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mid-winter update

Right now I'm watching a Jesus and Mary Chain video on VH1Classic. Ooops, strike that. A Dinosaur Jr. video just started.

On Friday afternoon I thought about spending part of tonight at a Knicks Singles Night at Madison Square Garden (sponsored by Gothamist). On Saturday afternoon I called the number to sign up but I think I accidentally left my work phone number. When I did that I forgot to hang up. After five seconds of silence I corrected the possible phone number mistake. It must've been my subconscious telling me that I didn't really need to go. I'm not a basketball fan, anyway.

My lack of going out tonight means there's no wrap-up here about my attempts at dating. I've never been to any sort of singles mixer and I'm curious. The next time something like that comes up, sign me up.

I am ready to report that I got new glasses last Monday (pictured below). I also got a haircut and even trimmed two centimeters from my beard (not that you can tell).

marc_bigbeard2005feb.jpg

The haircut meant that I had to trim some of the hairs that are part of my sideburns. I'm not sure if I clipped enough of those hairs. Right now I'm comfortable with things. Having such a large beard opens so much for experimentation, but once you cut part of it away you can't grow it back overnight.

Friday night I ended up in Atlantic City. I played craps for the first time. I loved it. It's a really good thing I don't live closer to that town. Sometime in the middle of the night the guys I was with and I decided to grab some food from the only open restaurant at Caesar's. I had the french dip. It wasn't very good and I kept burping for the rest of the night. It was pretty gross. Luckily, I had thoughts of being at the craps table to keep my mind occupied. When it was my turn to roll I felt so much pressure - so much pressure that I found myself get superstitious - I had to really concentrate on making sure the right numbers came up on the dice. It's frightening stuff, that gambling.

Comments

marc, with that beard, you'd fit right in here in Brattleboro.

I told you craps was the bomb!

you were a natural, baby. a natural.

the update from work - i did leave my work number on that singles night event. they called and left a message here saturday. if anyone sees any online reports about the event, let me know. i wanna' read 'em!

Don't know anything about the Knicks' singles nights, but the once-hot, now-not Wizards are doing the same thing down here, as this Post story from December attests:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A58362-2004Dec11?language=printer