Superbowl XXLVMCXIII-whatever

Well another Superbowl has come and gone and once again I lost money! I think the only year I've ever won money betting on this game was in 2002 when the Patriots beat the Rams. It's been all downhill from there. This year, wisely, I didn't have very much action on the game. I had $105 on the Steelers to cover the spread of 7. That was actually looking OK for a while but once the 2nd half began it went to hell pretty quickly. The only other bets I had were four $10 parlays where I took 5 selections and had to win all 5 in order to get a payout of $200. I came within 1 pick on one of them, but I lost because I had the Steelers -7 on that one. So close!

Despite my losses it was a great game and fun to watch....

Speaking of drains on my bank account, I got a speeding ticket the other night. The funny thing is how it happened. I was sitting in the Taco Bell drive-thru waiting for my food and I noticed that there were 3 seperate cars that had been pulled over on the street in front of me. It was pretty obvious that the police were running a speeding crackdown on this street. When I got my food and pulled onto the street to drive home I saw two more cars pulled over! I started driving home, thinking how important it was not to speed on this road. Next thing I knew, I looked in my rear view and I was being pulled over by a motorcycle cop. He gave me a ticket for going 48 in a 35 zone. Wow....... part of me is mad at myself for being so stupid, but then again, I didn't feel like I was speeding. Technically I was, but when you are going 48 it doesn't feel like you are going fast. I didn't even know the street's speed limit was 35 either. I never noticed.

Luckily here in Vegas you can take traffic tickets to an attorney's office and they will go to court and get it reduced to a parking ticket for you. I did that today. In a few weeks I'll hear back from them and they'll tell me what I have to pay. Whatever it is, I'm sure it will be less than the $300 I would normally have to pay, and I won't get points on my record.............