to be back.  *tip toes in and looks around – glances over old posts that read like well worn furniture – breathes a sigh of relief *  Whew!  We’re back up.  Imagine my surprise when I tried to find PokerWorks two days ago after I returned from my trip into Las Vegas.  It was nowhere.  Horrible, sad, frustrating news.  I pinged everyone that I knew of that might have some form of control over the server, but to no avail, it was the middle of their night.

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I’ll be out and about for more than a few hours. The sun’s out, the wind has stopped, the PokerWorks H.O.R.S.E. tourney report is coming later. Have a great day!

is a go.  Grupper and I are registered.  So is the Super User.  That makes 3 and we are counting on the rest of you to be there.  It starts at 21:00ET on PokerStars on the 11th – Sunday.  Password is…you guessed it…DONKEYS.  Either find it through the Tourneys > Private > Poker Works Family or search it up under tournament # 132808331.  See you there!

guess who!  A few days ago I received my Sleep by Number bed.  I would love to have a plain old fashioned water bed but the weight wouldn’t go with the living environment – the weight would probably tip the coach on end, really screw up the jacks that I whined about tormented me for months and taking a road trip would mean draining the mattress, then I’d be sleeping on a plywood platform at night.  In a comedy scene from a movie, I can picture me hitting the brakes and the filled mattress going through the glass closet doors, through the closet, breaking out the end of the fiberglass shell and slamming into the back window of the Steed on a road trip.  Yes, I have an over active imagination and it runs in color with sound and all the digital experiences you can imagine. Continue reading A day in the life of… →

Our lives play out like jagged patterns and broken pieces of fragile glass.  At times we are able to push some of the patterns together and glue a few of the broken pieces into the patterns so that it all makes sense – at least for the moment.  We continue.  We struggle.  We want.  We are.  And then one day we are not.  Those left behind are the ones that make us immortal, holding us in their memories and treasuring the times we spent together.

A dear friend of mine suffered an extreme loss today.  I know her reflections are torn and scattered at this moment and the broken glass is filled with sharp shards of pain.  Soon immortality will began to build a monument with all the great times shared, tendered with the sadness.  Once again, we are!

kind of, one foot in front of the other is more like it.  My son helped me install the RV skirting that has been setting in a box in the shed for over a month.  On New Year’s Day, Riot, Darian and I trekked out to my new digs with the thought they would spend the night and we’d start on the skirting the following day.  Everything went as planned, that night anyway.  We played online poker and between some website work and my poker playing, I played Batman the Video Game on the Wii with Riot.  He only lets me play when he gets stuck.  Hey, maybe I should swap out and let him play poker for me when I get stuck.  🙂 Continue reading Jumping into the new year →

I managed to find a way to slam a bunch of work together and left the ‘office’, showered and headed for Vegas around 5:30 p.m. which put me into town exactly the time I planned on being there.  Since I wasn’t planning on playing the ‘Suzie’s Rules Poker Tournament’ (a very great cause this time – these words are taken from Suzie’s invitational email – “Most importantly, the buy-in for the poker tournament is going up to $100 with $50 re-buys and all the money is going to the Las Vegas Area Boys & Girls Club.  The first place winner in the poker tournament will win a Harley Davidson V-rod  from Red Rock Harley Davidson.  I’m attaching photos of the actual V-Rod.”) Continue reading Bringing in 2009 →

I don’t have a gigantically long, chatter box filled HORSE report.  Mainly because we had two tables and I would have to have someone at the other table request the full history of their table – which means I would be able to see their hole cards during the whole play of the tournament (And this ain’t Poker on TV), and I did try to keep up with chat at both tables in jumping into the foray now and then but we did had 11 players.  Yes, ELEVEN!  Sweet! Continue reading HORSE Tourney, New Years, and on with 2009 →