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?

Worst Golf Round Ever

My co-workers and I decided to get together for our Boxing Day get together. It happened late due to my Disneyland visit. We partook of some beer and played some golf.

We opted to play Pebble Beach at Dave&Busters and we manged to lose 3 golf balls.

How bad do you have to be to lose 3 golf balls playing on a golf simulator where every ball hits the screen in front of you?

Strange Day

No Poker Content:

Work today has such a weird vibe. Company is shutting down until January 4th for the holidays and to make the books look better. When I come back instead of being in office I will be working on a customer site for at least six months so it sort of feels like the last day on the job as well.

I had just figured out a week ago that I was good in new job when I got to visit companies biggest customer with only an hours advance warning. I spent a little time researching design that I had not seen before and figured out who to contact in Ottawa if I had questions and drove to customer. After few minutes in lab it was pretty obvious customer had neglected to supply clock and that was root cause and I was out the door by noon. Customer happy, bosses happy, Bayne happy as no issues with blogger weekend.

Next Year I will basically be returning to my job of previous 9 years just at a more successful company. The other plus side is I already know 2 of my co-workers.

I will be somewhat off net as we embark on Disneyland Christmas Vacation, there really are no religious overtones to that, possibly followed by skiing in Tahoe.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Blogger Weekend Sunday

Sunday I managed to wake up before kickoff and headed to LaGasse's Stadium. I managed to get 2 morning parlays bet and found Luxury Suite #3 arranged by CJ and Al. If I ever hit at a start up again my basement man cave will be based on that suite. Watching Drizz and CJ wagering on 1st downs and punts via the Pallazo supplied blackberries was degeneracy at it's finest.

The wife paying off the purple prop bet was priceless. Vikings and Packers fans interacting is a funny sight, I think a lot of the camraderie is based on they are all too bundled up at games to really hurt anyone if a fight broke out and it carries over to warm environs.

Being a Bucs fan I have already given up on the season so my game focus was not good but the late Cowboys v Chargers game was entertaining.

LJ then took me out to dinner at B & B Ristorante as a reward for hooking her up with a room. After grilling the waiter over how everything was prepared a fine dinner began. I was allowed to choose the wine and found a good $13 dollar bottle for only a small mark-up. Food and Wine was good but it's possible we were a little annoying as the people at the adjacent table did request to be moved halfway through their meal.

We returned to LaGasse's to watch the 2nd half of the Eagle's Giants shootout. At this point most of bloggers opted to head toward Ip while I stayed behind as I was already in my hotel and had early flight (and worked Monday).

A final session of craps was required and as we walked by the Venetian craps table it was noted that they had no $10 tables but did have two empty $15 tables. Negotiations were begun to change the table to $10 or we would walk, I can now see some advantages of traveling with an only child (henceforth OC) used to getting her way as it would not have occurred to me to ask.

A few minutes later the pit boss placed the 2nd call upstairs and a $10 table was opened.

There were some good shooters and a lot of energy as OC was cheering for each shooter based on shirt worn and over time rest of table joined in. There were some tense moments as OC would rathole Green chips in her olive oil stained ghetto purse but then not have enough chips on table for a later come bet or odds. I would drop chips from my rail to keep the game flowing as ratholed chips were retrieved but then OC would get peeved that I would not give her $100 bill for her 4 $25 chips so she could buy in for 'more money' and improve comps.

The craps dealer and I also tried to convince OC that place bets were better in some circumstance than come bets as a)you get paid 1st time the number hits and b)if you have all the numbers covered a place bet pays better than a come bet not fully backed. There is also the psychological aspect that after you get all the points you just don't want to see a 7 on a come out roll.

The young asian dude to my left was shortstacking craps and saw some advantages to the place bets approach (but he was sticking to the 6/8).

At some point Asian dude did ask: "Are you two together?"
My answer: "Just for gambling"
OC's delayed answer: "Are you fawking kidding me? You don't think I can do better than him?" there were about 3 other questions until she got to "plus he's married and I like his wife and 13 yo daughter"

We played a while longer and then decided we would cash out 'after 1 more shooter', 1 more was repeated 3 times until we got to 'absolutely 1 more shooter' and then it was but I am rolling in 2 so around to you. After I rolled I colored up as the shooters at other end of table who had been hot were gone. I cashed out and came back to table to hear '1 more shooter' a few times. I walked away and picked up a 'Know when to say When' pamplet and drew laughs from stick and dealer as well as Asian guy but angry gestures. I waited a few more shooters and gave up saying goddbye and heading to my room for 4 hours of sleep before flight.

Another Blogger Weekend Complete

Being on the job 2 months AND promising to take the demon child to Disneyland for Christmas can lead to an abbreviated blogger weekend due to a lack of vacation time.

I arrived in Las Vegas at 8:00 pm, checked into Pallazo and then met up with LJ, Recess and Schaubs at the Venetian Poker Room. After distributing keys, the girlie ones headed to the room to primp for MGM while LJ and I headed to Casino Royale and Caesars for craps.

I arrived a little late to MGM and led by Iggy and the South Carolina bloggers a $1/$2 game had ~$5k on table. At this point I decided to head to the bar to value drink the 32 oz Stellas. With the 1st one being $9 and subsequent being $6 I had to have a few to get average cost down.

Biggest surprise was waffles was already at the bar, Marshall of course normally arrives after midnight but either the divorce or the drink brought out the waffles we all know from blog and chatbox rather than meek /quiet Marshall. Lots of fun was had by all as Pauly (I think) started idea of chipping into to get waffles a hooker to celebrate his divorce, which led to a lot of speculation amongst the male bloggers about how waffles could improve his game.

I did ask the female bloggers near the bar if they hated waffles (as he insisted)? Heather, Texas April and Betty Underground all denied hatred. Discretion does force me not to reveal who amongst them did express complete indifference. I also learned that there are more craps degens amongst bloggers than just myself.

Saturday marked the blogger tournament which April did a great job setting up.

Also mad props to CJ, Otis and G-Rob for setting up the 3 man team last longer challenge!
And a special thanks to Pokerstars for the added $2k prize money. I would also be remiss if I did not thanks Schaubs for forming team roach with Gnome and myself then bailing to form a Canadian team (really??? have you seen fuel play in tournies?) forcing Mark and I to bring Recess into Team Roach.

Our hostess was seated to my immediate right at the start of the tournament but exited somewhat early to a blogger that shockingly liked to limp call with KJo out of position. In the levels before the 1st break I got dealt QQ 4 times and survived, I probably folded a good hand once and managed to collect a nice pot to get above starting stack when I managed to have flopped quads hold up.

I folded a lot between breaks but luckily time passed quickly as Smokkee and Blinders traded nittyness barbs and Pauly and Iggy traded barbs on a wide variety of subjects. Heather was keeping close track of last longer and at 4 table point she that we were down to 2 complete teams.

My table finally broke to get to 3 handed and I found myself with position on eventual champion Astin. I have to believe the complete fear of me cracking his AA with some suited connectors kept him a small stack not willing to make a move until I busted. I was relatively shortstacked but had outlasted Maude to aid Team Roach when I jammed Ts9s from ep. Unfortunately 7 handed there is still a chance someone will pick up a monster and JoeSpeaker was sitting on the jackAce, despite 2 spades and a backdoor straight hitting flop I was unable to improve and my chips finished 3rd with out me. Fortunately Mark and Alan ran deep to secure the team last longer, my wife was so impressed with the fine trophy that she will let it sit on dining room table until she romves the Santa themed stuff.




Recess has a better phone/picture on his blog.

Sunday and part II of the awesome work of UpforPoker crew to follow ......

The Longest Day

Being 2 months on job means I do get to go to WPBT. But I have already allocated all my vacation time earned to take wife and kid to Disneyland for Christmas. It's brutal to know that the festivities have been ongoing all week for some tards. Hurts a little more that so many others arrive a day ahead of me but at least I can console myself with knowledge that waffles will arrive later than me.

I could probably pull off sneaking out early tomorrow as I am either doing very well or very poorly at new job. My employee number is US001 and I was brought in to help land more California business and get company into bigger accounts. I cannot say that I am good at estimating effort a project will take or writing statement of work describing accurately what a customer wants. I definitely have lost patience with one potential customer who I believe will be a bigger pain in the ass than doing design projects for him will be worth.

On the other hand I was very good at doing high speed board design and interviewed well at a Dow 30 company, worst case I start working on a 6 month contract January 4 but may start sooner.

Being a guaranteed profit center rather than overhead for 6 months certainly adds to the job security. I may have to ask CEO if I can fly out tonight.

16th Anniversary Today

All the overs long ago collected their wagers on how long this would last. I think the key to my marriage is wife is very tolerant of my faults and as long as I don't cross over into Chris Brown or Tiger Woods territory she will probably remain very tolerant.

Wife did inform me of latest Tiger offer for Elin to stick around this morning, I did not quite get idea of making it a business transaction but maybe Tiger's sponsors did.

I made mistake of sharing Chris Rock line that "A man is as faithful as his options".

Wife did jump right into "What are you saying?" had to respond quickly that Tiger is probably tempted with offers on a pretty regular basis where I am mainly turning down professionals during Vegas trips.

I don't believe I blew it for my participation is the Pokerstars added WPBT team challenge so will see everyone in Vegas next week.