Short Weekend

Today is my Friday for this week as I have a rotating schedule. I usually have 5 days off during this rotation, but I agreed to work this weekend for the other person who shares the same shift. I only have two days off this time, come back to work Friday and Saturday night, then I am off for another two nights. Poor me huh? I then work another three days after that, then my 5 days off is back on.
How is my mom doing? I have no clue, she won't call me, hint hint mom! The last I had heard was that she was going in for another biopsy in her other breast. Doctor's were concerned about a group of cells that showed in some scan and wanted to make sure it too wasn't cancerous. This was the Friday before last. They sent her on her way and afterwards she was going to have her third chemo installment. I guess her white cell count was too low so she wasn't going to be able to have chemo, upon getting ready to leave she notices that she is bleeding from her biopsy incision. Not a little, but a ton. I guess they didn't stitch her up properly or something and she ended up losing a lot of blood. I guess it was an amount that was just above needing a transfusion! Yet another great example of how our overpriced medical treatment is in this country! She of course doesn't blame the doctor's who stitched her up because they couldn't apply a certain kind of tape to the wound because it affects her skin, also she says that she might have been overdoing it? Well, it wasn't like you were doing aerobics mom, so it wasn't your fault. Okay enough of poor medical treatment before I completely blow up again. I guess she went home afterward and felt horrible and almost fainted a few times. Hmm... would it have been a bad thing to give her a transfusion if her blood was that low? Okay I really have to stop. I am guessing that she had her third chemo session this last Friday? I haven't heard from her, so I will try to hopefully get a hold of her today.
I have a few monthly goals as far as online poker is concerned. The last six months of the year is very unlikely and lofty, but the first six months isn't too bad. I was hoping to make a certain amount every month. The first two months I was hoping to make the same certain amount, then the next two months double that amount each month. Example; if I had made $5.00 in January and February, I would want to make $10.00 in both March and April. So on, and so on. Well, I have another goal to simply raise each website up $10.00 at a time. This latter goal is a much simpler goal, that will enable me to not try so hard. If a person tries too hard to win at poker he or she will most likely lose. Expecting too much too fast in any sport or game can cause a downfall, but probably more so in poker. This all brings us to this last week in online poker excursions.
I really hadn't played hardly at all this month, a little on Fulltilt to capitalize on a promotion they had going on. It earned me another $5 to play two tables at a time for like a half hour a day. I had to play 5 of the 10 days to earn $5. If you were to play all ten days straight they would give you $25 instead of only $5. I lost the chance to make the extra $20 because of the stupid state bowling championships. During the little 5 days of playing for about a half hour a day I made about $8 or so then they gave me the extra $5. So it was nice to profit from trying to take advantage of the promotion. My uncle Phil was able to get his 10 days straight in and earn himself the full $25, good for you Phil. This was basically all I played for this month until this last week. Every site was over $50 except for the dreaded Pokerstars. I used to hate Fulltilt the worst, but as of right now it has to be Pokerstars. I had a little over $44 dollars and wanted to get it up to $50 so I could play the other, much nicer sites. I played for 4 hours on the first day where I was down to almost $40 before making a small profit on the day, raising it up to $46. It was a discouraging day despite making a profit because of a few hands where people hit a couple of miracles on me. I played the very next day hoping that Pokerstars wouldn't allow the same miracles to happen against me. Well, it was way worse than the day before. I again dropped down to just above $40 and decided to call it quits after another 4 hours of play losing just under $3. Played again the next day lost about 70 cents before the internet decided to go down. How horrible of luck can I have? I play for over 8 hours and lose, only to have my internet go down? It could have been a blessing in disguise, because who knows I might have lost more had the internet not gone down. The other night I decided to play for a bit, in less than an hour I made $6 and called it quits while I was ahead. I could have made probably double that had I not been so skiddish from the two sessions previous. I played a few hands way too cautiously and only made the minimum from them. Had Pokerstars not treated me so badly the days previous I would have made maximum, but all is well I ended the day at about $47. Once I am close to getting to a decade mark it is easier for me to sum up the gumption to play. I only needed to win a little over $2 and I would be at $50. I waited an extra day to play again because I was tired and you never want to gamble when tired. Played for about 50 minutes and won almost $2.00 and decided to quit before Pokerstars pulled a fast one on me. As I have mentioned in the past, Pokerstars has been the only site that I have lost money on. I am currently making profit on Pokerstars again as of passing the $35 mark. If you were to think about it, how can I be a loser on one site? I have made over $2,000 on one site (Doylesroom), only made small profits on two others and lost on Pokerstars? I guess I am just lucky on one website huh? Get this though, I have probably over the last 5 or 6 years played twice as much on the other three sites than I have on Doylesroom. Like I have said in the past, online poker is rigged. It can still be beat, but I wouldn't put any of my own money back into the game. I play for 18 minutes on Pokerstars last night and finally, finally leaped over the $50.00 mark. Each site is now over %0 dollars. I might reach this months (monthly) goal, but unless I can spark up the desire to play more, the next two months and months following will come up way short. If I were to have that simple goal starting from $5 for January and February as mentioned above, I would still have to make $160 in both November and December which would give me a profit on the year of $630. That isn't bad at all, and I would be happy with that as a year ending result. My goal is only a bit higher, but cashing out is the worst temptation. It is just so hard to not cash out and buy a new bowling ball, or a birthday present for the wife or something at all. Once you have a little extra money you can always think of something to buy. The thing is that since all of my money isn't on just one website like in the past it is going to be harder for me to cash out. I don't really want to subscribe to another online bank website like Neteller again, because in the past they have tried to rip Sheri and I off. In the past Neteller had allowed something to go wrong and someone was able to take $900 from our account if I remember correctly, which was basically everything we had. Our bank was way nice and refunded our money and as it turns out Neteller actually lost
out on that money. Good thing too, because even after researching and finding out who hacked into our account they still never refunded the money. After cancelling Neteller and having nowhere for my profit to be transferred to, I was having to order a check from the website itself. This is fine but costs $10 per check. Thus if I were to cash out $100 it would cost me $110. I have over $200 online right now, each site is only at $50. Each site has a minimal amount of $50 to order a check, so I don't even have enough to order a check to be delivered because of the additional $10 charge to process a check. If I were to have all of my $200 on one site it would be tempting for me to cash out most of it and have that money in my pocket right now! That is the main reason why I don't feel that I would be able to reach the double profit every two months goal because money is money to me. The great poker players who are pros have all said that they don't think of it as money. There are millionaire kids online right now who earned their money from online poker, and I have no doubt that I am ten times better than they were when they first started playing. They were just able to turn off the (it's money) switch that I probably will never be able to.
I took Triton to the park yesterday to play on the toys. We were in the back yard on the trampoline and I decided he might have more fun at the park. It wasn't too busy when we arrived, but 45 minutes later it was pretty hectic. He is a crazy boy. I help him on on the toy the first time after he checks everything out from the ground. He couldn't find a place to get up because he of course walks to the biggest part of the playground equipment. He then goes down the steepest slide in the whole park. There are five different slides on this on toy and he slips down the steepest one. He finds a place that he thinks he can climb up after that. This being a plastic cargo net that is about 4 feet high and probably 90 degree incline the last couple of steps. I help him up and he goes down the tallest slide in the park, it is the corkscrew kind, but regardless he is fearless. He treks back to the cargo net and tries to climb up again, this time he
climbs a bit higher before he decides I can help him. I climb up with him this time to get a different camera angle and he heads for the cork screw slide again. He descends and heads for the cargo net again. I didn't really want to slide down the slide so I video him from the platform
above him as he walked toward the cargo net. He starts climbing as soon as he touches it, so I hurry down some other opening to help him. I make it down just in time to see him making his last push to the top of the cargo net. He catches on quick and doesn't slow down for anything once he has completed a certain task. Maybe that is why he walked at an early age? I guess as soon as he succeeds at a task the past failures exit his thought process. He slid down another steep slide and up the cargo net he went. I stood behind him in case he did slip, but up and away he went. I pushed him in a swing for a few minutes before we took a walk and I decided to leave. He was none too happy about leaving. He doesn't like ending an activity on anyone Else's time but his own.
On the days that I have had to work, I have been giving him a nap in the morning from 10:30 to 1:30 anywhere in there. Then Sheri returns home from work and I go to sleep from 5:00pm to almost 11:00 when I go to work. Thus, I get a short nap when Triton naps, then I get another short sleep before work and this is how it is during the weeks that I have to work. It wears on me and I am drained by the end of my work week. Well, this last week I have discovered that Triton will stay awake as long as possible. The day before yesterday he stayed awake until 2:00 and I put him down for a nap at 2:30 and I was able to basically sleep 7 and a half hours. I didn't sleep that long, but I could have. Yesterday I tried it again. I could see that he was getting pretty tired around 1:30, but he was okay as long as we were doing something together. I had not eaten so I had some chips and salsa so that woke him up enough before laying him down at 2:15. So, I might have discovered a way to give myself more sleep on the days that I have to work and therefore won't be drained so much at the end of my work week? Who knows? Here's to hopin' <--- movie quote quiz? Hint, it's an animated movie!