Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)

I have a friend whose mother is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). I am joining her for a walk on April 24th to support ALS fundraising. If you would like to make a donation, it would be more than appreciated and simply click on the link here.

Thank you!

Shite Day

I love days where I drop 10 BIs. Nothing I can do about most of it. Coolers and suckouts galore. Just call with K9s 100 bs deep versus me in 3bet pots, you'll hit and get paid. Or limp T3 so when the flop is T63, we can get it in against my 66 and you can hit a ten on the turn, fun stuff. My favorite by far was a mental error where I meant to type in 2.35 and typed in 23.5. That was cool when I got shoved on and had to fold. fml I love days where my winrate for the month gets chopped in half, yet I never seem to have days where I win 10 BIs. lol

Took several days off to do some stuff on the kids' playroom we are making. It'd be nice to take more time off of poker, but if I want to continue to buy things for that room and pay off debt, it isn't an option.

On a bright note, Michigan State is gonna lose to Tennessee tomorrow, so that is nice. WIn or lose though, they beat Ohio State, which makes me thrilled and the first Elite Eight appearance ever for the Vols kinda makes me feel like we are playing with house money. In any event, Go Vols!

BBV

Brag: Jacob said his first word today, which was mama. Pretty exciting, he is learning loads of things all of the sudden. I taught him how to give kisses, which is basically him taking his face and putting it on your cheek, it is pretty cute. He learned to crawl and said his first word all in like 10 days. Too awesome.

Beat: Since the first thing out of his mouth was not "Ship the cookies", I do not get half of dodgy's bankroll. Damn.

Variance: Redoing a couple of rooms in the house to prepare for baby #2 kills poker time.

"I said you LOVE the cock. I must be the craftiest motherfucker alive."

Nice repeated cross checks from Sidney Crosby to Zetterberg after the game. Stay classy Crosby.

"I can't believe I'm gonna get ..."

some pussy for stealin' the monkey. (laughs) Stealin' the little monkey. Man, if I woulda known that, I would have been stealin' monkeys since I was like, seven and shit."

Pretty solid week. Not happy with the results, but hey, variance happens. I made some plays where I think I should have folded instead of calling, specifically on the river, so I need to shore that up quickly, since it is the most expensive street obviously and all mistakes there are magnified.

My volume was lacking for the week, my lowest since I started playing rush. But I had many many things to do this week. We bought some new patio furniture and I bought a wet vac. I cleaned up my man room, since the dog is often in here with me and he has been making it quite dirty. Worked like a dream. I did a lot of cleaning Thursday through Saturday morning and a lot of housework too. Just been busy. This week should be lighter.

Edit: Played another session since I was feeling good about my game and was awake and whatnot. Promptly dropped over 4 BIs in the session to have a - 7 BI day and a losing week. KK into AA, QQ into AA, QQ into a backraised 88, of course he hits quads on the flop. More and more I don't feel like typing. It is so fucking frustrating to have a great month going and then have it ruined in a couple of fucking days.

"You Don't Know Morris Day and the Time?!"

"In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us."

Week 2 was an interesting week. I felt I played pretty well for the most part and only made a few mistakes. Unfortunately I cannot control the results, so those are what they are. My volume was low again, but again, I put in about 20 hours of OT this week, so it is to be expected. I am a bit surprised I got in as many hands as I did, because I did get a good amount of family time in and we had our church bowling league Saturday night as well, which always takes a few hours and I had my fantasy baseball draft for my brother's league tonight as well, which took about 3 hours. I will post my drafted team in the next few days for those of you who care (read: maybe Rasputin).

I also got my new guitar in the mail and picked up a solid bedroom amp from Guitar Center Thursday. I will post pics soon. It is amazing and every bit as beautiful and amazing sounding as I thought it would be. It is an Epiphone Les Paul Custom with a silverburst finish. It sounds as nice as it looks. The one thing that surprised me a fair amount though was not the sound. I expected it to sound better than the shitty Fender starter I have, but it is easier to play too, which is awesome.

Another good week of life in the books, hopefull no OT this week will allow me to get in some more volume and possibly get back on pace for 60k hands for the month. We'll see.

"What the Fuck is the Internet?!?"

Classic ...

"So, you think I could get a little kiss for good luck?

Think I could get a little blowjob for good luck?"

Week 1 is in the books. Unfortunately, I did not do what I said I would to improve this month, which was limit fuckaround time. I have a monthly goal of 60k hands. I am on pace for a touch over 53k hands. As I said before, it is fine to not reach this goal if I have a legit reason for it, such as working OT or spending loads more time with family than in a normal week or being out of town or something coming up out of the blue. And while I had a good day today spending some time at the park with the family, and I did work an extra 14 hours of OT this week to make some progress on a time critical task, I still did not limit fuckaround time. I got in about 12k hands, roughly 12 hours of play, and to be on pace, I needed to play another 2 hours. I could have got that in, despite the OT. Hopefully week 2 is better as far as that goes. I control this myself, no one else does and it is only I who can resolve this issue. Next week will be better hands down.

It was a good week, and I feel I am playing very well right now. I made a few changes to my game that are yielding great results and as long as > 50% of the field is recreational players, my formula for success is fairly evident. Over my last 50k hands, my winrate is about 5 ptbb. It is not a large enough sample, but I do think that I can easily take from that that I can expect ~ 50k hands per month and maybe 3.5 ptbb and once you include rakeback, I can have essentially variance-free (month-to-month) winnings each month in excess of $2,300. I hope for more, but we shall see. I did not do that last month, but the first week of less than optimal play is the cause of that.

Life is good overall, I can't complain. I am looking forward for when days like today are the norm (mid 60s, sunny). It was great to grill out some dogs and play catch with some family at the park today. We aired out the house too, opening up all the windows during the day. I loooove when we get to do that! I know it may seem silly, but little things like opening windows in the house on a nice day really help me to appreciate how good my life is and to enjoy the little things.

Hope all is well with you all.

"Y'know, I don't get you, Justice..

...You used to be into all this girl stuff. Stealing, boning, blowing shit up, and now you're like this little priss with a conscience. It's really a fucking drag."

Well, today was quite a good day. I left work a touch early to eat some good wings at BW3, then headed over to Guitar Center to mess around with an acoustic I want and some pedals just for fun. I tried to find an in-depth instructional book on blues, from beginner, and getting more advanced, but failed to find anything that seemed to have much value. Then I headed over to a baseball card shop and picked up a few singles for my Topps 2010 set, just need 3 more cards for series 1.

After that, I picked up Jacob from day care and met Jasmine at the OB-GYN. We had the second ultrasound and the good news is that everything seems to be progressing as expected. All 4 ventricles of the heart look solid, the heart beat was strong, all parts of the brain were developing properly. 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, everything is checking out to be a-ok. I will get some pictures up of the ultrasound sometime this weekend. The ultrasound technician also told us that she did not see "any boy parts". So I am almost certainly having a baby girl! This is pretty exciting for the misses and myself. If it is indeed a girl (when they say boy, they are next to never wrong, but sometimes they are wrong predicting a girl. If you think about it for half of a second, you can see why this is obviously true.), then we will be expecting Jordan Alyse on July 26th. Normally I am not a fan of unusual spellings of names, I would prefer Elise, but there is a reason for the spelling. Jas's mom was named Alicia (not sure if that was the spelling), so she wanted to use the a for that reason. To me, this is a good reason for an unusual spelling, so I am okay with that.

We are definitely really excited!

"What is Your Damage Little Boy? You've Got a Sick and Twisted World Perspective."

This made me lol.

You are the ones who are the ball lickers!

From now until the foreseeable future, my blog post titles will consist of lines from the best comedy movie of all time, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. That is all.