Played poker last night, took it down. Playing poker tonight also, I have a problem. lol

I love it though. I’m 600 bucks away from my goal of hitting 3 grand on the MPT leaderboard. That’s fun.

Tonight, we’re going to Bonnie’s. Great food, good poker, and flat out good times. Poker night at Bonnie’s is the only place I know where in 5 card draw, nothing wild, your aces full of kings full house could, and will, regularly get beaten by not one, but two quads. True story. If I could have bet my house I would have that my full house was good. Not only did I lose to four 9’s, but the four 9’s lost to four friggin jacks!

ANNOUNCEMENT!!


It’s time for you people that want to play in the August 7th game to call me and secure your spot. 6:00pm shuffle up and deal, and the spots are going fast! Secure your spot now!

Damn, these things are fun. We rode to Kels grandma and grandpa’s house yesterday. Then we stopped by my dad’s before heading home. Good times.

On the way home from work today, it started raining. We were going to Bonnies to play cards at 7, so we didn’t have time for a bike ride tonight. When I got home, Kel was already on the treadmill. She finished up, and I hopped on the treadmill. I love the first week of working out and eating right. You lose so much weight, it really feels like what you’re doing has an impact. When in actuality, the weight loss will stunt itself sometime next week. But after getting off the scale today after the treadmill run, I’m happier than I was yesterday.
And Saturday, we decided to go to Stoney Creek to ride around there. I’m totally excited. I need to get to the bike shop though, to pick up a new water bottle holder, and bottle before we go. I’ll go tomorrow after work. I was also thinking about putting together a little poker game tomorrow night, but I’m not sure yet. We’ll see…

Kel and I went out today and picked up a pair of mountain bikes! We talked about it for a while and decided it would be something fun for us to do together. Kelly picked up this bike:

It’s a Trek Navigator 300. It’s one of their “comfort level” bikes. More for comfort than for offroad. Cool options though. The shifter is built in the grip, and you twist it to shift. She has an “accessory” bar on her handle bars, that has a computer chip built in. We bought this little unit that goes on the bar that tells the time, date, distance, all kinds of cool stuff.

Here is the bike I got:

It’s a Trek 4500. More of a standard mountian bike. I wanted something that I could use both on and off road. I have the RockShox fork on the front. And teh shifter is a quick flip shifter. Downshift with your index finger, and upshift with your thumb underneath the handlebar. It’s very easy to go from gear to gear.

Both bikes have 24 gears. We also bought water bottle cages. The guy said they are aluminum but you could probably bend them in slightly to take regular water bottles. Well, I bent mine VERY slightly and broke the fucking thing. I had the bike like a minute, and I broke it. Nice job dickhead. So tomorrow I’m going to get another one, and a water bottle. Screw that messing with the cage crap.

We also picked up a bike rack for the trucks. So we can take our bikes up north, or wherever. Good times.

The poker night went great. Everyone had a good time, and the tourney went really smooth. The place we had it at worked out also. We had a TV so we got to watch the Pistons game while we played. (sucks that they lost, but as long as they win tonight and split on the road, all will be well)

Anyway, Little Rob won the big tourney. It was a chip battle between him and Nate at the final table. Nate went all in on 2 pair after the flop, Q’s and 2’s, and Rob called him with a pair of Queens with a King kicker. You gotta love Nates chances here. But it wasn’t meant to be when Rob caught a King on the river to get a higher two pair. Tough beat for Nate. That gave Rob enough chips to bully everyone else out. Congrats Rob.

Sommers ended up being my God damn nemesis for this game. 10, 10, 9 on the flop, I’m staring at 10, J in my hand as he goes all in in position ahead of me. I call of course, and run right into a full house as he throws down 10,9. I ended up taking Joey out of the game that hand, but Sommers doubling up on me hurt my chip count more than taking Joey out helped it. Then as I get closer and closer to the felt, I get a wired pair of three’s, go all in, and run right into Jay’s pocket Q’s. Bastard. To make matters worse, I caught a set of 3’s, but he also caught a set of Q’s! That actually made it kind of funny, lol.

Good luck with your ATM card Jay.

This wasn’t the only game of the night however. It wasn’t by far actually. I got home that night (or morning actually) at 6:00am. We played four games total, although the last one wasn’t a “normal” game. 300 in chips, $50.00 blinds, 20 minute showdown type. Good times.

I think we’re going to do this once a month. It seemed like everyone had a good time with it. I don’t know about the playing til 6 thing though, that was a little much. I woke up on Sunday at 10:30 after only 4 hours of sleep. I was kind of a zombie all day yesterday. Also, Joey and I played heads-up for a couple of hours yesterday, after this weekend, I’m for sure poker’d out.

I decided before Saturday’s game that I was done with poker for a while. That after the tourney Saturday night, I was going to take a hiatus from the game. I feel even stronger about that now. There was an incident that happened that helped me make that decision. It made me realize something. No need to get into it now, because I don’t want to start any problems, but let’s just say I’m not going out of my way to set up games for the people I currently play with all the time. To be honest, I don’t know if I ever will again. As it stands, I’m not real happy with the situation. With this in mind, Fish and I decided to run a once a month game like Saturdays. I’ll play in those, but that’s it. I’m done with the weekly/bi weekly games. The funny thing is, with the exception of Fish, no one else will put together a game. If the effort on our part stopped, no one would ever play poker again, lol. Hopefully this will change as people read this….I doubt it though. Just a side note, this is NOT the reason I don’t want to play poker anymore.

Anyway, I went to bed last night at 11:00, relatively early for me, but I still don’t feel 100% yet. After a few more cups of coffee maybe….

Why is it that the nicest, most relaxing weekends always go by the quickest? I had a good weekend. On Saturday we went to Andiamo’s Italiano with Mom and Mike. They have great food there. We had decided a long time ago, that when my Mom’s case finally settled, we would celebrate. Well, it setteled, so we did. Good times.

On the other hand, the hockey game on Saturday left very little to celebrate about. The Wings lost 1-0. They’re now down in the series 3-2, and going back to Calgary for game 6 tonight. Yzerman caught a puck in the eye, and had to have surgery. Although I heard this morning that they’re expecting him to make a full recovery. Fun Sports night tonight though, Pistons and Nets first game, then Wings game after. Hopefully both will win, and for the Wings, forcing a game 7 at the Joe.

Today is Kelly’s 30th birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!

One more game and it’s on to round two. The Stones crushed the Bucks last night although the game was closer than the 109 to 92 score makes it look. Either way, the Pistons won, and Thursday they can close out the series and move on to face the Nets in round two. So Thursday we have the Pistons game, the Redwings game, Survivor and Kel’s birthday. Sheesh.

At least I know I’m on the upswing. I do feel a little better today. Today being my Friday might help a little bit. Although my stomach is giving me a little grief. Just a little naseua, maybe it will go away after lunch.

It’s funny. I started taking blood pressure medication to help my health. And I started taking Welbutrin to quit smoking, also for my health. The funny thing is, since I started both of these pills, I have felt like crap everyday. I literally haven’t felt good in 3 weeks. It’s hard to explain, maybe the term I’m looking for is comfortable. I haven’t felt comfortable since I started taking my pills. I never felt like this before, when my blood pressure was high. I felt fine then. Now, I’m taking meds that are supposed to help me, and I feel like shit all the time. Go figure. I’ve kind of accepted the fact that I will have to take these pills forever. And chances are, I will never feel 100% ever again. I’m just hoping that a lot of the crappy feeling goes away after I stop the Welbrutin. If it doesn’t, I’ll tell my doc about it then.

Can’t chat with Kel like normal
Kel’s at her new place today. I wonder how it’s going for her. I don’t want to call her, because I don’t want to be that guy, I just want to make sure everythings going okay for her. Oh well, I’ll wait for her to call me.

Almost trailer time!
Leaving…on a jet plane..I don’t know when I’ll be back again…
Loading up the X and taking off tonight! W00t!

Did I quit smoking?
I’ve been taking my pills for a couple of weeks now. Originally I thought I was seeing progress. Packs of smokes would last me longer than before. I think that was all in my head though. Then I thought that I hadn’t slowed down at all, and that these pills don’t work for shit. M Doc told me to be patient and that the pills will work eventually. Well, 3 days ago, I lit up the first ciggerette for the day around 7:00pm. I immediately put it out, as I realised that I didn’t want it. I did that two more times that night. Then two days ago, I lit up a ciggerette in the car, and immediately threw it out the window. It tasted like crap. Right now, Thursday April 22nd 2004, is now the second day in a row that I haven’t touched a ciggerette. It’s just like everyone said, it creeps up on you. One day you wake up, and you don’t want smokes anymore.

This has apperantly happened to me. I just stopped craving them. Then it started to set in. This is it, I’m done smoking. All of a sudden, something strange happened. Something that I never would have guessed in a million years. I actually got nervous about quitting. I’ve been smoking for 14 years. It’s been a crutch for 14 years. Now, out of nowhere, my crutch is gone. Feeling of relief? Nope. Feeling of uncertainty and fear. Yup. These feelings took me by suprise. I’ve been saying for a while now, that I want to quit, I would just light up a smoke after I said that. Can’t do that anymore.

I don’t know where these feelings came from. I don’t understand the logic. But they’re here. There’s nothing I can do about them now. Am I stressed out? Not really. Am I pulling my hair out? Nope. Will these feelings affect anything that I have going on in my life? Probably not. Just something that suprised me, and I thought I would share.

Ok, so Manny Legace wasn’t that good. Define depth at the goalie position. Legace out, and who’s there to replce him? CuJo. He he. The wings go into Nashville yesterday and finish off the series. They’re on to round two. W00t!

Then today, the Pistons played their first game of the first round against the Bucks. And they destroyed them 108 to 82. It was a blowout with an absolute clinic put on by Wallace squared. That would be Ben and Rasheed for those of you keeping score.

Then, to top off the Detroit sports weekend perfectly, the Tigers lost 9-7. Okay, I can see why this would look like a BAD thing for Detroit sports. But to be perfectly honest, I bet someone at work that the Tigers wouldn’t win 65 games this year. So I crack a smile whenever they lose.

So I haven’t watched Kill Bill yet. Actually, I haven’t done much over the past two days. I got UT2K4. This game is so god damn fun, it’s crazy. I love it. And I’m getting nothing done because of it.

But today is a short day for me. I have a Cardiolyte Stress Test today at 11:45. And I’m not coming back to work after, so that’s a good time. I’ve never had one of these before, and so far I hate it. Only because I can’t have caffiene until after my test.

Raging headacheville here I come!