This is really a useless bit of trivia, just a going nowhere kind of thread, but it seemed important to me at the moment. When I first kicked off the diary, I wrote only about events that happened when I dealt a game. Even then, it would be hard to say that I wrote about poker. I wrote and still write about people. People are what flip my switch. And people are what make up the game of poker. Poker would be so damn boring if it was only about hand histories and beats/wins. On BlogShares.Com, my blog has been voted for the following categories: Poker, Life, Journal, Personal, and Card Games. I am pleased as I feel it fits well into all of those categories. Do I understand the BlogShares concept? Nope. But it’s fun to go check it out and peek in at other people’s blogs too.
Now a bit on the personal side: I did come home from work, change my clothes, and hook up the new home to the truck. It went amazingly fast. I’m assuming I will be a pro in a very short time period. I drove the ‘almost 30 mile’ trip out to Camping World in the middle lane of the freeway. At 55-65 MPH, it’s incredible how the autos speed by. The freeway is not in great shape and I found myself feeling a slight bit queasy (it’s a motion sickness thang) by the time I pulled into the parking lot. I hit the bed in the coach. Amazing how damn loud all those trucks are that whiz by on Boulder Highway.
At 8 AM, I was up and ready to leave my new home in the shop with Victor. Victor and his crew did some checking on physical size of the generator and told me what had to be done, “…cut a hole here, blah, blah, blah…sign on the dotted line…” and I did. So the next leg of the life changes is unfolding. The generator and washer/dryer are going to be installed in the coach.
I headed for home…but decided I’d stop by DMV and license the coach. Kee-rist! It only cost $894. Actually after checking out the ‘guesstimate’ on the Internet, it was a few hundred cheaper than I thought it would be. Sweet! Downside? My windshield suffered a half dollar size rock chip on the passenger side while on the way to the DMV. Now I have to find a ‘windshield dr.’ or someone to fix it before it goes into nightmare stage.
And I finally did head for home, completely exhausted and really sick of the daytime world. I like the soft ambiance of night, the sky, the moon, less people and traffic – the whole world just feels better at night…for me anyway. And right now I’m test driving ‘Travel-Eze” – a wristband with a lump in it that supposed to ‘really work’ that ends the worry about unpleasant effects of travel…that would be that motion sickness thang. If that doesn’t work, it’s ‘less drowsy Dramamine’ for me because I’m going traveling in the near future.
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An email from one of my coolest connections, thanks to this page:
Subject: Belated Happy New Year – Ron from Texas
Linda,
You crossed my mind and I realized I did not shoot out a ‘Seasons Greetings’ to you. This may seem a small indiscretion but, after I checked my Chinese calendar, it is obvious that 2006 is the ‘Year of the Linda’.
I mean, if you look at your watch and look at your calendar and think ahead one year from now, you will not be sitting in front of your home computer drinking wine wondering how to get the stink of Sam G. spitting words out of your work shirt.
I think most likely one year from now, you will be asleep in a trailer under a big sky in a big state a lot more relaxed than you are now.
So remember, each night walking from the Bellagio to your car is one less night to be doing THAT and one more night closer to doing what YOU WANT.
Anyhow, as my usual reminder, I will be there on March 7th leaving the 10th (another conference). You will already have your short-timer mindset on and counting the days on the calendar will be a required duty.
I am glad I will be catching you then.
Anyhow, hope you have had a good start in 2006.
After all, it is -your- year…..
Ron..
And another email I wanted to post from a new acquaintance I met at the WPBT:
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [WPBT] add your blog and have discussions
Hi Linda –
I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed the post you wrote about Jason & Charlie. I enjoyed meeting both you and Jason that day. I think you must have had Charlie’s ashes with you when we were playing that donkey poker at the IP 2/4 limit table. Perhaps his spirit was pushing out those monster cards for both you and Jason (I was down nearly 40BB against you two!). Even though I didn’t know Charlie, I hung with Jason a good deal that weekend (he sweated me to a tourney victory at the Sahara) and discovered what a great guy he is. It made me feel good to know that I was tangentially connected with the wonderful tribute that Jason paid to his friend.
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G’nite all.