Leaving Las Vegas. Headed to Tuscaloosa.

This week was a whole lot of work. Stephanie and I probably spent 30 hours over the last 4 days packing up all of our stuff and moving it into a nearby storage unit. I would normally hire someone to do this kind of shit for me, but moving is one of those things where you kind of have to evaluate what you're going to keep and what you're going to throw away. I also don't really trust random people with some of my stuff. We finally got the house entirely cleaned out this morning. I also rented another 10x20 unit on the other side of town near the airport which I parked my Tahoe inside this morning. Let's hope it doesn't explode in the 247 degree heat.

Aside from that, I have been playing some poker. I got like 8000 hands in at shorthanded NLHE online and beat it for an ok but not great 2 ptbb/100. 8000 hands is obv extremely short term though, and I'm still learning 6max NLHE cash. I am considering really going into grinding mode for about a month. I always say I'm going to grind, but I never do. Playing long hours of poker is not very interesting to me though. That's not why I got into this business. I got in to play when I want to and do a lot of other stuff when I want to, so I likely won't actually get many hands in. I don't really need the money, but it would help my confidence to beat a game for a while. There is a very busy live MTT schedule coming up, so basically I'm going to be living out of a suitcase for a while. I'll blog about what all is coming up later. Let's see what else. I continue to struggle with my weight. I am up to about 222 lbs. I have to start working out. I have been eating somewhat decent since getting back from LA, however LA was a disaster of the trashiest food on the planet. I'm also still wrestling with what I want to do in 2008. I do still enjoy playing poker a lot of the time, even if I'm losing. I especially enjoy live MTTs, I think. I don't particularly like most of the people in the business. That's for sure. Almost all of the young, online guys are pretty cool, and most of the live tournament circuit guys that I'm acquaintances (sp?) with are likable. However, most of the other people at the tables are uninteresting assholes. I guess you can kind of expect that in a business like this where there's so much ego. People continue to think they are better humans than others because they are good at a game called poker. One of the things I miss from my pre-poker life is that I would hung out with a lot of beautiful, interesting people with lots of dimensions and interests. The poker life has afforded me the opportunity to do a lot of things cool, too, so it's not that bad. We'll see what happens in '08.

Hope all of your teams win this weekend.

SS