I AM NOT LARRY BRAVERMAN
- I don't care what anyone thinks, but Kanye's new album is growing on me quite fast. Even though his singles so far and the album overall is quite depressing, I'm more than happy to put it all on repeat for a day or two non-stop.
- Work has just been very frustrating the past few months. I'm at the point where I'm considering hiring a coach just go to over the last few sessions and see if we can find any specific glaring leaks. I'm thinking of going taking a Peter Pan to Foxwoods either later today or mid-week. I want to take a temporary break from NL and play some 8-16 or hopefully 10-20 O8 with half-kill. If there is any consolation to the rather bad rut I'm in, I've been doing ok live in some home games that friends filled me in on. Unfortunately, I won't be attending one of them as there are serious accusation the host stacked the deck in a large pot the other weak to his benefit. He hadn't shown any indication of cheating the two times I played there, and was quite a gracious host/guy, so it's too bad, but I don't want to take any risk of being cheated, no matter what the stakes are. The other game I recently just played last Thursday, and although I'm not in full agreement of how it's run, again, the host seems like a very cool guy, along with the majority of regulars/friends. I feel I might need to work on my image though, as it's a very loose/gambling game, and although a tight and aggressive strategy is definitely correct money-wise, creating a friendly and sociable atmosphere is also vital to not only getting action, but also to keep from getting banned from a game. Don't get me wrong though, most of the guys I talked to there were super-cool, I just think I'll need to get a little buzzed and let down my guard a bit so I don't become a Buzz Killington.
- Not happy with how my life is going these days. Expanding my horizons is definitely becoming a bigger agenda for me. As great as Amherst is, without being in college and not fond of becoming some bar-hopping PUA, it's not easy meeting quality people. I'm taking a few classes at Bangs Community Center starting in January, one being Tango/Salsa, the other I'm undecided, but probably at least pickup Volleyball games. I'll also have Wednesday Nights free with the Arab Cinema film festival being over, so can finally get over to Not Bread Alone and help out serving dinners.
- But really, it's about picking up some quality friends. By my counts, I have roughly 7, and only Jess and Steveo are really within regular-driving distance. I'm never going to be the type of guy that has a group of regular friends, and I can accept that so as long as compatibility and deeper connections can be made with several different walks-of-life. Sometimes I feel a bit paranoid, thinking I have nothing to offer because I don't dominate conversations with my own life unless its story-telling. Now I wholly believe life should be lived like a good movie, but forcing upon my thoughts and opinions on others while playing-up a few events that happened years ago just comes off as extremely lame to me. Side note, it's quite amazing that I still get recognized from my Pokerdome appearance from July 2006 every now and then. Not only did I not win that tournament (losing on a $25,000 coinflip is semi-noteworthy, though), but it only lasted one season, and it was a terrible format! At least I can forever remember it with clips of my appearance gracing Youtube. Lastly, the last date I went on was in Las Vegas this summer, and it happened that the girl I was with was actually a paid audience member of the show I was on, but didn't remember me. How I was not meant to marry that girl was beyond me, oh well.
- My "net worth" right now is roughly $15k, I have no loans, no car payments, no gym payments, MassHealth, and about a $600 CC bill. I should be ok to do a 4-6 day vacation, right? On my list of places to see are England, South Korea, Switzerland, Netherlands, Russia, Germany again, and Romania. Now I have little-to-no-hope of getting anyone to come with to split costs a bit, nor to get a flight any time of year under $1k to any of those places except England and maybe Germany. Ideally, I'd just go to whichever had the best exchange rate with the US Dollar, so I'll have to do some research regarding that. Other than that, I *THINK* I can keep everything else under $400 in terms of expenses, by staying at hostels, eating free breakfasts, making my own food, and buying alcohol at the store before heading to any clubs/bars. Eh, I just need to be sure I have a semi-clear gameplan so that's it's an awesome, memorable vaca. Although no one but me would care, to me it'd be an insult to my friends who work jobs they hate and live on a tight budget to not take advantage of my situation. But regardless of your current situation, everyone needs to go out and go somewhere or do something they haven't done at least 1-2 times a year, for the sake of not only variety, but living life. You weren't put on this earth to work a shitty job, cook food, watch TV, sleep 5 days a week.
- Anyone else super-looking forward to Christmas....for the movies? Good chance I see The Spirit, The Wrestler, and especially The Curious Case of Benjamin Button back-to-back-to-back.
- Work has just been very frustrating the past few months. I'm at the point where I'm considering hiring a coach just go to over the last few sessions and see if we can find any specific glaring leaks. I'm thinking of going taking a Peter Pan to Foxwoods either later today or mid-week. I want to take a temporary break from NL and play some 8-16 or hopefully 10-20 O8 with half-kill. If there is any consolation to the rather bad rut I'm in, I've been doing ok live in some home games that friends filled me in on. Unfortunately, I won't be attending one of them as there are serious accusation the host stacked the deck in a large pot the other weak to his benefit. He hadn't shown any indication of cheating the two times I played there, and was quite a gracious host/guy, so it's too bad, but I don't want to take any risk of being cheated, no matter what the stakes are. The other game I recently just played last Thursday, and although I'm not in full agreement of how it's run, again, the host seems like a very cool guy, along with the majority of regulars/friends. I feel I might need to work on my image though, as it's a very loose/gambling game, and although a tight and aggressive strategy is definitely correct money-wise, creating a friendly and sociable atmosphere is also vital to not only getting action, but also to keep from getting banned from a game. Don't get me wrong though, most of the guys I talked to there were super-cool, I just think I'll need to get a little buzzed and let down my guard a bit so I don't become a Buzz Killington.
- Not happy with how my life is going these days. Expanding my horizons is definitely becoming a bigger agenda for me. As great as Amherst is, without being in college and not fond of becoming some bar-hopping PUA, it's not easy meeting quality people. I'm taking a few classes at Bangs Community Center starting in January, one being Tango/Salsa, the other I'm undecided, but probably at least pickup Volleyball games. I'll also have Wednesday Nights free with the Arab Cinema film festival being over, so can finally get over to Not Bread Alone and help out serving dinners.
- But really, it's about picking up some quality friends. By my counts, I have roughly 7, and only Jess and Steveo are really within regular-driving distance. I'm never going to be the type of guy that has a group of regular friends, and I can accept that so as long as compatibility and deeper connections can be made with several different walks-of-life. Sometimes I feel a bit paranoid, thinking I have nothing to offer because I don't dominate conversations with my own life unless its story-telling. Now I wholly believe life should be lived like a good movie, but forcing upon my thoughts and opinions on others while playing-up a few events that happened years ago just comes off as extremely lame to me. Side note, it's quite amazing that I still get recognized from my Pokerdome appearance from July 2006 every now and then. Not only did I not win that tournament (losing on a $25,000 coinflip is semi-noteworthy, though), but it only lasted one season, and it was a terrible format! At least I can forever remember it with clips of my appearance gracing Youtube. Lastly, the last date I went on was in Las Vegas this summer, and it happened that the girl I was with was actually a paid audience member of the show I was on, but didn't remember me. How I was not meant to marry that girl was beyond me, oh well.
- My "net worth" right now is roughly $15k, I have no loans, no car payments, no gym payments, MassHealth, and about a $600 CC bill. I should be ok to do a 4-6 day vacation, right? On my list of places to see are England, South Korea, Switzerland, Netherlands, Russia, Germany again, and Romania. Now I have little-to-no-hope of getting anyone to come with to split costs a bit, nor to get a flight any time of year under $1k to any of those places except England and maybe Germany. Ideally, I'd just go to whichever had the best exchange rate with the US Dollar, so I'll have to do some research regarding that. Other than that, I *THINK* I can keep everything else under $400 in terms of expenses, by staying at hostels, eating free breakfasts, making my own food, and buying alcohol at the store before heading to any clubs/bars. Eh, I just need to be sure I have a semi-clear gameplan so that's it's an awesome, memorable vaca. Although no one but me would care, to me it'd be an insult to my friends who work jobs they hate and live on a tight budget to not take advantage of my situation. But regardless of your current situation, everyone needs to go out and go somewhere or do something they haven't done at least 1-2 times a year, for the sake of not only variety, but living life. You weren't put on this earth to work a shitty job, cook food, watch TV, sleep 5 days a week.
- Anyone else super-looking forward to Christmas....for the movies? Good chance I see The Spirit, The Wrestler, and especially The Curious Case of Benjamin Button back-to-back-to-back.