, we measure things in time rather than miles. That may be an entire MIDDLEwestern way of doing it but that is pretty much how I have always remembered remembering distance - by time. We got to Louisville Friday night. Saturday we went to the Louisville Slugger factory and museum. It is a really cool tour and everyone who goes on the tour gets a free mini-bat. I am not sure what I will do with it so I may just keep it under my car seat in case I need a weapon for self defense. We also went to the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience. It sounds like Evan Williams was the inventor of Kentucky bourbon. The tour was really good and it ended with a bourbon tasting. We got to sample three of their bourbons. I could talk about an hour about bourbons now I think. They even have a Kentucky Bourbon Trail visiting all the distilleries in the area.

On Saturday night we went bar-hopping and went down town to Fourth Street Live where they have lots of bars and restaurants... It is kind of like a mini Wisconsin Dells (kind of). We ate and went from bar to bar watching the various NCAA basketball tournament games. They seem kind of bitter in Kentucky about the tournament this year since Louisville did not play because of sex scandal violations. University of Kentucky was eliminated on Saturday by neighboring state school University of Indiana so now the KFC Yum Center will not have a Kentucky team in the house. I drank a bit of bourbon and diet Coke at the bars but stuck mainly to iced tea for the most part. I remembered that I am in this better way of eating... for the long-haul.

So, the next day, after carousing all night, we went to Waffle House. I had never been to a Waffle House and I believe I am the only person to ever have ordered a salad topped with grilled chicken in the history of the history of Waffle House, It was actually a pretty good salad. I do not think I have the need or want to ever go back to this fine okay mediocre place again.

Except we were at The Horseshoe in Indiana instead of The Taj in A.C.

Sunday morning we went to Indiana just across the border from Kentucky) to Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino. I played Blackjack for awhile and grew bored of the after winning only $50 so I moved-on to Texas Holdem. I am a huge Texas Holdem fan and have won quite holdem tournaments so I felt much more comfortable at that table. I ended-up winning enough money to cover all of the expenses I incurred for the entire trip plus a little gravy. And, with the free drinks while playing I drank only one bottle of water. I learned long ago that you don't to have to pee and get dealt-out while you're on a streak. So, Greg and I were like Mike and Worm going over to Teddy KGB's place and, I guess I was Mike on this particular day. We then went back to the Louisville Slugger Museum to see one of my former neighbors that moved and works there now. She showed us many things that we did not get to see on the first trip there - it was great to see here. She is ALWAYS cheery and smiley and happy and who doesn't need that? Incidentally, Texas Holdem was born at The Horseshoe (Vegas).

Today was weigh-in day and I had no idea what to expect. I felt like I did (almost) the best that I could do on a 3 1/2 day rip of debauchery. To hedge my bet this week I did five miles this morning before going to get the news. I actually lost 2.0 pounds since last Tuesday. That makes just over 30 pounds since the end of 2015. If I keep-up at this rate (10 pounds per month)I should love 90 ore pounds this year. I realize that is not very realistic but that is what I am shooting for. I know it will be tougher as I get closer to the target but I will just have to work harder (maybe ten miles a day?).

I caught-up on the last two 11/22/63 episodes on HULU. There are only two episodes left (there are six available now). If I didn't already have access to HULU I would subscribe just for this show (though there is probably a free trial as there usually is with these services). I read the novel and I still cannot wait to see what happens. James Franco is really good in this film. I am not sure if I like it because I like Stephen King or I was born in 1963 or I like James Franco or a combination of all but I know it is really good.

I am going to end now because there are some seedless grapes calling my name (that is true but I have also run out of things on my tired mind). Thank you for stopping by; I apologize if some of this is redundant from my "check-ins" on Facebook or my Tweets on Twitter. I believe I will blog again tomorrow. TTTT...MITM (out) TA!