Home again home again, rigga-jig-jig!

If anybody can I.D. the movie where that phrase is from, I'll be impressed.

I've done a lot of living in the last two days, and have got enough material to last for a weeks worth of posts...so let's get started.

To preface this tale, I'd like to say that my moniker here at Fjord is NOT the name I walk around with during my normal business hours. Like any superhero-esque character, I have a secret identity, that I guard with numerous defenses in order to lead a reasonably normal life, when not writing hard-hitting reports for our little publication.

So, I show up in the casino, and after getting vaccumed at pi-gow, I meander over to the craps table. After playing a few rounds, I started becoming enmeshed with a particular croupier's banter. He was a non-stop stream of stories, advice, jokes and information. Everybody at the table called him "Doc." His best one was, "The less you bet-the more you loose when you win." Sound advice, my friendly Fjordlings, sound advice. The dice got passed over to me, and right off, out of the six shoved my way, I saw the two little red cubes I wanted to throw. They stood out from the others like they were lit with neon. I picked 'em up and proceeded to work the table.

Now to be honest, I've gambled quite a bit. I've lost a lot of money gambling, a lot more than I've won anyways. That doesn't mean I haven't had a few moments of stupendous personal victorious glory...but this passed all that.

I was telling this story the next day, and I stopped and double checked with the guy who was with me then, just to make sure I wasn't bragging too much. "Was it twenty minutes I was rolling, or was it thirty? 'Cause it felt like thirty." "No." He said, "It was thirty."

So anyways, after winning enough to make up my losses with super-duper conservative betting, and about 25 minutes in, "Doc" pushes the dice back over to me, and says, "You've got a really nice throwing style. It's smooth and easy. It reminds me of the Hawiians, it's so smooth and natural, you'd think they were throwing dice before they were walking." Of course I thanked him for the compliment, and then he said really loud, to the fifteen people around the table, "And this guy!" Looking at me, "He's hitting this table like a Tsunami!"

I smiled one of those secret, inside smiles, and thought, "Man, you don't know how right you are."

Hope you're all on a roll, cause it's the goddamn weekend.
Happy Friday.