Archive for January, 2008

Leashing The Bodog

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

During this blogging brownout tha I’ve been going through, you may or may not have noticed that I haven’t been discussing poker much.  I had really lost a fair bit of my enthusiasm for playing online because of general nuttiness that goes on on Full Tilt Poker.  Generally playing the low limit games on FTP [...]

w00t

Monday, January 28th, 2008

I’ve finally got the laptop back with me at the in-laws and out of the old house.  I missed my little buddy.  He’s all hooked up and connected and ready to rock.

Congrats Again, Obama

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Congratulations to winning South Carolina by an impressive margin go out to Barack Obama.  It was an amazing win and he did it with style and class.
The only problem I had with the whole thing was the media’s repeated use of the term “racially-charged” when describing the contest in SC.  Unless “racially-charged” means that both [...]

Puny

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I don’t know if dogs get sinus infections, but if they do I’m as sick as one.  I don’t tend to get colds or the flu so when the sore throat started on Sunday, I expected to be done with it fairly quickly.
Things got worse and worse until Wednesday when I went to work I was [...]

Some Are More Than One

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Charles Sinagra, the former owner of Atlanta Ice, once turned to me and said, “Everything I own is broken”. It was an exaggeration, to be sure, but not much of one. Things were definitely falling apart.
I have noticed recently that everything I own falls into one of four categories:

Broken
Almost Worn Out and Needing [...]

Congratulations Obama!

Friday, January 4th, 2008

I am extremely heartened by Barack Obama’s win in Iowa.  When rural white people can embrace a black politician, I start to hope that my basic distrust of most people is wrong.  I’m not letting go based on the results of one caucus, but it is encouraging.  I would be thrilled to be proven wrong [...]