{"id":326,"date":"2005-05-01T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2005-05-01T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T01:20:07","slug":"saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian and I felt lazy yesterday so we didn’t dress up for dinner. Actually, we had to do some grocery shopping so we opted to go to dinner early and then shop at Sam’s Club<\/a> after. We initially planned on going to Carrabba’s<\/a> around 4 pm, but Nausicaa<\/a> ran longer than either of us expected. Brian, having already seen the movie when it first came out in the 80s, offered to just pause the movie and finish it when we return. However, I got so engrossed that I didn’t want it to be interrupted. So we had to watch it straight through. We finished the movie at about ten minutes until 5 pm which was perfect timing. Brian was starving and I don’t think he could’ve held off any longer. The nice thing is that we live only about five minutes from the restaurant (this is if you take K96, we prefer taking the freeway whenever we can). We had an Antipasti Platter (consisting of calamari, bruchette of the day and mozarella sticks – Carrabba’s<\/a> has the best mozarella sticks around these parts, I think), Brian had a Caesar salad, we shared the Chicken Gratella (the waitress messed up and got fettuccini alfredo instead of spaghetti pomodoro, so we ended up with both and had more pasta than we could eat) and tiramisu (the best tiramisu I’ve ever had; Brian had a couple of bites but I ate most of it). Even with my glass of sangria (Brian wouldn’t let me get a pitcher, lol) and Brian’s soda our bill only came to $34. With the $25 gift certificate that Lisa sent (Brian’s stalker friend) we only had to pay $16, tip included. That’s the cheapest we’ve ever spent there. It was awesome. Thanks, Lisa! After that we did shopped for groceries at Sam’s<\/a> and then went home. Jason and Amber came to pick us up at around 8:30 pm for the late poker session at Rose Bowl West. On the drive there, Jason filled us in about his recent trip to Bellingham. We also found out that he and Amber are both moving to Atlanta together in July. It will be really sad when they leave. Jason has become a really good friend of ours over the last few months and he’s become a fairly regular fixture in my blog stories. Poker was alright. It’s only the second time that we’ve ever played at Rose Bowl West. Most of the other players were unfamiliar to me, which suited me just fine because I play better against strangers. Brian took 9th and I took 3rd. Amber did really well for her first poker event. I felt sure she would take first place. That always happens because of the whole beginner’s luck thing. She still did really well though. I have this propensity for blurting out the most ridiculous, inappropriate statements at the most inopportune times and I had another such moment at poker. Right before the session began, Brian, Amber and I were chatting and I was telling Amber how “we ate on Lisa” earlier that day. After realizing what I just said, I had to elaborate that I meant we used the gift certificate that the crazy woman sent. Of course, that’s nothing compared to when I asked Brian to “eat my biscuit” while ordering food in line at KFC<\/a>. I don’t like biscuits and the food I wanted to order came with it. I just wanted to make sure that Brian would eat mine so it wouldn’t go to waste. Otherwise I’d other something else. That was the whole purpose of my question. Brian later explained to me that what I just said was the polite way of saying eat my pussy. I have a lot to learn when it comes to colloquialisms, I know. After poker we went to Wildfire Diner<\/a> (the website needs some work, but they’re local and not a national chain) to grub. Jason and Amber are night owls who like to eat late. I was still full from gorging myself at Carrabba’s<\/a> earlier that day, but I ended up ordering crispy bacon so that I wouldn’t be the only one not eating. The conversation was really great. I laughed so hard that I cried on several occasions. We all had a good time. While at the diner, Jason and Amber introduced us to a game they play called categories. Basically, you come up with a category and everyone goes around stating an item from that category until someone is stumped or says something that has already been said. That person loses and has to come up with the next category. It’s supposed to be a drinking game, but since Brian doesn’t drink the game had to be modified. We tracked our losses with packets of sugar. We eventually ran out of Equal packets and had to use Splenda. The game is pretty fun. Although, I think it would be tons more fun as a drinking game. I really sucked at, though. I lost with like 11 or 12 packets of sugar. Brian didn’t do that much better. Jason and Amber had an obvious advantage having played the game numerous times before. Anyway, Brian and I decided to play the categories on the way home from my parents’ house today. My parents live in Derby so we had a bit of time to play. I actually won the Mel Gibson movies category against Brian which is quite an accomplishment, considering he is a bigger movie buff than I am. I also almost won sci-fi movies category which really impressed the hell out of Brian. He thought that I would be stumped after three turns but we kept going for at least 15 turns. I lost when I said The Rocketeer<\/a> because Brian challenged that the movie didn’t belong in the sci-fi category. I argued that the technology didn’t exist in the era the story is set and therefore it is science fiction. Brian didn’t buy my argument and since he is more knowledgeable about the subject than I am, I relented. Although, I just checked the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) web site and confirmed that the movie is classified as sci-fi also (among other genres)<\/a> so I was right after all! Go me. I should’ve won that round, too! Speaking of challenges, we did Wichita apartment complexes as a category and Brian said Willowbend. I argued that the apartment complex is named Willow Creek and he insisted on being right and I insisted that we verify because I knew I was right. We actually had to take a slight detour before coming home. I was right, naturally. Ha! Ha! Ha! Too bad we didn’t make a wager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brian and I felt lazy yesterday so we didn’t dress up for dinner. Actually, we had to do some grocery shopping so we opted to go to dinner early and then shop at Sam’s Club after. We initially planned on going to Carrabba’s around 4 pm, but Nausicaa ran longer than either of us expected. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}