Birthday

Ughhh.

It's been a hard week to motivate myself with my birthday looming. Hardly ever anywhere near the happiest of days in my life. Visited a small portion of my family yesterday, sparing me the encounter today. A card and $100 from my parents. That took me away from yesterdays intended yard work which I took on first thing this morning.

Misao gave me this book for my birthday. About the 'secret of wealth, health, peace and more.' So I started reading a bit. Then Misao got back and we went to the bank and post office (had to send something I sold on e-bay) and then to the casino. Yes, to collect my $25 worth of birthday points and enter into one of their raffles. The lady told me to play and come back to get my birthday points recorded (I'm not sure that is true, I think you just have to show up). Our favorite slot machine was not working so we went to the one at the other end of the row. 2 cent slots. I put in $10 I won at a free poker game. I wasn't eligible for cash as not having put any money into the poker game but sold the promotion prize I won for finishing 3rd. Some form of alcohol. I burned about half the $10 in the slot machine when I won 10 free games. And in the process won more and more and more and more... free games. When it was all over I cashed out with $64.88, being born in 1964.

I highly recommend the book. And as an Amazon Associate will receive a commission....

Happy Birthday to Me!

Or maybe this book will be more effective in the pursuit of wealth, health, maybe not peace and more. That was last years birthday gift that I haven't challenged myself to capitalize on yet.

My ride yesterday was cut short by a fit of coughing that stopped when I turned back home. Today I didn't ride but a challenge has consumed my thoughts. The grille at the casino will give you a meal for free if you finish it in an hour. Four burgers with four quarter pound patties each. My mind raced, working through the entire process of consuming mass volumes of red meat; four whole pounds. Only later to have my dreams seriously dashed when I realized that also included 16 slices of cheese.

Still....

Still trying to run through the whole thing in my head.

I have sorted out a massive beer can collection in the hopes of selling it all on e-bay. Unfortunately they don't sell well. Maybe if CSI or some other popular show showed someone with such a collection the sales would pickup.

But the real question you must all be asking is....

"Where's Alois?"

Alois is fine and well. Not a big soccer fan and preferring to live in the countryside he was not to flattered when I informed him that Munich was ranked #1 as worlds most livable city. A very German answer. He added:

"This year is a bad biking year. To cold, too much rain, no sunshine ..."

No sunshine.

Still haven't gotten the video of my dogs put together. This is a picture of Tun-Tun sleeping in my shoe.