Gotta love the Check-Raise.

So today was interesting. First, I went to St. Rita's for Adoration and to see the Augustinians. Robert, a novice who I met last year at St. Paul's vocation fair, gave me the grand tour of the Augustinians' novitiate (their residence). Then I went to work, and after that went back to the novitiate for dinner and, well, poker of course. I mean, what's a Friday night without pulling off a perfect check-raise on an elderly priest? Granted, overall I was down in money. But I was fortunate enough to show the friars the game "Shit on your Neighbor". The Prior (head guy) in particular enjoyed it.

I was over there today for a total of about 7 or 8 hours... quite unexpected. This basically shot the time I was going to use to prepare for our parish's (excellent) bible study tomorrow morning. Well, will have to make do.

As for the Augustinians..... I don't think I got a very accurate picture today on their way of life. I caught them at their (likely) most casual time of the week. I would have to actually live the life for a day or more, to catch on to the daily happenings and routine. I've been invited back anytime for Adoration, dinner or cards, in particular for Easter dinner. So we'll see how things turn out.