Tuesday, May 23. 2006
Well, it's been over two weeks, surely it's time for more Amber photos! Read on below...
Continue reading "More Amber photo goodness"
Had a baby 2.1777 weeks ago, have a cold, had visitors tonight, joined 20 minutes late with my stack blinded down to T1410, jumped into the action, bounced up to T2100 pretty quickly, hung out and watched Wil's JJ fall to CJ's KK, followed shortly by NHL 200X's failed attempt to steal on the turn against a set of sixes.
The WWdN is now pretty much the only poker action that I'm going to see for the foreseeable future; Amber is gasp much more important than poker. But enough people seem to like reading this live blog, and the WWdN is just so much fun, that I'm going to to try to hang in there for one night a week.
Which means that, now that I've cashed out most of my bankroll, if I actually want to play for any amount of time in the future, I'm going to have to make money at the WWdN. Good luck, I know! And if I want to last deep into the tourney, I'm going to have to stop making loose calls like defending my AQo big blind against an 8x BB bet from AlCantHang... maybe if AAQ hit on the flop I would have stuck around for the turn, but 664 meant that I was checking and then folding once Al made his inevitable bet on the flop. Ah well... back to my starting wages, it seems.
Continue reading "Live-blogging WWdN: godard invitational"
Tuesday, May 9. 2006
Amber Colleen was born on May 6, 2006, just 54 minutes past midnight. Due to overwhelming demand, here are some photos of our beautiful little girl:
Continue reading "Emergency cabbage: Amber Colleen has arrived"
Thursday, May 4. 2006
Ah yeah, a little malformed quote from The Guess Who for you there.
The baby watch continues; we had a little flurry of activity last night, but things tapered off with the morning sun, strongly suggesting a baby of vampiric origin. Given my looks, I'm thinking Nosferatu, but Toreador or Ventrue would be more to our liking.
Because I had already called in to work to tell them I was taking the day off, Lynn and I decided to see V for Vendetta at the afternoon matinee. Given that Alan Moore has had his name removed from the movie credits (and, in fact, retroactively from any of the work that he did for DC Comics in the past), the movie was better than I expected. Hugo Weaving did a great job with his voice and body to make up for the frozen face; but the deviations from the original story were pretty typical Hollywood meddling, unfortunately. Worth a rental, maybe, but even more worthwhile, buy and read the original V for Vendetta (graphic novel).
Side note: holy crap! I just noticed how much the original issues of V for Vendetta are selling for these days... I have 8 of the 10 original issues stashed away. Comic book guy was on to something...
Wednesday, May 3. 2006
As of this morning, our family still consists of Dan, Lynn, and our cat Spook. Baby seems to be pretty comfortable where s/he is right now, but of course things could change at any moment. I'm still schlepping into work every day, although it's pretty hard to concentrate. The cell phone is set to STUN and accompanies me everywhere; luckily I'm only a 40-minute walk from home (and at a run, in dress shoes, probably about 25 minutes).
Tuesday, May 2. 2006
As Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers liked to sing:
I'm all hopped up on cough syrup now .
It seems it's pollen season, and up here in Sudbury the birch trees have these massively well-hung pollen dispensers:
And yours truly has a backyard that's filled with birch trees:
And even though most of my allergies disappeared along with puberty, there is definitely enough pollen to set my sinuses spinning and get my eyes watering. So tonight's WWdN is brought to you by a special, medicated Mr. Scott... good thing that Wil hasn't introduced any anti-doping measures yet.
With that, the live-blog commences...
Continue reading "Live-blogging WWdN IlliniFan Invitational"
Monday, May 1. 2006
Hmm... perhaps I played this one (45-player SNG) just a bit too tight:
During current Hold'em session you were dealt 58 hands and saw flop:
- 2 out of 7 times while in big blind (28%)
- 1 out of 9 times while in small blind (11%)
- 4 out of 42 times in other positions (9%)
- a total of 7 out of 58 (12%)
Pots won at showdown - 2 of 4 (50%)
Pots won without showdown - 4
I ended up busting out in tenth place, just out of the money. My patience is improving, but I probably could have made it into the money had I not over-played Kournikova in EP to try to steal the blinds against a big stack -- who cold-called, then pushed when an ace turned up on the flop. Damn. That cut my stack in half, but at least I've learned enough to get away from that particular danger signal.
The particularly galling bit was that of the final two tables, I had been seated at the little stack table; 7 of the players had M < 2, and I was one of the big stacks just salivating for some cards so I could feed off the weak. Then the evil teleporter sent me to the table of big stacks, and I became an average stack (until that little Kournikova play, which made me a wee wee stack).
Ah well. Poker, I shall have my revenge.
No baby today, although Lynn and I both had a bit of insomnia last night.
Note to sleep-coordinating self: Not being able to sleep from 4:00 - 6:00, but being able to sleep just fine from 6:00-8:20, is not good for keeping one's job where one has the luxury of having somewhat flexible hours.
On the bright side, I used the time to start thinking up some topics for conference sessions or community courses that I could offer in the future. And I actually wrote down some of the ideas, so they won't just be whiffs of fantasy that disappear with the morning sun. Once upon a time, I thought that I really enjoyed the travel part of speaking at conferences. Now that I've been away from the circuit since last October, I find that I really enjoy speaking in public. So if I just end up giving some talks in Sudbury and Toronto, that's cool with me... and easier to keep baby close by, too.
Which reminds me, baby... any time now, okay? I promise, your home is very comfortable, your parents aren't too scary, and you have lots of family and friends who are looking forward to meeting you 
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