Life and Poker and Good Music!

Here are a couple of videos from the band, The Reign of Kindo. Skip it if you don't like jazzy music. It isn't my usual style, but I really, really like these guys. They are the same guys from a group you may know called This Day & Age. It is weird, because it's the same lineup, but TROK is jazzy and TDAA is kinda best described as emo. lol Both bands are good though. Here are two songs by TROK. The first is just a flat out awesome song that shows how amazing they are at what they do. The second song is interesting, because the music is calming and relaxing and the lyrics, well, just check it out. First song is called "Just Wait" and the second is called "Breathe Again".

Had my first softball game of the year today. I am playing in a church league this year, very low key, and today's game was fun. The team is awful and will most likely be at the bottom end of the league, because we have a significantly smaller congregation that the other churches. It's fun though, which is what matters. We lost today something like 15-5 and most of those runs allowed could have been reduced had we played better team defense. I am out in right center and I did okay, given my size. I need to shed some pounds though, for reasons other than softball, but that will help considerably. At the plate I did okay today. I went 2-3, with an RBI single and a solo HR. My only out came in the 3rd when the left fielder made a leaping grab into the fence, so I basically just missed my second jack of the day. Fun times, fun times.

The Wings are down 1-0 in their series versus the Coyotes. I am not worried though, I stayed up to watch Game 1 and it was clear that all but the last 10 minutes of the game was completely owned by Detroit. Phoenix was 28th in the NHL on the pwer play and they were 3/4 Wednesday. Detroit was in the top ten in the penalty kill all year as well. The Wings also only scored on 1/6 PPs. My gut feeling is that other than special teams, Detroit killed that game, so I still expect the same result that I predicted - Wings in 6. I just think they will shore up the errors they were making on the PK and improve their play to where this series shouldn't be an issue. We'll find out when they play Game 2 tomorrow night.

I have a few things on my plate before we leave for vacation Surfside Beach, just south of Myrtle Beach) in early May. Saturday I need to replace the garbage disposal, should be loads of fun. * rolls eyes* I also want to finish off the garage. When the house was built, they only put drywall up on about 1/3 of the garage. They had to do this due to fire code. I want to finish it off, prime, and paint the garage and make it look much nicer. I estimate it shouldn't cost too much to do, because drywall is cheap, as is primer, paint, and drywall screws. My guess is something in the neighborhood of $350 total. I definitely want it done before June 12th. This is Jacob's first birthday party, which we will have in the backyard. But it'd be nice to have the garage as space in the event that it rains. We could use the house and the garage.

Poker is going well enough I suppose. I am not getting the volume I want to get, just about 20k hands this month. That's only about 20 hours roughly, and I would have liked something more like 25-30 hours. It's okay though, because I have been busy with other things and not spending the time just dicking around on the internet. Since it isn't wasted time, I am okay with the lowered volume.