I’m playing in a World Series of Poker satellite this afternoon. At least 150 people from this event are going to the real deal in Las Vegas next week. (If it was just the $10,000 entry fee, then I’d probably not be playing, but they’re throwing in $1,000 “spending money”, which should just barely get me there, eating a few days, and flying back.)
I don’t play satellites, and I don’t play MTTs, and I don’t play in anything this large, but I’m looking at it as a long shot to a long shot, and just having fun. The experience should be worth it. (And if I make the WSOP, then same philosophy: zero expectation, and just play as well as you can.)
Our weekend was awesome, thanks for asking. You didn’t ask? Well, remember to ask next time.
We took Friday off, and took the kids to daycare. It felt great. That’s always great, when you can get 9 hours free from the kids, even if it costs you an arm and a leg. Usually all we do is work. Hmph.
We headed out for Target, and Christie got me a backpack / luggage thing. What I really wanted for my birthday was a messenger bag, but then I got impatient at the end of March and started using my old one, and now I’m kind of attached to it. So the super-size backpack is actually something I really needed, and also based on the theme of “carrying stuff” so I was happy.
They do not have the Nintendo DS Lite on display. Yet. I thought they might have a demo up to get people ready to buy them in a week when they debut, but apparently not.
Friday night Tim and Kiely babysat for us. They couldn’t make it out until about 6:30, but they packed a lot into the time before bedtime. And we really enjoyed ourselves, out again unescorted, where we had dinner and watched The Break-Up. It was good.
Bonus list: Movies we have seen in a theater since the kids were born.
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Crash (2005)
- Wallace and Gromit in Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
- The Break-Up (2006)
Saturday, I had to work from home for a little bit in the morning. Everything went okay. My new poker books came in the mail. Yay. We did that dumb thing where we plan for the grocery shopping for four hours, because we don’t want to eat out, because fresh food is better, and we like cooking… and by the time it was time to actually leave, we had to grab McDonald’s on the way. Ah well.
Also, I started to feel a little woozy with a sore throat. Didn’t stop me from making monster cookies and drinking half a bottle of wine while we watched two episodes of Lost.
Sunday the kids went to church with Christie, who had to work afterwards, so I went to pick them up. We came home to play in the sprinkler. I watched the premiere of Last Comic Standing (a perennial Summer TiVo favorite), and tried to talk to Crat on Skype Video. (Once I got my camera up and running, he was gone.)
