I have done a pretty good job this year about not eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In past years, there have been countless times where I will get to dinner on Friday and realize I had meat for lunch that day. Then it becomes a paradox. Does the day count since I had meat earlier? Can my meat violation be erased by a subsequent adherence to the rules? Can I not eat meat the next day for breakfast and that will count as a 24 hour period of no meat starting on a Friday? Organized religion left far more loopholes in this than God likely intended. But that's not exclusive to Lent either.
My curiosity on the matter lead me to get some background on the subject. Today is Saturday and meat will be on the menu.
Gretchen and Riham, her maid-of-honor-to-be, are spending the weekend in Atlantic City. It is kind of her Gretchenpalooza. So it is just me and Olive (the dog) for a couple of days. I am teaching her to play Black Jack. I am completely serious.
In NYC, we are getting the first nice weather weekend of 2009. But I have to admit, it would be to be walking the boardwalk in Atlantic City.
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ReplyDeleteTeaching Olive blackjack? Ha ha ha. Something tells me that Olive will have a good poker face.
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