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Posts Tagged ‘Life’

Tick-tock, tick tock…

Time is getting closer and closer to the trip that I am looking forward to and she is fearing. The trip to the ‘rents. Look its only one 1/3 days.  We go in, and we have a great time.

Speaking of great times, I had fun playing Putt Putt tonight with the APA.  A great bunch of guys and I look forward to the next time I get invited to play with them.

I wish I had more to say, but I can’t talk about work here and there are some surprises that noone needs to hear yet.

BTW Congratulations to my friend Evelyn aka Evy who CRUSHED the field at the Borgata Tournament and took home 5th for $20K after taxes. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM MEGA BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMS to ya sister!

From the Great Dr. Pauly who is working the Borgata Poker Blog:

Event #1: Evelyn Ankers Eliminated in 5th Place ($20,562)

Evelyn Ankers was shortstacked and busted out in a three-way pot. Ronald Cooperman’s Aces took out her pocket sixes. Ankers showed up late today because of car trouble. At one point, she was down to her last 13,000 and rallied back to make the final table. This is her first major cash and first final table.

Way to go!

A date with someone who hates me…

Today was a great day, now some of you would be saying if you had a date, why are you home so early?  Just sit back and enjoy  the story.

The bosses were on my case this morning, it was as if they were saying “You won Employee of the Month, now don’t rest on your laurels dumbass!”  So they were being very picky… ugh.  But I guess their point is that they don’t want anyone to think that I am doing any less now that I have won it. Whatever, I am just following my new mantra. Read more…

A rewarding and yet frustrating weekend.

This was the first weekend in a long while that I didn’t have multiple remotes for work and major projects to have me complicated in a long time.

I had a busy Friday night working until Midnight and had a noon remote at Hooters where I got pretty well sunburned at the Hooters/Air Force car wash.

But then I was meh.

I came home yesterday and did all my laundry and started to move things around so this morning I could take up the rest of the carpet that was going to disappear into a dumpster.

I wanted to go see a movie or do something, but everyone I tried calling was busy or not answering. So I went to see my friend Corye at the mall. We yakked and had a laugh then I headed home.

I spent the rest of the evening playing cards and reading the end of my new favorite book. I crashed at Midnight which again was weird for me.

I woke up at ten this morning and started ripping up the last of the carpet, bagging it up and throwing it in the dumpster. YEAH!  After sweeping the room and taking a shower I headed off for a trip.  I drove around looking for something to interest me. I made the same calls and hearing from no one, I headed to the house where I did some light organizing of my room and started to think about all the books that I have that I don’t use.

Probably going to have the streets largest garage sale or put them up on Amazon or Ebay.  Right now they are taking space that I don’t have until I can get some real bookshelf’s made.

I played more poker, winning on Bodog and losing on Full Tilt, but the day was really blah.

Then I went up to work and got a lot of stuff done so I can finish up a couple of projects tomorrow.

Back to straightening stuff and throwing stuff away.

Mom would be so proud.

Random Thoughts

I have to be blessed with the coolest, sweetest friends.

They just live way far away from me.

But I’m about ready to meet two of them for lunch here in the Hub. I can almost always count on Dalby for anything.

***Pagerank Smagerank***

My PageRank according to my friends have gone down on Google, but I’ve pretty well have written off
Google as well as Internet Explorer. My browser of choice is now and probably forever will be Firefox. I listened to my SEO advisor and see what that got me. I’m probably going to take down soem of the superflorous ads and just never look at IE again.

Life blog down from a 5 to a 3. Poker Blog from a 4 to a 3. Hmm. Fuck em and feed em fishsticks.

***Continuing of life changes***

Mom is coming in to inspect the damage that I have done and approve tile selection. I tried to get Dad up here so we can do some painting, but he is “busy working on projects”. His loss. Mom and I will go out to eat on him!

We’re going to meet my friend Jeff Krueger from Carpet Solutions and he going to help us get tile at a reasonable rate. I really don’t care about what it looks like except no burnt orange or maroon. Those are automatic vetos.

***Writing ***
I’ve been writing offline just jotting down ideas and concepts for new books and short stories. I’ve found my best stories come from sitting and just watching the world around me. Damon and I saw a fight of a boyfriend and girlfriend out in the parking lot of the Cotton Patch Cafe and without a beat I just started to tell Damon what they were saying even though we were across the street inside Chick-Fil-A. It’s just something I do. Sometimes it works, sometimes in the words of Surflexus… I’ve got nothing. BUt Pushmonkey72 has sent me some books to help my character development process along.

***McG better watch out***
Last night I worked with some software to put some of the photos and movies I took from Okie-Vegas and The 2008 Ferlin Husky Memorial Drinking Festival together. Still working on just making it look good. Nothing to note as of yet, but it is good to try and develop skills and talents I’ve never tried before.

*** A special note to Bam-Bam ***
1. Because you live in Canada.
2. Your heart is always in the right place.
3. Because you’ve found the true love in your life and you spoil her.
4. You never give up.
5. Just Because.

Thanks

***On the movie kick***
I’ve seen Hancock, Hellboy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Batman in the last two weeks. I go through these kicks where I just want to sit and watch movies and be told a story. Then I’m off to not watch a movie for 10 months. Weird huh?

***Kids***
I’ve come to the conclusion that it is too late to move to Indiana to be “Daddoo” in the sense that the kids have grown past certain things. However I’ve come to the conclusion that I will be changing the things that we do when I go and see them or when they see me. Thus more science museums for Shelby (who can’t get enough science) and more parks and baseball games for Ryan. Also I am going to work and find ways to get Shelby to come see me and give her some one on one time with Daddy with Ryan starting when he can fly by himself.

***Misc***
Finances Have been tight lately as I finally paid off another bill and I am investing into paying off the house.
I’ve been reading an Andrew Tobias book before I goto sleep at night and I see the mistakes I have made in the past.

I’m trying to improve myself and my surroundings. Thus I am going on a kick of pruning my possessions. If I haven’t used it in six months or have no desire to give it to the kids will be either sold, donated or thrown away.

***Final Thoughts***

I’m changing, and it is slow. But I see the mistakes I have made and I see that some of the five things that my friend told me are true. I just have to make the changes to fix what I can. I’m opening up in some areas while shutting others down.

Before I took care of others before me because I thought that in the end I would be taken care of by others. That was a mistake on my part. Now I take care of myself first in the pursuit of helping others. That way we are BOTH covered.

Lunch with friends, working out tonight trying to bike another 10 miles on my way to biking a marathon.

sd

Good Behavior…

Now for the record, Amanda volunteered to help me. No one else in the hub city has been able to so I appreciated her taking her anger out on the tack strips removing them from the entire hall and living room area. We are not dating, and as a matter of fact she then did the best and worst thing I could have heard on that day. My five best and worst parts of me. It was way easier for her to list the things that she didn't like about me rather than the five things she liked about me. I sat and listened to it all, not gritting my teeth, even asking her how I could improve myself.

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