This month is the month where I had to make the decision whether to go to New Jersey or Dallas for a tournament.

Unfortunately for you Dallas (and Texas) ladies, I decided to pick New Jersey, even though the Dallas tournament event would take place just after my birthday, I had decided earlier this year that I won't be going too far away on my birthday this year.

Sorry Dallas ladies, but you will have to wait!

Two days ago was the birthday of the father of the nation of India, Mohandes "Mahatma" Gandhi.

Gandhi is most known for his non-violent resistance to the then British rule of India until its independence, however, he is known to be a vegetarian.

And in India, on Gandhi's birthday, which is a national holiday, no meat or alcohol is sold or consumed on this day (by law, I believe) to honor his legacy.

So two days ago, I went without meat the entire...

After the renovations of last week and a not so leisurely vacation period of mine, it was back to the grind Monday.

And boy, did I realize that I should have taken one or two more vacation days, as by lunchtime today at work, my mood was practically like Gordon Ramsay's.

Basically in short, it was a combination of things that all hit in a short period today that put me at that point, as well as a few things from yesterday.

Of course, now I am not planning...

As some have noticed, I came back online yesterday, and the renovations were finished ahead of schedule on Wednesday instead of yesterday, which enabled me to spend Wednesday night moving back stuff and yesterday morning reconnecting stuff.

Of course, even tho I will be replacing the motherboard and hard drives of my computer soon, I removed a lot of dust inside the computer after unplugging everything the night before the renovation before moving it into a closet for temporary storage....

As final preps for my apartment getting renovated, the phone cord connecting my phone jack (DSL connection) and my computer will be disconnected and probably will stay so for around 72 hours.

Also, I am disconnecting all cables from the computer and storing the computer in a closet.

I will probably stay connected via an internet cafe during the renovation period.

It may be the weekend by the time I get reconnected at home, and even then I will be making...

I had taken two days of vacation from work last week, and on Day 1 of 2 of the vacation, I headed out for to a suburb on a very nice cool day.

I did go into a shop, and then for lunch, I treated myself to a nice picnic lunch outdoors, with a Lugano sub (a version of the Italian sandwich with Swiss cheese) bought from a deli inside a shop which sells imported Italian food items in the center of town.

Went back into town later in the day and eventually went to do my usual...

So my apartment will get renovated early next month, and as a result, a lot of changes will happen.

There is going to be some suckitude as at least 2 weekends will involve uncluttering as well as tossing away or moving away quite a bit of old stuff.

My desk will get replaced too apparently in that timeframe, and I will also upgrade my computer at the same time, which will knock me offline for around 10 days or so total.

The printer that I have had for...

So last night I was waiting @ Mohegan Sun for the bus back to Boston for nearly 2 hours because the bus broke down.

During that wait, an AF was in the Bus Lobby apparently sobbing to one of the Mohegan Sun employees telling her that her boyfriend just dumped her and left her there without a red cent and as a result she needed a ride back to NYC.

This is the first time I witnessed this, even though the casino has probably dealt with such a situation before.
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So, Friday night, I was playing a game of Monopoly...

Late in the game, I was down to myself and one opponent after beginning the game as a four player game using official rules.

After I had landed on one of his Yellow properties with three houses on it a few turns back of that point, I went through at least 3 runs across the board without landing on one of his Yellow properties, eventually winning when he landed on New York Avenue with 4 houses and conceding the game to...

So, I decided to have a very late supper (that is, 11pm at night or so) this past Saturday, so I went to a place into the Prudential.

An indirect result of having this late supper...I had to rush to the metro/subway for the last train (at 12:30am) and I missed it by about 3 minutes, so given with that rain, I decided to stroll across a couple of blocks for the bus which would have arrived 15 minutes later on a normal night.

However, I waited past 1:00am and only heard from...