"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.

February Results

I am not doing a weekly summary today, because the month ended and both posts seem redundant and silly. February was a good month. It was a busy month, which is good as it shows I can get the volume in most months like I want. I still had time for loads of family activities, learning guitar, and the gazillion other errands I had to do, and also deal with a computer virus from Hell and being sick as shit as well.

Rush has gone fairly well. I feel I didn't run that great (did have a nice ending to the month though) and still made close to $2k including RB. As I said, I like having essentially variance free money (at least month-to-month) to help remove debt and get my family in a better spot. Hopefully this sticks around and isn't just a fad, as I really like the way things are going. I rarely get upset anymore about poker-related issues. Volume is way up, since I can get in about 1,000 hands per hour. Things have settled out nicely.

I look to March to improve on a couple of problems with my game. I think I can really step it up and play even better. The real key to make this successful is to limit the fuck around time on the computer. That is true for everyone though, too many people waste far too much time doing random shit on the computer that is unproductive. That is fine, if it is how you want to spend your free time. But I doubt most people want to spend it that way. I'd rather spend it with my family, playing guitar, hopping on the bike (once we spring forward, 2 weeks!), or whatever your joys are in life.

I was able to withdrawal enough money this month both with my profits and withdrawing extra bankroll I don't need to completely pay off one card and make a dent in another. My goal is to pay off my two cards and the Dell payments and then I can reward myself. What will I get you ask? This beauty below. A beautiful Epiphone Les Paul Custom with a silverburst finish. What a work of art.

That basically sums things up. Here are the details of the month: