So I'm flipping through the channels this morning because I'm awake even though I'd rather be sleeping but with a baby and a puppy that just wasn't going to be happening. And yes, both of them are now asleep.
Anyway, I'm channel surfing and come across Rocky III, the one before Rocky saves the earth by boxing the alien grand champion. Its the scene were Paulie, drunk as usual, gets in a fight with the Rock. After a little while, they stop and Paulie gets to the meat of his reason for seeing Rocky, he wants a job. Rocky tells him that all he's gotta do is ask. And they're walking back to Rocky's car, a sweet looking Jaguar, I think. Paulie comments that its a nice car and Rocky says, "Yeah, cost a few bucks." And then Paulie gets the best line of the morning, "Got another one lying around?"
Gotta love shamelessness.
Had a good night last night, went to a really fun dinner party at some friend's house, took the hound, the baby and, of course, the wife and got to see the actual final end to Mike Tyson's career. It was a good fight and he looked sharp in the beginning but at 38, he was a stretch and once the fight got into the 4th round, the younger Brit boxer pretty well annihilated Tyson with a brutal barrage that cleaned Iron Mike's clock. He sat down against the ropes for most of the count and only towards the end could muster some motion back to his feet.
A good fight and it has to be the end of his career now.
And the dinner was awesome, four couples, two dogs and a baby. Lots of wine and beer and a hot tub and a hike up the hill behind the house with the mega searchlight (1.5 million rechargable candles in your hand, booya!) and even a Mango Cigar from Hawaii to go along with some of that famous and fabulous NorCal KGB.
My pal has a big fish tank that's he's been populating with caught fish from local areas, he's got three crayfish in there and one's been with him for about a year and a half and its well on its way to becoming a lobster, big sucker with big claws and a big tail to jet around with. Very cool and I love the tank. I need a bigger tank to let our fish spread out a bit.
The dessert was this amazing fruit tart with a scoop of blueberry sorbet on the side and it topped off a truly superb dinner that included marinated skirt steak (always guaranteed to get things off to a good start), grilled halibut with a bitchin' sauce, some shrimp, mushroom and asparagus pasta and what one guest, a gourmet in his own right, hailed as the best salad he's ever had, a baby spinach greens salad with candied pecans, fresh huge raspberries and, for some, gorgonzola cheese topped with either a raspberry vinagrette or another dressing that was awesome but my mind's a little blurry on it now.
A wonderful time was had by all and we didn't roll in until well after 1 this morning. Luckily the boy was a crash monkey almost through the night.
And it looks like Saturday is going to get off to a slow start and I am almost certainly napping later on today.
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