Jacob
Jacob is awesome and is growing and learning so much. He is a crawling machine now and can pull himself up to standing position using couches and people and whatnot. He is just amazing me with how quickly he learns things and I get a lot of joy out of spending time with him. I will post some pics at some point. He is also taking swimming lessons, which is really cool to see as well. His first birthday is June 10th, and we are having a party for him on the 12th. A lot of family is coming to town, which is going to be great and I am looking forward to it. However, as a result, I have a ton of thigns to do before then, inside and outside the house, so my time constraints have just been amplified.
Guitar
I still suck, but I am learning. Loads of chords and scales being learned and I am trying to learn various songs as well. The last two I have learned (am learning) are Nirvana's version of "Oh Me" and Weezer's "Say it Ain't So". Awesome songs. It is a load of fun to play the guitar and I definitely love to relax with my acoustic outside, even though I have only been able to do it twice so far. Just been perfect weather for it.
Tigers
5-2 to start the year. 5-2, despite our ace pitcher looking like he forgot how to pitch at times and has had two poor outings. Walks are bad, they lead to base runners. Base runners lead to mistakes being amplified. Case in point, 2 walks the other day after a hit load the bases and the only truly poor pitch he made the whole inning? The one mistake? The pitch was crushed for a grand slam. Walks lead to bigger mistakes, gotta get those down. That is why OBP is so important. Tha being said, I can't imagine Verlander not rebounding, he is toog ood not to do so. It is early in the season and he always starts out poorly anyways. Nothign to worry about ... yet.
Also, sorry, West is right. 4 hour games suck. Too many timeouts by batters and walking aroudn the mound by pitchers. The old days didn't have pitchers especially doing this nearly as often. Now West was wrong to single out the Yankees and Red Sox, because the problem is universal to all of baseball. But he is right - these prima donnas need to stop acting like every single pitch needs an 80-minute routine beforehand. ffs, just play baseball!!
Hockey
Ah yes, post season hockey, the best time of the year. The only sporting event that come close to the excitement of playoff hockey imo is March Madness. (For all of you non-North Americans out there, I am sure there are events that are just as, or more exciting, but if I don't watch it enough, I can't possibly know this, so I am not knocking your favorite sports!) I love playoff hockey. Just something about the intensity level that gets picked up and it is just so thrilling to watch. I watch a load of games this time of year, many of which do not include the Red Wings.
Speaking of the Wings, wow are they hot. Finally healthy, and since they had so many injuries, that means some of their key players will be rested and ready to go. The key to a deep playoff run for the Wings imo is in their defense. Howard is still green and has no playoff experience. Detroit needs to get his confidence rolling, by making life easier on him by finishing checks, doing a great job of poke checking, blocking shots, and just geenralyl making life Hell on the opposition trying to score. If they can get his confidence going and make life easier on Howard, then they have a chance for a deep run. His inexperience does make me a little nervous for them though. Here are my predictions for round 1:
Western Conference:
- #1 San Jose over #8 Colorado in 6
- #2 Chicago over #7 Nashville in 7
- #3 Vancouver over #6 Los Angeles in 5
- #5 Detroit over #4 Phoenix in 6
Eastern Conference:
- #1 Washington over #8 Montreal in 4
- #7 Philadelphia over #2 New Jersey in 7
- #3 Buffalo over #6 Boston in 5
- #4 Pittsburgh (puke) over #5 Ottawa in 6
Poker
Poker has been going well for me since my day of run-bad. I have ran better and people like to give away money which is nice. I have focused on trying hard to value bet thin and not worry about value cutting myself, this is continuing to be my biggest leak, and it was before as well. I don't value bet thin enough. I think I am doing a better job of it now though. I am really feeling like I am playing very well.
I am going to be making notes on regs away from the table and forming in depth plans to battle them to increase my winrate. I can do this away from the table and make a pretty cool sheet with all of the important information on it for easy reference too. This is something that can only help me, as regs tend to play a very very formulaic game when playing rush and don't adjust well at all. They don't (myself included) adjust very well in geenral at lower stakes as ti is, and just do so even less when playign rush, so I think this will be very beneficial to do.
Hope everyone is enjoying the springtime!!
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