Week 4 was pretty good, altho the last day or two felt a bit like a struggle.  I've noticed that I've been a tad bit spewy in my efforts to be aggressive.  Since I've been a nit so long, I think it'll take a little while for me to pick my spots better.

I had fallen as low as 22nd on the rake race, so I need to grind hard the rest of the month to get top #17.  It's going to be pretty close as to whether I'm going to make it - I won't be able to play this weekend because of G's birthday.  But 25K hands in a week is pretty respectable, especially considering it's only 4 days of play this week.  Rush is making it easy to put in a lot of hands.

WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?

One of the things I really miss about living in Manhattan is the ability to get good pastrami (and corned beef, tongue, brisket, etc).  At a "real" NY deli, you can get a pound of unbelievably succulent meat between two slices of bread - a man's sandwich that's well worth the $17 price tag.  The "NY style delis" around here are very meh.  They make their own corned beef and pastrami, but it's not that great.  The vacuum packed corned beef you get at the supermarket tastes just as good - but not as buttery as in NYC.  Ditto for the pastrami.

So when we went to Stew Leonard (the farmer's market-like local supermarket), they were advertising "Brooklyn style pastrami."  Since I hadn't had pastrami in months, I thought we should give it a try.  This was super-meh.  Kinda made the local delis look like NYC delis.  But it still kicked the sh*t out of Boar's Head pastrami.  Still have no idea what mystery meat that is.  A bigger mystery is how supermarket deli meat is so common when it tastes like crap.

Anyway, Mrs. Fly put these on hot dog buns (because we didn't have any rye in the house) and she served it with some leftover mac + cheese.  Kind of a busto pastrami sandwich, but it sure beats bologna!