Last night a played some SH limit hold'em. I played 1/2 which is a little higher than I like, but I did it any way. My first session was horrible. I don't think I played poorly, I think I just had bad luck. My QQ lost, as did my trip K's. After I was finished, I played a 2/4 SH limit game on UB. I know, I shouldn't throw good money after bad. I did manage to win back what I lost plus 10 when My full house on the river completed another players flush. In the end, everything regressed to the mean, as it should.

I slept in this morning. There is no real reason other than the fact that I've been tired and I stayed up talking to my wife after she got home from her one day trip to NY. I will WO tonight immediately after work.

I had a phone interview today. It went well and it seems to be an interesting opportunity. We agreed to move on to the next step and we will meet next week for lunch. I will call Richard on Tuesday just to see where that is going.

I had planned on doing pull ups while I was in Canada. Unfortunately, I did not do them. I did a modified CF workout and that seems to have kept my strength as I can do pull ups without much pain. I did a workout consisting of 5 sets of 5 of the 3 exercises from the CF total. In all I think my highest CF total was 450 (165+100+185). As these were sets of five, I was quite happy with the number. I think I will sprinkle this workout in periodically to improve my overall CF total. I also did some chain pull ups. They are pretty cool, and even if they only offer marginal help, I enjoy doing them. Now, I just need to get my diet back on track and I will be back on the road to a CF 618 by December 31.

The WOD is a 5 K run. I think I will take the daughter to the park by the school tonight and do some pull up/push up combo 10 sets of 5/15 and then run 3 miles at the track after my wife gets home.

I was dead-dog tired last night and for some reason decided to play poker instead of sleeping. This mistake was bad enough, but I compounded it by multi-tabling. It was a big mistake and I lost some $. Fortunately, I was playing at micro-limits because of my free absolute $. Hopefully I will not make that same mistake tonight.

Back on the Grid

I am back from my fishing trip. It was mostly fantastic. The weather, fishing and accommodations were great. Mike D got on my nerves though, and that usually happens when he is camping with us, so it is not great shock. Also, the drive sucked. We are able to fly to Red Lake, so next time I am going to do that. It will cost only a few hundred more. I am going to start planing that trip now for 3 years out. I captured everything from the trip in my journal, and one day it may be a best-selling book.

I am back into work mode now and am reading GTD. I may become a disciple of that work. Who knows. I do want to be more productive and it seems to help.

There is nothing new on the job scene. I will call Richard in the next few days to see where we are and what our next step is going to be.

Heater

After my bad day yesterday, I went on a mini heater and got back to only 12 down for the day. I played in my determined SNG to see if I could chip into the deficit. Things did not look good early on when I got down to less than $400 with all players still in. I managed to play very restrained poker looking to take no chances. I doubled up twice as was back up to $1,500 with 5 players still in. Two players got knocked out and I made the money. One player had about 10k, the other player and I both had roughly 1,500. I went out in third place, which considering I played almost the whole tournament as the short stack was not too bad.

At that point, I decided to play a little cash game to see if I could chip away at my deficit a little more. Alas, that is where I made my mistake I lost $13. So now I am down 22 for the week, with not much more playing time to make it back. I will try though.

My final preparation for Canada are underway. I have a few supplies to buy tonight and then I will pack it up and hit the road tomorrow.

cooler

I played a lunch and lost 35 bucks. In an effort to win some back I settled in for some afternoon poker and won back 10. I then proceeded to lose that and more than another 20 before flopping a flush and ending up only down 7 for the afternoon. Still, I am down 41 for the day and not much time left to turn the week positive before I leave. I will play one SNG tonight and hopefully I can win enough to chunk back part of the loss

I ran pretty deep in an O8 limit MTT on Friday. 32nd place out of over 400 people. I was pretty happy with the result.

Overall it was a good poker week, other than a stupid drunken episode on Friday night where I tried to play 2/4 heads up limit. I play well, but sometimes do stupid things. I guess many of us do. I just need to realize and limit this.

My crossfitting has gotten off track a bit lately. I have not been waking up early because of Jane's work schedule. I will have to get back to the routine after I return from Canada. This weeks work load looks fantastic. I will do Monday's WOD on Wednesday. That should smoke me for a few days, perfect. Plus, I have thought up a few workouts for Canada and if I can do 4 or 5 times, I shouldn't lose too much.

We had terrible rains yesterday that caused major damage to our municipal infrastructure as well a flooding and wind damage to many resident's property. The Mayor declared a state of emergency and because the Council President was out for the week, I am the acting president and I had to sign the ordinance. I spent a couple of hours at the emergency control center, and I found it impressive. It was amazing how cool and under control the operation seemed to be. I guess that is what happens with proper planning and training. A lesson can certainly be learned from all of this.

I did not work out last night as the gym was without power, as most of Murrysville was. I did make it this morning and did 'Nicole'. It was a combo of running and pull up. It was enjoyable. I am really going to concentrate on doing many pull ups this week in an effort to build up a base that will dwindle while I am in Canada.

I have had a great crossfitting week. I am able to do 7 pullups again and with very little pain. I worry that when i go to Canada, I will lose some ability. I will try to do pull ups every day until I leave and hopefully I can find a door frame or tree to do some pull ups while I am away. My form was pretty good on last nights cleans, and I look forward to the challenge of tonight's snatches.

I played two SNG's last night and in both cases, I got all my money in with the best hand and lost both times to terrible suckouts. I more than made up for it though in cash game play. I am positive for the week thus far. I will take tonight off and play on Thursday and Friday.

I signed in Friday night for a little poker. I won a $10 SNG which then left me only $6.00 down for the week. I was confident that with a little cash game action, I could erase that deficit before I went to bed. I stayed up until 2 losing another $40 instead. I had great cards that just kept getting beat. This clown to my left just kept chasing and hitting on the river. It was a real downer. After my run before the beach, I thought my luck turned around. At one point, I knew that I wasn't playing my best, but I kept playing knowing that I could eventually beat this guy, which of course did not happen.

This week is a new week, I will play a little and see if I can win back what I lost last week.

And the beating continues...

Happy with my comeback this morning, I signed on for some more lunch poker. I was treated to a nice bowl of "I can't play poker anymore". I called when I "knew" I was beat, bluffed when I "knew" I was going to get called. So I lost most of my winning from this morning's session.

I then went to Poker Stars, where I won back most of it. I need to win 9 dollars a day over the next 4 days to have an even week. Again, I can do it.

Yin and Yang

I guess there is a natural law the Everything regresses to the mean. In the morning, I was setting PR's on my bike and casting my new reel like a champ. By evening, I was bleeding cash like crazy in some of the worst poker I have played in weeks.

I reloaded on FT to take advantage of a reload offer. I cannot seem to win on that site for some reason. I know it is not the site, but my actions when I am on that site. For some reason, it turns me into a donkey. I have at $37 deficit to dig out of in the next 4 days. That is only 9.25 per day. I can do it.

Because of the above, I failed to wake up to work out so it was a double loss. I go to bed late thinking I will indeed wake up at five, but it never happens. That should tell me something.

PR's all around

Last night I went to the gym expecting to do the WO called Linda. A power-lifter guy was on the squat rack doing squats. I knew that he would be there for a long time, thus I would have to wait at least a 1/2 hour to do pull ups or even cleans and deadlifts in the area. I decided to just do the CFWU (sans pull ups) X's 3 and then proceed from there. When I finished, he was still loading the bar and squating so I decided to do 7 sets of dbell bench press. I started at 55 pounders and progressed up to 75 pounders. I do not ever rember using such heavy dumbells, so I think it is a PR.

After I finished pressing, I decided to do some pull ups on another bar. I again noticed that when I attempted a pull up, my back muscles were very sore. This is the kind of pain I had when I first started CF. I also experienced it at the beach when I was doing door frame pull ups. I think I just have to work through it. Maybe some Gravitron pull ups at the beginning as it loosens up as I go.

The second PR was in my bicycle TT. I made two laps under 9 minutes. The main reason for this success was climbing Logan's Ferry road in the middle ring. I will keep this in mind when I attempt it next week.

I am still purging my "piles" at home and at work. It feels great, and I will soon start reading "Getting Things Done" to move to the next step, after I come back from Canada.