I will try to do better…
OK where are we?
32 Weeks.
Opening Day for the 2008 World Series Champion New York Metropolitan Baseball Club is around the corner.
First practice for The Alpha Phi Delta Brooklyn Alumni Club Softball Team’s 31st season in the Staten Island Slow Pitch Softball League is little more than 5 hours away.
The Pregame is rolling on on SPIKE TV - Midnight on Thursdays…This Week The Movie 21.
We are about to begin production on a couple of projects that have us very excited. Details to follow but just to whet the old peaking of the interested parties appetites, one includes the word Coxsackie the other includes my cousin Robert, who is a Priest, though he doesn’t know it yet.
And today having been Good Friday, I normally would have been down in Monroe, NJ at Aunt Miriam and Uncle Charlie’s making the Pizza Rustica and the Pizza Gran…
Unfortunately a car accident put Aunt Miriam in the Hospital. A few cracked ribs and you lose your enthusiasm for chopping Sopresata and stuff….Here’s a picture of Aunt Mir last year making the pies. Oh yeah, the pies are awesome and an old Italian tradition, that comes from the days before refrigeration, when they would take any meat that was left at the end of the week and make a pie out of it. Anywho the pies were made at my mom’s house and will be delivered to Aunt Mir asap.
OK, what else? Oh yeah, I went to Vegas for the first time and was actually “cooled.” Meaning I hit like 8 or 13 or some number of hands in a row on a black jack table, (NOTYC) and the dealer started asking…”Do you have a feeling? What are you doing?” No, it was just pure dumb luck. My strategy? Hit up to 12. Hold on 13. Hit 14. Hold 15 and above. I cashed out and walked away with a cool $12 profit. That is dollars people. Oh yes, read em and weep. 12 smackeroonies…I guess they’ll be writing the next “Bringing down the House” book about a poor little googley eyed freakish boy who, from his humble beginnings in Brooklyn, to his monthly poker game in New Providence (where he routinely gets slaughtered and must “Buy back in” 3 or 4 times) to his first trip to Vegas, getting “cooled” at the Planet Hollywood, became a hero, became a legend, became a man…
Until next time - Happy Easter and in advance, Merry Christmas…and of course…Let’s Go Mets!!!
