Temp: 22 degrees
The weather is much nicer today, totally cleared up, but still quite mild - it made for a pleasant lunch on the work cafeteria's patio though, so I guess scortching heat isn't always the way to go...
I thought I had finally indentified and resolved the shower leak, but this morning it was still there - though just a trickle, so the first thing I did when I got home was to squirt gobbs of caulk all around the tap/handle face plate. I was SURE this was where the water was coming from, this has GOT to fix it! We'll see tomorrow morning...
I also packed up the tent and cleaned up the back yard (still party remnants, like chairs and tables out on the lawn) as the gardeners come tomorrow, and if there's so much as a hose lying out, a childs toy on the grass, or a dog turd in the yard, they'll skip your house all together - it's in the strats rules - so if I want my lawn mowed tomorrow, it's gotta be clean.
I don't know how I failed to mention it last week, but I had played in an online World Series of Poker qualifier invitational tournament on Monday the 17th. I guess I figured talking about a 4 hours online poker session wouldn't be nearly as interesting as my gardening catharsis entry... well, anyway, I'm going to mention it now, 'cause it ties in with my next paragraph ...nice segue! So I won an entry into a 500 person tournament, where the winner gets a $10,000 pre-paid entry into the 2006 WSOP in Las Vegas, where you get to play in the same room as all the legends of poker, for a prize pool of something like fourteen million dollars. Long story short, I came in 27th - which I was pretty damned proud of, by the way! There was a moment there that I could almost taste it ... that WOULD have been pretty rockin' to be, eight days from now, sitting at a table with Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negranu, and Phil Helmuth! But I lost, so now the only way to get in is to come up with $10,000 of my own ... maybe next year, lol.
So the point here, is that since I completed Need for Speed Most Wanted, I've kinda found my way back into online poker (hey, the weather was dull for a week, I needed something to do) and so the other week I signed up with Absolute Poker because they had a good signup bonus offer going on. I played for about 2 hours last night, and turned a $4 stake into $34. I tell ya, it's like taking candy from a baby ... money candy ... from a baby that doesn't know how to play poker. I had done the same thing yesterday too, turning $8 into $32. All told, in the last 10 days I'm up $69, and all for playing games - my kinda game - the kind that pays you to play it!
Posted by Calvin at July 31, 2006 07:12 AM