The only bad part to the day was I had planned on taking in the free movie at Schenley Park. Every summer they show free movies on Sundays and Wednesdays, weather permitting and the movie that was scheduled on my birthday was Iron Man 3. Now I saw IM3 at the theater when it first came out, it was a decent enough movie (though they really made The Mandarin kind of shitty) but I though for free and as an excuse to getting out of the house, well it wouldn't be a bad way to cap off turning 45, or as I call it, halfway to death.
But then I was late getting out of the casino, I still had to go to the store formerly known as Gus Millers to get their cigarette order that had to be put in today and I would have had to run home and drop my laptop and iPad off as I had left them at work to be picked up on my way home from the casino, so the chance I would get everything done and get to the park on time for he start of the movie was problematic at best. Worse, as I was leaving the casino and getting off the subway downtown I saw some flashes of light to the north. At first I though maybe someone had hit a homerun in the Pirates - Reds game taking place at that time, they shoot fireworks off when someone from the home team does that, but there was no followup bang, so it wasn't fireworks. And then the flashes started becoming more common, lightning flashing in the distance and the light bouncing off of the buildings downtown, it almost looked like someone had a giant police cruiser light in the sky it was happening so often.
So I catch my bus to head back to Oakland and on the bus I decide that if there is a storm coming (and it was certain at that point, it still could pass north of the city, which is where most of the flashes were) I don't want to be caught in the park in the middle of a movie that I had already seen. Free movie or not, my desire to get caught in a storm was not strong enough, so I just decided to grab the cigarette order and come home instead. Good thing I did, because shortly after I got home, what would have been about an hour into the movie, this type of thing started happening
It probably was like this for a good 45 minutes or so outside, I rushed through my last blog entry, hoping the power would stay on long enough that I could post before midnight (obviously it did) and while I was just waiting the storm out at home I hopped over to my email. I have already gotten quite a few freebies from different companies during my birthday month and I knew one of the websites I use, Swagbucks, gives out 50 bucks for your birthday but I hadn't received mine, so I wanted to see if there was an email I had to reply to or acknowledge in order to get that as well and sure enough it was sitting there waiting for me, which put me over the 450 bucks needed to order another $5 Amazon gift card.
There was another couple of emails there as well, one from Camel cigarettes which just said Happy Birthday, enjoy your cancer or some such foolishness and one from Marlboro cigarettes, where, along with wishing me a happy birthday and cowboy themed cancer enjoyment, there was a birthday present as well, two free movie tickets. So while I missed a free movie, I get to replace it with two others, and ones I haven't seen to boot. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. There was also card in my mailbox from my mom, who once again went overboard, especially with the issues they have been having, I was just happy with her and I talking on the phone two days prior.
So tomorrow night it looks like birthday week continues with a free burger from Red Robin and going to see the X-Men movie for free as well. This week isn't turning out half bad.
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