Labor day

Every time w.bloggar falls out of my Windows abridged start menu, I know it's been too long since I've written anything. I'm going to use the stupidest excuse too, I've been working a lot. Actually, I haven't been working terrible hours, but I haven't really felt like doing much more than playing poker, hanging out with Kat, and watching TV when I'm not at work. And I've been playing a shitload of poker. I keep telling myself that I'm going to update my blog and such, but never really get around to it. I've thought of a number of posts that I should write, but never put in the effort to get them written. So now you're getting them all at once:

Poker
I've been playing a ton of poker because I'm trying to work through the ridiculous ipod nano bonus on Hollywood Poker. For the site itself, it's definitely a step up from Titan, but like the majority of online poker sites it has a terrible game selection interface and doesn't run a huge spread of games. I've been mainly playing $3-$6 and $5-$10 limit hold'em, though now I'm staying away from 3/6 as much as possible because pokertracker constantly reminds me that I'm terrible at 3/6, but good at 5/10. Over roughly 3k hands of both 3/6 and 5/10, I am up as much on 5/10 as I am down on 3/6. It's pathetic. April pointed out that it's somewhat stupid for me to be working so hard to get through this bonus, since I don't really care about having an ipod nano. And my only response to that is: yeah, that's a good point.

Soccer
Indoor season ends tomorrow night. I've played in five games so far and we haven't won a single one. Apparently the rest of the team is really happy with my play though so I'll be playing again next season. I'm hoping we don't put together another 11v11 team because I still hate outdoor soccer, even if it's played on a turf field and I would feel obligated to play with the company (since it is free and all). If we don't put together another 11v11 team then I'm going back to urbansoccer because I don't have enough chaos in my life yet.

The apartment
We've thrown a bunch of stuff away, bought a new bookcase and cd shelf and now we just need to get everything in order. This is going to take a while. Having a gym in the building is pretty sweet, though I still need some prodding to get down there to work out. Even still, I've probably worked out there more than I have in the past year. God that sounds pathetic. Or right, that's because it is.

General business
The other night I was walking home and on the sidewalk was a belligerent girl who screamed the following into the phone:

"No! I decide when this is over! What about your little insider trading thing? What about that motherfucker?!?! I will DESTROY you!"

I got her contact info in case any of you guys are interested.

I miss my friends. And by friends I mean cable channel lineup that I have memorized. There are all sorts of crazy channels here in languages I don't understand, including Puerto Rican. I've never had a harder time understanding people speaking a language I know, with the possible exception of some of the ghetto-slang being thrown around on season 2 of Flavor of Love. It just doesn't make any sense. TBS and USA are still next to each other, but TNT is over 20 channels away. It's retarded. And WGN is in the way, so now I come across it more than I ever did in Austin. The one good thing I can say about that network is that they've had some kind of Back to School marathon. It's been a long time since I've seen that movie. It's up there with Caddyshack and Ladybugs for the best Rodney Dangerfield movies. And don't even get me started on Arnie Cunningham.

And also, RCN has awesome prices and not so good reception. The sound periodically cuts out on particular channels. It's extremely annoying. I'm going to have to call them and have them come out soon.

Other than that, I've been starting to get my plans together for ACL weekend, which will be my next trip to Austin (and likely my last for the year). I'm getting into town Thursday afternoon and will be leaving Monday afternoon. Most of my weekend will be taken up with ACL, but if you're going to be at ACL or out that weekend, email or msg me and maybe we can get together. Also, you should buy tickets to see Thievery Corporation at Stubbs on Thursday night. That's where I'll be. Or meet me at Mugshots before/after the show (you knew that was coming). Also, check out my preliminary ACL schedule here with this code: ACL368606.