Wheel of Fortune

Last Tuesday, I convinced the roomie to take the day off work and join me in a shopping-furniture-hunting-trying-out-for-wheel-of-fortune-extravaganza.

On the shopping front, she had more luck than I did, though I did buy a new watch.

Furniture-wise, I found a table for what I'll generously call my dining room. It's a pub table with six chairs, dark cherry in color. I'll be getting it on August 11th, so that means I'll be one step closer to maybe actually having a housewarming.

After all that, we met up with Joe & Susan at the Emerald Queen Casino to try out for Wheel of Fortune. On the way there, we passed by a restaurant with the oddest name:



That's right: "Poodle Dog" (and underneath, "Good Food"). If you look at the sign, you'll see there's also something called the "Pup Room" attached. Bizarre...

Anyway, we get to the EQC and there were probably 600 people waiting to try out:



The way it worked was you filled out a form, then five people at a time were randomly picked to go on stage and play a mini version of WoF (pick a letter, if it's up there, you have 3 seconds to solve or it goes to the next player).

None of us were picked to try out, though they may still pick your name later if your application seems interesting. Funny enough, my accountant, Otto Chase, was picked and he got to try out:



He ended up winning the mini game, so I hope he gets to go all the way through and play on the Wheel.

Afterwards, we hit Harmon’s pub in Tacoma - the food wasn't all that great (dessert was good), but it was fun hanging out with Joe & Susan. Then we drove home and that was that...