harlem says

Sorry about your dog "lucky". I have a few cats myself and recently the oldest who we had for 17 years passed and my wife took it hard. Life goes on and so do the poker tournaments.

12/05/07

gobbomom (Anonymous) says

sorry 'bout your dog Andy. I love Madison.

12/07/07

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Sorry it's been forever since I've had a blog up. I usually try and wait for some good news like a decent tourney score or a sick day in cash games when I'm lookoing to start up again but it just hasn't happened for me lately. I'll try to get back into the habit of putting up a blog bi-daily or close to it again.

Gun hunting was a great time as usual. I ended up shooting two does and tagging another buddy's buck so I have plenty of venison to get me through another year. I was up north for the entire week except Wednesday and Thursday when I was home for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was great but I did get some bad news while at home. My family dog, Lucky, was put to sleep on the Friday after Thanksgiving so while I was home I made sure to spend some time with her. She was 13 years old when she passed which was well above the average life span for her breed. Lucky was a gift from my Dad to my sister and I after my parents seprated so there were a lot of memories that went with her.

I'm thinking that some of my luck may have gone with Lucky since I don't think I can run much worse since getting home from hunting. Cash games are going all right but nowhere near what I normally expect and over the past weekend I went 0/30 in even getting a cash in tournaments. A buddy was over playing tournaments on Saturday and after losing 3 flips in a row I jokingly started to count them. It lost its humor after about 10 in a row and finally ended when I won my 13th flip. That didn't include losing with a few overpairs and a few other times where I got it in as a big favorite. My buddy didn't run much better as he did cash a few tourneys but lost every important flip late including 3 in a row in one tournament with about 5 tables left.

I was hoping to play more tourneys in December to get ready for the PCA but with the past few days results I'm going to stick with cash games until after Christmas. Stars even has a promotion for the top 100 tourney players in December which would have been nice to try for. Enough complaining though. Hopefully I can have some better news in my next few blogs about the sick upswing I'm about to go on. (I think I can hold out until the PCA for it.)

It has been entertaining in Madison lately though. We got a ton of snow over the weekend which was followed by freezing rain. So all of the people who park on the street have been having a hell of a time trying to get their cars out. The city of Madison isn't allowed to use salt on the roads because of the two lakes that surround it so the streets are ridiculous for a few days after a snow and the plows just toss all the snow to side of the streets. I have my computer set up by the window and a few times a day I will hear an engine revving and tires spinning. Then looking out the window I'll see some poor guy attempting to get his car unstuck. I used to drive a camaro year round so I know what it's like trying to drive in the snow here and it makes me greatful I have my truck now. We got another few inches today which probably won't help. I love the snow though and hope to get out boarding soon and may even try and head up for some late season bowhunting. It's always cold huting during the late season but the snow forces the deer to feeding areas so they are easier to predict.

Edit: Forgot to add that my laptop crashed again on Monday so I'm working on getting that back up and running. I really hate computers right now.