It had been a shitty week. Really bad. The Windows guys had totally fucked up an update, even after doing a week of regression testing. Well, Charlie and I had, at one point eons ago, been MS certified, so my boss said "go help them". Jeez, that was a mistake. But WE fixed it. Let's be honest, it took me more time to scratch build Gentoo on my home machine. By about 10 minutes. And, guess what. I still had to do my regular job. Thank god my folks are all supermen and women.
So I got home Thursday morning about 4 (managers don't get to leave at quitting time, we have turnover meetings from 30 minutes before shift change until 30 after). I had a glass of wine and crashed, pissed. About Thursday is always my shopping day, since I can hit the malls and stores before most people. Thursday night I do a little clubbing. Thank goodness for smoke free.
About 6:30 Friday evening, Jackie called. "Hey, you want to come over for a little wine?" Of course I did, so I walked over. It was quite warm. Austin had it's 4th hottest summer ever and early May was already a scorcher. So I was in shorts and t-shirt. A black one from DEFCON 12 that said "Got root?"
When I got to their house, Jackie greeted me with a smile and a glass of white. I'm kind of a wine snob, but this was a nice wine. Not some wimpy chardonnay, but a nice pinot grigio. We sat around the living room talking nonsense (ie, local politics) for a while. Then she asked me if I wanted to soak in their hot tub for a while. "Sure, let me go run get my suit."
"Um, we don't allow textiles in the tub," she replied.
"Oh."
"Come on,"she said. "It's Max's poker night."
So we walked out to their enclosed hot tub. It was a nice tub. A big pagoda enclosing an eight person tub. Jackie looked at me and said "go ahead and get in, I'll go grab the wine and our glasses". I was still a little nervous/shy, so I was relieved at the opportunity to undress in private. I took off my clothes and folded them on to a bench by the door and settled in. Jackie came back in with the bottle in a bucket and two plastic "glasses."