I need a NAP!

Oh yes... there will be one of these for me in the very near future. Cheer_dad is in dire need of a nap! Much to the degeneration of my liver, we were at the Eagles for "drawing night" again on Thursday. Big Red and I were joined by Laura, Nikki, and JR. Big Red and I were there longer than the rest (yeah, I know your shocked aren't you.) As usual, she was tearing up the friggin' slot machines. I think she pocketed in the neighborhood of $500 this time. She's the only person on the planet I think that has a +EV on those damn things! No matter though, it'll just be more cash for Vegas baby! All I won was a monkey (ape anyway.) I bought a $1 chance on a stuffed animal (big) and ended up winning the thing. It's holding a valentine heart, with "Wild Thang" on it. Just what I needed to make my life complete.

Finally got the wife to cash out her winnings and we headed home. I as usual fired up a Bodog table (or three) and put in about 150 hands before calling it a night. I made over $29 and this win actually helped the bankroll cross another hundred level, this time over $500. I think I finally decided to log off when I took a guy's whole stack with a 63os, when I flopped two pair. I only played it because I was a blind.

I need to point out that the Eagle's Poker Tournament will be held on February 8, 2009, not on the 1st, since that's the day of the Super Bowl, DUH!!! It didn't even cross our minds, when talking about it. The NDPT #1 game is still slated for January 23rd.

Tonight, after my nap of course, and as a "warm-up" for tomorrow night's WWE SmackDown Live in Charleston, WV; I get to take Cole and his cousin to a local wrestling show, AWA. I've been before and it's just a lot of laughs just people watching. Besides it'll be time spent with the boy.

Mere minutes away from quitting time, and although I'm ready to leave, I am NOT looking forward to walking outside. It was -3 F this morning and it didn't get much warmer either today. But I know it's a lot colder out there for some of you, so I won't complain too much. Bundle up and stay warm everybody!

Regards,

cheer_dad

IDK...

My quote of the day, that I sent out to my team was "We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities." ~Norman Vincent Peale

The past few days have found me dealing with the simplicities that I'd much too long been avoiding. Actually accomplishing some much needed nitty gritty type work, that had me pouring over immense spreadsheets and filling in a lot of blanks and clearing out even more clutter. Doing all that, left me in a less than chatty mood, and therefore posts to the NDPT blog didn't flow out the fingers. But I'm rewarding myself now with this post. This one's for me, not you...

Over the past few days, everyone but me in the house has been sick either with a nasty little stomach bug that had you coming and going if you get my drift OR tonsillitis. The lil blonde girl had 'em both! She just went back to school today. She's gonna have to hunker down to get caught up... and even worse, she has several end of term tests to take on Thursday and Friday, despite the fact that she missed two days of school from the illness and one from a snow day. Ignore the 2-hour delay today as well. Two more days in this week and it's another weekend. And this one is extra nice for me, since Monday is a holiday and my AWS day moves to Tuesday. Friggin' Four Day Weekend! Of course Saturday is mapped out. Cole has bowling in the morning, basketball in the afternoon, and then he, Big Red, and I are all headed to Charleston to see... (brace yourself) WWE SmackDown LIVE!!! Okay, stop yer chucklin' ya knuckle heads. The boy is ate up with this stuff. I'm not sure a day goes by that some derivative of the WWE doesn't find itself on the family room tv screen. The "action figures" duking it out in the imagination of a little boy on his little plastic ring on the floor notwithstanding... The trip to WWE SmackDown Live was one of Cole's belated Christmas presents. He's so excited to be going. Honestly, it's all a lot of fun. So many people are so hyped up for it that if you did nothing more than people watch you'd be well entertained. So, say what you will about it, all I know is I'm going to be having a great day with my son. Okay, the wife will be there too. : ) Now if I could just figure out how to get Big Red to let me head a few more minutes South to the casino... and the poker room at Tri State Racetrack and Casino in Cross Lanes. Hmmm, maybe one of my buddies could pick me up after Smackdown Live is over. : ) Okay, who am I kidding...

LOST comes back on January 21st!!! I can't wait. I'll be glued to the tv, so don't bother calling. The day after that, I'll be turning 41 years old. Yeah, that's kinda anti-climatic isn't it. The day after that, the 23rd is Uncle June's birthday AND the first poker tournament of 2009 for the NDPT collective. If you're not on the list, get there people. The festivities begin at 7:00pm at my house.

Beyond that, there's a lot of basketball, cheerleading, bowling, gymnastics, school, and work to keep us occupied. Then, the next poker event will be February 8th (Sunday) at the Eagles to kick off the 2009 season. This time, the Eagles Trustees have decided they want a big event. They want to help this thing grow, and they've got an eye on JR as a go-to-guy that gets things done for the organization. So much so, they are advertising this one in the paper. Man, I may actually have to help out a little more and stay sober while playing too! I'm hoping we have a great turnout for this and future poker tournaments up there.

Time for me to head out of here, hope all is well with each of you.

Regards,

cheer_dad

Lack of inspiration, but still blogging...

I've been waiting for inspiration to strike now for a couple of days, since my last blog post. Waiting for my writing muse to slip me the tongue or for something to fall out of the sky and give me something blog worthy. Well guess what the muse has left me hanging and apparently apples ain't in season either. So brace yourself my minions, for another rambling twist of the mind of cheer_dad. Here we go.

I won't try to cover the status/progress of the UIGEA hearings, since Shamus over at Hard Boiled Poker just flat gets it RIGHT!!! Thanks for the phenomenal coverage and commentary. If that's still not enough head on over to Lou Krieger's blog for additional ongoing discussion.

I could talk about work a bit and recap the week for you but I'd like really to hang on to the few dedicated readers that I have. Let's just sum it up this way. There have been lots of donks to deal with and I haven't had the good fortune to find them at a poker table. Let me put these words together without spaces and have you decide if it's one word or two... "governmentinaction" It's been my experience here at the "DEBT" this week that the three word variety has begat the two word variety. But in the minds of some movement is progress. Frackin' 'tards. But I digress.

One bright spot in the week will be tonight at the Yanok's game. They're running their April qualifier tonight. I'm already assured a spot in the year end game having scored a small set of points in one game, but I gotta tell you thus far over there I haven't done well this year. My "luck" or at least my good fortune has been in the NDPT games. I've final tabled a lot. I would have to say that I'm doing better than break even, although an exact figure eludes me. For some reason I've become more interested in the ring game action, as opposed to tournaments. Not that I'm playing more of that variety... just preferring it in my mind. There have been times where I thought about logging on and playing at home in the evening when I've had free time and decided to spend my time in some other way, instead. I didn't decide to take a break, but I just kinda did it. Or didn't as the case may be.

Baseball practice will begin to occupy greater amounts of my waking hours, and then after Opening Day on April 26th, well I just won't have any free time at all. But it's for the children. And although I'm not coaching this year, I've already been drafted to help (wink wink) the official coaches. There really is not end to this thing is there.

And Cole and I watched the WWE on Monday night and saw THE NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR give his farewell speech to the world of pro-wrestling. I remember seeing him YEARS ago when I was a younger than Cole! Then they announced that he was retiring after 36 Years!!! Like it or hate it as for the wrestling, but to do something for that many years and to that degree, you gotta give the guy some credit. The send off was very respectful and he was clearly very emotional over the whole thing. And yes I know it's entertainment... not REAL. But there's enough reality out there to deal with. And hey the boy likes watching it, so I guess that'll have to be reason enough. Besides the divas ain't so hard to look at! Anyway RIC, thanks for the memories!

So I'll see some of you tonight at the Yanok's, and hopefully take your money. But I'll try to entertain as I do it, to help soften the blow.

Regards,

cheer_dad