Lucky Uncle is Lucky

So we went to the casino today. I did terribly until the end. Lucky Uncle, well let's just say he put a 20 in while I was talking to him and when I walked off two minutes later, he was at 335$. Later, after dinner, he went from 100$ to 800$ and then he wandered off and won 1200 ten minutes later.

I, on the other hand, was grateful for the cigarette smoke to hide the stench of failure wafting off of me. I lost and lost. Finally I hit a bonus on the lucky devil machine where you have to pick a fireball and I got into the highest paying, hardest to win category then pick a gem and I picked the one that said you win ALL the other gems so I got back about a third of my losses. Then I was playing the sea monkey game and got 8 free spins then won another 9 spins within that spin and five times the win at the end and ended up winning back another third so not as bad as it could have been.

The buffet wasn't quite as good as usual but it was a tuesday.

I've been reading Stephen King's the Gunslinger for a challenge which was reread something from your childhood. It took him 12 years to even get this first book out. Makes me feel a little better. I'm getting more and more sure I never read this before. I think I read this briefly to 'fit in.'

Back in h.s. I tried watching a soap opera because all the other girls did and I thought it might help to have something to talk about. It might make me more popular. Yeah that didn't work. I didn't give two shits about Luke and Laura and the girls still hated me. So I tried again with my own people, the geeks. I know they loved Asimov's Foundation series, Dune, Dungeons and Dragons, the Dark Tower series and Tom Baker's Dr. Who. Turned out I only liked D&D. I remember liking Dark Tower but I think now a) I skimmed at best because this isn't at all familiar b) it rather sucks frankly, c) I faked it like I did with everything but D&D because if I didn't have the geeks to talk to, who would I talk to?

Anyhow this is the worst most misogynistic thing I've ever read by King and I know for a fact a lot of the people who loved this were women which surprised me.