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411: Trying to motivate myself to go to work. I took first place in two online poker tournaments last night, and placed second in another, so I’m about $50 richer. My poker skills are improving by leaps and bounds. Taking a tip from my poker buddy Bradley, I made a set of flashcards to test…

411: Driving a really big truck. I lived a movie called “Retrieving Sarah”. When this last semester ended Sarah and I had a discussion about when she’d be returning to DC. She gave me a deadline of June 15th, and then decided to move home two weeks early. That rocked. However the trip itself Sarah…

I heard: “I’ve spoken to him, and he’s very interested.” and “We spoke this morning, and he’s on board.” and even “There’s an understanding over here, even with him, that it’s a good idea.” In an e-mail, someone said,: “I spoke to R this morning, and we’re a go.” It took two days before I…

It looked exactly like Melrose Place to me. When I went to LA for E3, I hit my hotel first before I hit the convention or the poker tables. When I checked into my hotel all I had seen was the lobby, and of course the legendary building next door, the Magic Castle. My hotel…

411: My favorite new casino, Casa del Safdar Watching: Fox’s, “The Swan” Apparently the world has cracks. For all the talk of securing financial borders to avoid funding terrorists and all that clap trap, it hasn’t been hard for me to fund my online casino accounts so I can play poker from the comfort of…

411: The Bicycle Club Casino, Bell Gardens neighborhood, Los Angeles, CA At my funeral you should play:

My poker buddies took a trip to the Foxwoods recently. I can’t actually tell you if the Mashantucket Pequot tribe has all the history they claim, or if they’re just recognized as a tribe in order to have a casino, but it doesn’t really matter. Americans have enough blood on their hands not to quibble…

411: The Red Line Listening to:

Listening to: The biggest, saddest dog sigh you’ve ever heard My gambling hobby has moments of supreme smugness followed by waves of crashing doubt. It seems that most often, when I have a big swing, possibly due to really good cards followed by really bad cards, I inevitably run into these jokers that can’t do…

411: My kitchen, after an excellent meal of scallops, pasta and a butter sauce. (Sarah says it’s more of a bechemel sauce than a buerre blanc) Listening to: Someone else washing my dishes as the price for me feeding them He: I love Sic-Bo. I can always double my money playing it. Me: Really? How…