The Drugs haven’t kicked in yet

Apparently the anti-depressants take a couple weeks to kick in, so I’m going to rant a bit.

- If you write a long winded blog post, separate the fucking thing with paragraphs or I’m not reading it!

- Nobody cares about pictures of your kids on Facebook.  I just added you because you were  hot back in high school and I want to see if you’re still hot today!

- Continuing with the Facebook rants, quit posting stupid quotes that you ripped off some website as your status updates.  Status updates should be for ranting, telling me how shitty your work day was, and, in some cases, how good of a bowel movement you may have had.

- I got ripped off today.  I was patiently waiting on The Price is Right to come on, when I stumbled across Benny Hinn on the television.  I sit and watched the show only to find out he wouldn’t be smacking people in the head and making them walk again.  I watched for no more than 5 minutes and was asked for money 4 times.  I’m in the wrong business.

- Old people and their cheap ways tilt me to no end.  My parents are included in this rant.  So evidently $0.50 or whatever it costs is too much for a newspaper, so they share with the neighbor.  Yep. Sad.  Anyway, I’m taking my pre-Price is Right shit the other day, relaxing, letting things flow smoothly, when I heard a knock at the door.  I yell out the window “Just a minute!” and have to cut my nice shit short.  As I’m stumbling out the bathroom, pulling up my pants the neighbor is just taking it upon himself to come the fuck on in the house.  My parents weren’t going to be home for another 6 hours.  Leave the fucking newspaper on the front porch and let me shit in peace!  I had to go back for round 2 and I was on shit tilt for the entire episode of The Price is Right.

- Speaking of The Price is Right.  I love that show.  Drew Carey kills it.  What I really want to know is where the hell do they find a TV that costs $5000+?!!?  Does this thing cook breakfast and give blowjobs too?

- My 2nd favorite game show is Family Feud.  I love the old episodes with Richard Dawson because he basically molests every female on the show and they love it.  Dude is a stud.  Since then the hosts of that game show have grown progressively worse.  You have Al from Home Improvement.  Louie Anderson or whatever his name is.  Elaine from Seinfeld’s boss.  And now the most brilliant move of all…coming soon… STEVE FUCKING HARVEY.  Seriously?

- Let’s finish off with a non-rant.  I love the new game show Downfall.  Chris Jericho could go down as the greatest game show host of all time.  I just wish he would do it as his Y2J wrestling persona.  Don’t get me started with the retarded contestants on this show though….this would turn into a rant.

- I’m addicted to game shows. FML

Poker Grub

Am I the only person rooting for Grubby to go on an epic heater and take over the world? For an obviously problem gambler, this guy has some shitty luck.

Moving / More MTT Thoughts

This website will be moving soon.  I bought a domain and hosting plan for it.  My goodness is webhosting cheap these days or what?

I’m still waiting for my account to be set up and all that jazz.  Then I’ll have to install Wordpress and mod it up a bit.  Hopefully everything will be ready for me to work on that over the weekend or even this afternoon :).  I’ll post the link whenever it’s ready.  The main reason for the move is that Wordpress is some much greater than Blogger.  Plus I want to open up a couple other blogs under some sub-domains.  Hey, I like to purge my brain into the keyboard which sometimes comes out as a blog post.  It’s how I keep my sanity.  It’s my drug.  I don’t claim to be a good writer, but I will claim that writing calms me more than just about anything these days.

Now for the more important stuff.  I have been giving though to the whole MTT concept and how to incorporate more into my play.  I think I will try out the cash games during the week, MTTs on the weekend type thing.  This way, I can buy into some of the larger events (player wise) and not have to worry about sitting around for 8 hours.  I know I won’t have to be at work the next day.

I’m also going to only set aside a certain portion of my bankroll for MTTs.  This way, I can 1.) keep track of my winnings easier (since Pokertracker doesn’t seem to handle that aspect well) and 2.) protect my cash game roll.  I’ll probably play mostly $4/180’s on Stars and satellites to larger events.  This way I should be able to build my MTT bankroll and then eventually move into buying directly into the higher buy-in events.  I can also move up the 20 table scale by going from the $4 –> $10 –> $20 or whatever they spread.

Hardball

Last night, I opted to take the puppy out to the softball field to watch my friends play in a tournament.  My friends won their game and the puppy had fun and wore himself out for the evening, so all in all it was a success.  I didn’t play a single hand of poker though.

Tonight, I’m going back out to watch a baseball game.  The P-Rays are playing the Danville Braves.  I’m a big Braves fan, but I’ll still be rooting on the local team.  I’m kinda bummed about the P-Rays because I thought Tim Beckham was coming.  It looks now like he will skip rookie ball and go straight to A ball.  I guess commanding a $6 million signing bonus you can also command a no-rookie league clause in your contract.

There’s not much else going on in my world lately.  I’ve kind of fell into a rut in life lately.  I think I might have found a way out….restoring old friendships and what-not.  Maybe more on that later, maybe not.

Tidbits

A lot has happened since my last blog real blog post.  If I didn’t have this crappy job, I' probably wouldn’t have a blog.  I was on vacation last week, hence the lack of posting throughout the week.  However, there were several occurences during the week that I want to touch on a bit:

Tiger Woods: Broke leg, torn ACL? No match for Tiger Woods as he clearly didn’t have it at Torrey Pines.  However, when Tiger doesn’t have it, he’s still better than the rest of the field.  This man is who your kids should seek as a role model.  He leaves it all out there on the course.  His work ethic is 2nd to none.  Sure he gets mad after an errant shot…especially when his body is preventing him from making a good swing.  But if you notice, it leaves it all behind him before taking his next swing.  Tiger Woods would be the Phil Ivey of poker if he played.

George Carlin: I normally don’t get sad at the passing of celebrities.  They aren’t special.  But Carlin’s passing depressed me.  He took comedy to another level.  His ability to take the dumb shit we do on a daily basis and turn it into comedy was awesome.  For my money, you can’t get any better than Carlin and I just wish I had a chance to see him live when he was alive.

Poker: I played about 1/2 the hands that I intended to play last week.  This really wasn’t my fault though (I don’t think).  I got sick towards the end of the week and even though I wanted to play, I opted to rest instead.  I’m more stoked about poker now than I have been the prior months.  I cant’ explain these waves of motivation that go through my head, but I’m not going to complain.

My bankroll is back over the $1000 mark.  I have only played about 13,000 of my 20,000 hands at the $25NL tables though.  Hopefully I’ll finish up those last 7,000 hands or so in the next week or 2.  My confidence at the tables is so high now though.  It makes all the difference in the world when you expect to win every time you sit down.

I worked really hard on my game, plugging leaks, but mostly re-learning how to deal with the new rash of TAGs at the micro limits.  These players are the only real problems you have to deal with at the micro levels.  Most are decent pre-flop, but horrible post-flop.  I have been playing around a 20/16 style lately and this has worked out fairly well on the 6 max tables.  One thing these TAGs do not do is mix it up a bit.  They are usually playing a few tables and evidently not paying attention to what’s going on with all of them.  After a few orbits, you can put these guys on hand ranges fairly easily and then look at the board texture.  Is this a flop I will challenge?  Who cares if it missed me…all I know is that it missed his range completely and I’m taking that money in the middle. 

As you can see, I’m taking my thinking to a 2nd level.  I’m still playing pretty straight forward poker, but with some thought.  Instead of raising, missing the flop, c-betting and check/folding the turn, I’m mixing things up.  I’m putting my opponents on ranges and thinking about how that range fits in with the board texture.  Standard poker, but you’d be surpised how many people who think they are good don’t do these simple things.

I can’t wait to get past these next 7K hands and move out of the kiddie pool.  I also can’t wait for my bankroll to swell to 5 digits, but I’m sure that’s a little ways away.

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I'm bored

I'm so bored right now. I need something to do. I've fell into this rut of coming home and crashing in front of a computer screen watching baseball games until I pass out. But it's Friday and I'm ready for a little excitement. I really can't think of much to do though.

Option 22 are playing at the Villa (my friends' band's drummer's place). I've never heard them before, but I hear they are pretty good. They are a basically a hippie jam band much like Government Mule or Widespread Panic. I kind of want to see that show. The show starts at 8:00 p.m., so I'll have plenty of time to get there and if they suck, plenty of time to go do something else.

Other than being a groupie for these local bands, I need a hobby though. Golf just doesn't seem to cut it for me anymore as it's expensive and the only time I can really play is on the weekend and my friends usually can't play.

I want something a little more exciting than golf or fishing. Something new and fresh. Something constructive, yet fun. My life has become so monotonous lately. Same thing day in and day out. I'd like to find something that my friends would enjoy as well. I really have no clue what to do though.

I thought about buying a disc golf set and trying that out. I have a decent place in the back yard and my buddy Rog's place has all the real estate we'd need as he has acres upon acres of land. I found some starter sets on Amazon fairly cheap. Seems like fun too.

Any ideas on a fun, preferably outdoor activity that a bunch of overgrown kids would enjoy?

I hate Windows Media Player

This is the biggest piece of shit program ever. First, I was forced to upgrade to the "newest" and "greatest" version so I could watch my Netflix movies. Then I found out that I couldn't install the said newest version because my operating system (XP Media Center 2002) wasn't supported. So I had to do a bit of hacking to get that working.

Now the program only half ass works. And every once in a while I'll be watching a show and my PC will either lock up tight or just reboot. Awesome.

At least the HD streaming versions of Lost on ABC.com look amazing in it.

List of shit I want/need

• Riding Lawn Mower
  
• New amp for Sub-woofers
  
• HDTV
  
• new exhaust for truck
  
• new heat pump
  
• Call of Duty 4
  

Time to keep grinding. The next most important thing on my list is a riding lawn mower. I only got 3-4 more months before mowing season. Most of the other stuff is "Wants" instead of "Needs". Except for the truck stuff. It does need a new exhaust. And I love that stereo when those subs are banging your chest... I'm looking for an older, used amp right now. Nothing expensive.