Katie the Pirate is 18 months old today.

I love you so much, little Pirate.

PokerStars Game #16127268627: Tournament #80995688, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (150/300) - 2008/03/20 - 21:39:11 (ET)
Table '80995688 386' 9-max Seat #9 is the button

Seat 1: moneyguy26 (19980 in chips)
Seat 2: Madouglas (4750 in chips)
Seat 3: maxmazzu73 (19770 in chips)
Seat 4: EATMYT8NT (12750 in chips)
Seat 5: nachitomanya (5645 in chips)
Seat 6: sandstorm889 (6365 in chips)
Seat 7: Dunkeykicker (31256 in chips)
Seat 9: shir33 (4825 in chips)
moneyguy26: posts the ante 25
Madouglas: posts the ante 25
maxmazzu73: posts the ante 25
EATMYT8NT: posts the ante 25
nachitomanya: posts the ante 25
sandstorm889: posts the ante 25
Dunkeykicker: posts the ante 25
shir33: posts the ante 25
moneyguy26: posts small blind 150
Madouglas: posts big blind 300

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to sandstorm889 [Jd Jh]
maxmazzu73: folds
EATMYT8NT: folds
skibum5797 is connected
nachitomanya: calls 300
sandstorm889: raises 300 to 600
Dunkeykicker: folds
shir33: folds
moneyguy26: folds
Madouglas: folds
nachitomanya: calls 300

*** FLOP *** [Qd Kd 5s]
nachitomanya: checks
sandstorm889: checks
*** TURN *** [Qd Kd 5s] [Ad]

nachitomanya: checks
sandstorm889: checks
*** RIVER *** [Qd Kd 5s Ad] [Td]

nachitomanya: bets 1500
sandstorm889: raises 1500 to 3000
nachitomanya: calls 1500

*** SHOW DOWN ***
sandstorm889: shows [Jd Jh] (a Royal Flush)
nachitomanya: mucks hand
sandstorm889 collected 7850 from pot

Or more to the point, too sick to breathe properly in a sleeping position. Kinda difficult to deal with at 2 am. At least it's a weekend-night.

I need more snackies as well, apparently. Grah.

Surgery was at 7:30 am, took about 15 minutes, and we were out of the hospital around 9 am.

Pirate is running around the apartment just like nothing happened. :)

Katie the Pirate is having minor surgery on Thursday morning. Please keep her in your thoughts for the next few days.

I haven't done much of this in a while, for various reasons. However, I've been able recently to put some time in and have some nice results. I'm on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, but for some reason have had considerably better results on PS.

I like to play the $3+R game on PS once or twice a week and all things considered have done very well in that, cashing five times since the middle of January with a high of 87th (out of 3123) on Feb 13. My stack's gone from $10 around Jan 11 to about $165 today. That's a nice jump. I'd like to keep cashing in that tourney about once a week. It's also good to know that I can make a deep run occasionally in that monster.

Today, I played a $2 tourney on FTP and won that, which got me into one of the daily double $10 tourneys. Just finished that a few minutes ago 48th out of 1598. I only wish I had more luck on FTP. :P

(Sunday edit, 10:30 pm -- last night on FTP my account held $12 before the daily double tourney. Right now, with that placement and today's work, I'm at $79. Apparently I found the level I should be playing.)

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/489516.html

Breaking News
Posted on Thu, Feb. 14, 2008 08:17 AM
The Kansas City Star

The Police, Costello are on their way to Sprint Center

The Police are coming to Kansas City May 13.The Police announced this morning an extension of their 2007 tour and will perform Tuesday, May 13 at the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, Feb. 23.

Elvis Costello and the Imposters will open.

On tour in 2007, the Police sold over 2.5 million tickets and won Major Tour of The Year (Pollstar), "Tour of the Year" and "Top Selling Tour of 2007" (Billboard Magazine).

Tickets for the North American concert dates are $50, $90 and $225.

Check in at backtorockville throughout the day for more information.

This year, you can customize it!

http://calendar.despair.com/

No concussion, but I'm home for the afternoon.

For those who might be looking for a list of books for elementary kids:

http://www.kclibrary.org/guides/children/index.cfm?article=read&articleID=708

This is a good one:

http://www.ffk-wilkinson.com/fr/

As some of you know, Sara and I broke up a couple of weeks ago. We have some personality clashes and have been arguing off and on for several months, so it wasn't completely unexpected. We're trying to work through a framework that allows me to see Katie and help around the edges while giving me personal time back.

In a weird sense, it's like going through a divorce.

A presentation from the Kansas City Star about how various buildings would break down in a scenario similar to "I Am Legend":

http://www.kansascity.com/static/media/KCWithoutUs_Flash/

Some pictures from Sara's, Katie's and my Christmas trip to Phoenix...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katiethepirate