It is the last week in June and the temps have dropped into the mid to lower 90s.  I hate the heat almost as much as I hate shoveling snow.  My electric bill doubled from May into June…  -EV for sure.

I have found that the best time to play a SnG is probably not 2:30 in the morning after being out all night.  I was practically asleep at 3:30 when it ended.  It is actually worse for the other players, because I ended up besting them.  2 for 2 this weekend and a bit up in 25c/50c limit.  It was a decent, if not quiet, weekend for poker.

I’m heading to the ranch this weekend for my good friend Jason’s Family July 4th Bash.  It is a pretty big deal, probably 150 people.  There tends to be a bit of drinking.  Two years ago Thacker ended up talking to a tree.  Hopefully the weather will be nice and we can enjoy ourselves outside.  I will have my camera, but I can’t say how many pictures will be taken- or of what.

I went for a run yesterday morning- about 2.5 miles.  I’ll go for a walk tonight and try and do a similar run tomorrow morning.  It is really hard to get back into this.  Age may bring wisdom, but it also brings creaking knees and a sore back.

Enjoy the rest of your week everyone.

How many people (of the 4 that actually read this blog) have uses the iTunes store?  I am looking to buy some iMixes and want to know your experiences.

Didn’t run today, alarm went off, got turned off, and I slept in.  Felt nice.  I will have to go for a walk tonight to make up for it.

Well, that was a waste. I bombed out in the first round when my top two pair could not chase off TPNK with a flush draw. The flush got there and I was out in 2100th or something. Freerolling at it’s best.

3 6x12s with a 3rd and two 2nds later and I am up for the day tournament wise. I also made a good run on the limit tables taking my $10 buyin to $25ish. I actually stacked two people on a 25c/50c limit table. See my recent results here.

Two words: Stupid Mavs.

Three more words: Dumb Ass Phil.

I went running this morning, just over 2 miles. My plan is to run 3 times this week for 6 to 6 1/2 miles total, loop once at Forest Creek for 5 or so miles, and do 3 evening walks the other days. I’m almost motivated again, last year at this time I was running 4 or 5 days a week doing 5 miles a run- then I trashed my hand and stopped for a few weeks to let it heal. I never got back into it and lost an entire springs worth of training.

Played at Forest Creek here in Round Rock today (just north of Austin for you out-of-towners). They started play on the back 9 and aerated the greens yesterday, so it was a tough round. But got my one highlight. I stuck a lob wedge to 6 feet on a par 5 and made the birdie putt. 2nd birdie of the year (yeah, I know I suck) but this is the first non-par 3 of the season. That was after I put a 7 iron to 10 feet on a par 3 and missed the birdie put by 2 or 3 inches. Tee Time was 7:15 this morning and it was already 80. You can imagine what it was at 11:15 when we finished. We are loopers by the way, so yeah- it was quite a workout.

So I have a story to tell. My buddy gives me a shout at 10:30 Saturday morning, tells me to put on a bathing suit we are going to a party. It is going to be a hot one in Austin- so water sounds good to me. By noon we are on Lake Travis on a party barge. It is our buddy’s birthday and there are kegs of beer, jello shots, two margarita machines, and well… strippers. See our buddy is dating one and she brought a bunch of her friends. These type of events almost always end up very interesting. This one is no different. We got the cove about 1, tied up, got another beer, and got in the water. Probably 30 people out there swiming around having a good time. “Uh her nose. It’s bleeding.” Eh? Oh shit. It isn’t bleeding, it is gushing, she is working her jaw and can’t talk. Oh shit. After passing off my beer and life jacket I grabbed her by the waste threw her up on my hip and dragged her back the boat. Luckily we have an EMT on board so by the time I got there we could get her out of the water and figure out what the hell went down. She ended up fine, walked off the boat on her own power, so I guess it ended well. She did steal my beach towel though. I’ll leave it up to the reader to determine why this happened to her.

Dominos yesterday at Riley’s. Always a good time. I played well, but did not repeat as champion. Keith took those honors- and the pack of tube socks.Austin 1759 meeting tonight. With the Round Rock Express game next Saturday we should have a decent turnout. Maybe another lake trip next Sunday- hopefully no seizures this time.

No poker since last Thursday where I finally broke my SnG dry spell with a 2nd place finish in a 6×12.

I am in the process of moving to a new home on my hosting account. I will update this blog with the address and site feed for the 3 or 4 of you that actually read this 🙂

I am pretty sick of blogger being down all the time. In that spirit I used my hosting account to setup this fancy blog on my own. Since I actually *pay* for hosting, the uptime should be much better. Once I figure out how to migrate all of my old content I will probably switch to here in a more permanent way.