My first session back felt like more of the same - I was down 4 buy-ins after a few hours.  But I ended up 3 buy-ins.  It doesn't sound like much, but any reasonably up day is a moral victory at this point.

WHAT'S FOR DINNER

Our first dinner back, and we had something simple.  Mrs. Fly usually spends like 30-45 minutes making dinner.  But this is probably one of the easiest meals for her to prepare.  Pasta sauce freezes pretty well, so she makes a huge batch of her sauce and freezes it in plastic containers, and whenever she doesn't feel like "cooking," she heats up the sauce and throws some pasta in boiling water, and presto! a quick meal.

It's Mrs. Fly's sausage bolognese sauce.  I have a "rule" in the house where I don't want to see any pasta in my bowl/plate.  That is, there has to be enough sauce to cover all the pasta.  I see little bits of uncovered pasta around the edges, but I'll let it go this time, since we had a tiring week.

DoubleFly's Law of Pasta:
   when the amount of sauce > pasta then it's a meal
   when the amount of pasta > sauce then it's a side dish

So on our fourth or fifth date, Mrs. Fly offers to make me dinner.  I show up super hungry and she makes her pasta with white clam sauce.  Mrs. Fly looooves pasta - like I think she can eat it just tossed in some herbs and oil.  I don't think I had ever seen so few clams on such a huge pile of pasta before.  So I'm sitting there eating it and eventually I realize she may be serving dinner Italian style - where there's a pasta course and then the entree.  After I convince myself that this must be the case, I happily scarf down the pasta and eagerly await the next course.  There was no next course.

I suppose I could have lied about about it and told her I had a great meal, but I decided that if I'm going to have a long term relationship with this woman, I need to tell her about DoubleFly's Law of Pasta, and more importantly:

DoubleFly's Law of Dead Animal
  it's not a meal unless there is at least 8 ozs of dead animal