If I had to choose…

… my favorite day out of the year, it would probably be the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

16 Comments

  1. ma ma j
    Posted November 27, 2005 at 9:25 am | Permalink

    Me too. Why would you choose it?

  2. Posted November 27, 2005 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

    Your only saying that because you won 30 bucks! :)

  3. Dan
    Posted November 27, 2005 at 9:15 pm | Permalink

    $40

  4. Dan
    Posted November 27, 2005 at 9:16 pm | Permalink

    You even won with your fist on your cheek and the bouncy-bouncy?

    I thought it was $40.

  5. Posted November 27, 2005 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Actually, it ended up being $35; nine people played ($5 each), but John didn’t have to pay, so $40 total, but then second place got their money back.

    And, BTW I guess those so-called tells on me didn’t help you much. :) I think you were just mad because I kept analyzing what you were doing at the beginning…

  6. nstryker
    Posted November 28, 2005 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    :-(

  7. Dan
    Posted November 28, 2005 at 12:12 pm | Permalink

    You won because I wanted to leave.

    The difference between you “calling” me out was you guessed. I knew, because you are obvious.

  8. Posted November 28, 2005 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

    Just keep telling yourself that, maybe it will make you feel better.

    I bounce my leg all the time; whether I’m playing poker or not, and the position of my hand was totally random. In addition, the (relatively few) times I was bluffing, no one ever called me enough for you to be able to tell when I had it and when I didn’t.

    If you really had that good of a read on me, then you would have taken more pots from me. I remember bluffing you on several hands that you didn’t call me on, and I don’t think that you ever won a really big pot that I was involved in, so I don’t think there’s much to back up your theory.

    The calls I was making on you were guesses, but they were based on stuff I was observing (and not stupid stuff like bouncing your leg or the position of your hand). I’m not saying I was always right (although I bet some of them were correct); I was mostly just doing it to put you on edge.

  9. Martha
    Posted November 28, 2005 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    So anyway…why is it your favorite day?

  10. Posted November 28, 2005 at 7:26 pm | Permalink

    Just getting together with everyone. Of course, playing poker was fun to, but I usually have fun playing whether I win or not.

  11. Posted November 28, 2005 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    Nathan, was that frown face above because you weren’t there? Sorry, I didn’t think to post about it on here beforehand, but you guys are hereby officially invited for the annual Saturday-after-thanksgiving get together, so mark it on your calendars now.

  12. nstryker
    Posted November 29, 2005 at 10:36 am | Permalink

    actually, if that’s the thing at randy and jacquie’s place, we got invited. we also completely forgot about it. :-(

  13. ma ma j
    Posted November 29, 2005 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

    Yeah. That’s the “thing”. It’s the gathering we call the “The Saturday after Thanksgiving at Randy and Jacquie’s”. If you don’t mind, we would appreciate the use of proper terminology.

  14. nstryker
    Posted November 29, 2005 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

    next year we will make all efforts to attend the saturday after thanksgiving at randy and jacquie’s…and probably fail.

  15. Martha
    Posted November 30, 2005 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

    Well, you should know you are missing out. There is laughter and tears and wine and poker and outburst and really hot fires so we have to open the doors and babies puking and video games and loud talking, but sadly, Santa’s train no longer visits. It is a day to remember.

  16. ma ma j
    Posted December 1, 2005 at 7:36 am | Permalink

    Maybe we can start and East Ventura campaign to get the train to come back!? I heard that the city is charging the train $350 per road crossing to come into Ventura.

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