Snowed in

So it’s obviously snowing out and I’ve been playing poker. Literally, eating gushers and playing poker. Last time I wrote about it I logged 2000 hands for -200. Now I’ve logged 6862 hands for -180 dollars. That means I made 20 dollars in 4800 hands. I’ve spend hours and hours of frustration to accomplish nothing. This is why poker is just not time well spent. I’m really trying hard to work on my game and I feel like I have a pretty big edge on a lot of opponents but coming out on top has just been difficult. My holdem manager says I’m running about 100 dollars less than expectation so that’s at least something positive.

Thank you Jess Baker and Jill for letting me know that the video blog wasn’t terrible. Obviously 7 minutes is too long so possibly a shorter summary of something would be better. I’d have to think about how to incorporate that into this. On a side, note I had 117 unique visitors for the month of February which is more than I’d expect. It’s not an incredible amount of people but at least it’s an audience which makes me at least feel some satisfaction of people reading what I write.

You’d think that being snowed in would mean drinking but unless I can go out an interact with people, I really don’t think drinking by myself is too amusing. I’ve had a beer or two but nothing crazy. Today was one of the first days I’ve woke up whenever I wanted without being hungover. Usually I either have to wake up for work or I’m hungover and I feel like shit, so it was a nice change of pace. I don’t expect I’m going to work tomorrow as it will be nearly impossible to get out of the driveway. That sounds like a Mad River Thursday to me.

By |2016-11-01T23:59:04-04:00February 10th, 2010|My Life|2 Comments

Upstream w/o a paddle

So I’ve been kind of bummed out lately. Everything is just kind of blah. I’m really sick of the cold weather and especially the snow. Our building for work has terrible insulation and every room is under 62. Not to mention it’s completely dead and this week looks like it’s going to be shot. Plus the market looks like it’s tanking again so that has me down. And then the fact that I’ve logged 2600 hands for a net loss of 200 dollars doesn’t have me thrilled. I didn’t even bet on the Super Bowl because it was like what’s really the point. I also didn’t go to they gym today because I was being lazy which is another wtf. Basically everything is just boring and shitty. This isn’t really the outlook I like to have either but I seem to be on this trend of not really making any progress one way or another. What really makes me think is that there are people who are so much worse off than me that if this is how I feel, how the hell do they feel? When I look at it like that I feel a little bit better but when I have to view it from my point of view, I just need something to change. I can’t explain what it is either but I will be doing some serious thinking about maybe a new approach. Sorry for such a downer post but this is my medium for thought, so you get what I’m thinking about. Tomorrow’s another day.

Just so you don’t X out with a thought like “wow that was depressing,” I want to comprise a list of my thoughts:

  • I don’t understand the popularity behind tool and DMB
  • I have no interest in Lost or the Office
  • Baseball bores me to death and now that football is over and it’s too cold for golf, what do you do on Sundays?
  • Besides Pretty Woman what is Julia Roberts good in?
  • Panasonic, Magnavox, Sharp, Phillips, Toshiba all leave bad tastes in my mouth for TV types. Hp and AMD processors for computers. Java and Itunes for software. Seriously when Limewire brings up itunes every time I shut it down I nearly lose it.
  • Unless you wearing dress socks, socks above the ankle are not allowed.
  • I’m not going to expand on this, but using lube to jerk off creates a mess.
  • I like sleeping with my socks on
  • When people change the channel without using the guide function
  • Who gets excited about Ellen being on American Idol? I don’t really watch the show but what does she know about singing?
  • I can’t stand checking my voice mail
  • People who double click every link on the internet when a single click is needed (my dad)
  • People who act like the world revolves around them. They get their way because it’s what they are used to and are basically oblivious to the people around them.
  • Why does my room seem like a bomb hit it after every weekend.
  • Fucking damp jeans when I walk in the snow. Seriously out of the entire list this tilts me the most. I’m actually going to close on this one because I can write about it for a while. I like my clothes clean. I have different standards of what is clean. Examples, if I put on a nice sweater, go to the bar for a few hours and then come back without spillage, I put the sweater away and can wear it again. If I start the day with a t-shirt and finish it with the same shirt on, this gets washed regardless of the activity. Socks always get washed after one use, same with boxers. On to the jeans. Jeans don’t need to get washed often. Practically never. People don’t go around smelling your jeans and I really never notice any odor, but if I did I would wash them. Damp jeans. Water eats up the cuffs. Even higher in this past snowstorm. In my book this is actually forcing me to wash my nice jeans. Jeans sitting around in water leads to fungus or mold, whether it’s true or not doesn’t really matter because that’s what I think. So for this rare occurrence that my jeans are damp, this is forcing me to wash them. I don’t like washing them cause they potentially shrink and tight pants around the waist is like cutting off the breathing to my member. Plus it’s uncomfortable.
    • By |2010-02-11T16:57:49-05:00February 9th, 2010|My Brain, My Life|1 Comment

    Nothing Doing

    I don’t have anything to really post so I’ll make this quick. We lost in bball again, giving us an 0-7 record heading to the playoff game, singular. I airballed one from 13 feet, wide open. I can’t really explain why my skills have deteriorated but it’s becoming more evident year after year. We also have no height which hurts when we play against a 6-6 guy who has some talent.

    I also deposited in stars again. I played 350 hands last night for a net loss of $3.50. I still have to grind out my bonus. I’ve been watching a couple cardrunners videos and I feel like my game at the stakes I’m going to play is superior. When I lose, and I look back on why I’m losing, it’s due to bad bankroll management and lack of focus. I just go on cruise control and don’t really think about what I’m doing. So it’s good I took a couple week break because I feel like I can play well again.

    I watched the Graduate w/ Dustin Hoffman which apparently was a 4 star movie but I thought it was awful. It pretty much displays how stupid females are in the late 60’s. If you haven’t seen it I wouldn’t really recommend it.

    I’m excited for the Wing Bowl tomorrow. I’ll try to get as many pictures with strippers as I can so I can post them on this site. These next hours after work should be fantastic. Today is like Friday so I’m pretty pumped.

    By |2010-02-04T08:31:46-05:00February 4th, 2010|My Life, Sports|0 Comments

    Do this, do that

    Lately I feel like there have been a lot of decisions to make. None of which are particularly difficult decisions, but nevertheless have to be made. I am going to attend a roofing show in New Orleans the 3rd week of Feb. Now I want to do this as cost efficiently as possible, so i was going to fly in on Sunday, do the show Mon and Tues and leave Tues evening. Problem is I have a meeting at 5:15 Tues and no flights leave that late. So I have to stay Wed and miss another day of work. Decision made and me alone in New Oreleans should be good.

    Wing bowl is this Friday. A couple of us want to go. Honestly, beer and tits are right up my alley so this occasion is sort of designed with the adult male in mind. I have slate rippers coming in but JC said it was fine if I took off Friday. There’s a driving issue because no one wants to drive drunk, obviously, and the parking lots open at 4 am and the center opens at 5 am. So this is before trains and you have to have a ticket to enter. As of now there are no tickets and no definite number of people going. Here’s another one of those decisions that are up in the air.

    I final decision is regarding the company’s website. We have two people competing for the job and I think both would do a good job but I am weighing a bit towards one. Once again another decision, although this one actually is important because it involves money that I’d rather not blow. Another deadline, another decision.

    Off topic, I watched Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger and I really liked this movie. Nothing sophisticated, cheesy catch lines, average acting. I was entertained throughout though and would say if you are bored and looking to kill some time, this wasn’t awful, but don’t expect too much.

    So I’ve figured out what is going on with the Stortz tools and google. One person thinks it’s funny to google the phrase “stortz tools” and then click on the link. They’ve done this 19 times over the past 5 days. It’s really kind of bizarre the more I think about it. They visited the site 9 times this way just yesterday and they are on a comcast connection. The only thing I can think of is that it’s a hater of this blog and they want to see this come down because they think I will stop posting if it will interfere with business. The whole circumstance is really weird but since I have backend stats it’s pretty clear what is happening. Hi Hater, I see you. I’m not Sherlock Holmes but I’m pretty sure I know who it is.

    By |2010-02-01T23:09:22-05:00February 1st, 2010|My Life|3 Comments

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    T-woww

    It’s 8:35 and I’m a functioning alcoholic. Well not really functioning. I am really wasted. Way more wasted than last week. I can barely type. My words are only complete because I am backspacing like no other. We did 4 car bombs before we went out. We being Jkash and I. Problem with Jkash and I, and I’m sure I will hear about this later, is that he is accepting offers at this point. Meaning he doesn’t HAVE to do anything if he doesn’t want to. I have a call scheduled at 10:30. Right now I’m a hurt piece.

    Honestly, at a certain point last night I don’t remember anything. I remember doing some carbombs, and then we took a mind eraser with the hot waitress, who I amazingly met from months before, and then the band was on and that’s really it. I wish I could go into further detail but that’s really all I got. I woke up at 7:30 or so and had to take a piss and then I knew I should be at work so that’s what happened. To day that today is going to be productive would be nearly impossible. I feel like I should stay with the trend and take a picture of myself just so we are all aware of what we are dealing with. Honestly to be at work and drink like that is a miracle. I’m teenage wasteland and here’s a picture to prove it.

    There is also a significant problem developing. People are searching for stortz tools and one of my blog entries comes up. Now I don’t care if my friends or random people read this but perspective customers should not be viewing this material. This blog makes me look like an alcoholic mess, which I am. But people who want to buy roofing tools don’t need to know that. As much as I want this to be popular, I don’t need it to be coming up on google’s search engines. All I can say is that today is gonna be a rough day.

    By |2016-10-28T15:53:06-04:00January 29th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

    Current Events

    I don’t usually comment on news but there are a few stories I find interesting.

    The whole Tiger Woods sex-rehab clinic business. When I brought up that I think the whole idea behind this was for the positive publicity, my friends laughed and thought I was an idiot. Let me just start by saying that everything that Tiger does at this point is being watched so carefully by high priced lawyers and advisers that he isn’t going to make a wrong move. I actually read from TMZ that there was a man who was a Tiger lookalike who was the one staying at the rehab center. I heard that he had something like 14 mistresses during the 5 year marriage to Elin. I also want to point out that I was called crazy when I bet the Sheee a C note that her and Tiger would be together after 5 more years. She vows to stay together even if they weren’t going to live together because she wants her kids to have a father figure. Personally, I don’t understand why she isn’t Elin Woods. I don’t necessarily think the female has to take the guys name but to hyphenate it at least seems more reasonable. The fact that she didn’t, should stand out that she has some underlying issues herself.

    The Conan – Jay Leno hoopla is such a joke. Who even watches these guys? Late night TV is so far past it’s prime, I just don’t get it. I am well aware that millions of people tune in but I don’t understand why. I don’t really find these shows funny at all. Shows that try to make jokes out of topical situations for some reason never struck me as amusing. This goes for all late night, the colbert report, the daily show… all of them just seemed really lame to me. I think I don’t like the idea of the show focusing on one main star. It gives the guy a big ego and makes me not like them because they think they are hot shit. To go to all this mess over these clowns is such a fuck up by NBC. They just paid Conan 30+ million to leave and now they want to pay him again to start a new sitcom called Conaco. These guys must have mad MONEY TO BLOW.

    I want to add that Mad River should pay me to be a promoter of their Thursday nights. The last two weeks I went it was off the hook. I was recruiting for it on Saturday night and I really think I could get people to go. I’ll see how tomorrow turns out. I asked a few randoms to go last weekend, lord knows I won’t remember them but maybe they’ll remember me. If it turns out to be another hit, I’m going to apply for the position. Another interesting note about Thursday nights is that it was just me and one other Kashub the last two weeks. It’s like a two man wolf pack. I found the ability to approach girls was pretty easy because there is only two of you and not a huge group. There is more mobility and less creepiness. There are downsides however. When one goes to take a piss than the other is left standing by themselves like the lonely loner. Also if I were to get too wasted and leave impromptu, then that leaves the other guy hanging with no clue what’s going on. Plus it’s easier for 2 guys to talk to 3 girls than vice versa. All good things to think about.

    Bball game tonight. This is a rare, 2 post in one day, day.

    By |2016-11-03T15:22:40-04:00January 27th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

    Making headway

    Today was a productive day. JC and I called some references from a company we are considering letting redesign our website, and they were all positive and JC basically told me to get it done. We have 750 rippers coming in next week but after that it will be a 3 month process of updating our current website. I expect a major jump in traffic, which will lead to more conversions (not the good kind). Hopefully this will be the start of a good thing.

    I did something that I don’t usually do as well tonight. I feel weird using people’s real names in here because most readers probably don’t know who I’m referring to so I’m just throwing that out there. Jkash sent an email last night asking if 4 guys wanted to go with him and Ashban to some nice restaurant for restaurant week. So I’m thinking since he invited multiple guys, she must have multiple girls going as well. I said I’d go. The next day he said everything’s a go and the 3 of us we’ll meet there at 7. I’m thinking the 3 of us… they aren’t dating and didn’t seem to mind if I went along. They park in my building, I give them the tour, and then we go to Budakkan which serves Asian style cuisine. The restaurant week special is 35 bucks for an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. There weren’t any lulls in the convo, the food was good, the service was attentive and everything pretty much went to plan. It was better than staying in doing jack shit and even though it costs some money, it builds friendships which are really worth more than any amount of money. Money to blow.

    I went to the gym after that at about 10pm which is later than my usual routine. I saw an absolute knockout working out. Seriously I’d consider reworking my gym schedule if she’d be there every time. This is where a camera would come in handy for the blog, and yes I was too chicken to introduce myself. Ashley asked me at dinner what kind of girls I like and I didn’t have a good answer at the time but after some thought, if there is any physical attraction and they are normal, I can probably make it work. I consider myself pretty normal. I have no major issues, besides the drinking, but aside from that I’m your average Joe. Sure I can run a sub 5 minute mile, outdrink the shit out of anyone in my weight class, and run a business, but who’s keeping track. I used the elliptical for the first time because of a blister on my foot and it’s really just not the same as the treadmill. I can’t get the cardio going. I got back at 11 pretty tired from the day.

    I also want to note that I’m getting better at the finer points of blogging. My home page isn’t a half mile long and I am almost done categorizing my pages. My home page comes up in google and we’ll see if I can increase my reader base. No real reason to increase traffic except it being a goal that comes along with effort. I do this to document my own life and provide any entertainment to whoever wants to read. I promise I’ll have some better material in the coming days but today was more of a standard day.

    By |2010-07-08T00:56:22-04:00January 26th, 2010|My Life|1 Comment

    Madness

    I really think I could write 10x better posts after weekends if I could remember everything in it’s entirety. What tends to happen though is after midnight everything happens in bits and pieces and that’s if I can remember it at all. However aside from what I would consider a very very fun weekend I am epic failing in a category. To quote J-Kash, “it’s all about conversions”.

    On Friday after work I bought a case of Guinness, some Jameson and some Baileys and was preparing for a carbomb weekend. I got home from work fairly early and had to go to sleep because I was exhausted from being out till 2 the night before. So I slept till 7 and when I woke I was ready to start drinking. I drank about 8 car bombs and a couple of beers when we played quarters and we went to Mad River to watch Mr. Greengenes. I’ve wrote it before but getting wasted and then watching a really good band in the Mad River atmosphere is becoming one of my favorite past times. I honestly can’t remember everything that happened. I remember talking to a girl and things were going fine and then somethings happened where I lost touch and I had no ability at all to recognize her again. There are just too many people. (more…)

    By |2010-01-26T21:39:33-05:00January 24th, 2010|My Brain, My Life|0 Comments

    Finally Friday


    So I started this day off with a nice picture of myself. It’s 8:53. I’m at work. My BAC is probably still in the .2’s. This is really what it’s all about. Last night J Kash and I went to Mad River. We had 3-4 beers before we left and then got there a little after 9pm. The last time I was there I tipped the waitress a 20 on a 10 dollar tab because I thought she forgot to add drinks we bought but in reality I paid for them at the bar. So the same girl is tending to our needs and I order us some mind eraser’s for the fun of it. So she comes back with 3 and does one with us and we got her name and she was really cool. She said her name was Christy but J Ka$h thought she said Destiny. So that led into her telling us she uses stripper names with customers she doesn’t like and her #1 stripper name was Candy. Obvious inside joke but funny nonetheless. So the night progresses and I’m drinking as much as I can. At one point I order a double red bull and vodka and a beer (I was triple fisting all night) and she charges me 24. So I protest and she offers 19 and douses my drink with vodka so that pretty much fucked me up. The band was pretty good and there are pockets of girls with no guys around. So I was having a blast throughout the night. I didn’t bring home any putang but sometimes just getting back is a success in itself. So I woke up like this.

    It’s 9 and I’m still fucked up but I had a great time last night. If you aren’t going out on Thursday’s you are really blowing it. I saw this girl who knows all the words to the songs and it’s pretty hot so I asked her name at the end of the night and I can’t remember it now. I’m pretty much just rambling at this point but I really enjoyed myself last night. Jc bought 2 sausage mcmuffins and asked me if I wanted one and I asked him why he bought 2 and he said that the 2 for 3 deal is too good to pass up so I just chomped one of them down. I take great pride in not making grammatical errors but I’m too messed up to care. I’m wearing my glasses in the picture because I think my contacts are the wrong prescription and I couldn’t chance driving to work drunk and not able to see. I’m not really drunk but I swear if I got pulled over I’d probably fail a breathalyzer this morning. I know I’m not myself cause when I was driving in I heard Tik Tok and was singing along. All I know is I’m happy it’s Friday and there is only today of work because I couldn’t do many more work days like this. In closing if you read this and want to have a good time on Thursday, hit me up. Mad River is like Reed’s but there are way hotter girls and it’s a better place. I swear there were 9’s and 10’s all over. I’m just looking forward to next week. If I could play my weekends like I did last night I would have a much better time.

    By |2010-01-27T19:33:01-05:00January 22nd, 2010|My Life|1 Comment
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