Well, it's months since I was last here. Oh the things that life throws at us. When last we met, I was in Thailand (with the $60 bucks worth of local currency - but for the generosity of a total stranger would have been a very difficult week [when my ATM said, MUAHAAAAAAA, Sorry, no cashola for you!]) and forecast for a long, long trip. Luckily, my ATM decided to work on its own (yes, someone has to explain that one to me) and the business trip went off without a hitch (other than dealing with a death in my family eight thousand miles away, my back going out due to stress, and other sundried and various lovelies) and back on US soil I found myself attmepting to get things done in the hours I was actually home.
Yes, it was Reno, NV, LA, Thailand, CT, England, GA, jeez you name it and I felt like I was there.
Thanks to my wonderful cousin who flew in from Germany to help me take care of the estate of my late grandmother (God bless you, David! What would I have done without you??)
My travels of late are still up there but not quite as often, thank goodness! I got to play out at Foxwoods again (taking 2nd place, thank you very much...and getting sucked out on yet again in other tourneys) and eating at Custy's, the all you can eat lobster and seafood place just a couple miles east of Foxwoods - always high on my list.
Of late, I am dealing with my ever flooding basement, my tiny little canine addition schooching out under the fence doing her damnest to become tire fodder and sending me into total shrewness as I spy every car that goes by while I attempt to find her (Steve, sorry about your ears on that last one...I was picturing the cartoon horn coming out of your other ear as I screamed at that lonely Nissan driving right up on her). SCHWEET!
I took down a ladies tourney the other night...boy did that one seem to be an all nightet! I played good poker and got a couple of really good players to buy into my traps which gave me the chip lead at the final table. I maintaned the chip lead for but a few JOANNE, YOU'RE A DONK hands and managed to take it all. Nice win in one of my first big tourneys in some time. I dug it!
With all the weirdness that happens here and there in my life, I can honestly say that my life has taken an interesting and positive turn of late. It never ceases to amaze me that there truly is good in the world. Every time I give up on humanity something happens to remind me that life really is pretty good.
I've missed all my poker buds out there. Let it be known...SHE'S BACK! :-)
XOX to all!
