My DELL Mini 9
Posted on September 23, 2008 by Ching under Moblog, Toys.
My DELL Mini 9 arrived today. Happy early birthday to me!
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Poker Cruise Party-Slash-Orientation Thing
Posted on September 22, 2008 by Ching under Poker.
We had dealer practice yesterday, but we didn’t really get to practice much. It turned out to be more of an informational session because we got started late and ran into the poker cruise party-slash-orientation thing. We will need to set up another time to practice dealing. In the meantime, Brian and I both have to learn how to deal seven card stud, Omaha, Omaha hi/lo, and razz. We’ll keep you all posted on our progress.
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Pictures from Rogie’s Baby Shower
Posted on September 21, 2008 by Ching under Life.
We had a lot of fun at Rogie’s baby shower this afternoon. Here are some of the photos we took…
You can see more pictures here. I had to leave early because Brian and I had to attend dealer practice that day at 5p. Tell you guys more about that next time… I’m so excited for the poker cruise (even though we’ll be working). I’m counting the days!
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All You Can Bowl
Posted on September 21, 2008 by Ching under Games.
Though it doesn’t look it from this photo, Brian actually had fun last night. We had planned to go cosmic bowling last week, but then we thought our plans fell through so we went to dinner with Brian’s parents at Carrabba’s instead. Right before dinner, our bowling plans were back on again.
We had a wonderful time at dinner. Joe stopped by our table so we got to introduce him to David and Donna. It was really cool. As always, dinner was great and the service was fabulous.
We initially planned to go to West Acres for cosmic bowling, but the Dills got out of their movie early and wanted to start bowling sooner. We ended up at Northrock Lanes instead. It worked out because, at three hours of all you can bowl, it’s a much better value.
We played girls against guys first, which the guys won by four pins (295 to 299, it was a low scoring round). Then we did a couples round, which the Dills won by two pins. Brian and I got pretty close, though. We scored 245 to their 247. During that round Jay and I both scored 137, but Becca outscored Brian 110 to 108 so we lost. Anyway, since Jay and I scored the same he challenged me to a bowl-off. Jay won the bowl-off with 141 to my 138, but only because he got lucky and managed to get two strikes in a row at the very end. =P
I was actually pretty impressed with how well Jay bowled despite ripping his jeans. We all had a good laugh about that. Jay was a pretty good sport about it and didn’t let it slow him down at all.
I didn’t do too bad over all. I can’t remember what I scored the first game we bowled before Cory and April got in the game, but I bowled a 123, 137, and 138. Not too bad, but I could tell how rusty I was. I missed really easy spares. I picked up a baby split, though. So that was pretty good. Last night reminded me of how much I like to bowl. I wish Brian would join a league with me. He won’t, though. Oh, well. Maybe we can do the all you can bowl thing again another day.
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I May Just Kill Myself this Weekend
Posted on September 20, 2008 by Ching under Life, Movies, Poker.
I was back on the workout wagon and then off again. The last couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to work out during the week because of various things coming up. Sometimes we’ve got other, more pressing, things going on after work. Other times I bring my workout gear to work with the full intention of working out after work, but am unable to change into my workout clothes because I’m super busy or I get stuck on an escalation or question. I hate going to the workout classes late because everyone is already doing the warm up or the exercise or whatever while you’re walking in there and then you still have to put your equipment together (if there’s any left, we routinely run out of weights in muscle pump because people lift tonnage), be it step, barbell, free weights, bands etc. By the time you’re warmed up and ready to go, the class is halfway or, worse yet, it’s over. Besides that, some workout classes are so popular that the room gets so crowded. Unless you’re there to stake claim to your spot, there’s really not any room for you (core class is like this).
Even though I’ve consistently missed my weekday workouts the past couple of weeks, I’ve gone religiously the past couple of weekends. I did my two workout classes on Saturday, and even lived through two workout classes on Sunday. However, consistently making it to my weekday workouts has been my Moby Dick so to speak.
I know this is kind of a cop out because I promised myself a little while ago that I will go to the gym regardless of how late I am for the workout class. I had vowed just to get on the treadmill, and wait for the next class to begin instead of nixing my entire workout altogether. I haven’t delivered on that promise at all lately the last two weeks. So I guess I’m feeling some guilt over trying to rationalize missing my workouts. That might be the reason that I might just try to kill myself this weekend.
I have been sneezing non-stop. I have super congestion, and am blowing gross green snot out of my nose (not the usual clear stuff). I can seriously feel how much snot I have in my head because of my facial sensations. I have a sinus headache, sore throat, and a bit of a fever. Also, I noticed that I’ve developed an eye twitch (left side) the last couple of days. I don’t know if that’s because my sinus cavities are overloaded with snot or what, but I was thinking about it last night while playing poker. I thought, gosh I hope that my eye doesn’t start twitching in the middle of a hand or the other players might think I’m bluffing kind of like that bad guy in Casino Royale
But I digress… What I’m trying to say is that, I’m going to my usual Saturday workouts today despite how horrible I’m feeling right now. I think, in part, I’m trying to punish myself for not working out during the week. For reneging on my promise. For not being as dedicated as I should be. If I fail, then this could go very, very badly. If I succeed, however, I may just scare the bejeezus out of my sickness. Maybe I can get it to go away by showing it how tough I am? I am the boss of my body, and I say that I’m not going to sick right now. Take that, sickness! How about that, huh?
P.S. As part of my death wish, I’ve also only had less than five hours of sleep today. We didn’t get home from poker until midnight. We chowed down on some fried chicken as soon as we got home because we had the munchies. That probably wasn’t a very good idea, but I was thinking maybe I could add heart attack to my list of possible causes of death. Since we ate, we couldn’t go to bed right away so it was probably almost two in the morning by the time we were wound down enough to go to sleep. And, guess what. I’m up right now blogging. I’ve been up since six o’clock or so. I’ll let you know how I fare this weekend. Wish me luck.
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