Helen and I began our day early with breakfast at the Suncoast Casino, less than two miles from our apartment. I made a few football bets while we were there, then we took a ride looking for some used furniture to add to our accomodations. Next on our furniture shopping list are some assorted tables - end and/or coffee - plus a chair and some lamps. We were unable to find any consignment/used furniture joints that were open today, so that will be a project for tomorrow. Furniture shopping and lunch out somewhere interesting.
We returned to the apartment and I watched the early (10 a.m. starting time in Vegas) games while Helen took a nap. I won two bets on the early games, so early in the later games (1 p.m. Vegas time) I returned to the Suncoast to cash those winning tickets and watch the end of the games. I also sat down for about an hour of $1-2 No Limit poker and cashed out $55 ahead. No big hands, but a steady flow of $20-30 pots that kept me in the profit zone.
When the football dust settled, I won those two bets and have a live 5-team teaser bet that will pay $100 if Carolina and Tampa Bay combine for more than 34 points on the Monday Night game.
In my mind, if I can win an average of $50 a day in poker, or blackjack or football, that's $1,500 a month that we have for fun. So far, so good.
About 5 p.m. I returned home and started to make dinner - bowtie pasta in a tasty marinara sauce with onions and mushrooms. Got the pasta water boiling and started making the sauce, when I realized we didn't have a can opener. I managed to open the cans of sauce and crushed tomatoes with a large knife, but had to turn to the handy toolbox to get the needle nose pliers to peel back the tomato can wide enough to get the crushed tomatoes out of the can and into the sauce pan. Thank you Craftsman!
For Helen, I whipped up a small side salad of baby spinach, onions, olives, tomatoes and shredded cheese. I ate too much pasta, but it was pretty tasty and I was hungry.
So soon we'll have to make another trip to our regular hangout - Target - to pick up some kitchen utensils. Last year we brought all those things from home, but we now need a can opener, a ladle, at least one big cooking spoon, and who knows what else.
Tune in tomorrow to see how our furniture shopping went...
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