WTFWJD

There's a small part of me that is growing that hopes that McCain/Palin loses...because I'm already sick of the Palin jokes. Making fun of Palin is the new making fun of Bush. Its so cliche now. Regardless, it looks like Obama is going to win anyways. It will be interesting to see what happens. Plus its good for me from a poker perspective because an Obama administration is more likely to overturn the UIGEA than a McCain administration. But I think McCain mishandled things, which is causing people not see his policies in the right light. Oh well.

I've been continuing my crazy up and down, rollercoaster swings in poker lately. I'm moving up overall though, so that's good. But I miss the normal, calm up and up. This up and down is frying my nerves.

One of the things I'm going to try to do again is really try to live like God is here. I mean, I believe he is, but so much of the time I don't act like it. So obvious, but I suspect I'm not the only one in the world who so easily forgets this.

The ultimate two-fer: Your girlfriend asks you to pick up milk for the kids. You need to go kill a sex offender that's stalking one of the kids. So as you're dragging the body away for disposal check the fridge. Aawww yeah. Dexter is awesome.

swizz nizzle

I'm out in the city right now for whiskey fest. We are 21a brewpub. Its pretty nice. Drinking some good beers before we drink some good whiskeys. Hopefully I don't get too drunk. If I do though, hopefully I drunk blog so I can share it all with you.

***update***

So we are on the way home in the limo. The evening was sureal, but fun overall. I didn't really get drunk, although I am buzzed. So, I guess that's good. It was fun though and I'm really appreciative to Kevin and Brian and the whole spirits crew who provided me with this evening. I can't wait to be home though with my bride and to have my weekend.

the sky is flailing

Watched the second debate last night. Another interesting one, but not one with a clear victor one way or the other. I have to say that John McCain "won" in my opinion, he was strong in the economy section and always has the advantage in foreign policy. But since he didn't route Obama its not a big victory. It will be interesting to see how the polls react.

I also never mentioned the VP debate, which was another close one, but I actually think Biden had the edge on that one.

One thing to point out that is of interest is that while Obama is ahead in most polls it shouldn't worry McCain supporters too much as long as the Obama lead isn't too high. Looking back at the primaries Obama consistently did worse on election day than the polls suggested. I can't remember a time when he did as well or better actually. There's a lot of reasons for this, but I suspect we'll see it as well on November 4th.

Yesterday I played a little poker and won back 4 1/2 buy ins. That was encouraging. I just need to buckle down and keep playing well. That's the key.

ps. dexter season 3 is awesome so far. amen.

as a ghost shall live

Its amazing how you can just let this thing fall behind. I'm surprised to see that its been almost 10 days since my last blog. time just moves so fast sometimes, its impossible to keep up.

Anyways, its been a hell of a month so far, on many levels. From a poker perspective I'm down almost 1k so far play 50nl and one session at the California Grand Casino 2/2/3 nl game. I just can't seem to get anything going. I must say though that even though I am getting brutalized I am not playing my best and I'm losing more than I should. So I'm going to just really try to tighten up the leaks, focus on my game, and play some damn good poker. The cards will come around sooner or later. hopefully.

Haven't had a ton of time to golf, but I did have one session with my dad, which was fun both because I shot my best round at the fair ground (47), and because it was fun getting out and golfing with my dad. We're supposed to do it again this week, so we'll see how it goes.

Check the shutter

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.

update

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.