The Ants (Flik and Atta) invited us over (and a few other families) to dinner on Sunday.  It's so nice being invited over for good food and drinks - lately we seem to be invited over a lot more than having people over, but you go thru those cycles.  They're both doctors and they don't really cook, but you don't have to be a great cook to have good food.  For appetizers, they had prosciutto, cheese, crudite, and assorted frozen appetizers that they tossed in the oven (pigs in a blanket, tacquitos, mini quiche, etc).  Mrs. Fly bought her "famous" rice (c'mon!  it's just rice!) and the pregnant lady brought salad.  The Ants grilled vegetables, swordfish and beef tenderloin.  If you have good ingredients, you really don't need to do anything fancy - it just ends up that way.

Someone brought a massive bowl of fruit salad.  Another couple brought tons of dessert - assorted pastries from a nearby bakery and homemade rice krispy treats.  The rice krispy treats looked a little out-of-place next to the fancy pastries, but c'mon, you have to be a communist not to like them.

I basically got hammered off of all of Flik's cocktails.  So when I got home, I was in no condition to play.  But being a doofus, I played anyway and got hammered for another 5 buy-ins.  GG me.  I had taken a nap earlier in the day, and even tho I was somewhat inebriated, I wasn't sleepy, so I decided to put in some hours to get my Rush week bonus.  Lost $2K at the tables to make $250 in bonus.  As Kevin Costner said in Dances with Wolves, "Good trade."  Moron!

JOKE

Patient: Doctor, if I give up fatty foods, wine, and women, will I live longer?

Doctor: Not really. It will just seem longer.