A roller coaster... and the problem is I'm scared of roller coasters. In fact, when it comes to roller coasters, one could possibly define me as a bitch, biatch, beeeotch, beetch or my personal fav, a bee-eye-itch. So I don't really see it as a good thing that my life right now can be compared to a roller coaster ride.
On Wednesday morning at about 8:00 a.m., I had exactly zero roommates and I was stressed out about where I was going to live and if I would be able to find a roommate. By 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, I had three people (all pretty good friends) that told me they definitely wanted to move in. This is the f*cked up thing about finding a roommate. You can't just rely on one person, so you have to throw the line out there to everyone. Then everyone decides in the same hour that they want to move in. Great. I'm not sure if they planned this out but I think it's quite possible. I could see it:
Roommate Prospect 1: "Hey did Kevin ask you about moving in with him?"
Roommate Prospect 2: "Yeah, he said he needs someone ASAP, I guess he's running out of time."
Roommate Prospect 3: "Damn, he asked me too. I think he's getting stressed out about it, especially since he has no car right now."
RP1: "Let's all ignore him and see how he handles the pressure."
RP2: "That's a great idea, we can get him back for all those times he made us late to the club and we had to pay to get in."
RP3: "Hell yeah, we owe him. Let's f*ck him over! Nobody call him, just let him work himself into a panic with nowhere to live and no car."
RP1: "We're geniuses."
But then, at the last moment, everyone realizes that they actually do want to move in (I'm even offering discounted rent) and so they all call me to confirm.
So within two hours on Wednesday I had three roommates that confirmed. Obviously I had to go with the guy that confirmed first as he actually didn't string me along. I got love for all my boys but it sucks to just be left hanging when I have no idea if or where I'll be staying or going. Big Time is moving out tomorrow and I have to have someone on the lease when he leaves.
Each roommate definitely had their different qualities but I had to go with the guy that confirmed with me right away and seemed committed the whole way (I didn't talk to him about it until Tuesday night).
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Enough of that boring shit, that's just an example of the up's and down's. Here's another one.
My car was apparently totaled. I would love to post a picture but I really don't want to make anything public in case there's a lawsuit. But put it this way: The tow truck driver told me that my car was a wrap and I might as well just call "Pick-A-Parts" and have them come pick it up and see if I can get any money for it.
So of course I'm not really feeling too good about not having a car and I've given up on my beloved Civic. I don't have money to buy a new car, plus my credit is bad so I'm thinking I'm stuck on the Metro for a year or something.
Then out of nowhere, my boy V tells me that his brother is a car genius and he rebuilds ruined cars for a living. And what kind of car does he specialize in? Honda Civics. So I get the car towed by some 15-year-old kid who has a tow truck and a voice mail that is just the song "Old English" by The Game for $120. When Big Time saw this kid come to pick up the car, he immediately called me and told me I shouldn't use him because he's probably gonna steal the car. But I went with the cheap service and he did get it to V's house, and now V's brother is nearly done fixing my car....after ONE day. Wow. I really wish I could post pictures to show how much work was done.
So now it looks like I might actually have a car again, which means I can get my life back and V doesn't have to waste an hour (or more) a day picking me up and dropping me off (thanks V!). I can also start playing again.
Yeah, I know...that was corny.
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Girls. I don't know where to begin.
I got a friend who's a stripper and she's crazy. We talk on the phone and have the worst conversations known to the human ear. It literally takes me back to middle school. Normally, I'd love to relive my childhood but I've conducted studies with this woman. She'll say "You're mean," and I'll say "No I'm not." She replies with "Yes you are" and just to test her, I keep it going:
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
She won't stop. It's uncanny really. Anyways there is no love interest, it's just a crazy friendship that I have yet to figure out.
I got another friend who just moved back to Cali. She's crazy. I was thinking it'd be fun to hang out with her again...but she's crazy. Now she sends me approximately 250 text messages a day. She sends me messages like "I'm watching Hostel, it's bloody" and "I'm at the pool, the lifeguard is hot." What the F*CK. Does she really think I want to hear those things?
The chick from Trader Joe's called me. Then she found out that I wasn't in her age bracket and our love affair quickly ended after one 20-minute conversation. I'm getting old. However, before we ended our short relationship I had already determined that she too, is crazy.
But I'm still on the up and up as other things are looking promising in this realm of life. There is still hope for the kid.
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Sports. I've been to about one baseball game in the past three months (we have games every Sunday). My league is about as serious as an adult men's rec league can get (www.vabl.com) and I'm pretty sure my team is either pissed at me for never showing or they just don't give a sh*t about me anymore. I don't think they miss me, I'm 2-13 on the season with two singles. And we've played about 20 games so I'm averaging less than an at-bat per game. This may sound unbelievable, but there was a time not too long ago when I was actually good. Unfortunately, I now suck.
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Poker.
I'm trying to come up with some goals. I'm thinking of this game plan as far as managing my sessions:
1. If I lose two buy-ins, I'm outta there.
2. If I go up two buy-ins and more, once I go back down to +two buy-ins, I'm outta there. So I can keep going up but if I go back down to up (say 400 on a 200 table), I have to leave.
I'm thinking about doing this. Does it sound stupid? Let me know if it does.
Online, I'm going to deposit either $50 or $100 and play strictly sit n go's and small tournaments. I think I just don't have the patience for the online cash games at this point in time and my tournament play is not bad but needs practice.
I'm feeling good about this weekend. I might have time to play on Sunday night, that's my goal. Take things slow right now, wipe my past losses out of my mind and just focus on playing winning poker, make the right decisions, milk the nuts, ice the donks, fold the napkins, stack the chips and rack the wheels.
I'm out! everyone have a good weekend and let me know if you need any follow up on any of this stuff peace!
4 comments:
You don't know crazy strippers, son. *I* know crazy strippers.
Hell, I sent you their fucking pictures.
Until you need a paternity lawyer and/or a Kevlar vest, I don't want to hear it.
True convo with Defi on the phone yesterday:
"Yeah, dog, I think Jessie might seriously try to kill Penny. I told Penny to get out the club and go somewhere safe. Jessie was crying and hysterical and pissed when I talked to her and she was talking about fucking people up and - oh shit, dog. Jessie's sitting outside my house.
Let me call you back."
My end of the convo, while playing on FullTilt:
Me: "ROFLZ"
Joke: "Dog, I'm serious. No bullshittin."
Me: "ROFLZ"
Thanks so much for the blog. It has been great living the poker life vicariously through you. You do a great job of giving the feel of what it is really like with your pictures and descriptions. On a side note, are you playing turbo or regular sit-n-goes on Full Tilt? Do you know about the theory of Independent Chip Model(ICM)? If you plan on playing very many turbos, you should take time to study ICM as SNG poker is almost a totally different game than cash game poker. To be optimally successful you should probably purchase software like SNGPT or SNGWIZ to study your play or at least read the STT Forum at 2+2. ICM comes into play a lot when you get down to 4 people and 3 positions pay. Anyways keep up the good work. Peace.
if your playing well and winning why would you want to leave? unless you start playing scared and not wanting to lose your profit then i could understand leaving. but if you ever want to go big time.. you have to put long sessions in when your playing well and winning, but cut your sessions short when your losing or playing bad poker..
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