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So I had been having a run of bad luck at the poker tables. Every book I’ve read says that it happens to the best of them and that you should expect it to happen to you.

That’s easy to read, but hard to deal with.

I had so many bad beats in which I got my money in with the best hand and very few outs for my opponents and still lost that it got to the point I was expecting to lose. And when you expect to lose it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So, I decided to take a break from the tables. I told myself that I wouldn’t play any this weekend and that means I wouldn’t play for about 10 days as I work Mon-Thurs and then we are going camping Fri-Sun in a cabin that has no TV and no phone.

Well, all of that was easy to say. But man is it hard to do. I have accidentally fired up the software once only to realize what I was doing and shut it right back down. It has become such a part of my routine that it is hard to think of other stuff I should be doing instead.

I don’t think Marilyn has minded much as I have gotten quite a bit of laundry and housekeeping done and I’m cooking dinner right now.

But you know what? I’m still thinking about poker and playing hands over in my head. Trying to imprint some of the lessons I have learned in my brain so as to not make the same mistake twice.

Yes, I have issues. I realize that.

I have to admit though, I’m looking forward to November 4th.

The 03/28/06 episode of The Chair and Automan is out. Download the MP3 directly here. Or better yet, get a podcatching client and subscribe to this podcast here. Or check out my Odeo channel.

In this episode:

I talk about my dusty podcast, Uplifting, the rover woes, my goddaughter’s cheerleading, renting minivans, Hondas and my life being a blur. And I play some songs.

The links:
Themselves (not a direct link, you have to look around a bit)
Ruskabank
The Movement
Uplifter.org

Audio feedback/promos are always welcome at jaslusher AT gmail DOT com.

This is my first ever live blog from an event. There are five of us here playing with various things, including trying to make my cheapy ebay camera into a webcam. It is supposed to do this on it’s own, but you know how these things go. I’m learning a number of things already and I’m going to try an experiment.

Here is an attempt to imbed a QuickTime movie into a post:

And yes this this the movie from this post. Note: you have to have a QuickTime plugin for this to work.