March 24, 2005

A deserved day was yesterday. I won some! I played a machine one time then gave it another play only to hit four deuces for $50. Not bad huh? Then I did well on a Joker Poker machine and okay on a Bonus Poker machine. The 1:00 bingo at Sam's didn't give Ruby, Glenda nor I anything but something to bitch about. We also discussed how playing bingo at Sam's has proven that the words, 'law of average,' is just another bull shit saying with no meat to it. Glenda didn't want to talk about her luck err, I mean lack of luck. I need to keep her out of those gambling places. She wasn't in very good humor last night. Ruby didn't mention how she did but she seemed to be in an okay mood.

Gasoline here has jumped again in price. Most postings are somewhere between $2.34 and $2.45. We have a half tank so we're not too needy but we did see one at $2.29 and would have filled'er up but we were unable to get in the left turn lane in time. We're going to give it another shot today.

I believe it's time to start stacking up some of the things we'll want to take home with us. In that stack should be several things with good value in case we're forced to pawn a few things along the homeward route. You never know.

When I was fifteen I visited my brother and sister in California and was going to ride home with some other homebound Missouri boys. My brother, insisted that I put what little he had in his cupboard in my suitcase in case we got hungry. I didn't want to but relented and put the three cans of tomato soup in with my clothes. Believe me, cold tomato soup really is good when you're hungry. We all almost came to blows over it. Had a few ears of raw corn out of some farmer's field to go along with it. The corn was really sweet but kinda hard to stomach.

I tried to trade a nice jacket to a guy in Kansas for gasoline but he wasn't interested. A very nice man he turned out to be when he accidentally filled our car up instead of stopping at the $3.00 worth we had asked for. He said it was his mistake so we weren't expected to pay the difference. We didn't have any money for it anyway but I know the guy just helped us out. One of the guys knew someone in Springfield, Missouri where he borrowed enough money for the rest of the gas we needed to get home. We did manage to make it in fine shape.

"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." -Kyle Schmidt