Cousin Hugh

My Uncle Bobby got married for the 2nd time this past weekend. He is only 9 years older than me as my Mom was oldest of 4 children with Bobby being the youngest and probably a surprise late addition.

Bobby's 1st marriage lasted ~25 years but I didn't meet 1st wife until couple of years before divorce because he never told anyone in family that he was married (nor did we know his address)

Dysfunctional is a word I understand too well.

Bobby did have a son from 1st marriage who my sister and Mom met for the 1st time this weekend.

My Mom sent me a picture attached to an email:

"There are two pictures in the batch that are your cousin, Hugh. He is 29 years old. Jackie is the bride's name. I thought I had Jessica and Angela and Cyndi in one picture, but it came up blank.

Mom"

Make me wonder a little about my Mom's computer savvy, but Hugh did wear a nice pair of boots to his dad's wedding.

Week 1 wrap up

My conclusions from the weekend:

1.) Georgia Tech has to get better on defense if they want winning record this year.

2.) Being able to complete a few passes would also be helpful.

3.) James Madison just did a number on Boise State making BCS Championship.

4.) NY Jets and Dallas Cowboys can cancel previously announced Super Bowl parades.

5.) AFC West and NFC West are still worst 2 divisions.

6.) Red Zone Channel still a godsend when local stations have shitty games.

7.) Week 1 had a lot of shitty games.

Most importantly Calvin Johnson caught that ball, Detroit was robbed.

I am in 4 fantasy football leagues and have Calvin in the 2 priciest ones.

Hoy made a good point, I ended up watching a shitty Redskins-Cowboys game, a less adept Jets Ravens battle and Chiefs-Chargers which main redeemable feature was watching KC rookie kick returners all as I sweated out fantasy results.

4-0 finish is nice but now I have to look for replacement QBs for one squad.

Thank You PokerStars!

Nice work by CJ in arranging for PokerStars to pony up some more money, with 2nd and 3rd places seeing increase rest of you have more to play for!

Now mission is to get Recess and Gnome back on board to balance out my mantle.

Monday

I started Monday pretty excited.

Got to watch the news and hear that Paris Hilton got busted for possession of cocaine because while dude driving was stopped she reached into purse and accidentally spilled vial of cocaine into plain sight of officer. All because she needed lip balm. Question I have is: "If it wasn't your purse Paris then why the fuck were you reaching for lip balm?"

I got to go to my 1st Business Unit meeting as an employee, it is sort of nice to see why they are pushing so many projects through engineering at once from a how they feel it fits in network vision.

Wife was kind enough to call frantically right at the tail end of the meeting, I intentionally did not cancel health insurance policy yet as I wanted to make sure I had the Anthem/Blue Cross proof of coverage before I backdated cancelled Kaiser and moved on the the employer coverage provided by Cisco. One lesson learned from working for a Canadian company is they don't know shit about US Health Insurance differences, and apparently think bills can be paid with apologies when they forget to pay vacation or reimburse for individual health insurance.

My 1st fantasy football draft is about to start, I woke up this morning in a 10 team league and now I have the 12th pick.

Hoy claims to run bad but he'd be hard pressed to top that!

Small Ball Poker

I recently noticed that I have not had to use my FullTilt points on tourney entries to replenish bankroll and had creeped up to quantity to get ipod (Nano 8G).

I also observed a few time periods of double points for rush poker as well as 'late night' double points 8-10 Pacific.

After careful consideration I think I prefer 8G ipod Touch at 45k points over 16G ipod Nano at 41k points.

Since Friday night I have gotten in 5k hands of rush PLO, cranked out 6k points once you factor in bonus and probably rarned $150 in rake back. Now I have to figure out a few things.

1) Am I better off buying ipod from local Crapple store with rakeback cash?

2) How many value bets am I missing on river to have the disparity I have in showdown winnings vs. pots w/o showdon?

3) Is real problem calling too much pre-flop or after turn ith speculative hands?

Other financial matter to figure out is Cisco's 401k provider allows me to set different contribution percentage for bonus vs. salary.

Would I rather set % same for both or set salary % to 5% to collect matching 4.5% and bonus contribution to 35-70% to hit yearly ceiling as they seem to provide information on what bonus gross will be a month before payout?

1st Week Draws to close

I am happier at my new job than this guy.

My thinking when I left Petaluma in 2006 was that:

1) I was going to work as an engineer until I retired.

2) When I gave up on start-ups I would work at Cisco or Google.

With start of 1st college football season without Bobby Bowden on sidelines I am reminded that I think it was Bear, JoePa or Bowden that said there is only one milestone left in life after retirement.

I sort of feel I am down to two milestones left.

"Jimmy you are such an asshole"

I had a 10:00 wake up call but woke up at 6:30 this morning. Dude sharing room next door with Jimmy was not pleased that he could not get into room because Jimmy had thrown the brass lock.

10 minutes of escalating frustration door banging and profanity. I looked through peephole first and saw he had 2 girls in official Vegas uniform (little black dress) and at that point was not sure if Jimmy was passed out or seen the friend whose personality could not have been good enough to compensate. I am getting old and decided rather than confront to just call the front desk to get someone sent up to help these clowns.

Sunday night I played 'Rapid Craps' at Bill's Gambling Saloon.

14 chairs playing online craps except the dice and roll are traditional.

Casino advantage is that only took one guy to run a craps table has he has stick to pass dice and enters roll into his screen and he takes chips to enter starting amount and pays you out in chips at end. New craps players can figure out betting on their own time.

Player advantage is no clowns get their hands in to interfere with dice and it was $3 table where $3.60 place on 6/8 paid $4.20 but flow was neither rapid nor generated excitement.

Overall trip was awesome as Paul was rolling 4s and 9s at a way more than expected pace and I managed to cash big time as he went on a 6 4s in 7 rolls tear at Hard Rock when I also managed to start with $25 on 4.

Never did see or hear Jimmy he might not be the asshole.

It's not you it's me

I am 'changing' jobs but not cubes.

I have no idea if design services firm end game plan was me consulting at Cisco when they hired me. But I have now set a new record for shortest job tenure at 11 months. Since 3.5 months were mile down the street and last 7 months were in Cisco building I don't think it will reflect badly on resume. I just got returned to my old working environment and did well enough that Cisco and I decided to split up the money that used to go through two middlemen.

Old CEO is taking it quite personally that I am leaving but I am guessing people don't change jobs as easily in Ottawa as happens in Bay Area. My favorite line from meeting where he made counter offer was "If you had asked for money I would have given you raise", this is same CEO that called me at 5:30 am on an April Saturday morning and asked "Are you busy? Dave isn't here yet to take me to airport". I was still groggy so did not really have time to generate good response before I was interrupted due to Dave's arrival wherever CEO was.

I discussed counter offer with wife enough to get help with explaining situation to CEO. Her first suggestion was "we can still be friends", I countered with "It's not you it's me". She had already approved my letter of resignation as being good for not burning bridges, my direct boss Dave took it rather well, especially considering he takes a commission hit when I leave as well. But he knows the health insurance jerk around we have been dealing with the last 4 months has pissed me off and there was always a risk putting me back in work environment that I had been comfortable in for 20 years.

I now have 4 job departures in under 18 months on the resume, only other time I left a job voluntarily I was there 13 years. My average is really looking bad, but I think this latest stint is easily explainable and want to keep this job a while.

I do head to Las Vegas Thursday with some old co-workers but I am left wondering HTF did we end up going during a Star Trek convention. Would not have known except my cousin lamented not going on her facebook status.

Happy Spewsday

Tonight is the inaugural Tuesday Spewday tournament hosted by LJ.

Tournament #174055893 07.27.10 21:00 ET - 3000 chips
Tournament #174065188 07.27.10 21:15 ET - Super Turbo KO

password is spewday

Garden City Live Poker

$3/$6 Limit can have only 2 possible outcomes:

1) Slowly bleeding money as house takes $5 rake out of any pot with flop.

2) Hemorrhaging money in few hands as one of 6 people calling pre-flop capped action rivers his non-Ace high, non paint high flush.

It was amusingly bad but you have to hit hands early and get up before rake chews you up. My peak was ahead $75 after my turned boat held up against rivered flush that 2 people chased.

Ethics in investing

Having read BP was hopeful that cap being placed earlier today would be able to contain oil and it being options expiration week I decided to make a small "investment" that they would be successful and stock would pop this week.

Strike price being $38 and cost being 68 cents it seemed like they will jump to $40 if cap is success and at 33% break even prop.

Real question is when will Congress pass UISEC if this shit is legal and online poker is not?

My bankroll management rules are much stricter than my poker so this is a sub 1% play but will make news more interesting this week.

"Math is Stupid"

• sirfwalgman: math is stupid
• sirfwalgman: "I have two children, one is a boy who prefers the colour Red. What is the probability I have two boys".
  
  
  As we know, without the modifier, the probability is 1/3*
  
  BB
  BG
  GB
• sirfwalgman: it's 50/50 that your other kid is a boy period right?
• sirfwalgman: and whats the difference between BG and GB
• Me: it is 5050 that you have 1 boy if 1 child
• Me: it is also 50/50 2nd child is boy
• Me: it is the classic Let's Make a deal Monty Hall problem
• sirfwalgman: not according to moronic statistics people
• Me: dude
• sirfwalgman: I am currently idle.
• sirfwalgman: ya
• Me: you fail to understanbd either problem
• sirfwalgman: aparently
• Me: if you have 2 children it is 25 % you will have 2 girls, 25% you will have 2 boys
• Me: and 50% you have one of each
• Me: do we agree?
• sirfwalgman: i said that
• Me: If child is already born than you have case where questioner intentionally picked boy
• Me: so there are 3 cases available
• Me: and 2 of the cases other child is girl
• Me: but probability of future child being boy is 50/50
• Me: because questioner has no control
• 
  
• I spend a little too much of my time each day trying to explain probabilities to waffles.

Probability from work yesterday:

Project manager came back from his vacation yesterday.

Odds of him applying pressure on slowest part of project when he returned is obviously 100%

(Similar odds of me missing VeryJosie and Mookie also 100%)

One of task was to help newest member of project team get the 10 people who have to approve a board being ready for build to sign off.

I was assigned 4 names randomly, 2 other people got 3 names.

Half of the 10 people had already approved.

What were the odds my 4 randomly assigned people had already approved?

Waffles don't even waste your time answering.

4th Of July

Would Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest have been worth watching if police had tased Kabayashi?

4 day weekend was awesome as wife and kid let me nap like a madman. Feel so recharged.

Even the Yankees got me a Birthday Present

I heard an awesome story on Jim Rome this morning which led me to this.

Hate the Yankees, hate cell phone zombies, win win.

Impacts of Isner v Mahut

The Demon Child is a big tennis fan and she loves Nadal. She has limited interest in playing mostly due to depth perception issues make it difficult for her to return ball.

Yesterday wife asked her to do her one common are chore to load the dishwasher. She was granted a delay in that she was allowed to wait until 'the end of the tennis match she was watching'.

She clutched onto that loophole overnight but she better have gotten off the couch and done the dishes before I get home.

Years from now we will probably have forgotten who won Wimbledon this year but Isner and Mahut will be remembered. It was epic tennis but both players need to work on their return games before I would call this match good tennis. Did they have fewer than 10 break points between them over 138 games?

(Former $4k) PLO Vicory

Now time for bed

Nothng

Long Day at work

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Car needs a new battery

+

Forgetting no car equals trolley ride home

=

Weak blog post and limited poker time.

I want to go to Las Vegas during WSOP but project may not give time.

Poolside adventures

Some of the former residents came back to visit for a poolside Memorial Day celebration. Good food, wine amusing conversation and a lot of little kids. Deepest part of pool is 4 feet so I check on demon child every now and then but am not too worried as she can stand to get out of trouble.

One of the three year olds managed to talk his father into letting him take his flotation assist vest off as he was playing outside of the pool and fell into pool with out any of the parents noticing. Parents did hear his screaming and crying once the demon child lifted him out of the water. He explained to his mom that "daddy let him take off vest" and "he was chasing ball when he fell into pool". Husband is short so he can fit on standard couch. Demon child explained he was giving a good effort treading water but he was not able to keep head above so she helped him out.

Now there is no convincing neighbors demon child is evil

Monday Thoughts

I saw today an LA court has ordered Lindsay Lohan to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet.

I don't care whether Lindsay is drinking or not but it opened my mind to the possibilities for the next winter gathering.

Bloggers issued ankle bracelets and wagering through (Venetian?) sportsbook on alcohol consumption over the gathering.

Obviously Al would be the favorite for average BAC for a 72 hour time frame but others could sneak in for highest peak BAC.

Saturday I played in a small tournament amongst former co-workers where half the entry fee went to the American Cancer Society.

I managed to chip up early with some well placed OBFVs and one river suckout when I forgot that people don't fold even when they have Ac3c on QhQdJh flop for their tourney life.

150/300 blinds ep limped shorty jammed for 1150, I looking at AQs decided to reraise to isolate and ep called for 2k more holding 22. Shorty had QQ and hit a Q on flop with 2 clubs and turn and river were also clubs rewarding the terribad play holding the 2c.

Listening to him explain for 3 hands why his call was a good play was annoying but thankfully his next terribad play was punished. I was completely card dead at the final table and managed to miss a ton of outs when my KcQ could not run down A2 on AcQc4c flop BvB to bust 2 short of money. Saving grace of the turn was it was 1 rebuy, 1 add on bounty tourney where you collected bounty for stacking even if player added on.

I had told weak tightest player I know "Mess with the bull, get the horns" and managed to collect his bounty chip twice getting 2nd as rebuy period ended. He was allowed to add-on but refused when it did not come with a table change.

This sums it up

Full Tilt Poker Game #20771023210: $10 + $0.50 Sit&Go (Sup Turbo) (159829461), Table 1 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:31:02 ET - 2010/05/12

Seat 2: beercat48 (270)

Seat 3: nowhere2be (190)

Seat 5: bayne_s (225)

Seat 6: GbjAndyS (245)

Seat 8: Knoclore (1,435)

Seat 9: BrothaZino (335)

GbjAndyS posts the small blind of 25

Knoclore posts the big blind of 50

The button is in seat #5

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to bayne_s [Ah Ac]

BrothaZino folds

beercat48 folds

nowhere2be folds

bayne_s raises to 225, and is all in

GbjAndyS folds

Knoclore calls 175

bayne_s shows [Ah Ac]

Knoclore shows [Th Tc]

*** FLOP *** [Ts Td Kd]

*** TURN *** [Ts Td Kd] [6d]

*** RIVER *** [Ts Td Kd 6d] [As]

bayne_s shows a full house, Aces full of Tens

Knoclore shows four of a kind, Tens

Knoclore wins the pot (475) with four of a kind, Tens

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 475 | Rake 0

Board: [Ts Td Kd 6d As]

Seat 2: beercat48 didn't bet (folded)

Seat 3: nowhere2be didn't bet (folded)

Seat 5: bayne_s (button) showed [Ah Ac] and lost with a full house, Aces full of Tens

Seat 6: GbjAndyS (small blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 8: Knoclore (big blind) showed [Th Tc] and won (475) with four of a kind, Tens

Seat 9: BrothaZino didn't bet (folded)

BB in SuperTurbo has to call with TT but this hand really sums up how I feel I am running right now.

Monday ran into MP jackAce snap callers with KK and TT and lost to exit Rush Super Turbo KO and Poker from the rail.

I doubt anyone willing to call off a stack with flush draw or gutter has missed calling all in on turn and I can't hit a combo wrap + flush draw against an over pair in PLO.

Fund Raiser

We all read about his train wreck life.

But let's face facts, it transitioned from entertaining to pathetic long ago.

The pretense is he does not want two kids that have inherited half their DNA and been raised in the family environment that is waffles world to "suffer".

At this point I am wondering if Nick will be claimed as a dependent on Waffle's 2020 taxes???

We can continue to let this pathetic excuse for a man continue as Nick and Michelle's doormat or you can send me $100 and receive your very own

doormat. All monies in excess of cost and shipping will go toward rent for waffle's 1st apartment.

At least we can get him out of the house until his wife stops giving him money from his paycheck and his sorry self gets evicted. If apartment is sufficiently distant from his house it could take months for him to walk back to the house. More likely one of his children is old enough to drive and give him a ride back to the house in their car before he mans up and moves.

Happy Mother's Day

Rather than having a dead stack blinding out Al was kind enough to remove me from BBT Invitational on Sunday.

I will be taking my Wife to the Rocky Point Restaurant for Mother's Day. She loves to be near ocean and deserves more credit for how demon child has turned out than I deserve. Despite child's ability to torment me she is pretty good kid. Since I am engineer and generally unaware of subtlety wife was kind enough to tell me she wanted to dine by the ocean on Mother's Day and child was kind enough to text me to make reservations.

I will figure out tomorrow what to send to my Mom. I believe she made an effort to be as good a Mom as she was capable of being and she did create a better environment than what she had. I wish I had 'normal' feelings towards my parents.

Instead Raul Julia as Carlos in Tequila Sunrise said it best:

"You son of a bitch! How could you do this? Friendship is the only choice in life you can make that's yours! You can't choose your family! Goddamn it, I've had to face that! No man should be judged for whatever direction his dick goes! That's like blaming a compass for pointing north, for Chrissake! Friendship is all we have."

Hope my friends have a Happy Mother's Day!

MOOKIE NIGHT

7 pm Pacific

Password: Vegas1

Work Explained

I missed the Poker from the Rail Tournament for the 2nd straight week while working on a small piece of the router above. Unlike smaller companies I have worked for the marketing group at Cisco offers an extensive explanation. I have no idea why the box the size of a dorm fridge needs to have the capacity to carry HD movie to every home in Los Angeles.

I prefer to think of goal as we can deliver the porn to waffles faster than he can pleasure himself.

0/2 this week

Pushing up against project milestones sucks!

I have managed to get home from work in 8-9 range each day this week but positive of being a contractor means direct accumulation of extra money or vacation time. Had to opt for extra vacation time just in case I can get through the minefield poker has become and win Main Event Seat.

I watched a bit of the Mookie and saw 2 chipleaders flipping with ~12 left for ~60 BBs each.

I am just amazed that 22-66 will be re-raisng or jamming when set mining odds are still available.

It is like the super-turbo play has spread everywhere,

Man Card

Weekend Movie Review

Wife and daughter dragged me to "The Backup Plan" yesterday.

1) I feel I need to hand in my Man card but don't know where to turn it in.

2) I wish I had gotten more popcorn instead of watching one scene. Not to provide spoiler but if you see lady with a drum it is a good time for a bathroom break, top off soda or popcorn refill.

While drinking Friday night I was mainly playing low level steps, in step 0 top 30 receive a Step 1 ticket. I am 26th in chips with 31 left when this hand starts.

Full Tilt p0ker Game #20311796932: Step 0 (Super Turbo) (156028414), Table 7 - 200/400 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:41:51 ET - 2010/04/24
Seat 1: fahreneit (1,140), is sitting out
Seat 2: snobrega10 (872)
Seat 3: Loggjaw (390)
Seat 4: bayne_s (290)
Seat 5: isonusaf (4,810)
Seat 6: elsololobo02 (1,446)
Seat 7: JHinderheel (620)
Seat 8: BackdoorFishy (360), is sitting out
bayne_s posts the small blind of 200
isonusaf posts the big blind of 400
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Ah Ad]
elsololobo02 raises to 1,446, and is all in
JHinderheel folds
BackdoorFishy folds
fahreneit folds
snobrega10 has been disconnected
snobrega10 has reconnected
snobrega10 has 15 seconds left to act
snobrega10 folds
Loggjaw folds
bayne_s has 15 seconds left to act

I looked at standing there is 31st stack has 60 chips
I think I am supposed to fold

I think since I am in SB I am supposed to fold even without considering the 60 chip dude.

bayne_s calls 90, and is all in

I am lacking in discipline.

isonusaf folds
elsololobo02 shows [Kd Ac]
bayne_s shows [Ah Ad]
Uncalled bet of 1,046 returned to elsololobo02
*** FLOP *** [6s 9c 5d]
*** TURN *** [6s 9c 5d] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [6s 9c 5d 4c] [7s]
elsololobo02 wins the side pot (220)
elsololobo02 shows Ace King high
bayne_s shows a pair of Aces
bayne_s wins the main pot (870) with a pair of Aces
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1,090 Main pot 870. Side pot 220. | Rake 0
Board: [6s 9c 5d 4c 7s]
Seat 1: fahreneit didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: snobrega10 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Loggjaw (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: bayne_s (small blind) showed [Ah Ad] and won (870) with a pair of Aces
Seat 5: isonusaf (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: elsololobo02 showed [Kd Ac] and won (220) with Ace King high
Seat 7: JHinderheel didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: BackdoorFishy didn't bet (folded)

Tourney ended on this hand.

18% Done

BBT is now 1/6 of the way complete.

Al has created a system without a leaderboard so I will create one of my own.

Douchebag of the BBT5 standings:

1. Dr Tea - Apparently made final table prop bet with xkm1245 over him not final tabling. Not only refused to pay but was still in chat box as Final Table was down to 5 spewing comments.

2. VBPro7 - Started strong, somewhat annoying but busted rather early and actually left tourney.

3. JoelPokerGod - Never actually saw him in chat. This ranking is solely based on past performance.

I made an effort to fill VB's role when he left table but my comment towards JamyHawk were weak.

I also saw VeryJosie in what I think was her first Mookie. I doubt she realized the Mookie wouldn't get to heads up until 11:20 Pacific.

It returns

It returns!

The Marketing at Full Tilt Poker is still awesome.

I love that "run it twice has moved down to $1/$2 tables to reduce variance.

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [9c 8s Jc 8d]
GolfClapper folds
Jed Forest folds
Geparden raises to $7
uscnamja781 folds
bayne_s calls $5
*** FLOP *** [8h 2c 4h]
bayne_s checks
Geparden bets $15
bayne_s raises to $60
Geparden raises to $73, and is capped
bayne_s calls $13, and is capped
Players agree to Run It Twice
Geparden shows [7d 6h 8c Ad]
bayne_s shows [9c 8s Jc 8d]
*** TURN 1 *** [8h 2c 4h] [Qc]
*** RIVER 1 *** [8h 2c 4h Qc] [5d]
*** TURN 2 *** [8h 2c 4h] [Kd]
*** RIVER 2 *** [8h 2c 4h Kd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN 1 ***
Geparden shows a straight, Eight high
bayne_s shows three of a kind, Eights
*** SHOW DOWN 2 ***
Geparden shows a straight, Eight high
bayne_s shows three of a kind, Eights
Geparden wins pot 1 ($78.50) with a straight, Eight high
Geparden wins pot 2 ($78.50) with a straight, Eight high

I hate that RNG takes a fawk you approach to my variance.

I have bad feeling BBT5 will not be like original BBT

Tax Day

Taxes are competed, so I will have a leisurely tax day.

I don't procrastinate but I get the taxes figured out enough in February to know ball park of refund or pay. The 2009 taxes seemed real strange when I owed a grand+ to Feds but was getting a grand+ back from state. Other than years cashing stock options the state has always been within $100 but with my work sabbatical and different tax treatments of unemployment compensation I thought it was correct.

When I pressed the TurboTax Review button it decided this can't be right and led me to a form where I had somehow entered number as capital gains that belonged in income tax with-held box.

Big props to Turbo Tax for finding me a few thousand mistake.

The actual e-file process did not go smoothly as there is just no possibility to convince them that K2H 8K7 is a valid employer zip code on W-2 for CA or that ON, ONT, OT is a valid state abbreviation.

I got in some cheap rush PLO to celebrate and some cheap super turbos. 45 man $3 superturbos crack me up how can someone call a jam for 600 chips at 15/30 with 89 off?

My Favorite McNabb TD

The 1st one is still saved on my Tivo that is in daughters room.

It is still interesting to see McNabb traded in the division.

For all we know Kevin Kolb is 2nd coming of Rob Johnson.

Farewell Online Poker

I have decided that I will take a break from playing online poker.

Mookie is only thing I have played since Monday and I made mistake of shoving two overs and a flush draw against Speaker and failed to suck out. Congrats to him for deep 50-50 run since he spewed away my gift in Mookie.

During poker break I will get out of my comfy chair and try to get in better physical condition.

Simplest aspect of plan is to have at least 3 days a week where I walk or run.

I figure with my access to public transportation it is pretty easy to walk 1 mile to trolley in morning to get to work, for trip home I can walk home until I feel ready to try to run home. I will just run along trolley route so I can bail and ride but last 3/4 mile (1 mile without trolley change) always has to be at least walking.

Tuesday I made effort but only walked 1st mile toward home when I realized it was frkn cold. So I sprinted 200 yards to catch a trolley. Driver was not going to open the door to teach me a lesson but instead let me in and made admonishing announcement about dangers of jaywalking.

In my defense Tasman was clear to top of hill at least 1/3 mile away and I ran behind trolley after it passed. I chuckled and a few of the other passengers were shaking their fingers at me as they laughed.

Today was supposed to be another trolley day but it was warm under the covers and cold outside. I did not have time for trolley and timely arrival at a meeting so plan broken.

Note for quitter: I will spend medals for iron month to keep streak alive one more month.

Mookie Tonight

In an attempt to revive I believe Al has promised a Full Tilt jersey to the winner of an 80 entrant Mookie tonight. I quit e replaying as payout (top 3 up to 20 some entrants), time involved due to structure only to be sucked out on by a douche-bag lagtard who talks smack after his 25% comes home is just annoying.

I will register assuming home by 7.

I will play depending how wife feels tonight.

My wife was very excited that her favorite niece was going to have a baby, went shopping this weekend and sent the baby gifts Monday morning.

Today same niece is undergoing procedure to remove deceased baby as doctor determined yesterday the heart had stopped beating. I would guess procedure is similar to 2nd trimester abortion (without moral implications or hopefully any protesters). They tried to induce labor and she is still waiting to deliver.

Hope she gets through procedure okay and her grief okay.

I played poker Monday night and was in BB with Th9h9c7c, Scandi UTG raised, SB called

and we saw a flop of Qc8h6h, SB checked, I checked planning on a CR because I don't think I h have ever seen a Scandi check behind after raising pre UTG and indeed saw an almost pot bet an almost pot raised so I made an all in raise feeling I was gambling against a set and an overpair.

Instead

Scandi had QsQd8s6d

SB had Qh8s6s8c

SB was dead money, I was an awesome 75% to win on flop getting 3:1 and did hit my straight.

After teaching me how bad I play in chat (yes even Q886 felt need to educate me) they left I played around to button collecting my 200 points and IronMan for month.

The quitter will never pass my IronMan streak now!

I haven't played a hand since and am probably going to take April off from poker but buy an Iron Month with medals to keep streak alive. I finished Monday up $200 but just not in good poker mindset.

The demon child has me driving her around Saturday otherwise I would have to make an exception for live poker and tri-tip dinner. We'll see how late daughter keeps me Saturday afternoon.

My wife has still not renewed license to drive and has only made the one attempt at test, demon child can take test in 5 weeks and has a week off from school in April. My money is on kid passing test 1st.

NBC Boycott

I will boycott NBC if they run one more commercial for Parenthood that hints at masturbation or women 'faking it' or any other sexual in nature theme before 10 pm!

I understand this is a rather minor threat because I probably only watch 2 hours of NBC's prime time lineup a week because of their overall suckitude but I would prefer the demon child not ask me to explain what faking means?

Wife cracked down on me last week and said I can't delegate all the explaining to her with a "Your her father you're going to have to deal with her growing up!" emphasis.

(For waffles only: Take note of grammatical difference in 'your' and 'you're')

My explanation was halted by daughter, I reported question to wife and she will explain today, if she understands what faking means.

So Stressed

I really like the day to day work I am doing but dealing with the changes from the contracting company is really stressing me out.

Have got to wonder if DrChako can prescribe some medical marijuana to alleviate my stress???

Biggest problem is I am sure my wife would also need something to alleviate her stress over me smoking pot.

The demon child set me up big time last night when she asked me why I never said anything about John Edwards cheating on his wife. I was part way through answering question when I realized wife was paying closer attention than I realized to how I answered question.

I think I escaped trap when I pointed out that Jesse James and Tiger were over the top with their exploits while Edwards' wife to the outside world seemed to accept situation but since she was a politicians wife we would never know the real story until the last book was written.

My Work Day

Was going to update schematic, UNIX machine that hosts my files and tool crashed, put in request to IT.

2nd tried to create a part in vast system, read process document.

Got to step 2 and discovered I don't have EMCO account put in request.

3rd went to update Visio document. Discovered I don't have Visio.

Tried to install Visio and discovered as of 2 weeks ago manager has to approve SW installs for contractors. There is process and it involves having Oracle account

4th established Oracle account now must wait up to 24 hours for password to sync.

5th Got notified EMCO account has been granted access but I will have to sync up password.

How long until hoops tips off?

Demon Child last night concluded "Russell is greatest Survivor player ever. I still hate him"

Mo Health Insurance

I have decided I am ready for full blown socialism with regard to health care.

US branch of company is moving to group health insurance.

Since we are 2 employees and group health is minimum 2 it means we have to agree.

This means our wives have to agree.

Boss has 2 small kids and his wife likes their pediatrician and have been covered by Blue Cross which is very wide network.

I moved 3000 miles to California in 1999, company at time paid 100% family coverage for Blue Cross or Kaiser. Kaiser looked cheaper out of pocket to me option and I had to find a new doctor anyway so no objections to being restricted to Kaiser facilities, they seem to have one in every town out here. Through 4 jobs and 1 period of unemployment we have stuck with Kaiser.

I spent far too much energy on phone and sending emails yesterday, my final email was always going to be enough to end discussion.

"We can switch to Blue Cross if they are willing to accept after we answer the pre-existing conditions portion of application".

2014 we can probably switch insurance carriers but doubt it can happen before then if I am not part of big employee pool.

Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010

Around 1985 the state of Virginia decided it was still okay to charge more for auto insurance based on age but gender could not be a factor in setting rates.

I did not see any savings in what I paid to insure my car but remember hearing from Becky that her auto insurance rates got jacked up.

Seems pretty standard to me that if insurance companies cannot use actuarial statistics to determine insurance charges they will charge higher rates to account for not being able to adjust for payout expectations.

A quick poll of the household would indicate 2 Obama votes in 2010. Neither of them pay taxes into the system so wtf do they care how much something costs.

I suspect I am screwed on this financially because it will either cost money long term in higher taxes or I will be dealing with higher out of pocket costs for health care as my company moves to a cheaper insurance plan. Being sole american I doubt CEO passes on the savings to employees.

I tried to read the bill but it is a lot like reading a document in Microsoft Word in 'Review Mode' if they had a choice of 'show only markup'. Without the underlying government law being modified it is just complete garbage to read!

Back from Vegas

Things that tilted me this trip (in chronological order):

1) 1st time rolling the dice I established a point of 9 4 times. Since I made point on 3rd roll after establishing point 1st 2 times I decided to hop 5-4 3rd roll of that point. I rolled a 6-3. The next roll establishing point again was 5-4.

2) Georgia Tech played the ugliest 2nd half of basketball against Maryland a team has ever played in a victory.

3) It seemed like every person who got near broke at a blackjack table managed to walk to craps table I was at to buy in for less than 3 pass line bets. They of course would only bet "The Field" They also managed to time it to slow down a shooter that seemed to be just about to go a a roll.

4) 2 of the offending field bettors bought in using 5+ $1 bills.

5) Had one bad beat at poker for huge pot.

6) I was asked to leave Casino Royale when a field bettor managed to walk up to the table and knock the dice down as he placed his "money plays" $5 field bet. Laws of probability do not apply to this situation as dice come up 7 >90% of time. My rant was wafflesque resulting in request to leave.

7) I knew things would go badly after this happened Friday morning:

Bayne: I have to leave

Bayne: time for Vegas depart
sirfwalgman: nice
sirfwalgman: gl with the craps
sirfwalgman: I will be ROOTING for YOU
sirfwalgman: Cheering YOU on
sirfwalgman: to KILL CRAPS
Bayne: bastard
sirfwalgman is typing...
sirfwalgman: BLAHAHAHA

I run so bad

Monday I thought it would be funny to suggest to waffles that he could have wine and dinner with a friend from high school but catch was dinner was after running a half-marathon.

Then:

IM 20 minutes ago

K: so

me: so?

K: tell me about waffles

She learns of my blog yesterday when I told her about the can't arouse captcha and the link she clicks on leads her to waffles because google reader picked up this post.

me: I have been sweating ever since he posted:

http://sirfwalgman.blogspot.com/2010/03/marathon-training.html

OMG what have I done

K: yes, that's the post i almost commented on! i'm like, whoa! he's talking about ME!

me: shit

Worse part is I was thinking I would have to train so I could run in a half-marathon just on the slim chance that waffles stuck to a training plan.

Me getting in half marathon shape seemed trivial compared to logistics of can we take kid out of school to go to Disney World in October as kid is less likely to understand me going to Disney World without her than wife would accept me traveling cross country to run with chica from high school.

Was going to head to Las Vegas this weekend with boss and other canadian co-worker, The boss' wife saw 'The Hangover' or has some other issue with him going to Vegas so he has bailed on me, sucky part is I am now within 72 hour cancellation window so I would have to pay for a room I don't use or get free room if I still go.

Health Care

No poker:

Working for a Canadian Company means they do not have a lot of experience dealing with Health Insurance. End of the month I am transitioning from individual policy to a small company group health policy with deductible and HSA. I have no idea what it means for my out of pocket costs and that is my biggest concern since provider is still Kaiser so am willing to assume quality of care is same.

I have still not fully decided how I feel about Health Care 'Reform'. I remain confident that having US Government run would be clusterfuck but would not want to read another story like Otis' 2nd child.

I decided it would still be a good idea to contact the White House and send them link to Otis blog, I also may have included a rant about Hospitals' biggest drive seemed to be run tests to rule out issues (from wife's seizure experience) which I was not sure was to pay for equipment or protect from lawsuits. Insurance companies big drive seemed to be to raise premiums and deny claims and pharmaceutical companies biggest drive was to medicate moods or sell me Cialis or Viagra.

Of course White House wants to make sure a bot does not flood them so a captcha came up on send:

Marching On

No Poker Content:

I saw on Facebook a friend had commented on some pictures of a Naval vessel that were posted.

It got me curious about the ship I spent a month on during my ROTC summer cruise.

A quick google search led me to the 'plankowners' site of the USS Thorn. My summer cruise occurred 20 months after commissioning so I served with some of the plankowners.

I looked through the site than ran into one page that saddened me:

How am I old enough to have served on a ship that was new when I boarded but has been decommisioned and used for target practice????

Grats Canada on Hockey Gold, don;t know how US lost the momentum from end of regulation. It does strike me as strange that overtime is 4 on 4 when US played the rest of tournament 5 on 5. But going to shootout would have been worse.

SCOOP Ticket Step 1

After reading all the uproar over the pokerstars email I sat at my desk contemplating PokerStars offer I decided to consider two factors:

1) Has Stars accumulated any good will?

2. How hard is it to meet the 1st condition?

Waffles never has a bankroll which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill.

I am sensing a theme but doubt I will get a $109 ticket for showing the most work or imagination.

So Lonely

It's not easy being the only American in a Canadian Company today.

No emails.

No calls.

Don't they understand I am in pain from the top 2 (1:40 mark)

'Good Luck Waffles'

Waffles lit me up in chat yesterday. I had been telling him for months in IM that now that he is divorcing it was time to pursue his dream girl. Of course the tard felt he had to level up his character in some RPG first so I had to put up with his crying in IM about her changing her facebook status from 'single' to 'in a relationship'. I suggested he move on to another blogger who apparently desires some relationship drama so she has more to talk about with her girlfriends.

It was at this moment that it hit me that just like Dane Cook in 'Good Luck Chuck' waffles may be the key to women finding happiness.

The best part for you ladies out there is you don't actually have to sleep with waffles for it to work. We concluding all it really takes is waffles believing he has a chance with you.

So as a service to my single female readers, for a token $5 transfer on Full Tilt I will convince waffles he has a chance with you. Between his delusional self and my ability to goad waffles into a bad prop bet I have to believe I can succeed in getting waffles to believe he has a chance.

It may actually take him months (who am I kidding years) to work up the nerve to talk to you so you may never even have to reject him.

If you have a troll fetish and actually want to be set up with waffles I can arrange this for $250. The extra cost is for your own good and money will be donated to a worthy charity as it would feel like profiting from conflict diamonds to keep.

On a side note all the Fidus employees in Ottawa have the day off for Family Day, all the Canadians in Fidus US office have President's Day holiday. I am stuck working because Cisco does not have Presidents Day off so I am missing FTOPS O8 (scene of my glorious FTOPS final table).

Such a bad beat!

Back to "Start-Up"

Last year I made a decision that I was tired of working for start up companies and the long hours that entailed. Thought decision to go to services company would free me up. Then they pimped me out into my old industry.

Even at the biggest companies apparently they will request that you put in some extra hours to reach project milestones. I am probably stuck working 60 hour weeks for most of February.

Poker will probably limited this month, I may even have to use medals to maintain my IronMan streak unless RushPoker can get me some points. There is no reason to give former blogger RecessRampage an opening to a longer streak just in case he drops pathetic claim that Platinum Star status on PokerStars is worth more than rakeback on FullTilt.

I hate that Gold Star status on Pokerstars may slip away from me as well, I like to maintain that so if double status tournies return I can sneak my way to SuperNova, came close last time they ran promotion but settled for bump to Platinum.

Next Post will probably be my NCAA tourney preview.

At least the long hours this time mean the sure thing of overtime rather than the speculative payout of IPO. It's like I switched from playing tournies to grinding cash.

Fawk Rush Poker

Being on the West Coast is brutal. I have been summoned to the SVP in charge of IT here because they apparently don't have enough bandwidth to get files streamed between corporate sites and handle Waffles IM barrage as he plays Rush poker.

How the fuck do you stream so many hand comments?

Could you multi-table please to slow IM down?

Fawk if Cisco's servers can't handle the traffic then who can?

Saturday Night Rush

Decided Saturday Night 'Rush Poker' would be a good idea.

Lesson from graph above is to get your money in bad.
Hand 1 I got it in with top set against 2 flush draws (neither nut flush draws) and one of them went runner runner straight.

Hand 2 I got it in with Top pair, nut flush draw and went runner runner straight against middle set.

Lesson 1 from Saturday is get it in bad.
Lesson 2 is it is trivial to get in 700 hands.

Somehow I find it fitting that Brett Favre threw an interception in Conference Championship game as both a Packer and Viking on throws that could most kindly be labeled 'reckless'.

Vikings and Saints both have fine (long suffering) fan bases, but after scenes from Katrina it is hard to not to be happy for New Orleans.

"Move it Shorty"

It seems like a fine expression when a short stack at table is holding up game making a decision every hand.

It does not seem like respect when "Move it Shorty" is said by the Demon Child as she walks behind her mother. Now I am beginning to wonder is kid really still growing or is my wife shrinking?

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To review a betting sequence:

1) Democrats in Massachusetts expect Kerry to beat Bush in 2004.

2) Governor is Republican so they change long established rules from Governor appoints interim Senator to call for special election.

3) Kerry loses.

4) Devan Patrick (Dem) wins Governors Office.

5) Senator Kennedy dies.

6) Republican Senate candidate wins Teddy's old seat, putting in doubt legislation Senator Kennedy worked for most of his career.

Well played Massachusetts Democrats!

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I played super turbos rather than the new "Rush Poker" to get my requisite 100 point goal.
I am behind ironman bonus clearing pace at this point, but tutoring demon child in algebra plus new project at work is kicking my ass.

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I had a change of heart and played some 'Rush Poker', I had heard play was terrible so gave it a shot. It took ~40 minutes to get in 150 hands and win 2.5 buyins.

Full Tilt Poker Game #17745350356: Table Apollo - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:30:40 ET - 2010/01/20
Seat 1: Ashing ($10.94)
Seat 2: NASCAR-1955 ($105.68)
Seat 3: usgrant1862 ($34.30)
Seat 4: SBSlackers ($83.24)
Seat 5: bayne_s ($51.11)
Seat 6: X-Chess ($16.83)
Seat 7: senseoffense ($100.52)
Seat 8: bcnbc ($18.29)
Seat 9: Mados ($24.75)
X-Chess posts the small blind of $0.10
senseoffense posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [2h 2d]
bcnbc folds
Mados raises to $0.50
Ashing folds
NASCAR-1955 folds
usgrant1862 folds
SBSlackers calls $0.50
bayne_s calls $0.50
X-Chess calls $0.40
senseoffense folds
*** FLOP *** [4c 2c 2s]
X-Chess bets $1.25
Mados calls $1.25
SBSlackers folds
bayne_s calls $1.25
*** TURN *** [4c 2c 2s] [Qc]
X-Chess bets $3.50
Mados calls $3.50
bayne_s calls $3.50
*** RIVER *** [4c 2c 2s Qc] [Jd]
X-Chess has 15 seconds left to act
X-Chess bets $11.58, and is all in
Mados has 15 seconds left to act
Mados calls $11.58
bayne_s raises to $23.16
Mados calls $7.92, and is all in
Uncalled bet of $3.66 returned to bayne_s
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bayne_s shows [2h 2d] four of a kind, Twos
Mados mucks
bayne_s wins the side pot ($15.40) with four of a kind, Twos
X-Chess mucks
bayne_s wins the main pot ($48.68) with four of a kind, Twos
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $67.08 Main pot $51.24. Side pot $15.84. | Rake $3
Board: [4c 2c 2s Qc Jd]
Seat 1: Ashing didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: NASCAR-1955 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: usgrant1862 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: SBSlackers folded on the Flop
Seat 5: bayne_s (button) showed [2h 2d] and won ($64.08) with four of a kind, Twos
Seat 6: X-Chess (small blind) mucked [Ac 9c] - a flush, Ace high
Seat 7: senseoffense (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: bcnbc didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Mados mucked [4s 4d] - a full house, Fours full of Twos

Clearly I play good.

Happy Martin Luther King Day

A large company like Cisco that produces products that sell to consumers as well (linksys routers) closes for the Holiday.

A Canadian Company with one US citizen employee does not. My cube is a little messy so I will go clean it up since they are planning to hire and may give away my cube while I work at Cisco.


1st BLT on Tilt saw a 98th of 30k+
2nd BLT saw a finish of 8000 (7500 paid) when I jammed 99 into only player at table who could bust me
3rd BLT I had 4 BB when money bubble broke. I had gotten a little discouraged when I ran KK into AA for the 3rd time of the day (and held KK 4 times total) . I day 5/5 to rumning QQ into higher KK or AA.

Managed to roach and climb to 50 BBs when I not only went card dead but a player to my right who raised every flop and was capable of this play:
Dealt to bayne_s [4d 9s]
gunner3152 raises to 24,000
bayne_s folds
Berni0706 folds
pierostar58 folds
Laces999 folds
wilc31 folds
Pakl89 raises to 109,816, and is all in
mancannon69 calls 105,816
holdur folds
gunner3152 raises to 112,203, and is all in
mancannon69 calls 2,387
gunner3152 shows [Ks Js]
Pakl89 shows [Kc Ad]
mancannon69 shows [Qc 8s]
** FLOP * [Jc Kh 3c]
* TURN * [Jc Kh 3c] [9c]
* RIVER * [Jc Kh 3c 9c] [5s]
gunner3152 shows two pair, Kings and Jacks
mancannon69 shows King Queen high

I folded a lot of crap waiting for a spot until:

Full Tilt Poker Game #17684093845: The Big Little Tournament (125975242), Table 176 - 5000/10000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:05:39 ET - 2010/01/17
Seat 1: SENORSCOOP (326,582)
Seat 2: mancannon69 (371,779)
Seat 3: damzou10 (244,233)
Seat 4: gunner3152 (335,222)
Seat 5: bayne_s (66,352)
Seat 6: Berni0706 (54,766)
Seat 7: pierostar58 (35,923)
Seat 8: Laces999 (234,478)
Seat 9: matchupme (266,978)
SENORSCOOP antes 1,000
mancannon69 antes 1,000
damzou10 antes 1,000
gunner3152 antes 1,000
bayne_s antes 1,000
Berni0706 antes 1,000
pierostar58 antes 1,000
Laces999 antes 1,000
matchupme antes 1,000
pierostar58 posts the small blind of 5,000
Laces999 posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [6h 6s]
matchupme folds
SENORSCOOP folds
mancannon69 raises to 30,000
damzou10 folds
gunner3152 folds
bayne_s raises to 65,352, and is all in
Berni0706 has 15 seconds left to act
Berni0706 folds
pierostar58 has 15 seconds left to act
pierostar58 has requested TIME
pierostar58 has timed out
pierostar58 folds
pierostar58 is sitting out
Laces999 folds
pierostar58 has returned
mancannon69 calls 35,352
bayne_s shows [6h 6s]
mancannon69 shows [5d 4d]
*** FLOP *** [4h 7s 4s]
*** TURN *** [4h 7s 4s] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [4h 7s 4s Js] [4c]
bayne_s shows a full house, Fours full of Sixes
mancannon69 shows four of a kind, Fours
mancannon69 wins the pot (154,704) with four of a kind, Fours
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 154,704 | Rake 0
Board: [4h 7s 4s Js 4c]
Seat 1: SENORSCOOP folded before the Flop
Seat 2: mancannon69 showed [5d 4d] and won (154,704) with four of a kind, Fours
Seat 3: damzou10 folded before the Flop
Seat 4: gunner3152 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: bayne_s showed [6h 6s] and lost with a full house, Fours full of Sixes
Seat 6: Berni0706 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: pierostar58 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Laces999 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: matchupme folded before the Flop

Dealer: bayne_s finishes in 264th place and wins: $125

a little later I saw:
Dealer: mancannon69 finishes in 194th place and wins: $125

Is it wrong that it made me smile?

It was not quite as decisive as last week's Mookie bubble:

Seat 2: iaatg6296 (16,178)
Seat 6: JOELp0kerTARD (23,532)
Seat 8: bayne_s (10,230)
Seat 9: VBPro7 (4,060)
iaatg6296 antes 50
JOELp0kerTARD antes 50
bayne_s antes 50
VBPro7 antes 50
JOELp0kerTARD posts the small blind of 250
bayne_s posts the big blind of 500
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bayne_s [Qc Qs]
VBPro7 folds
iaatg6296 folds
JOELp0kerTARD raises to 1,500
bayne_s raises to 10,180, and is all in
JOELp0kerTARD calls 8,680
bayne_s shows [Qc Qs]
JOELp0kerTARD shows [7s Ac]
*** FLOP *** [Ah Ad Tc]
*** TURN *** [Ah Ad Tc] [4c]
*** RIVER *** [Ah Ad Tc 4c] [As]
bayne_s shows a full house, Aces full of Queens
JOELp0kerTARD shows four of a kind, Aces
JOELp0kerTARD wins the pot (20,560) with four of a kind, Aces

Joel used is massive chip lead to grab 3rd in the Mookie a belated congratulations.

My response to NBC

Got to be honest, I would usually watch 'Late Night with Craig Ferguson rather than 'Conan' when both started at 12:30. My decision to watch Letterman vs. Conan vs. Nightline/Kimmel is more dictated by whether I cared enough about one of the guests or to see Letterman look sheepish about blackmail for his own indiscretions or Tiger after his or recently lately to see Conan rip on NBC. I am part of Conan's audience lead in problem because the only chance I watch Leno at 10 is if it is Tuesday night and demon child wants to see contestant voted off 'The Biggest Loser'.

That being said I have decided that NBC has fucked up and I will not watch the latest edition of 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'. I will also not appear on the 'The Tonight Show' unless Conan is the host.

Someday my boycott on appearing will be significant even if it is not today. Sadly if all my readers also boycotted appearing it would only bother NBC when waffles finally cracks and goes on an angry killing spree or LJ aggrodonks her way to WSOP bracelet.

Not much happening on poker front other than losing last 8 times I have gotten all in pre with KK or QQ. 3 losses to higher pocket pairs, 2 to lower pocket pairs other 3 to mighty Arag. Wish I could be like Hoy and run like god with A-rag once.

Your Welcome

In honor of waffles I used wrong 'your' in the title intentionally.

I read Hoy for his picks, I get 10 emails a week from Wayne Root and his ilk. I have never paid for picks, until Friday. Now that we are down to just 4 games I don't get to select which games to put in a 4 card parlay. Felt good about Dallas, but the other two rematches featured a team that made no effort in week 17.

Then I remembered:
'Man's got to know his limitations'

MiamiDon had told me long ago that a good handicapper hits 70% but what you want is the perfect cooler. We in the blogger community have one and we should appreciate his 'skillz'.

Prelude to SCOOP

I started my blog in 1996 to gain entry into Blogger Championship. Feel I have to keep registering especially in light of the pokerstars freebies from the last longer challenge.

4,2

I work at the bottom left of the 'N' in Nimitz Freeway.

Quake was only 4.2 but epicenter is only 6 miles away but it still felt like riding in a truck with bad shocks. Being long term California I of course rose to my feet to surf it.

Demon Tale

My wife finally drove after 18 month hiatus. Unfortunately to be honest everything that was in the car on the day of seizure was still in car as I did not drive her car very often including a few sunflower seeds that seemed to attract a mouse. Our only real evidence of the mouse was some really shredded up paper that looked like a small nest.

Today my wife and the demon daughter cleaned up the car together. During the course of cleanup daughter found her 'black plague' project which conveniently included a mouse finger puppet.

Evil daughter hid the puppet for a little while and slipped in pocket and waited for the right opportunity. As wife drove to car clean up area to use the vacuum the demon child slipped puppet on her finger and snuck it onto wife's shoulder as she parked.

Screams (from wife) and laughter (from demon child) ensued.

Is it wrong that I feel some pride?