Late last week I moved up from 2/4 hold'em to 3/6 hold'em for my online game.  These days, the 3/6 game is more populated with shorthanded tables than full tables.  A shorthanded table has a max of 6 players, whereas the full tables have 10 players.  As far as I can tell, based on my current and past experience at 3/6, the players are on the whole ( Read more... )

Feel free to skip this if you don't give a damn about poker, or if you don't want to hear me whine about bad beats.  But dammit...three times tonight I flopped the nuts (the best possible hand) and lost to runner runner ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm going to make greater use of the iPod's smart playlist feature.  To do that, I'm going to need to have a good portion of my music collection rated.  At first I figured I could just wade through it...but well, that sucks.  I did it for about an hour and decided it was pretty much the most boring way possible to accomplish this ( Read more... )

How, exactly, did we go from being chilly three weeks ago to boiling at approximately six thousand degrees here in MA?  The last three or four days have seen lots of heat with brutal humidity.  The house is all sticky, and all the ceiling fans in the world aren't cooling things down.  It's definitely time to break out the air conditioners.  However ( Read more... )

No work today.  Barring my HR department changing their mind, I have to use around 4 weeks of vacation time between now and August 31st.  So, I've taken to using random days off in order to keep working on the house.  Over the last two weeks I've been redoing my bedroom, as well as trying to get the outside ready for summer and the inevitable BBQs ( Read more... )

In the tradition of this entry, here's a recap of the 2004 - 2005 NHL Hockey season:

Fuckers.

Although it was by no means terrible, I have a few reasons why I can't recommend you go see Fever Pitch ( Read more... )

I had a conversation today at work where we basically discussed the fact that I have about four and a half weeks of vacation that I have to take between May and the end of the year.  That's a pretty good problem to have ( Read more... )

So, today I served jury duty for the first time in my life.  I've never been summoned in any of the places I've lived, and yet I buy a house and boom -- pretty quickly I get the call.  It seems my name has found it's way into the system ( Read more... )

Plan for today ( Read more... )