Archive for June 2003
Online Poker
Posted on June 3, 2003 by Ching under Poker.
The first time Brian tried online poker he didn’t like it. He said he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. So we decided to sit together and play as one person. Actually, he played and I was his advisor. He’d ask me, “Do I call, fold, raise?” It made me feel good, being the beginner that I am, to be able to show someone how to play (it’s not like he had much of a choice, we’re the only two people living here). I’d give him silly suggestions like, wait at least five to ten seconds before you raise or don’t raise too much money or too quickly so they don’t think you have a really good hand and they’ll stay in.. Or don’t think about it too long before you call because they’ll know you have a crappier hand than they do.. Or if this guy (someone who we’ve observed never bluffs) bets high just fold because he probably has a really good hand. It’s silly but you can kind of tell what type of hand they have based on the way they play and react. As for me, I’m just glad that it’s online and not in person because even though I can control how quickly or slowly I click on the button I’m not able to control my many facial expressions that, for sure, give me away. 
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New Furniture Covers
Posted on June 2, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Sorry I haven’t been blogging lately. Ashley and Andy got me hooked on online poker. Life hasn’t been the same ever since. I am totally addicted. And to think that I didn’t even know how to play poker until I now. Good thing it’s only fake money, though — because would’ve already lost our house, our cars and then some! You’d think I’d get tired of it by now — what with constantly losing and everything — but when you win, it’s such an exciting feeling.. Specially when you’re in the middle of a winning streak. Your heart gets pumping and your adrenaline is rushing. It’s totally awesome. Try it and you’ll see what I mean when I say it’s totally addictive!
Anyway, we got our new “used” furniture today. I’m amazed that Brian and I are still wake considering we’ve been up since 8:30 AM (and we normally don’t get up until about noon). We had to get up early to get our furniture and then we had to clean the house (trust me, we needed to — the house hadn’t been cleaned in weeks). Then Brian had to mow the lawn while I finished the rest of laundry and did dishes. It was a busier day than usual. Thank God, Kevin was here to help us move the stuff and he helped Brian by weed-whacking. I don’t think we could have done it all otherwise. I think Brian got upset at me for being crabby. I didn’t mean to be a slave-driver but I just wanted to ensure that everything got done. I mean, usually we’ll say we’ll clean house or do this and do that but we end up being lazy and putting it off so it doesn’t get done for another three weeks. If I say it’s getting done today, you better believe it’s getting done today! We even had time to go to Wal-Mart to get new furniture covers! 
I think the only thing on our to-do list for today that we didn’t accomplish was laying in our hammock. Brian’s on this new medication that makes him sensitive to sunlight so we were waiting for the sun to go down so we could lay outside. By the time the sun was finally setting it was like almost 8:00 PM and by then I was preoccupied with building Sarah’s birthday website and Brian was busy watching this show about motorcycles (either Biker Build-Off or Motorcycle Mavericks, I’m not sure which one) on the Discovery Channel. By the time we were both done it was time for dinner and at that point we didn’t feel like laying out anymore.
Oh, well.. I guess we’ll just lay out next weekend.
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The Italian Job
Posted on June 1, 2003 by Ching under Movies.
We just got done watching The Italian Job. Andy actually said that the title made it sound like a porno as we were going into the movie theater and I thought, “Hmm.. The Italian Blowjob..” I could see it. Kidding aside. There was actually a movie in 1969 by the same title and mostly the same characters but they’ve improved on it a lot. I haven’t seen the original but the movie we just got done seeing was pretty good. It caught my attention from the very beginning, specially with the awesome speedboat-chase scene. I was at the edge of my seat for the entire movie. I was also glad that there was no gratuitous sex scene. It was suspenseful yet wholesome. I mean, most movies these days feel like they have to interject sex in there just to sell the movie. It was refreshing to see that movie-makers out there are able to keep unnecessary sex scenes out of a movie. For that I give them props.
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