Anthony gave me the fingerling

I don't know much about fancy food terms.  If you say 'cheeseburger', I know what that is.  French fries?  I know that as well.

Fingerling is a new one to me.  Anthony offered to make dinner last night and he told me the menu would be mushrooms stuffed with sausage and cheese and fingerling potatoes.

My imagination was working overtime.  All I knew is that if the fingerling potatoes had fingernails I was going to have a difficult time choking them down regardless of how they were prepared.

Turns out fingerling potatoes are just potatoes sliced into wedges.  It will remain a mystery why these were named fingerlings instead of wedges.  I've learned not to ask because I won't understand the answer anyway.

The meal was delicious.  There was a chicken breast in there somehow that didn't get eaten and made it into the leftover container.  At least the leftover fingerling potatoes won't be lonely in the refrigerator.

Leftover chicken and fingerling potatoes.
I think the potato on the left is giving me the fingerling.

The lost wallet of Brian Bennett

I was walking Lucky tonight around the apartment complex (Ridgepointe) and on the northwest corner of the complex Lucky stopped to sniff something on the sidewalk.  It turned out to be a wallet.

I wondered if it was garbage or if it actually had someone's stuff inside of it.  I don't like looking inside of someone's lost item like that because sometimes people are funny.  Knowing how my luck works I'd find a lost wallet, return it being completely honest, and then get accused of stealing stuff from it.  Then, if my luck would continue, I'd get arrested, sent to prison, and get rich writing a book about it.  Right when I'd get my first fat royalty check I'd have a heart attack and die.  I'd just like to return the lost wallet without all that.

I took a peek inside and it seemed like it was freshly lost.  There is an I.D. inside that had the complex's address and an apartment near mine on the other side of the complex from where I found it.

I located the apartment, knocked on the door, and a feeble woman's voice on the other side of the door said "who is it?"  I explained through the door that I had found a lost wallet belonging to a guy named Brian and it had her apartment number on it and asked if he lived there.  She said "No, I'm sorry."  I hope I didn't scare the poor lady.  I was just trying to return the wallet.

I know its dangerous to start knocking on random doors after dark near where I found the wallet.  I live in Arizona and I'm pretty much the only one who doesn't have a gun in this state.  I'd prefer to not have bullet holes in me.  I'm still healing from the dog leash wound from Friday afternoon.

I've resorted to my blog, Facebook and Twitter trying to locate the owner.  If you know a Brian Bennett who lives in or visits Ridgepointe Apartments, e-mail me at ken@helloken.com and I'll arrange to return the wallet.

To help, here's a photo of Brian from his I.D. and the wallet.

Brian Bennett, owner of the wallet I found.
Actually Lucky found it... Brian's lucky that Lucky didn't pee on it.

The Brian Bennett wallet.
I don't know what's in it but hopefully it isn't explosives or women's underwear.

UPDATE 6/10 at 11:20 p.m.:  I posted the link to this on Facebook and Twitter, and Twitter came through!  A guy named Kyle, who has mutual friends with Brian, identified and said its definitely the Brian he knows and he sent him a message on Facebook.  So, with any luck, he'll contact me and he'll get his wallet back tomorrow.

UPDATE 6/11 at 12:17 a.m.:  I've now received Tweets from three people on Twitter saying they know him.  One person has his phone number and left him a message.  Big love for Twitter!

UPDATE 6/11 at 6:30 p.m.:  Happy ending!  I was sent Brian's phone number thanks to his friend @HONORandINTGRTY on Twitter (who follows my @whatsuptucson Twitter) and I talked to him this morning.  I was able to return the wallet this evening.  In an odd twist, I took Lucky with me when I went to return it and for the first time ever the dog pooped on a sidewalk while walking.  I'm going to pretend it was his way of approving how it all turned out.

A lamp post that is obviously male

An odd issue that is occuring at Ridgepointe, the apartment complex that I live at, is failing sidewalk lamp posts.

Sometimes a neighbor (or a neighbor's guest) breaks one (click here for that story) and sometimes they just fail for reasons that are unknown to me.

Another lamp post that is broken is about ten feet from the one destroyed by the neighbor in apartment 37's party guest last weekend.  I noticed the newly damaged lamp post this morning.

I've decided it must be a male lamp post.  Because it leans to the right.

I'm naming this lamp post Eileen.
I know that's not a male's name but it had creative parents.

The final night at Cosmic Bingo

Anthony and I went to the final night of Cosmic Bingo at Casino Del Sol last night.

I talked about the final night of Cosmic Bingo in a previous post.  Click here

It went like most every night of Cosmic Bingo.  No special fanfare or group crying session.

I really enjoyed going to Cosmic Bingo on Saturday nights over the last four years.  Its a lot more fun than regular bingo, which is a relatively silent affair.  People who go to regular bingo don't like to hear talking and its pretty silent overall.  Cosmic Bingo has music, a bar in the bingo hall, disco lights, and bonus games to win extra prizes.  It was a fun and relatively inexpensive activity.  I also was able to sit in a comfortable chair.  I do like comfortable chairs.  I even won some money a few times.

The rumor is that they're going to restart it in the fall.  Who knows if that's really true.  In the meantime, I'll have to find something else to do on Saturday nights.

Is stamp collecting still popular?

The last night of Cosmic Bingo at Casino Del Sol.
Thanks for the memories.

Our first night together was at Cosmic Bingo in 2009.
We went one last time to bid it farewell.

Retro Game Show Night at Colors - the 9.95 Pyramid

I mentioned yesterday that I was asked by Tempest DuJour to be a celebrity guest at Retro Game Show Night at Colors.

I had a ton of fun.  We played "The $9.95 Pyramid", which was a spinoff of the old $25,000 Pyramid.  It was a little naughtier (I didn't mind that a bit!) and the crowd was a lot of fun.

Contestants were chosen from entries placed into Tempest's "big pink hairy box" and we took turns giving and receiving clues.  You'll see a few of those in the photos below.

The event raised a few bucks for the Loft Cinema.

The stage before Retro Game Show Night started

One clue I gave for "Things You Lie About" was "people you've slept with".
No, that doesn't say anything about me.  Really.

"Things On The Floor After The Movie Ends"

Lips and assholes anyone?

I was receiving for this clue.
I didn't get it right.
I had better start listening to my jockstrap more.

Tonya Harding was one of the clues.
She's famous... but for all the wrong reasons!

"Things That Are Slippery"

"A jockstrap" might have been a good clue for this answer.

One of the clues I gave for this answer was "your ass".
Of course, I didn't mean YOUR ass.
I was talking about someone else's.

My head in my hands = I had no idea.

And now, a moment for your imagination.

My head was one of the clues.