Tuesday

Slept in. Got up and prepared to ship some cups. Farted around the house, watched the end of "Deal Of The Century" Staring Chevy Chase and Gregory Hines as arms dealers. Strange, after just seeing Lord of War about arms dealers. Coincidence. . . . ?

When Buster got home from school, we went to the bank, (I got a $400 money order to send in for part of my child support), Dropped off the cups at the post office. Then we went to Schmitz Park to take a walk. 2nd day in a row! I love walking and talking with my boy. He's a great kid and he's doing great. . . that makes me very happy. I love being a father and can't wait to start seeing my other 3 kids more!

This evening I attended my second parenting class. This week we watched old Brady Bunch Episodes and discussed Freudian overtones in TV parenting as it relates to our children in 2005. Fascinating discussions in lieu of lashing out with an argumentative attitude and a bloody lip.

After the class, I got home and jumped into the Tuesday night session, already in progress. The guys were discussing various handlings for Dr. Daley's Last Trick. A great trick, and one of my "6 tricks" that I know. Later in the evening I performed the effect as an impersonation of Dr. Daley.

Had a good time. We all did a bunch of tricks, couple of round robins. I did Paul LePaul's Gymnastic Aces. We discussed the faro shuffle (that's what gave me the idea to do Gymnastic Aces), we talked about the 4 and 8 handed faro poker deals. Steve took it a step further, instead of stacking the 4 aces, do a royal flush instead. Because of it's binary nature and properties, adding another card is no big deal. After 3 faro's there's still 7 cards between each card from the royal flush. Good thinking Steve!

Scotty hung around after everyone else had left and stayed for another cigar and a cocktail. We talked more magic and watched some video footage of some European Buskers I shot back in 1991. Scotty is off on a European Adventure next week. He'll be flying in to Paris (I think) and looking for places to street perform. Good Luck my friend, I know you'll do great!