I finally played some poker again last night. Not too much, just a couple of hours of $25 NL at FTP, with Scott, Joanne, Mark, and Ryan. I mostly played like a donkey. Finished up about a buyin thanks to my 63o flopping two pair against Scott’s AQ, after he raised preflop. Yeah, donkey.

It was fun, though I have to learn (again) to stop when I get bored instead of just giving all my money away. Given how long I played before that happened, I think tournaments might be out of the question for a little while.

In other almost-poker-related news, I spent my remaining PSO points on more Amazon gift certificates, and got myself a Nintendo DS Lite. I looked everywhere for a good case for it, but couldn’t find one actually made for it that I liked. Instead, I got a case made for a camera. I have some pictures in the gallery [1 2]. The Altoids gum case holds games, and in the front pocket is the charger. All the cases marketed for the DS were either much bigger to hold the same stuff, or much smaller and only held the DS and maybe two games. This case was $7.99 at Fry’s or Outpost, and works perfectly.

New Super Mario Bros. is awesome.

Post title stolen from Tycho at Penny Arcade.

In a press release covering the Leipzig Games Convention, Microsoft revealed that European board games Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne and Alhambra would all be appearing on Xbox Live. There’s no word on pricing or release dates, but chance are they’ll show up before the end of the year.

Source: http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153084

I was looking around the web trying to find a way to store all my random small computer parts and screws and lots of other electronics junk. I was basically looking for something like this. I probably didn’t need more than one 24 drawer cabinet, but with where I was planning to put it, I wanted three to come close to the height of the bookshelf next to it. Three of those (plus tax, plus shipping) would have been very expensive. Somewhere in my googling, I came across this link: http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/tls/195866995.html.

Less than 24 hours after I saw it on craigslist, picked up less than a mile from my house:

I’m using them to replace a small, cheap, plastic parts cabinet. Everything I had in there will probably fit easily in one row of these drawers. So I have lots more drawers now for enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Not much doing on the poker front, I haven’t really been playing much. I did just (finally) spend a whole bunch of PSO points that I had collected from my terror alert page referrals. I think they were points well spent:

Most of my free time now will be spent killing zombies. Poker will have to wait.