Free day!

I was back amongst my family in the Albany/Troy area this past weekend for an anniversary party (my aunt and uncle - 25 years without injuring each other!). Saturday ended up being "free day" for me. Here's the dish - I was having dinner with Ben at Holmes and Watson in downtown Troy (if you've never been there, I highly recommend it - satisfying food named after Sherlock Holmes stories and an insane number of draft beers). Apparently, the cooks had prepared the wrong sandwich for me, but the waitress caught it before bringing it to me. She apologized for the delay (which didn't really bother me), and gave me my second beer on the house. Nice! Then Ben and I went to a baseball game. As we were walking in from the parking lot, some people asked us if we would like some free tickets to the game, courtesy of the local National Guard post. We gladly accepted them, on the condition that we wouldn't have to enlist. Score! Then, at the game, I got up to go to the concessions stand (helmet sundaes - gotta love them). I saw something on the ground, and stopped to examine it - it was a folded-up $20 bill. No one appeared to be looking for it, so it became a matter of finders keepers. Frickin' sweet!

I am still waiting for nubile young females to fall from the sky into my lap.