A wonderful thing happened last week. Magical, almost. The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law which will allow casinos in the state to offer table games such as craps, roulette, blackjack and poker. Six months from now, I will have the opportunity to drive an hour or so from my house and play cards. I can only describe my reaction one way.

Now this whole plan was a long time in the making and really should have been wrapped up months ago except for lots of political fighting between Republicans (who hate fun) and Democrats (who love it). At least that’s how I define them in this context.

They still need to prepare a lot of things before opening the tables, but the law is passed. The closest casino to me is up in Harrisburg. I have played slots there a couple of times and will definitely head up for some poker when the action starts and maybe a few other games.

Of course I say that now. I bragged how I would patronize Delaware’s casinos once they added sports betting, but that never happened this fall. Sure, the watered-down version they offered made it less enticing, but I could have made the trip to bet at least once. Sometimes with gambling, I talk  pretty good game without backing it up.

I’m just glad I have the option to go play now. Sure, the bill opens the door for a casino closer to me in Gettysburg, but I really don’t care about that. It would be more convenient, but it would be a smaller place that might require you to spend other money at the location in order to enter the casino, and that doesn’t appeal to me since they would probably have less variety with fewer games allowed by law. Plus, even if it did get approved, they would take a while to get up and running.

I’m happy biding my time over the next few months and saving up to go to Harrisburg. Or just sitting here and running my mouth about going.