wow, it's amazing what booze does to an already beaten up brain. Maker's Mark bourbon takes a lot of sting out of bad luck at cards. You know that poker downswing? That $1200 worth of downswing. Considering I took $2300 out in the last couple of weeks to pay for life AND I still have several thousand more in the account, I really can't be arsed ( Read more... )

no, this isn't fucking awesome, not at all...

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show tomorrow. Like any other show I'm doing absolutely nothing to prepare for it. Get up and read. Whatever happens after that is what happens after that. Currently in the middle of a downswing in terms of poker combined with a soul sapping bit of depression. At least I can identify and work around it. It will be good to get back onstage ( Read more... )

couple of Halo-related vids to share that have totally been enthralling me:

We are ODST. Death comes to us all-

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Neil Blomkamp's original Halo short film "Landfall"-

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Like any good American male I find mental solace in dealing with things that are bigger than me. I'm gonna lose myself in work (which is different from my Job. safeway can burn for all i care) for the next couple of days. if anything comes up i'll post it. see you on the other side.

last two days have been hella busy. found out just how into baking hilaryann really is (perhaps TOO into baking). bought season one of The Wire finally. Got some questionable Thai food from a place over on belmont that hasn't been agreeing with me. hiked my ass off yesterday. cashed out another 500 from Pokerstars. getting aggressively annoyed with ( Read more... )

so after all the chatting Saturday night I get a bunch of comments from one hilaryann.

Me: hey
Her: Hi
Me: so i looked at your myspace. you are in fact one of the greatest women alive on the planet
Her: I'm trying to remember my friends in kzoo who were poets...
Me: lessee here todd bannon, sarah versau, Steve O (i continue to rattle off names) i miss ( Read more... )

the last few days have been satifsying at the tables. action comes around to me and I make decisions quickly, so quick and smooth it's like a basketball swooshing through the net. These neural pathways have been through this hundreds of thousands of times over many more hundreds of thousands of hands. Don't think about life, don't think about ( Read more... )

Just woke up from a dream where Richard Hatch (BSG's Apollo/Tom Zarek) was doing an Easter program for my Catholic Highschool and somehow he had a leanto with a blue tarp over it in the parking lot. I'mnotcrazyyou'recrazy. Look over there ( Read more... )

-Got the first of my matching set of $500 dollar checks from Pokerstars this morning. Just about to skip off to the bank to go deposit it. :D :D :D ( Read more... )