Congrats to J.O. for winning the Duke popcorn lottery. Full report coming in less than a week!

Today, I want to talk about community service.  Recently I've have two episodes that is starting to make me question the best approach of "pitching in" to do your part.

The first is obviously the popcorn sales.  I'm probably going to spend between 6-8 hours on trying to sell popcorn to you guys - all the blog posts, taking and sending the orders, and doing the database analysis.  And I only sold 9 boxes to poker players!!!  NINE!  500 hits a day on my friggin blog, and I only sold NINE.  The last straw was when G and I schlep all the boxes to the post office and I find out that I can't ship the popcorn in a Priority Mail pouch for $5.10 or whatever.  The letters are a fixed price.  Apparently the pouches are not.  So I had to shell out $10.95 a box to send out the popcorn.  At the end of the day, it was only $6 a box that I was eating, but it was annoying.  Thank God I only sold NINE.

But seriously, my 6-8 hours would have been better spent had I not even bothered to try and help the Cub Scouts sell popcorn, sat on my ass (like I usually do), watch some football, just play 1 "standard" session of poker and donate that money to them.  That would have been almost $1,000.  Pretty sure if I asked the CubMaster what I should have done, he would have said, "F*ck the popcorn - go play poker, you clueless heathen bastard and give us da moniez!!!"  [Not worth another post, but I inadvertently took my FT folding chairs to a Cub Scouts event and I felt like such a degen sitting there near the front, advertizing a poker gambling site that just perpetrated massive fraud to a bunch of 8-9 year olds in the bible belt.  Nice DoubleFly.  Nice.  O wait!  Who is that knocking at my door?]

Community Service part II coming up next week.