Well....I'm back

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Got to New Orleans late Wednesday-around 8:30. Checked in with duffle and Ice Chest full of beer and a bottle of scotch. Went to the Casino and some cow sitting next to me calls a $100 bet into a $200 pot drawing to an inside straight against my middle set and catches the damn thing on the river. so it's starting off on a good foot. Go back to the hotel and drink scotch ans watch TV.
Thursday night the seminar gets out at 8, so I go people watching on Bourbon. Hot, muggy, the ground is sticky, you can smell that stench of rotten garbage, stale vomit and cigarettes mingled in with the occasional waft of cheap hooker perfume-I'm back home again Wind up at the old absinth House and have a rip snorting hangover for Friday.
Wife comes in Friday night-go to Pat O'Briens for old times sake and then to The Bourbon House for some Oysters Rockefeller and a wonderful fresh tuna tasting plate. Wife has a lump crabmeat stuffed drum-I have really forgotten just how good New Orleans food is and the Brennan family really does it right.
Saturday I finish up the seminar check out and go out to the lakefront to the club for margaritas and fried seafood.
Oh yea.....also went to a seminar.
Of course had I known that there was a ceiling on the parking and meal reimbursements-I wouldn't have had hot and cold running valets parking the suburban and carrying up my ice chest to my room-nor would I have ordered so lavishly at the resturants-oh well it was still all good.
Some observations:
It's either me becoming more discerning (read older) or something in the water because the strip seemed a bit skankier than I remembered (ditto for the hookers).
People watching is still the best part!
Music is still first rate.
I still won't eat a lucky dog
They still have the "go cup" I grew up with.
I need to be aware of bathroom locations a it more now than at age 25-peeing in a corner is no longer an option.
Momma won't go into Larry Flint's club with me-nor will she let me just take a peek inside. (course I told her that I stayed in my room Wed & Thurs night and studied for the seminar)


Well back to the real world-the kool-aide from the seminar now pretty much cleansed from my system.

And you know what?????? I made a withdrawal from my account today and the balance after withdrawal was $4,473.
Is that God's way of telling me to buy a gun or what??????????

 

[red14]

Yes, it's God's will. Actually, you are also supposed
to buy me one too.

Not my idea, it's the Lord's work.

 

[BarbC]

Got beads?

Sounds like the good time are still rolling.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Got beads?

Sounds like the good time are still rolling.

No beads-the wife just wouldn't lift her shirt
But I will add that if you are going to the quarter and are of the female persuasion do not lean on the balcony railing watching people while wearing those cure little sundresses-I had forgotten about that little perk

 

[Trooperdan]

Ditto on the smell.. never could figure out why the city doesn't put a couple of porto-lets every block!

 

[rburg]

could figure out why the city doesn't put a couple of porto-lets every block!

Just on the porta-potty issue....

We (really my wife) just built a new house. These days all construction sites must have one. The house went up fast, and the construction workers began using the indoor plumbing as soon as it was working. I certainly had no objection.

But the outdoor john was still there even after we moved in. And the stupid company that services it was on a schedule, every Monday, and they'd backup to it and somehow leave the reverse beeper on the entire time, waking up the neighborhood. I asked the construction supervisor why they kept servicing it since the construction jobs were basically finished. He said it was full, and besides, the enforcers (code enforcement) required it. I was confused, but these days I'm easily confused.

So I was talking to my neighbor on the side street (where the blue thing was located.) He laughed. Said I was providing toilet facilities to dozens of walkers everyday. We get a lot of foot traffic out front, and they were making a left and using my porta-let! OK, its gone now, so I suspect they're taking their relief on my fences?

 

[bettis1]

Caj,

Thanks for awakening old memories. I used to make it to the Big Easy at least once a year but haven't been there since the big blow. Time to go back. You're right about the food. Did you have any barbeque shrimp at Pasqual Manales in the Garden District? None better anywhere in the world!

Bob

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Caj,

Thanks for awakening old memories. I used to make it to the Big Easy at least once a year but haven't been there since the big blow. Time to go back. You're right about the food. Did you have any barbeque shrimp at Pasqual Manales in the Garden District? None better anywhere in the world!

Bob

Have not been to Manales in years! Rather than the bar b qued shrimp-google "Drago's" and get the recipie for their char broiled oysters-I guatantee they will make you forget about the shrimp
I am an oyster maniac-If you are in town try the Bourbon house and get the Trio-4 Oysters Rockefeller, 4 Oysters Bienville and 4 Oysters Fonseca you will think you have died and gone to heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!! (as your attorney-I advise you to go ahead and double the order-that way they will be there for you )

 

[charlie sherrill]

If you didn't make it to the gun show you didn't miss much. Joe did pick up a nice P&R 2 1/2" mod. 19 though. The smoked turkey and andoie (sp?) gumbo he made was excellent as usual.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Hey, I'll betcha ten dollas I can tell you where you got yo shoes!