High On Poker

I spent yesterday afternoon at my buddy Roose’s house on Long Island watching the football games on NFL RedZone and his 60″ television as random buddies stopped by. I used to play poker with the Roose crew a lot, but eventually the games’ location combined with my desire to play higher caused me to miss most of the games. This is just background so that you can appreciate that whenever one of our bud’s stopped by, they each hadn’t seen me in months. Invariably, the small talk question, “How are things going?” would come up, and my mind always drifted to one place: poker! Or more specifically, Vegas this Friday! I felt like I was rubbing it in, speaking about it so often with the group, but what can I say? I’m just keeping my eye on the prize.

The new website is going well, especially after I took care of a spammer who was trying to inundate my site with 188 comments extolling the virtue of Canadian Viagra. It’ll get your hard…and polite! Still, I receive some veiled comments that seem to be weak attempts at gaining some backdoor linkage. The smart ones actually have comments that seem on point, but most are pretty obvious and I’ll ignore them.

On to other links, though, there are three sites (one poker related, two not) that I felt like sharing with my legions of readers. The first and foremost is a link to Falstaff and Special K‘s Gambling Tales podcast. I’ve listened to the first two episodes so far and I’m saving episode 3 for the trip to Vegas. So far, it’s been a very informal affair, and its refreshing to hear some non-pros talking about gambling in general, as opposed to poker specifically. It’s a fine line and mostly poker-related anyway, but any degenerate can appreciate the wider net GT casts.

If you are looking for some non-poker content, my good college bud Jefe has started his own blog. Jefe is a writer, by trade, and decided to start out a blog bitching and moaning about life’s little irks as a side project, mostly to entertain himself and stretch his writing muscles. In my estimation, his choice of topics has been pretty funny and true. Think of it as a disgruntled Seinfeld: observational bitching with humor thrown in. I particularly like his post, “Bright Lights, Big City…and other places,” where he bitches about how every piece of electronics he owns has a light on it, making darkness in his apartment completely impossible. I had the same problem with my new Dell Desktop. The damn thing had a blue glowing light on the outside that stayed on whether the computer was on or off. To make matters worse, it would randomly start pulsing. I eventually had to cover the lights with electrical tape just to get a good night’s sleep. So check out Jefe’s blog, Hook, Line and Sinister, if you are looking to kill some time.

This last one is a pet project of wifey Kim’s and something I have been helping her with here and there. It’s a very simply blog dedicated to misspelled signs and menus at restaurants. It’s called the We Delivery Blog, named after the popular phrase on NYC Chinese Food menus, “We Delivery!”

Meanwhile, I’m keeping my eye on the prize. 4 days until Vegas.

Until next time, make mine poker!