Clueless Wonder

Well after some hemming, hawing, and basic arguments the better half (Becky) and I have agreed to come to some sort of agreement about me playing poker. I had ended up cashing out my previous meager bankroll anyway to help get her groceries and other things needed for her new house.

She's had quite a few friends and family members in her life that have a number of addictions. These include alcohol, drugs, and of course the part that pertains to yours truly, gambling. She just plain doesn't like it at all in no shape or form. Plus her sort of adopted family father type said that after going with me to AC that he didn't know if I was good at setting limits for myself. Not sure about why he had thoughts on that as we weren't sitting at any of the same tables or anything. Maybe it had something to do with me talking about poker and listening to Phil Gordon's WSOP podcasts the entire way down there? :)

Anyway, she's agreed to be fine with it as long as I don't do it all of my waking hours or talk to her endlessly about it. Her main concern is money budgeting in general. So I'm going to figure out a nice small amount per paycheck or month that will be poker related and also start actually setting aside some savings too. I deposited $84 into Ultimate Bet as they were offering a reload bonus and I like their micro-limit tables. Why $84 you might ask? Well I did some sort of fuzzy math with percentages and such and thought that was a good small restarting amount.

Ultimate Bet doesn't offer the best bonuses in the world. But they do clear at micro-limits, albeit slowly, and they also release an amount every time you leave a table. These are both very important playing at some of the lowest limits and with a tiny bankroll. So from now on I'm going to keep a running total of my bankroll in a block on the right of the poker section of the site.

So I'm going to post this in both the poker section and personal blog so that she can see that yes I'm glad that she is letting me play (kind of like DoubleAs wife) and that I'm also going to follow her advice / wishes and get my act together. I mean I guess I don't want to bankrupt her if we get married to I? :)

As you can tell, there's not much to report. I must admit that I've been remiss in my updates here. The one thing I do have to report is very sad. Becca lost little Lucy. She was the newest member of the family and was about half-feral. However, she was starting to come around a bit. Unfortunately, she hid inside a couch that we moved over to Carl's house and then jumped out when he was unloading it. So there's a have-a-heart trap out waiting for her and we're hoping she shows up.

Helping Becky to move the rest of her stuff into the new digs and get things set up this weekend. Forgot how nice / frustrating it is to have NINE cats underfoot! It's great because there's always somebody to cuddle with or that is trying to get some attention and love. However, when doing a lot of walking around carrying things so that you cannot see where you're going it's a bit of a hassle. Especially if you care whether you kick somebody or not…. But anyway, the house is in fairly good order and I was even able to watch a little bit of football in HD on her new TV. God football is great to watch that way!

I found an interesting story about the new underware that Great Britian is issuing to their soldiers as they deploy to the desert. A quick warning that there are other parts on the page that are not quite work safe. :)