Those subjects keep raising their heads here in the Commonwealth.
Governor Rendell is proposing the legalization of video poker in all establishments that currently have liquor licenses in Pennsylvania. He is saying that the video poker machines are already here, why not make some money off of them?
Sounds reasonable.
But then there is the problem of mixing alcohol and gambling. We ran into the same situation a couple of years ago when he ok’d the casino’s to serve free alcohol to their patrons. That raised a shit storm of protest that quickly went away. Regardless, there is a concern with folks drinking and having the capability to flush their savings down the rabbit hole of instant winnings.
And lets make this clear. I like to play slot machines. I think that they are very entertaining. But I do know what I have to spend, and what I don’t have to spend. Not everyone has the capability to make those distinctions. And being drunk pretty much takes away your inhibitions, now doesn’t it?
So which side are you on?
Do you see the good that can come from the Commonwealth looking for ways to grab some of the cash that is already being spent out there? Or are you concerned with folks who don’t know when to say when?
With those questions in mind, keep it in the back of your head the numbers of folks out there driving around on suspended licenses because of drinking and driving.
I have heard this term for years, and never really thought much about it. We have friends who have “Family Rooms”, and we have friends who have “Sports Rooms”, but I don’t know if any of our friends have a “Man Cave”.
So I started looking around. Of course. And came across The Official Man Cave Site. And the wonders of having a place to do what you want as a guy unfold around you as you look at the pictures and read the articles. And of course I don’t have that kind of space to do what all you see when you look at the pics. I have the space of a small closet. Surrounded by mountains of stuff left over from moving here, there and everywhere before we moved into this house.
But it has gotten me thinking once again about a kegorator. You know, a refrigerator that has been converted into a keg dispenser. And I am stoked. Going to be on the look out for a cheap refrig that I can convert, because the conversion is the easy part. Find the frig, and the money to buy it are always where the plans go south.
It is always interesting to see how people end up on this page, and one of the main ones is a search from a song’s lyrics.
Flor-rida has a sampled tune out there that is called “You make my head spin”. I would post it, but youtube has taken it off. The song he sampled from was by a group called Dead or Alive. They recorded this song in the 80′s:
As a loyal cable viewer, MLW and I have had Comcast since the day we moved into our abode. And we have had no real complaints. Just the usual grousing about the rate increases, the channels that we don’t get, the reception on some of the channels that we like, the slowness of the internet, blah, blah, blah.
We are spoiled. Admittedly so. And then Verizon FIOS came to town and we get interested. We read all of the BAZILLION pieces of information that inundated us daily in our mail. We talked to friends who had made the switch, and then we talked to a guy who was selling the package door-to-door.
Ok, I actually shut the door in his face when he came round to sell it. I am friendly that way. But I thought better of it, and when I saw him in the neighborhood later that afternoon, I went out and apologized for being an ass and invited him in.
Yes, I apologized. Make a note of this, because it doesn’t happen every day.
We jumped on the Verizon bandwagon. Ok. They bought me with $150 in cash, and a year of free stuff. Go figure, I am a “stuff” whore. Which brings us to today. I have a tech stringing line, and doing stuff to the back of my house, and to my “Box”.
I am not feeling it.
What I am feeling is that good feeling that you get knowing that every TV in my house is going to be able to watch whatever the heck you want to watch on them. Though I have my reservations about The Princess having access to Pay-Per-View available to her. As she hasn’t gotten the concept of who is ACTUALLY PAYING FOR HER PAY-PER-VIEW as of yet. But what ev’s, you know?
So we will see as the day progresses as to how good a feeling I have. Right now, I am without telephone. Big deal, I don’t answer it during the day anyway.
