every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser Tonight was another poker night at Scott's place. There were eight of us, and it was a good time. "Bring finger foods," he said. So I picked up some meatballs and cheese sticks (*yumm*) at Provigo. Other snacks included shrimp, chips, Oreo cookies (they go good with wine, don't you know).

The buy-in was ten dollars again. Some people got cleaned out. Some people got lucky enough to win enough to pay their phone bills (apparently). I figure you don't go without being prepared to lose what you got. We played quite a few rounds of Texas Hold'em. It's fun. It's fun to bluff. And to learn who does or does not ever take chances on a bad hand...

The kids haven't listened very well to Kenny Rogers, though. You know that part about "don't count your money when you're sitting at the table..."? I saw an awful lot of money-countin' going on...!  | ¶ 1:09 a.m.