Sex

Got our Jerry's fix yesterday. There was a little bit of a line in the hot sun, but the sno-cone payoff at the end was totally worth it. Also, it was amusing listening to the sno-cone "hipster" standing next to us while waiting for our goods. We both heard different parts of his monologue. Mary Beth heard him saying back in the day it didn't used to be so crowded and there'd only be three people there. I heard him saying two things that were even better. First: that italian ice is far superior to sno-cones and that sno-cones have no reason to exist in a world with italian ice. Second: that Jerry's wasn't the first place to put ice cream in sno-cones and you can get that at Sonic. Oh yeah, and yesterday I finished reading Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo. It was pretty good, but not nearly as good as White Noise (the other book of his I've read). Actually, it alternately had its moments of being great and its moments where it seemed forced. Anyway, in the evening we went to Slider Inn for sex trivia. We thought it started at 7, but it actually started at 8. It was good we got there when we did though, 'cuz we were still barely able to get a table. Oh by the way, we totally WON first place! Just me and Mary Beth (team name: Sploosh Guard). I guess it's been going on for six weeks and there's teams that have been playing a while and such, well, just our first time our score made it onto the leaderboard. We started off sure we were gonna lose pretty bad, but then he announced the scores before the halftime bonus round and we were tied for first place (with The Cunstables, the team that has the overall leading score, predictably enough). Then, just before the final bonus round we were down to second place by two points (it was 61 to 59 at this point). Well, the final bonus round was a literary question (pretty simple, just list the following books in order of publication: "Arabian Nights," Dangerous Liaisons, Venus in Furs, and The Joy of Sex). You're able to bet up to 35 points (but in this round you lose points if you get it wrong). With much confidence in our choices, we bet it all and shot to first place by a landslade. We won a $50 gift certificate to Slider Inn. Everyone seemed impressed, because we were first timers and I guess our score was atypically huge. Over a third of it came from that one question though. It was pretty awesome winning something, especially something so unexpected. Though, for the most part, the question difficulty level seemed pretty easy. We did get a few points with some fancy guesswork. Anyway, dropped my car off at the shop this morning 'cuz the check engine light was on. We actually slept past the alarm and just happened to wake up 15 minutes before the appointment time. Rush to just throw clothes on and drop it off. The engine light wasn't really signalled by anything, though there were a few minor things they saw when looking that need some attention so I still gotta spend a good bit of money. Still up there.