Tomorrow marks the beginning of March Madness. The NCAA Men’s College basketball tournament. The Big Dance!
It is my favorite sporting event of the year. I’ll be spending a lot of time over the next few weeks in front of the TV or checking scores at work. I’ve filled out my bracket and I have to admit that it was the toughest year that I can recall for making picks. There is a lot of parity in college basketball, which should make for one hell of a tournament.
GO DUKE!
To those of you who celebrate this green holiday, I wish you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Drink a few green beers for me while you are at the bar. I personally don’t see the point in the holiday and have never had a green beer.
I’ll be relaxing for the night…
I’ve started the search for a place to live. It sucks…looking through the paper or MLive, calling people, asking questions, scheduling times to take a look at the place. What a pain in the ass!
I’ve decided on getting a 2 bedroom duplex. That would give me the option of having someone move in with me in a few months. It will also most likely get me a garage and a place for the washer and dryer, which will be nice to have. Living by myself is really going to cut into my funds though. Heather and Katie will be leaving at the end of April so I have a month and a half, but it’s getting stressful already and I’ve only been looking for 2 days.
I was thinking about trying to get a place with a shorter lease (like 3 or 6 months), but decided that would be next to impossible. If I end up getting a new job somewhere I can always get a sub-leasor.
I forgot to add this to the first post…
So we left the casino at 4:30 a.m. on what was now Saturday. Got to the hotel shortly after 5 (it is getting light at this time in California already), packed everything up and headed off to take the car back just before 6. When we got to the airport and checked in, it was close to 7 in the morning. I took about a 15 minute power nap in the airport and slept for about 2 hours on the flight to Chicago. The little naps helped a little bit, but I was still dead because I had been awake since 8 the day before. Our flight arrived 10 minutes early and we headed home to Saginaw. I flew home because I kept falling asleep on the way and wanted to get here as soon as possible. I jumped in the shower and was sleeping by 9 p.m. I didn’t wake up this morning until after 11!! 14 hours of sleep!
…and I’m still tired and still sick!
While playing poker at a casino for the first time I learned a lot of new poker terminology. Maybe this will benefit others before they play in a poker room for their first time.
Sorry for the lack of postings this past week, but I didn’t have Internet access readily available. With that said, here is how the week went…
On Sunday, we (mom went with) took off for Detroit around 10 a.m. We had a connecting flight in Chicago and ended up landing in San Diego at about 6 p.m. It was nice gaining the extra 3 hours. The temperature was 78 degrees, but it was almost dark already. We picked up our rental car (Pontiac Grand Am), checked into the Wyndham (a very nice hotel) and grabbed something to eat at Chili’s, which was right in front of the hotel. After eating we decided to hit up a casino.
The Viejas Casino (pronounced “Vee-A-Haas”) was one that I had found online with a poker room. I scoped out the poker room and put my name on a waiting list for a table. It wasn’t too long and I was playing the $2/$4 beginner Hold’em table. Since it was the beginner table to teach people how to play, check-raising was not allowed. Talk about a loose table! People were playing every hand imaginable. I didn’t really get shit for cards the whole night or I could have made out like a bandit. Played for about 3 and a half hours and lost $22. Not too bad considering how bad my cards were.
Made it back from San Diego safe and sound last night. I will find time at some point today to give a full recap of the week, but Duke is playing at 1:00, so I’ll be a little busy for awhile!
Tomorrow, I’m off to San Diego for a week. I’m taking a Visual Basic.NET class for work, which will take up most of the day, but I don’t plan on doing much sleeping during the week. I’ve never been out to the west coast so I’m going to make the most of it. I’m really looking forward to the nice weather (forecast is calling for 70s all week) and I can’t wait to play some poker in the casinos!
I’ll try to make a post every day or two, but I’m not sure how much Internet access I’ll have. Once I get back to Michigan on Saturday, I’ll be sure to post all of the pictures and give you updates on how the trip went.
