You Can Never Go Home
I spent last weekend in Indiana visiting with my parents and friends from high school and college. I’ve lived in Houston for a little over three years now and have probably visited Indiana in one capacity or another about 10 times in that span. Each time I feel less and less at home when I am there. With the exception of my closest friends, I feel much less of a connection to people than what we once shared. This trip in particular gave me a feeling of disconnectedness to the part of the world that was once all I knew. One way to describe it is like looking through a window into a room that you used to spend a lot of time in.
The trip still had its enjoyable moments, though. One friend in particular whom I hadn’t seen in two years is always great to hang out with since he’s like an encyclopedia about the lives of people we grew up with (not to mention a wild “life of the party” type). Playing the “whatever happened to so and so?” game with him might have been the highlight of the trip.
Another highlight was winning the WCOOP Extreme Satellite yesterday on PokerStars, an event in which they added fifty $5,200 seats to the prize pool. I was a pretty big underdog to play the WCOOP Main Event this year due to, as Bill Fillmaff puts it, bankroll irregularities. Now that I’m in, I’m giving people a chance to buy a chunk of my action. If you’re interested, more information is available in this PokerTips thread.
Last year, I played the WCOOP from a hotel room in a Louisiana casino which was my home for a few days while Houston was repairing itself from Hurricane Ike. Hopefully Mother Nature won’t impose the need to flee again this season, but taking a trip for the WCOOP sounds kinda fun anyway. Anyone got any ideas?
Finally, a friend introduced me to this guy ‘Matisyahu’, a Hasidic Jew reggae musician. Yea… not a combo you see every day. I’m sure a lot of you have heard of him. I’m pretty terrible about knowing anything about any artists who aren’t played on the top 40 stations. Anyway, here are a couple of his songs that I like a lot:
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