OK... so now I think even my clothes are making fun of me. I put off working out because I lost my tennis shoes, and finally go out to get new ones... Everything is marvelous until my old shoes show back up! Apparently I had put them in the "perfect" spot, I just had no idea where that spot was... So 3 weeks later, I buy a new pair of shoes and boom! there are my shoes. Bastards are gunning for me... I can tell.
A cold front has moved through Vegas and snapped the weather from it's marvelous 100+ degree days with 8% humidty down to 85.. Wow, what nice weather that is. I can't even describe how nice it is outside at 85 degrees and no humidty! I thought I didn't like being outside, I now realize I just don't like being outside in hot, sticky weather! I LOVE 85 degree weather in vegas... I especially love looking at the weather on the news and seeing the 7 day forecast as Sunny, no humidty, high of 85, low of 60 every day... It is like they cut and pasted the weather across the week!
Work has been slow since I got back from my trip. Poker is slow this time of year, and so we are only getting 3 days a week for the extra board dealers... I had a long conversation with my boss the other day and now understand completely how everything works at the poker room. The short story is that Extra Board dealers are guaranteed 0 days a week, while full-time is guaranteed 5. He tries to make sure all regular extra board get 3 days minimum ( which is all we have been getting lately), in addition fulltimers cannot be sent home early unless the volunteer. Extra board can be sent home anytime after 4 hours of their shift...
The nice thing about extra board is that anytime I have something else to do, I just have to tell them and I am off. I don't get paid of course, but it has no impact on any of my future at the company... So I am going to take a week off in December to go deal on a poker cruise, and then probably another 2 weeks in January to go deal in Tunica at the WPT Gold Strike Classic. I really like having that flexibility, and I am like 6th in line to get a fulltime spot... so that means I need 6 people to find other jobs... Hmmm... not a decision I have to make right away at least.
Station casinos are running the qualifications for their next freeroll and you need 75 hours in 3 months, those 3 months end the 30th of September. Now July was the World Series, and August I started the new job and finally got to spend some time with my wife, and September I went to visit my parents.... So finding 75 hours was tough, and with 1 week left I needed 20 more hours! BAH! So I went into overdrive, and have been playing every day. Apparently that was something I needed.... since I have been playing much better, showing a lot more discipline and patience, and have managed to make almost 800 dollars the past week while working on my hours. I still need about 7 more hours... so let's hope I can keep focused while finishing that up the next 2 days.
It really is amazing in poker how much your mental state makes a difference! A good attitude, a marvelous marriage, and a supportive wife... makes such a HUGE difference. It is really not that easy to sit with 9 strangers for 4-5 hours at a time without losing your focus. Especially since so many of them are SOOOO annoying, and the more fun I am having the worse I play!
Lots of fun stuff coming up the next few months... Vegas RenFest the first part of October, friends coming to visit in October, November, December and January. Christmas in Orlando at Disney, poker cruise to the Mexican Riviera! Sheesh... I need a vacation from my vacations!
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