Quote of the Day
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
-Henry Ford
its been a very interesting few weeks...lets start off with poker...
the first two weeks of the month were fantastic. i was playing more than i have been in a while before taking the last week pretty easy. just to see the wins rolling through is a relief. relief...probably not the word most people use when they win, but thats how i feel. im not sure if its because i dont take the losses that badly, or i expect that much out of myself. i really dont know. i know there is no joy in winning these heads up games anymore, which i guess is a shame. but if you look at it from the opposite end, i dont take the losses badly, or the wins too greatly. so im trying to find joy in other things that i do, because as much as poker has done for me, it is a job. well for the month im up about 19k, and my roi is 20%. its a bit absurd, and will obviously plummet soon...but for now i finally know what it feels like to win as frequently as "thepabloshow" does. haha...it feels pretty good...
today im writing from my friends house in hawaii. ill give a little background info on myself, i was born in new york, raised in new jersey til i was 6, moved to hawaii until college, which i went back to new york, and then moved to vegas last year. ok, glad we got that out of the way. ill be here in hawaii for another few days before i go to toronto and then new york to see some family. so far my trip has been great. just hanging out with my best friends which are my high school friends from 10+ years ago. i know there aren't many people who can say that, so i really do value their friendship.
although, the trip almost didn't happen... i booked my flight for friday 2:30am vegas time, and i started to get really sick about 4pm. (around the exact same time i played the $33 rebuy 3x turbo pca sat...coincidence???) anyway, i busted out of the satellite, and i was getting chills and a bad fever, so i wasn't even sure if i wanted to travel anymore. to make a long story short, i felt a little better and got to the airport at 2:04am, and somehow they let me check in after some convincing. my bags arrived a few hours later though, which i didn't really care about. i feel a ton better now, and its just been a blast here.
oh, and before i forget about the election...congrats to obama! i know this is a historic event in this country electing a minority candidate, and that it shows how we as a country have gotten through many racial divisions. is that what really happened? obama won the electoral vote by a wide margin, but the electoral vote was decided by 6 points. there were so many factors that were NEEDED for obama to win this, and i just want to mention a few of them, in no order of importance.
1. obama NEEDED the bush campaign to be absolutely atrocious...his approval rating is 20%, and running against mccain who basically has all the same principles as bush
2. obama NEEDED sarah palin to be a complete putz. the day after mccain chose her as his running mate...they took the lead in the polls, when nobody ever even heard of her! that still boggles my mind. the more she spoke, the more they dropped in the polls.
3. obama NEEDED to be extremely intelligent, well spoken, passionate, and inspiring. his inspiration led millions of young voters to register and help in his campaign
4. obama NEEDED an unprecedented amount of public donations.
5. obama NEEDED to take the higher road with less attack ads, and remain composed during mccain's rants during the debates
ok...im starting to get a headache again, so im gonna stop for now, but you get the point. all of the stars in the heavens needed to be aligned for obama to win, and somehow they were. its kinda like how i made my flight! haha...anyway, i truly believe if he faltered just a tiny bit or made 10% of the statements that mccain made, we'd be in this same spot in 4 years with prez mccain leading the way, and the republican party trying to figure out how to amend the constitution so they can figure out how to get arnold into the white house. and on that note.....
ill be back.
