"Do you have 30 seconds for the oil spill?" "No, I hate the oil spill!"

I was so happy to be home!  MereCal and I went to the Drag and looked around the shops and did girly stuff.  Then we got ready for bar tab night!  So here's the thing - during the 10 week trivia tournament, there was a cumulative count - so whichever team had the most points at the end of 10 weeks won a $300 bar tab.  TToA had their sights on this prize, and won.  Unfortunately, I was in Dallas and had little to do with this win...but I was there for 1 of the weeks!  During the tourney, the bar (I won't name names) changed ownership and I guess the previous owners forgot to tell the new owners about this agreement.  So Duffy, our friend and trivia host, was trying to arrange our bar tab.  First they said No b/c the World Cup was on (which we had a field day with, b/c the WC games were on in the morning and we wanted to come in that evening...and the bar was empty), then they didn't want to do it at all b/c it wasn't their agreement, so Duffy negotiated $200.  Most people wouldn't complain about $200, but you have to consider: we're some of their most loyal customers and they're trying to screw us over.  So we get to the bar, and we ask to meet the manager, tell him thank you, etc.  He comes over like 10 minutes later and clearly just wants to get away from us... doesn't make eye contact and tries to dash off ASAP.  As he's walking off, Mark is like, "Hey, by the way, we were told $300, what happened?" and he's like, "Well, uh, it was supposed to be $250 but Duffy said $200...I can do $250 if you want."  - Whatever, we take the $250 b/c that's not bad. Plus we had a $20 gift card frp, trivia another week.  We ordered food and drinks and were there for several hours having fun.  The manager made fun of us b/c we were there so long and hadn't spent our whole tab, but he didn't realize we were playing it smart.  See, we discovered that Lonestars were $2, so we ordered like 40 of those.  Total bill: $272.40.  Woohoo!

During the evening, someone in our group stole mustard and may have eaten it from the bottle (which is about the grossest thing I can think of), and then someone else in the group stole that mustard from the first person and also ate it from the bottle.  Double gross.  We also ended up at Mean Eyed Cat with Duffy, and drank Boone's - yay!  At the very end of the night we went to Donn's, because Jerry Jeff Walker was like 1 table away - so cool!  Made home about 2 - of course it was only like 12 to my body, but still pretty good for me ;)

^ Making fun of the fact that it says "open early for the world cup"