Gonna take a shot at $25/$50 HU tonight on Hero for $1165.
Rofl wtf no I'm not Actually I just figured since nobody is really bloggin bout shit these days, I might as well provide a worthless life update. Meh, why not.
So I has a job now, which mean I can has poker money. I mean I've always had a job, kinda funny to put it that way, but considering how worthless and boring it was it just felt like nothing. I mean hell, I used to 4-table rush at my desk. Says a lot about my job responsibilities. I still maintain I always got shit done, and now that I quit I still get emails/texts/phone calls from upper management begging for assistance with things. Too bad mother fuckers, thats what you get for reducing my salary by 30%, and then keeping it there for 3 fucking years. Hey stupid shits, I'm the fucking I.T. guy, I know how much money everyone else is making already, and you FUCKED ME. Anyway I had been looking to quit probably 2 years ago so it's not like I just accepted it and kept it to myself this whole time.
So I got a new job which is sorta kickass and sorta boring too, but it pays more so whatever. The fact that I'm blogging about it right now should tell you something. One good thing though is that since I'm no longer fixing problems for people, but instead being tasked with various objectives, the job is a lot more mentally stimulating. I work for a university now so the vibe is also much different, since pretty much all I see is a bunch of fine ass 18 yr old pussy walking around all day. Goddamn it's rather difficult honestly. The best thing is just the boost in my resume credentials that a position like this offers. See I only intend to stay here for a year or so, because I'm just so fucking bored of where I live.
For starters I'd like to live in a poker friendly state, even though I dont play that much poker. I just want to know the options are available, but mainly because I just like live that much. I'm kinda slow I guess so 1-table is all I can really focus on. Since so many of us are ex-gamers, I was a 1st person shooter, not a Starcraft'er, so that might give you a little insight into how I approach strategy/competition, and why I'm not naturally talented at a game like poker. But I just really like people and being social, I like the physicality of holding cards and playing with chips, I like eating a burger and having a beer at the table, and my mood is entirely different live vs online. Honestly, it's probably the best poker environment for someone like me since I get off on it.
But of course it cant just be all about poker, since I'll have to have some kind of job first, and a desirable place to live. There arent that many non-degen poker cities honestly so it's gonna be tight. We're even thinking about moving to Canada because Canadians rock, and I'm starting to get disgusted with the United States. Vancouver is the only city I'm even remotely interested in though, so it's either there or nothing at all. I think with 1 good year of employment here, plus all the other shit I have on my resume and I'll be a lock for employment anywhere in the U.S. It's kinda funny planning my departure a mere 6 weeks into new employment, but that was always part of the end-game anyway, no matter how comfortable I get where I'm at right now.
Beyond that, poker has been hugely "MEH!!" as always. I just dont put in any volume, mainly because I kinda always expect to lose. Such a weird conflict of emotions, because here I describe how much I want to play, but then once I get the chance to actually sit down and play I avoid it. I won a freeroll for $600 on Hero a few months back, and after cashing out $200 my bankroll is down to $100 or so. I lost about 10 BI's playing NL25 HU, 1 silly shot at NL200 6max, and I think a little at omaha just because I had never played omaha before. I actually paid for a couple of lessons in HU just because I've always wanted to get into it, and the money seems good even as low as NL25. But with a shattered bankroll it's hard not to play scared. I'll probably start buying in for 60BB's or so since thats all my competition usually sits with anyway and hoping I can apply what little I've learned in 2 hours of lessons. I'd gladly buy a ton more HU coaching but because I'm not sure if I'm smart enough to actually get the hang of it I want to kinda take it step by step before investing $1000 into something I'll never use.
lol, anyone else having trouble using this shit? I uploaded a shit ton of pictures, but it randomly decides which ones I can and cant delete. Half of them somehow ended up in these albums, others appear to be in albums yet it's not really treating them like albums and thus I cant manage them, even though they show up under the general albums category, certain options are selectively missing from one picture to the next. They all show up with random fuckin sizes like google is trying to be all cute tiling your photos artistically across your screen and shit. I decided to go through and start deleting them one by one since that was the only fucking way to actually make sure some pics were gone, and I got a little google+ popup asking if I wanted to be prompted "are you sure?" every single time or not. So I unchecked the prompt, which has now made it impossible to delete ANY pictures. See without the prompt it just assumes a default NO option is being chosen, rofl. Goddamn this entire platform is such fucking fail. You cant PM anybody, instead you just post messages on your "stream" and have to choose who can see it. Wtfsrsly google? The mobile app is complete trash. It shows thumbnails in my gallery that I dont even have on my phone anymore, and when I click on them to remove it it just throws an error because obviously the file doesnt exist anymore, but I cant get rid of the goddamn thumbnail, so now my google+ mobile gallery is littered with random garbage making it impossible to navigate through.
Any blockbuster video users here? I've been a netflix user for the last 3 years and have been overall satisfied. I have the 1 bluray/streaming plan which I think is fairly priced, although netflix is adding $6 to that plan next month. However I just noticed blockbuster basically offers the same thing, but I can get 2 movies at a time for even cheaper.
Honestly I dont use the netflix streaming that much. I have a bluray player with netflix built in, but netflix's library still blows and the only movies I actually want to see come on disc only. Plus streaming HD doesnt hold a candle to actual bluray, so I could care less about this feature. All I really watch are the disc's.
So does anyone use blockbuster? How is their library? Do they have as many bluray editions of movies as netflix does? Or do you get sent a dvd or something lame because "sorry we're currently out of bluray's for the movie you selected"? How is their stock in general? When Harry Potter comes out and 100 million people rent it, netflix can usually deliver without delay. Can blockbuster say the same? Or do you go on 3 month waiting periods because they only have 1000 copies of said disc?
So I'll be starting my new job next week and need to get my own cell phone since my current employer pays for mine. I went to a verizon store to get a feel for their offerings and noticed something strange, every single phone except the iphone was practically unusable. I was only looking at high end android devices by HTC/Samsung/LG, phones I have played with before outside of verizon's store and was quite perplexed at how utterly FUBAR these phones were behaving. Choppy frame rates, shitty scrolling, super laggy on input, homescreens a complete mess, every single possible widget running at the same time. I know customers fuck with phones all day but when compared to the iphone it seemed like they went out of their way to make non Apple devices look as crappy as possible in comparison. Has anyone else ever observed this?
Anyway gonna buy a new HTC Sensation 4G this week as soon as it's released on Tmobile. Little nervous about the ATT acquisition, but I figure by the time they begin dismantling Tmo's 4G network that I'll be due for an upgrade anyway and can safely migrate to the new network standard without wrecking my 4G functionality. The big concern for everyone is that since 4G phones have to have special receivers to operate on that part of the wireless spectrum, that ATT will change everything and basically turn every non ATT phone into a brick requiring you to renew/upgrade to get a working phone again.
Got a new job jigga's. Pay raise, stability, new environment, tons of future potential, many doors opened, best thing to happen in a long time. Which quickly followed the worst thing to happen in a long time, and that was having a PREVIOUS job offer snatched away from me!
I applied for an IT gig at a local hospital, one which was offering a 50% pay increase, slam dunked the interview process, and was made an offer. Then they found out that I had technically lied about my employment history, stating I had worked at my previous company for 8 years when I had really only been there for 7.5. So they disqualified me, after I had already been offered the position and given a start date! Over a 6 month discrepancy in my employment! WTF! I explained it as me simply "rounding up" and that surely 6 months couldnt matter when we're talking about YEARS of employment here, but nope, they were stern and said that was grounds of dismissal. I got fired before I even started. I asked just who the hell was making this decision, because no way was it the actual person hiring me or my future boss's. Nope, just some cock sucker in a suit who I would never see in my life responsible for signing the paychecks. Talk about having the wind knocked out of you, I was pretty depressed. By the way this actually happened on Friday the 13th too lol.
So I applied for another job at a university doing basically the same thing although paying a little less, and got it! And this time no bullshit about failure to qualify or whatever, it's a done deal now. Sucks I wont be making as much, but it's only like a 15% difference which I'm fine with, and I'd rather work for higher education than the healthcare industry anyway.
So life is looking good again for once. Be able to get back into some live pokerz, do more shit on the weekends, go on some vacations, pay off some credit cards, basically whatever. Oh yeah, also bought an ipad last week, lovin in. And am moving into a new condo with cheaper rent, free water, better electricity bills, and a fireplace as an upgrade, so now I'll be making money while I make money. Now all I have to do is not die in a fiery car crash between now and then.... or the next 60 years preferably.
Since all I do is get sucked out on in poker, maybe I can have a little rungood at life this week. After being threatened at work I've been looking for another job, and have my final interview with a company next week paying A LOT more than I make right now. If I get it, I'd be making more money then I could probably ever make at poker so I could finally quit this faggoty fucking game and just enjoy life, having all my finances back on track again with money to spare.
Almost. An employee looked like he was going to take a swing at me the other day after we got into an argument, so I filed a complaint with HR. Big mistake I guess, because he's best friends with the president of the company. President just called me into his office and chewed me out, saying if I complain or take it any further I'm fired, and that he shoulda let me go 6 months ago (not sure why he didnt then). I wanted to get into it with him but was pretty sure he would have fired me on the spot so I decided to bow out and just stand there getting yelled at. Pretty embarassing since I'm sure some employee's heard it, and office gossip will surely spread it around.
So back to the job hunt for me. At least I'm still employed, but obviously thats just borrowed time. He knows firing me within days/weeks of complaining about another employee would be an instant lawsuit so I figure I have anywhere between 1-6 months before he can get away with it.
Extra sucks that going poker pro is not yet an option for me. Lost 20 BI's in the last 2 days half stacking NL5, not even the worlds biggest heater could save me financially at these limits.
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Actually I just figured since nobody is really bloggin bout shit these days, I might as well provide a worthless life update. Meh, why not.
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