January 8, 2006

  • Today, I went to get my haircut. While waiting for the million and one
    people to get their haircuts before me, I watched most of Shrek 2. I
    have only seen all of Shrek 2 one other time, so it was nice to watch
    it; I almost forgot just how funny it is. After the haircut, I came
    home and cleaned a room in the house that, well, for lack of a better
    term, filled with lots of junk. It is the smallest room in the house
    and therefore almost used as a junk room. It was amazing, though, how
    many empty boxes I found. Now, the room still has a lot of uneeded
    stuff in it, but it looks a LOT better and is way more organized.

    Ahhhhh, playoff football.............ya gotta love playoff football.
    Washington-Tampa game was almost a classic today. Can't wait to see
    more games tomorrow.

    I played cards tonight at Scott's house and for the first time in a
    long time, I did very good. Don came with tonight, which was cool since
    we don't get a chance to hang out all that often. Anywho, the buy-in
    was $20 plus an extra $2 for the highest called hand of the game. It
    worked out well for me, I wound up with the highest called hand, almost
    in spite of myself. Early on I had a very good hand and wound up, well,
    blowing my load on it. I overbet and drove the only other person left
    from the hand before it could be called. I thought then that I had
    blown my chance at high hand, but later on had another full house and
    did manage to keep people in for that hand. I had a good night, not
    only was I getting great cards, but I was also, for the most part,
    playing smart, even halfway bluffing a couple of hands. I also managed
    to catch a couple of people in a bluff. In the end, it came down to me
    and this other guy, Paul (I have written about him before). People were
    waiting to start another game to start and Paul and I were going back
    and forth and were about equal in chips. I was getting pressure to just
    split the pot and tie for 1st. Don had no interest in a second game
    (but, I was itchin to play more) and I already had the high hand of the
    night, so I would still come out ahead of Paul if we split. I thought
    about it, and did what I always hate to do: I split the pot, knowing
    that he and I could have gone on for quite some time, seeing as we were
    already about 3 hours into the game.

    Don and I left about 11:30ish. We went back to his place and watched tv
    with his wife and daughter. Shortly thereafter, his other daughter,
    Korine, came home. Korine is 16 and desperately wants to participate in
    the study abroad program in Japan. We talked for quite some time about
    it and I offered her some ideas and encouragement. I hope she is able
    to do it in a couple of years, it would be great for her.