The Money Tree

I am not much of a gamblin' man. My older sister 'drove' down from Rock Springs Wyoming this past weekend and I got to spend some time with her. There is a Casino here in Hobbs that she drug me too, hey, she paid for my drinks. I think in the 4 years the Casino/Race Track has been open I have been a whopping 4 times and 3 of those times was to watch the horses. I have been to Vegas so some little Indian Casino doesn't really do it for me, but this time it did. I walked in with $20 and left with $600 playing the $2 slots.

Finally

I finally received my all-in-one Brinkman griller smoker. Some assembly was required but it wasn't that bad. I also received my cigar from Justin as well, Danke schön!

House

Belinda and I made a bid on a house. We have gotten to that point were we are tired of paying rent and dealing with slumlords. The housing market has progressed into everyone believing that their property is worth more because Hobbs has a Casino and Horse Race Track and the oil business is booming. Our rent has increased by 60 percent in the last year. Its impossible to find a rent house for less than $600 and less than $1000 for something decent. I know that it doesn't 'seem' expensive, its just that this area is trying to male a quick buck. So as is, our new house will close by September 14.

Fun with the Kittie

He knows there is a mouse in there.

Happy Birthday Belinda

Diet to the Coke.

They still sell these things?

I was driving home from Albertson's yesterday and saw this gem parked in someone's driveway. Seeing this car made me refresh my memory of the vehicle, thank you wiki. I found some interesting facts about the car aside from the obvious ones about fumes entering the car; all the bad ones. A few things that I found is that the car had no 'Park' for the two-speed Powerglide that Chevrolet employed. The gear selector went as follows: R-N-D-L. Also the air cooled flat six that was mounted in the rear was a common upgrade in Volkswagen Dune Buggies. The six cylinder was also offered with a factory turbo producing about 180 hp seen here. It says TURBOCHARGED and has checkered flags and everything.
Reminds me of Civics that have the POWEREDD BY HONDA! stickers across the hood. Or maybe I totally missed the concept and the Honda's are really powered by this.

Yea, it tasted Bad.

I have this really bad habit of buying bottles of wine (turns out this was the malt liquor of wine) because the label looked cool. Albertson's gives you a 10% discount if you buy 6 bottles at once.
The only time buying wine based on a cool label that ever worked was a brand called Cheap Red Wine, I still have the bottle. One a side note I wasn't buying the wine to impress a date or some company.

As for this mistake, apparently Sideshow No. 4 Puppetmaster or whatever the hell it is consists of a mixture of two other awful tasting wines, syrah and malbec. Apparently I did read the label after all because I wanted to know what the hell was is this concoction. I have come to the conclusion that really good wine comes with generic labeling AND CORKS (and dust on them). Really bad wine comes with a twist top and story on the side of the bottle to make you go, huh I wonder what this tastes like. However from my experiences from drinking beer the cooler the bottle looked the better the beer taste.