Lucky In Cards

So this week­end, I went up to Reno and North Lake Tahoe with Will N, Eddie C, Michow, Chris H, and Andrew P. Will N won the trip from his work, so it was basi­cally all paid for. The drive there was pretty fun. It was late and light on traf­fic, so Eddie and I cruised along nicely. Sadly, it was in auto­matic Civics.

The stay at Cir­cus Cir­cus was fun. I didn’t actu­ally play cards, but did make some money on the penny slots, besides get­ting cheap drinks. I also won at Uno when we went back to the room for the night. In the morn­ing, we hit up the buf­fet, and I didn’t con­trol myself as well as I should have.

The drive to North Lake Tahoe was even more fun. My tachome­ter actu­ally hit 6,000 rpm, which I had not done before. The hotel was really nice, but there wasn’t as much to do there. Well, we didn’t know there was, any­way, because we got there at dusk, and didn’t real­ize we were lit­er­ally across the street from lake front beaches. Hit the Big Water Grill, which was really bougie. Unfor­tu­nately, my dietary restric­tions meant I could only have a salad, which actu­ally worked out well for me, con­sid­er­ing the lunch I had.

That night, we chilled at the hotel hot tub and played a lot of “would you rather.” Watched movies and had cheap wine in the room after we got kicked out of the pool area, and then woke up for a lit­tle more slots and pin­ball action. We fol­lowed the lake shore for an amaz­ing drive home, and then chilled in Davis to watch the big game. Made a buck off Andrew P bet­ting on the Steelers.

Over­all, Will N made big money, as well as Minh T. I’m up for the week­end, but only by a cou­ple of bucks. Makes me won­der, though… You know the expres­sion “Lucky in cards, unlucky in love” ? Some­times it’s put the other way around. But the point being, in years past, it did not hold true for me, because I always lost money at New Years, and was still unlucky in love. But this year, I’m (slightly) lucky in “cards,” so does that mean the expres­sion will finally be true for me? Or will it be untrue in the oppo­site man­ner that it usu­ally is?

Tags: Andrew P, Dinhternet, Eddie C, Michow, Minh T, Movies, Will F, Will N, Work