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A short but action-packed weekend is finally over! We had so much going on, it was nuts.

Friday night Steve needed an email from me; 2-1/2 hours later, I was engrossed in a new piece of software, which I don’t think I’ll keep. I don’t know… doesn’t seem worth it. But it was a good learning experience… we’ll see.

Saturday morning I ran, then Laura and Becca went to a birthday party, while I cleaned the house a bit and watched UB hold off Penn State for a little while (I guess UB lost after I turned the TV off). Becca and I went out to order the pizza and pick up ice, Hair dropped off the beer, and we were ready for cards!

The cards weren’t falling right for me Saturday night. Hold ‘em is a game that either you play often and well, or you play infrequently and loose. Since I haven’t played in… well, a long time - I lost. No big deal: Ed, Joe and I went to the Losers Lounge (aka - hot tub) and hung out for a while.

While in the Losers Lounge, we talked about playing games. My brother is big into video gaming… he told of playing a game for 70 hours the first week it was out - and this was ontop of keeping his fulltime job. The only game I play is Civilization (I don’t play Civ III anymore because I lent it to my brother-in-law, who almost ruined his life by playing it, and threw it away… oh well, I have Civ IV now, anyway). The funny thing is that I see affiliate marketing as a game. Think about it: you’re playing against other players, all over the world, and you are trying to “win”. You make a move, and wait to see what the other players do. The only difference is, in my game, you can make money

So once enough people were out, we started some dealers-choice. Unfortunately, we had a lot of people interested, so we were limited in our game choices. With 7 players, you can only play games with community cards or stud games. The real fun came when it was 4 of us, and we were able to play some draw games. About 2AM, we started to wrap it up and tried to get some bigger pots going, by playing “Jacks or better, trips to win“. Typically, this game goes on for a few rounds, especially with 4 players. But we cleared it twice in a row, on one hand. So we switched to “High hand, high spade” (5-card draw… need the high hand AND the high spade to win the pot). Again, we had winners in the first hand two deals in a row. So a little after 2, we called it quits, and Mark, Laura and I started to clean up. Overall on the night, I think I broke even. I do a bad job of keeping track of my money at card games. I have one pocket full of my money, one full of the tournament money, another is money from the cash games, and I have people giving me money for the food & drinks, Ray paid me for camping, etc. etc. etc - it’s hard to keep track, but I’d say I broke even. The sponsors really helped, as the $5 everyone paid for food really only covered the pizza & wings.

Sunday morning, after a short night’s sleep, we were running around like mad-men, as there was another baby shower, this time with women (who actually notice things like if you cleaned the curtains) so it was a bit stressful. I picked up the balloons, the meat platter from Mike’s, cleaned the house some more, and got the dog a nice home outside. Just in time, as the women began appearing so I hid outside, puttering around the garage and listening to the Bills Steeler’s game.

After the party, I had an electrical outlet to replace (as it caught on fire right before the party, but managed to hold out so I didn’t have to change it during the party) and went to Home Depot w/ Mr. Bishop to pick up a few things for some projects that we’ve both been avoiding. Once home, I was slightly motivated so I replaced the exhaust line from the dryer to the outside (hasn’t been done in 7 years, but didn’t have that much junk in there), and I attempted to replace the cracked flag-pole-holder on the porch, but the extra one I had wasn’t the right size, so I’ll have to find this exact one again (as I don’t want more holes in my porch). Oh, and I put one of Morgan’s dresser drawers back together again… just a few more braces and it’ll be good. It’s time to go around the house, make a list of projects per room, and start getting 2-3 of them done per week. These little things just go on and on.

The good thing with all of these parties is all the food, and therefore lots of compost-pile gifts. Laura did a fruit bowl yesterday, so there were lots of peels and such to go in. I found a bag of potting soil yesterday in the garage, and threw that in this morning, stirred it up and noticed my pile was steaming! That’s excellent news, as that means it’s working.

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