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A decent weekend comes to a close and a new work week starts. This weekend I golfed my first 18 hole course. It was a lot of fun but I didn't shoot well at all, so that sucked. After that we went to the Cheap Trick/Heart/Journey show. Cheap Trick was good, Heart was awesome, and we didn't stay for Journey for a number of reasons. But it was fun.

We went and saw Miracle at St Anna on Sunday. It was a pretty bad movie with almost no redeeming qualities. So that sucked, but its ok because I guess sometimes you have to see bad movies.

Played a little poker and won about 4 buy ins in about 30 minutes. So my roller coaster swings continue. Pretty crazy, but oh well. As long as I keep winning.

We got Mario Kart for the Wii, which is really fun. Not much else to say about that.

The new season of Dexter started. It was pretty good. Excited to see what happens as the plot develops.

Catherine's parents are coming to town to discuss all the issues between her and them. That will be crazy. Not sure where that's going to lead us, but I'll try to be hopeful overall. I don't think that will be hard though.

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So, when you mock variance she bitch slaps you. I ended yesterday down 6 buy ins. All coolers and bad beats. It was disgusting. Add to this that I was wrong about the day the new season of Dexter started. Its not until Sunday. Wonderful.

In other news, watched the debates last night. It was interesting and close. I would say that McCain had the edge though.

Good news: I'm going golfing today. Bad news: I had to get up early on Saturday to do it. Not sure I'm sold on this whole early golfing thing.

I am variance's bitch

I've been having some of the most brutally insane runs lately. None of the standard weak tight games where I can eak out a buy in or two by doing a lot of stealing and some thin value betting. No, this has been just brutal, action all the time games. It just wouldn't be a game if there weren't plenty of coolers, 3 outers, two outers, sick bluff insanity, people playing like monkeys and all I can do is just hold on for dear life as variance has her way with me. Lets just say, she likes the rough stuff. All in all, I've been moving up. But man has it been just brutal. Hopefully it just settles down soon because I don't know how much more I can take.

Season 3 of Dexter starts tonight. All I can say is boo ya.

I'm tired of politics right now.

Never Trust a Cop in a Rain Coat

Oh yeah, one more thing that has happened. My wife and I got more tattoos. She got a cool valentine design with my name (aaww) and I got a cool Orthodox angel on my arm. They are really cool. I will post pics when I get a chance.

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Another Autumn

Hello again. Its been a while since I've done this whole blogging thing. I find that when I get so far removed I tend to just want to say that nothing's happened. But really a lot has happened. Here's some highlights:

1. My brother had a baby. So now I have a baby nephew named Samuel. He's really chubby and cute. We went up there recently to see his family and its weird to see him as a father and what not. Its good though.

2. I've been really focusing on my poker game recently. I joined the training site Deuces Cracked and am watching a lot of their training videos. The site also led me to some poker coaching. I've been really wanting to have a poker coach for a long time and that's one of the things that led me to the Deuces Cracked site. They facilitate students finding coaches. I've had a couple of sessions with my coach, jk3a, and its been really great so far. Its really brought my game to a new level and renewed my passion for poker in general. When you see how intricate it can be its hard not to be interested. I'm up to 50nl ($50 buy in no limit hold em) and hope to move up to 100nl by November.

3. I've taken up the game of golf. Yeah, I feel like an old nerd, but its really fun. I am taking lessons and am slowly getting better. Its really fun just going out with friends, goofing off, and getting some exercise at the same time. I've only played 9-holes per game so far, but have my first 18 hole session coming up this weekend. It should be fun.

4. I just celebrated my 5th anniversary with my lovely wife. Our marriage is only 5 years old, which is still young, relatively speaking, but I don't think we're "newly weds" anymore, and that makes me happy. It means that in many respects our love has stood the test of time so far. These last 5 years have been very difficult, not in our relationship, but in our lives. Its been wonderful to have our love to fall back on when everything else is falling apart. And its growing stronger every day.

5. Yesterday we upgraded our cable to the premier package, which means we get all the movie channels and such. That's exciting because some of our favorite TV shows are on channels such as HBO and Showtime. Specifically, we've become addicted to the show Dexter. I thoroughly enjoy the hell out of it. The 3rd season premier is on Friday. Plus now we get to watch old episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, another brilliant show.

That's all. I hope to update this more. Until then....