Friday night after watching Michelle's choir concert, I hung out with Kassi. She wanted to see a movie, so we saw Hitch, starring Will Smith and Kevin James. I didn't have high expectations for it, but it turned out to be a hilarious romantic comedy that was unusually intelligent at times. Kevin did very well as a socially challenged executive ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to a poker tournament held by someone that Akshai knows. 22 people showed up and played on three tables. I played, got 3 pocket pairs in a row once, and then it was down to two tables. With not many chips left, I went all in on a flush draw before the river. Someone called me. The river came, and our cards were flipped. He had ( Read more... )

My minions....drinking.....non-stop entertainment.....poker.....DDR.....handcuffs - Things you'd find at Brady's Poker Party!It was priceless. Great times were had by all at my first poker night, which really turned into a party. I'll have to host another one of these later in the semester. Poker was great, but started tediously, as there were ( Read more... )

Besides meeting a bunch of new student workers today, work was relatively uneventful. When I came home, Akshai, Nick (the 2nd roommate), and I played a round of deat hmatch Halo. Then all of us had screwdrivers (Vodka with Orange Juice) while watching the European sitcom, Coupling, on PBS. I've seen ads about the series being done on NBC also, ( Read more... )

So much has happened in the past two days. Thursday night, we held a poker night. There weren't enough people to hold a big tournament, but with the $20 I bought in for, I won over $50 that night. Last night, we went over to someone else's poker night, where I turned $10 into almost $50. It's been a combination of luck (getting some good hands ( Read more... )

I have really been enjoying the past two days. Lots of poker and lots of good times, staying up past 5AM. On Sunday Akshai and I hosted our first poker night. We didn't yet have the 500 chips and carrying case that we bought online, but we knew some people with chips. At one point while playing, I had more than triple than what I started with, ( Read more... )