Year's End

It was a bad year overall and I'm not going to go into much more detail. The final 6 months of the year were simply not great.

One of my goals for 2010 is to keep a more up-to-date record of how I'm spending my time as a whole, how I'm running, and various other things going on in my life. To that end this blog is doing a bit of a transformation from poker content only (or, to be realistic, no content, period) to more varied content including poker, and the other things which are consuming my time, which include but are not limited to other video games including my MMORPG of choice, Final Fantasy XI (which I put far more time into than is reproductively recommended) and the activities going on in the linkshell that I help to run.

I've been in Florida for the past 2+ weeks now, visiting with my brother and sister-in-law, playing with my nieces, and catching up with the parents, who came in for about an overlapping week of the same time period. I fly back on Wednesday, and need to figure out how I'm getting home from the airport as I had a friend drive me to the nearest bus stop (10 or so miles away) when the time came to fly out, and that same friend will be out of town on business this week. Given that there is only one other soul in that town that I actually know (said friend's wife) and she's taking care of 2 month old twins, I can't impose on her. I suppose I'll see if the local cab service can pick me up that far away. Either way it was more cost effective than trying to park for 18 days.

Did some crafting in FFXI, 26 elemental beads for a somewhat pathetic +0.2 to my goldsmithing, bringing me up to 84.7. Slowly but surely working my way up.

Been playing a lot of Modern Warfare 2 (the abbreviation MW2 will forever in my brain be Mech Warrior 2) on my brother's PS3, and had some good matches the other night, including one where I went 20-4 in a Domination game.

Been spending quite a bit of time with my oldest niece, Chris, who is 6 and thus actually of an age to remember these yearly visits of mine. She's a lot of fun but can be a little grating; she's a nonstop chatterbox (as my sister-in-law puts it, she simply has no understanding of the concept of an internal monologue), but so far above and beyond where any kid of that age has a right to be in the academic sense that you can't help but be impressed.

Poker on the vacation has been sporadic and uninteresting. I haven't had a losing session while on vacation, but most of that has been running significantly +EV and a few of those sessions were basically breakeven, sub-$10 wins. I think I'm up $400 or so on the trip, which pays for the trip and then a little bit but isn't setting the world on fire.

And that's about it.