Going Pro

No no it is not Tyler that I am talking about, although his mother has done a fine job teaching him how to hit a baseball. This is about my uncle Allie. *misty wavy flashback* Nah that's just stupid. Anyway, when I was a kid my uncles always brought us places. Mostly to arcades, but a bunch of other places too. My uncle Allie has been a bowling enthusiast for, well as long as I can remember. He was unable to make it to Tyler's birthday party because he had a "bowling thing". Well that bowling thing was the city championship. He won it. It paid like 1500 dollars, not bad for 3 strings. So as the city champ he goes to the state championship. Should he win there he has an invite to bowl in the PBA. I hope he can pull it off because he really deserves it.
Another going pro story for you all today. My brother lives in friggin' Omaha. But the story is not about moving to Nebraska when you are in a rut. He drives across the Iowa border and hits the casinos when he has time and a few bucks to spare. It started out once a month or so. And he won often. Then he started going on Tuesday nights. He won most weeks, 5 of 6 or something silly like that. Last week he went on Tuesday night like usual, he won about $500. Then he went Thursday night and won $2000. He was kind enough to snap a shot of the slot machine and pixmsg it to me. So he was out with his girlfriend on Saturday and they hit the casino after dinner, $225. I told him that if he wasn't winning so much I might think he had a gambling problem. At work last night (Tuesday) he sent me another pixmsg......"Just won $1200" Are you kidding me? Who is that lucky? My brother that's who, because while he was waiting for the paperwork and to get paid, he hit for another $4000. So my question is at what point do you quit your day job and go pro? Also, is there such a thing as a professional slot machiner? I think he should have his business cards changed to T.C. Nguyen Professional Slot Machiner no matter what.

On Spelling and Grammar

So I have my email do an automatic spell check, not that my spelling is terrible, but because my typing is sub par. Anyway, I was wondering why there isn't an option to ignore something permanently? I mean EVERY time I send an email I have to "ignore" the fact that I mis-spell the word Tan at the end of my emails. For some reason I always want to spell it Tuan. Curious I know. But today I was annoyed at the spell check function. It claimed that I was incorrect with my spelling of the word "grey". I think I will get some support here, but if you think I am not correct I will just let you know now that you would be mistaken. Anyway, it made me think of all of the other words that I spell the correct way, but am corrected by the computer or smarty people. Light is the only correct spelling of the word. It is light yogurt, light salad dressing, and light (as in "Turn on the light I can't see a thing."). The word "lite" is a marketing gimmick that has only served to dumb down the population. Proof of this is how mis-spelling words for convenience or just for the sake of being different has taken over the internets and text message world. i dnt thnk n e 1 wnts 2 hv 2 reed stf lyk dis. Imagine the first book written in speed type. I mean it will save on printing costs and time, so u no itll hapn. And then where do we go? Stop teaching spelling and grammar in school? Or teach the fakey language as an alternative to actual language much like "intelligent design" is making it's way into actual science class? Either way, spell check needs to recognise Tuan as the correct spelling of my name, grey as the correct spelling of grey, and stop accepting lite as correct for anything.