The 11-day diet, take II

The 11-day diet’s first go-around had mixed results.  I’d lost 5.6 of the 9.o pounds promised.  But Thanksgiving was in there and I seemingly neglected to read the part about drinking 12-cups of water daily.  The three day ‘binging’ they allow you afterward produced two extra pounds onto my body, thanks to pizza, chicken fried [...]

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NY to LA – less than $200 RT

Virgin America has an airfare special going on right now which is ridiculously low, like $238 or $228 RT and if you use a special code – ELEVATE25 – you can get 25% off that rate!  Wow.  Book by December 7th, fly by early March.  If you were ever to come to LA to visit, [...]

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Poker – Ho Ho Hold’em – NL335 Event @ The Bike – 30th place of 158, no-cash

Played in another event at the Bike last night, a NL$335 with 158 participants.  This was a gut-wrenching tournament.  2000 in chips, 40 minute levels.  I’d played five levels and was never above 2,100 in chips.  Short stacked for the WHOLE tournament, I’d forgotten what a challenge and different game this is.  I did well [...]

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Stupid people make up 29.18% of our population…thank goodness!

I don’t normally post about stupid people because that’s bad Karma….but I’m making an easy exception here.  This guy actually tried to pass this $1,000,000 bill off as real.  Everyone knows they stopped printing million dollar bills in the 70’s.  Geez and that it’s supposed to be President Kennedy on the bill not that imposter [...]

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The 11-day diet concludes

The 11-day (lose 9 lbs) has run its course.  I followed it fairly close.  The results?  Not horrible…I went from 198.8 down to 193.2.  The last 3-days have been flat-lined which isn’t horrible considering it was right after Thanksgiving.  However, in addition to the 5.6 lbs lost, were some solid lessons about ensuring I ate [...]

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The Thanksgiving gorge

So right in the middle of this ‘11-day diet’ comes this holiday where you’re supposed to ‘feast’.  Ugh.  Thursday was the day for ‘only’ vegatables according to my diet.  Well, no way was I missing this – turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn, green beans – the wifey did it right!  Good [...]

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Poker – NL335 @ The Bike, Ho Ho Holiday Tournament – Event 2

So have been on an upswing in my poker play recently, mostly tournament-wise and super confident.  Which means you know I’m in for a downturn!  So after a ‘fun’ day at the outlet malls sift through obese, rude, smoking patrons at the Commerce outlet shops with the family, I obtained a hall pass and ventured [...]

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving – a time to reflect upon what we are ‘thankful’ for.  So here’s what I’m thankful for on this Thanksgiving holiday.
I’m thankful first and foremost of having an awesome wife that is an all-around wonderful person.  I’m thankful for having the best kid in the world and for his health including our scare this [...]

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Day six of the 11 day diet, one week into the wager

Six days into the 11-day diet I committed to last week and in two words – “I’m hungry”!  I get it…the four meals a day keeps the metabolism jacked and I think the same 16 foods are designed to make you sick of eating.  I’ve ‘cheated’ a little here and there, if you call eating [...]

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NL$335 – Holiday Bonus Tournament @ Commerce (Event 14)- 4th place of 219

Well, this post will be broken down the good, the bad and the ugly.
The Good – I finished 4th overall in this tournament, my highest finish ever in any sizeable tournamet.  My previous high was two 9th place finishes, so definite progress.  I came into the night just under chip average and in 6th place [...]

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