Poker and Dinner
Well, my poker game needs work.

Jen and I helped Luke celebrate his birthday (and practical doctorate) at Crown. Sefie had organised a poker table and dinner. The dealer took us through the basics of the game - and I tried to jam as much as possible into my head, but I'd say it was pretty tenuous. That said, I had a lot of fun playing as recklessly as I thought I could - and winning quite a lot of fake money before quickly loosing it and leaving the game to the more conservative players.

Jen had sat out of the first game, but joined the second with repeated claim she had no idea how to play. She then proceeded to build one of the biggest fortunes of the night.

The place Sefie had booked for dinner, Georges Pizza Pasta Grill, hadn't bothered to reserve the tables. They made us stand about for half an hour while waiting for enough people to leave that they could find the tables. Not particularly impressive service. The food took a further hour to begin arriving, and some had finished by the time the last of us got our meals.

But the conversation was good, and the night was quite enjoyable.