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I don't know how you people do it. Many of the blogs I read have deeply personal stuff that I couldn't imagine publishing. Mine is pretty much limited to poker, bowling, baseball, and a few other random things. Honestly, I very rarely feel the need to write something personal, but the few times I do, I don't do it anyway. I have a post that I've written in my head now at least a dozen times, but every time I try to actually get it down on virtual paper, it just doesn't happen. I sit there for a few minutes, and then give up and go do something else. Even if I could write it, I doubt I'd get myself to publish it. That I'm even writing about the fact that I can't write the posts I want surprises me.

Instead of writing it the most recent time, I went and changed the sidebars on my blog to WordPress Widgets. It's a pretty cool plugin, and makes changing the contents of the sidebars pretty simple. Unfortunately, my layout is different enough from standard ones that I still can't just drop in new widgets and use them without a little hacking, but it's pretty much the same changes I need to make to each one, and they're pretty easy. While I was at it, I added the cool little +/- buttons on each widget so you can collapse and expand each one. The main reason for that was so I can default the poker blogs section to be minimized and actually use that sidebar for other useful things. The last thing I need to do before I'll consider it done is make it use cookies to remember which boxes are expanded and collapsed on a computer so it'll always look the same when you come back.

Wasn't that last paragraph about cool new features on my blog more interesting than my personal issues that no one really cares about? I thought so.

That is all.

I have a lot of things I want to talk about, but I can't seem to find the motivation to do it right now.

Instead, I'm wasting my time finding things like LiveJournal Crossposter, a WordPress plugin that lets me crosspost everything here and at my LiveJournal that I set up just so I could comment on other people's. Not really sure why I bothered setting this up, but I think I'll leave it.

Five year college reunion, poker, bowling, baseball... can't find the energy to actually write anything right now. Hell, this post is really just to let you all know I'm still here.

That's all for now.

...in the airport.

Big surprise.

I promised a real post. This is it, I guess.

Damn you, Chris, for pointing me at this. Can't get it out of my head.

Poker has been interesting lately. I haven't been playing much, but enough to lose a bunch of money at Chumash last weekend. My losses basically came down to two hands: losing with QQ vs AK in preflop, and JJ vs 76s when I couldn't lay it down. I have since made all that money back at 1/2 NL on FTP. I've only been playing the cash games there seriously again for two days now, but if it's really as soft as it seems, I'm going to have to keep doing it. I've also played a few of their guarantee tournaments, but failed to cash. I busted 15 off the money in one getting in preflop with QQ vs 33. I will probably continue to play these tournaments, but at least for the moment, the $200 NL cash game looks like a better way to spend my time.

Reminder! Easycure's charity tournament for the American Cancer Society is this Sunday. This is a WPBT-POY event, and you can earn Player of the Year points in it.

What: Hammer Out Cancer - WPBT-POY Circuit Event (Tournament ID 3381723 under the Private section.)
When: April 16th - Sunday
Time: 9pm EST
Where: Full Tilt Poker
How Much: $10 + $16 ($15 goes to American Cancer Society so buy-in is 25+1)
Password: dahammer

The Mets are off to a great 7-1 start to the season. Of course, they've only played the Nationals and Marlins so far, so they should be beating those teams. Tonight they go up against Milwaukee, who have started the season 6-3. I can't believe they're for real, though, so the Mets should be able to beat them, too. I'm trying to figure out how long they're going to string me along before falling apart and giving the division to the Braves again. I think this year it might be midway through September, sadly. At least I'll be out of the country then.

A friend of mine at work sent me a link to a great blog: Plunk Biggio: Dedicated to Craig Biggio and his (probably unintentional) Quest to break the all time major league career record for getting hit by pitches. It's got daily updates on his HBP numbers, as well as fun stats about teams and pitchers plunking him. He needs 14 more to break the record, and has one this year so far. He's been plunked at least 15 times in each of the last 6 seasons, so there's a good chance it'll happen this year.

My fantasy team is off to a wonderful start, going 1-11 the first week. I had a pretty good offensive week, but my pitching sucked, and my opponent hit 13 homers with 44 RBIs to crush me. This week it looks like I might be able to salvage a split. Yesterday, I hit .430 with 6 homers (more than I had all last week). I'm short a closer because Gagne is hurt (again! what was I thinking?) and my other two have been crap. Izzy and Cordero both have losses for me this week. My starting pitching is a mess, too. I'm not giving up yet, though. It's a long season. Last year I actually moved up into third place for a few weeks at the end of August and beginning of September before falling off and finishing second to last again. My terrible finish leading to picking first in the draft and getting Utley finally paid off with a 2-homer game from him yesterday. My homerun from Mora blew a Dan Miceli save for my opponent, too. I love this game, even if I suck at it.

Real post coming soon, I promise. For now, what I spent my time on after bowling (horribly) tonight:

Link to wall storage at Skymall.
Note: WPG2 is cool.

Before the concert...