¡DANGER AHEAD!

With the weekend upon us temptation lurks at every turn.  I'll probably be going easy on posts until Sunday evening so here is what we can expect to hear about when we get back next week.

Mark will not be working for 3 days in a row and has plans to hit up Mohegan Sun on Saturday night.  Mohegan, as you probably suspect, is home to many fine dining establishments like Johnny Rockets Cafe, Big Bubba's BBQ, Krispy Kreme, and a Colony Grill rival: Pepe's Pizzeria.  I'm sure you also know, drinks are on the house for gamers.  This combination of free spirits and nearly limitless options for fast greasy food is sure to test the mettle of our subject.  Compound that with the fact that Buckley will not be driving tomorrow (he's currently in the market for a new car) so he is free to slug back as many cocktails as he can handle makes this trip to the Sun an even bigger gamble than it usually is.  Let's keep our fingers crossed that the kid doesn't crap out.

Here's another anecdote from our contributor, J-Rod, which Buckley may want to reflect on before suiting up for the poker tables:

From the desk of J-Rod:

"Buckley and Mr. Kevin Gaughan go to Foxwoods

 

July 4th weekend, a few years back, Buckley and Gaughan took a "money-making" trip up the casino to play some poker.  Extra strong cocktails are what buckley does best (or worst i guess).  Getting hammered at the tables is sometimes difficult though because the drinks come out rather slowly most of the time and you are limited to one drink at a time.  Buckley, being the clever drunk that he is, discovered a loophole in Foxwoods operation.  If you order a shot and a cocktail, they will let you take the shot first, then give you the other drink.  So Buckley decided to go with a shot of captain and a long island iced tea everytime the waitress came around.  This went on for hours.  

The rest of the story, as had been passed on by Gaughan, Buckley's poker wing man for the evening, is where it gets out of hand.  Gaughan claims he was "playing cards, sipping a drink or two", when he sees Buckley come stumbling out of the WOMENS restroom, no shoes on, with a garbage can on his head.  Apprently he stumbled over to Gaughan's table with security tailing behind him and said, "Come on, its kinda funny right?"  

Security did not think so.  Buckley was "asked" to leave the premises, but not without a sloppy struggle, and was probably saved a trip to jail by the WCSU Debate Team honed argumentative reasoning of Gaughan, who was sober enough to drove the two of them home (but not without a quick pit stop at Mohegan Sun).  Needless to say, Buckley wears his cap low to conceal his identity when he visits the indians up at Foxwoods to this day."

Take heed Buckley, you've grown a lot since then (pun intended) but the stakes are even higher these days.