Well, April has been, among other things, hectic and bizarre, so if you're wondering why I haven't written in a long time, you'll have your answer soon.

The end of March and early April was spent locating and moving into our new house. The short version of this story is that I've been looking to settle back into Houston for a few months now-- I've had no real permanent home for a long while, and wanted a day-to-day life that was more stable and where I spent more time with my friends. With some luck and some work, I landed a house I had my eye on and moved in with a couple of friends. It's beautiful, in my part of town, and not too expensive (although furnishing it hasn't been particularly cheap).

Of course, this would be taking up enough of my time until now weren't it also for the series of absurd events I encountered. I got two flat tires after I returned from Seattle, and then I had a week where, in succession, my laptop was stolen, I was hit by a car while on foot, and I got a third flat tire.

I'm okay. (I weather storms well.) But I haven't had time for anything, and unfortunately, "anything" included playing the Five Star and WPT Championship at Bellagio. I had to cancel those plans; I'm going to have to wait until the World Series to play live again, probably. Too much to do and not enough time (not to mention I would have needed a few days of rest for my body and mind before going out there). In the meantime, I expect to play online and spend more of my free time working on a couple of poker-related projects. (There's always something on my plate, and I never have time to finish it all. I'm the guy who goes to buffets and accidentally gets three times more than he can eat because it all looks so good.)

I've dabbled in a little online play the last couple of weeks but haven't gotten back to seriously playing. That'll change once I finish setting up the new house and my office area. How domestic of me.

Doylestown says

"I was hit by a car while on foot"

wait, wat? More info def needed lol..... were bananas involved?

04/22/08

brad2002tj says

Welcome back to H-town, didn't know you were from here. What part of town did you settle in?

04/22/08

nath says

no bananas involved, haha. it was just late-ish and i was walking to the store, crossed the street, and a guy coming the other way took a left turn and didn't see me, and just kept going. i figured out he wasn't stopping in enough time to avoid anything serious happening, but i still got hit, and it still sucked. i have a huge bruise on my left arm.

I'm not "from" Houston, but I went to undergrad at Rice, and have lived here the vast majority of my adult life. It's only been the last two years or so that I've spent extensive time outside of Houston. My neighborhood has always been near Shepherd / Richmond, and I'm back there.

04/22/08

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