A perfect day? is that even possible? perhaps.

Saturday morning I woke and and cooked breakfast outside on my grill. Sausage, fried eggs, waffles, and all the extras. It was fantastic.

I then grabbed my DRF and my reserved seat tickets and headed out. I swing by and pickup a friend, an then another, and then head to the track. I took $120 with me, and planned to leave with none, but I would have fun all day, so it would be OK.

Dollar day! Yay! One dollar beers and one dollar hot dogs. You can't beat that. I stick exactly $40 into the betting terminal. The first two races come and go. Bam, I hit the first daily double. Sweet! I don't remember how much my profit was, it was a 2$ bet, and I think it was around 50 bucks. I grab a beer and dog, and head back to my seat. A few more races go by, I win a few miscellaneous bets, but then i hit a pick 3. Bam... $147 on a 2$ bet. I have more than doubled the amount of money I brought to gamble with, and quadrupled or more the amount I stuck into the terminal. The rest of the gambling was pretty normal, I hit a few exactas and some 10 cent superfectas, and lost some other pick 3s and trifectas. I lost track of beer and hotdog counts. I cashed out my credit voucher at the end of the day with 157$ on it, after starting with $40, and that does not count the cash for the dogs and beers. Woot! I think I could consistently do well at the track. I have a system that appears to work fairly well. I think next time I go, I will take $200 instead of $120 and bet essentially twice as much per bet.

On the way home, we started thinking... food! We decided on Shogun, a local hibachi grill. So I had some fantastic jalapeno steak, prepared by a Japanese chef who flipped his knives around with precision. It was entertaining to watch and the food was quite tasty. Best of all, it cost me nothing. I plan to use the rest of my winnings to buy more stock options. Hopefully I can let it ride and turn it into even more money.

So, friends, good food, free money, good times. Does it get any better than that? I am not sure that it does. I plan for that to be what every day life is like for me when I am older. I might not make it to that lifestyle before retirement, but the day I retire, I will become that guy permanently.