Not to be a bitch

I don't mean to whine and snivel about petty things but since I ran into this the other day I figured I would share my top 5 things that bother me in everyday life. Before I get to that if anyone is reading out there please signup at noble poker and enter in the charity tourney I have setup for a friend of mine who has cancer. She is a great girl who doesn't deserve this crap but I figured I could try and help her out a bit to alleviate some of the expenses anyways. Thanks to Noble poker for the 250 dollar donation as well. Here is the details:

Site: Noble Poker www.noblepoker.com

Buyin 10+1

Date: Thursday March 2nd, 2006

Time: 7:30pm ET

Password: charity

Back to my gripes.

5. Four way stops
-No one ever stops, the people that stop last go first. The guy on the left always seems to creep out first, then you get the guys who should be going waving you through.
4. Turn Signals
-Wow I did not know that a lot of vehicles were not made with these. They really should look at making this option mandatory when you buy a car.
3. Interac
-Thanks to this gadget technology has turned a 5 minute trip to the grocery store into a 5 minute trip with a 20 minute wait while people punch in numbers and wait for authorization receipts. God forbid if these machines are down.
2. Car or Computer talk
- I fix classic cars occasionally in my free time. I fix computers in my free time and program all day. The worst conversations I can have are with someone talking about either computers or cars. Its even worse that I drive a classic car that makes people automatically ask you the following questions, "What engine in that baby?" "What year is that?" and the my favorite "Oh I used to have one of those back in 1789...yeah"
1. Women and Old Ladies at Bank Machines
-I mean no offense to the fairer species worldwide but I run into this constantly. There is a 20 person lineup at the ATM. You are waiting there and it is either too hot or too cold in the area and obviously no one likes to wait. Then you notice this person who decides at the atm this would be the best time to re-organize the giant luggage bag of a purse and at the best possible place an atm counter. Spare no expense everything must be in the proper place the money in the purse wallet, the receipt in the side pocket, the card in the proper card slot of the purse wallet that was just closed but now needs to be reopened to put said card in said slot. I feel like just running up and dumping that huge bag in the middle of the lobby and saying there now you have something to do for the next hour! But I'm afraid even with my stature I could not lift said bag properly in order to actually dump all of the contents that could furnish, clothe and provide enough makeup for a small country in said bag.

Sorry that last one has been building for a while had to get it off my chest.

Local tourney

Ok...so I decide to take in a live tourney....Well I am totally fricken hammered as I write this so excuse the spelling or grammer errors. Anyways so I show up at this local tourney to raise funds for this local hockey team or something. First prize is sposed to be a grand however only like 20 people show up so this is obviously not feasible. Anyways...whatever the prize is we get down to business and yes I am card dead absolutely throughout the tourney. Unfrickenbelieveable, you would think the donks have learned how to play with all of the poker on tv and such but really it has just gotten worse. I got a guy to my right going all in on an A-2s with nothing on the board that resembles anything which would represent a hand. I almost laughed out loud seriously. Not to make light of a situation here but the guy that raised it all in actually had top pair with a pair of fours (five kicker! and self-proclaimed open ended straight draw!). I spent the night trying to accomplish a real goal of getting hammered which I succeeded!!! Because seriously I had 2 hands all night, a "wired" pair of threes (as Van Patten would put it) and A-8 which I ran into my buddy (who only raised like 1.15 times the blinds on the button) with pocket aces. Yeah thanks bud I think you will be picking up my fricken tab for the night you mofo. But really at that point it was trivial I was drunk, my other friends were looking like they were having more fun than me at the "out" table and I had less chips than the guy that was outside playing guitar.
Funniest hand I ever saw....
You will not believe this at all.
Ok I am drunk, I cant remember the exact flop so I will embellish. Four guys in the pot..One guy raises, two guys fold. flop comes 6h-3s-qc.
ok, one guy bets other guy calls.
turn is 6h
WTF??? (and I actually said that before anybody out loud!!!)
TWO SIX OF HEARTS!!!!
Ok I know I am card dead thus far but this is ridiculous. We look at the cards and there is an extra six of hearts in a brand new deck of cards. Obviously the braniacs that were running the tourney didn't bother to count or match up the cards. Needless to say this was the only entertainment of the night other than the couple making out on the dance floor later on in the night at the second place we ended up at.
I have a friend that looks like eddie the eagle from the muppets and actually that is what I call him. He is great and bought me a few drinks which I appreciated. The only problem with the guy is that he has three stages of drunkeness. First it is the normal drunk guy, who turns into the fun drunk guy (like me all night) then he turns into the loud funny but pick a fight guy which I feel I have to defend (well I am the biggest of my group). But to tell you the truth the drinks were worth it tonight.
Well signing off for tonight man it is fricken hard to type when you are hammered. I have a real problem remembering anything the next day so needless to say this will be news to me tomorrow.

Dead End

Now I am not sure how much of myself I want to put out there. Now I am a longtime blog reader first time blog poster and there is an interesting circle of thoughts that go through your head when starting a blog. Namely..how much do I want to put out there for the whole world to read? Also namely who is going to read this? Well I would say typically that I don't really care a whole lot of what people around me think but thats not entirely true. But I will say this, I am myself and no one can change that...they either like me or not because it isn't really going to change who I am. Thats the way I am going to treat this blog. Put it out there because it doesn't really matter.

Intros - I live in a baron desolate land in Canada on the prairies where fun mostly revolves around getting hammered on a friday night and spending the rest of the weekend recovering (although it wasn't like that 10 years ago). I am a computer programmer who feels stuck in an IT world and don't get me wrong I am good at what I do and am paid well, however it is hard to get out of the industry when it is the only thing you know and have done all your life. I play poker in my off time and am an o-k player. I play small limits and did work freeroll money into about 3 grand or so bankroll which is what I play off of. Prone to berating players at time (yeah I know bad me but whatthefuckweretheythinkinghittingtheirmiracle2outerontheriver) but do not really tilt money away (anymore). I play live at the local casino sometimes in tourneys and cash games although I haven't faired as well there I have made a few big wins in local home type games. Definately not a high roller although I can dream can't I?
Personally I am married to an unbelievable woman and have one daughter (yes one and only one kid for me).

But enough of all this crap I hate doing intros but obviously when doing something of this nature (ie blogging) it is necessary I guess. Just like I absolutely hate those school/work introductions where you go around in a circle and do a 2 minute presentation about yourself. Not that I don't like talking in front of people but this is just fricken gay. No one is really listening to what you say they are all thinking about what they are going to say or what they said and how stupid they sounded.

All that out of the way welcome, if you want to read strange stories that make no sense at times then read on and welcome to my world.