I have not posted in an obscenely long time. All I can say is that my Ph.D program has been kicking my butt - in a good way. I have been pretty busy with that. It is a lot more work than I expected, but I guess that is a good thing.
I've also been playing a lot of poker. I found a good weekly home game (1/2 NLHE), and I've also been playing at my weekly department NLHE tournament. My tournament play still sucks. I am a much better cash game player. I think my problem is still the patience thing. Tournaments require too much patience that I don't have. Oh well - I'm working on it. In good news, my cash game is becoming much improved. I've also started to seriously try to learn some other games and I've been playing a lot of HORSE (that would be Hold Em, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Stud Hi, and Stud 8 or better) tournaments online. I really need to get around to reading up on those games. There is a local HOE cash game I would like to play in, but I don't feel like I am up to the challenge of a cash game in Omaha or Stud 8 quite yet.
Jeff and I are going to New Orleans for our 5th anniversary. It was between NOLA or Montreal and warmer wethare and a casino that spreads poker won out. Several people I have talked to think we are crazy, but I have talked to a lot of locals and they have all said that the tourist areas are fine. Considering we are only there for a long weekend, I doubt we will find time to make it out of the tourist areas. This will also be the first time in awhile that we are going somewhere that I have never been that Jeff has been to before. That should be interesting.
We also just got back from a wedding in Alabama. (Congrats Chris and Ali). It was actually a Jewish wedding in Alabama...with a lot of non-English speaking Germans. LOL We had a great time, and me and a couple people from work managed to do the electric slide to some big band music. Quite entertaining. Since the wedding was in Huntsville, we had planned to go to the Space Museum (our hotel was literally next door), but we missed a connection in Detroit (yes, we had to fly through Detroit!) and ended up spending 8 hours in the Detroit airport. At least now it has been renovated, plus I had two papers to write that weekend, so it wasn't horrible for me. It was probably worse for Jeff who didn't have a laptop or me to entertain him. :)
This weekend we are going to our first UMD sports event - I got tickets to the homecoming football game against UNC. Should be a good time.
hey - you should have called gpa. you could have gone to his house and jeff could have used the computer! sounds like you at least were at the new terminal - you must have flown northwest or delta? the old terminal (american, united... ) is really pretty bad!
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