29 days

We have now been in the new house for 4 weeks and 1 day. Moving is really tiring. We are 35% unpacked. Basement work continues. Life chugs on without regard to whether you're moving, I have discovered.

I will post more on my poker exploits in the near future.

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WHAT IS UP with the Giant Fucking Sunglasses that every woman wears these days? I can't be the only one that thinks Giant Sunglasses are completely silly, can I?

The first time I saw a pair of modern Giant Sunglasses on a woman, I thought to myself, "She must have gotten punched and she's covering up a black eye." Even now when I see a pair of Giant Sunglasses on a women (which is all the time and everywhere during the summer) the same thought runs through my head, even though I have now realized that this is the current fashion. The world is filled with women who have been punched in the face and are trying to hide it.

My wife gave in at some point, maybe last Autumn, and purchased a pair of Giant Sunglasses. I giggled. She knows what I think about them. I've even seen them on some men, which makes me really sad for these poor bastards.

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Scotty Nguyen's victory on ESPN last week was quite a poker show. I've played with guys like that, but not very much. We've all seen someone act like that in a non-poker setting. You're out with a group having drinks, and the liquid flows freely for a while. Then someone has too much, gets pissed off at something, and turns on the raging anger.

Everyone gets uncomfortable. It ends in a fight, or the group just sort of disperses into the night. Later, that guy either doesn't get invited, or everyone tip-toes carefully around him when the drinking starts again.

If you have one of these guys at the the poker table, I guess the goal is to get all of his chips before someone else does. If he gets lucky, oh well.

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Not having a poker "champ" at the end of the WSOP doesn't feel right. Yeah, its gonna build drama as the Main Event starts airing, but it still feels unfinished.