The Halls

Busy busy busy
But not so much with work lately. Still plenty to do, just might have a handle on it for the moment.
I spent the weekend doing several things.
Friday nite, I bought a truckload of studs to start the framing of the bathroom wall, then Ann and I watched Taps. I started watching it intently, then decided it sucked, so I tried to do some homework in the background during the last half.
Saturday, I got up and took the kids to the climbing wall at the Y. I even got to climb once this time. I hate heights. I'm always telling them they should go higher, and it's no big deal because you're on this belay line, you can't fall. Yeah, easy to say when you're on the ground. I got about halfway up quickly and wanted to crap myself. But I just kept telling myself I couldn't fall, and I managed to climg to the top, at which point my forearms were on fire, so I just let go and let the 150 lb kid lower me. Then I felt bad for him, and climbed down the last half of the wall.

The girls had 2 birthday parties to go to this weekend. One each day. So off they went from the Y to birthday party #1, while Aubrey and I went home and played some Grand Turismo3. (We're always a couple of years behind the curve in PS2 games). Then I started cutting 2x4's for my bathroom wall. I got about 4 boards into it before I realized I didn't know what in the world I was doing, so I had to call Jeff 3-4 times to have him explain stuff to me. He eventually came over and he set me straight, and we came to the conclusion that I was going to be best off by moving a pvc furnace intake. So the wall building was at that moment abrubtly stopped short to build a new pvc intake.

Sat. nite, we played a HORSE tournament, which was entertaining. Alfred had earlier in the day won a free tournament that got him a $250 seat at harrah's WSOP qualifier this saturday. I'll be interested to see how that goes. Chad tried it once, and I wouldn't be surprised if he does it again.

Sunday I went and got all my pvc supplies, and started cutting down the old stuff. Of course, the first thing I did was drop a large filter that hit hit the ground and shattered like a crystal vase. I didn't think home depot was going to carry something like that, so I picked up all the pieces and glued it all together again. The thing was stupid anyway. It looked like it was supposed to be a filter of some sort, but it wasn't a very good one, as there was no screen, trap, or anything to prevent anything from going right through it. So I got all the pvc done and called it a day.
We then went out to eat at Red Robin.
Then I went home and did more homework (still not finished!)

For the first time in years, I went to bed at 11pm, because I was very tired.

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Played our first everv HORSE tournament last nite. It was fun, although it would have been funner if I hadn't had been out so early. Even lost $7 in cash. boo.
We keep talking about building another poker table, and what each of us wants in terms of design, and how each wants them to look. I was trying to describe the most immaculate table I've seen yet, but couldn't find the link.
Well I found it.

This guy is clearly a woodworker by trade, so has the undair advantage of skill and the proper tools. The most obnoixious picture he posted was from a link on his page that said "This I also built"
Whatever, snooty rich guy.
I'm just jealous.

Well, for now, I'm off to Home Depot to buy more materials for finishing the bathroom. The project has officially gotten underway, but I've got a long way to go....

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I saw this on someone else's random blog, and while there are way too many things like this, I haven't done one in a while, so it was entertaining.

You are mRNA. You're brilliant, full of important,

interesting information and you're a great

friend to the people you care about. You may

have sides to you that no one understands.

But while you understand more than most

people, you're only half-there most of the

time.


Which Biological Molecule Are You?
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Well, after 5+ years of talking about it, Ann has finally decided to get lasik surgery. Her eyesight has been terrbile for a long tmie. I have been winning a fair amount at poker lately, so it seemed like a good time to get it done. Not that $ has been the only reason she hasn't, I think she's just been afraid of getting her eyeballs cut into. Seems rational. But she's more skittish of surgical procedures than most. She can't even get a shot without freaking out. So having your eyeballs sliced into has got to be near the top of the list of things to not look forward to.
The brochure she came home with has a list of post-operation do's and don'ts.
Among the don'ts is the line:"don't rub your eyes for 1 month"
1 month?!?! I can't go 1 day! So I guess I'm never going to be a candidate for lasik.

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Back from Chicago.
Got much to do nowadays.
Including:
-add a bathroom to the basement
-taking a grad class
-plenty to do at work
-confirmation with aubrey at church
-trying to some poker when I can
-build the poker table hoist
-work on any number of 3-4 programs I have conceived
-build a new pc
-build a new mythbox
-play on the volleyball team I signed up for
-possibly start judo again?
-lose a bunch of weight
-lift 3 times per week
-get the motorcycle painted

plenty to do. At least most of the things are newer. Most of the things are different than the last time I wrote down this list.

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I'm in chicago again. weeee.
It's always interesting here though.
Was told to come up to train a guy, but it was a trick. I walk in, and it's "yeah, this other thing that you were working on before here is now higher priority, so work on that instead".
"So.... what about this training"
"Oh, we can do that over the phone later."
Hmm. exactly what I said when you suggested I come up here to train you. So... you lied to get me here.

Whatever. I'm leaving tommorrow either way.
Famous last words....

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Poker last nite was really fun. We had the biggest pot I can remember, $560. It was pretty fun, although I have fonder memories of the nites when I drank. Did I mention I decided to stop drinking all alcohol for a while? 3 months or losing 20 pounds, whichever comes first. I suspect 3 months, although I've almost lost 10 pounds so far.
So anyway, even Chad said I play different 100% sober, which gives me an advantage. It was cold outside, but I borrowed a kerosene heater and we played in the heated garage all nite. It was nice and toasty, and I didn't have to have the dirty smokers in my house.

As far as the poker went, it was fun. I started off fine, building a big enough stack to make it to the final table, but as a short stack. And then the sucking out began. My prime unforgettable moment:
At the final table, I have pocket jacks in the big blind, and everyone folds to the small blind and me. Small blind just limps, but he's the biggest stack, so I'm not sure if I want to tangle with him, but you can't let a hand this good go to waste, so I raise $2000 on the $800 big blind. He thinks for a short time, and calls. Figure I'm up against a crappy ace or king. Flop is A72
Great. I'm beat. I know it. To further confirm this, he leads out with another $2000. I have a total of $3500 left. Everyone is saying "if you're going to call, you may as well go all-in". (this is the first hand on the final table)
I think for a long time, I just know he's got the ace, but at least one other person is telling me he was notorious on the other table for being very aggressive. I missed my set at the flop, so now I'm down to an 4% chance of catching.
Factoring that a) he may be trying to push me out with a scare card out there, and
b) I could still catch a jack
I figure I'd rather take one more look, then fold, and wait for a whole table orbit for a good hand to gamble with.
Of course, it wouldn't be a story worth telling if the turn wasn't a jack. Big stack bets enough to cover me, and I say "Sorry, I just sucked out big on you, because I'm pretty sure you have the ace." and call. He shows the ace, and I show the set of jacks. To further drive the nail in, the river was a jack.
Quad jacks to start my comeback, I was low stack at the start of the final table.

Later Ann and I colluded by her losing to me, but it was all quite legitimate, as I had a trips, and she had the top pair and went all-in.

The bubble lasted forever. No one would take a chance. Pretty standard, I suppose. BJ and I were the lowest, and were getting to the point where we had to make a stand.
BJ went all in pre-flop in early position, and I was late position. I had A-K and called, hoping he had A-something less than king, and I was right. He had A-10, and my K held up.
Later, Chad had all the chips and was pushing hard. Finally, I called my small blind with AK, knowing he would push, and he did. So I re-raise all in (I'm 2nd in chips now), but he calls immediately.
He's embarrassed to show his A2
I'm 2-1 favorite here, but Chad couldn't seem to lose. He catches a 2, and I get nothing, and am eliminated in 3rd. Still payed $80.

Then we played cash for a long time, and it was quite fun. But I also won $100, so it's easy to like that. Everybody loves poker when they win.

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Well, it's official. I'm a glutton for punishment. I have enrolled in graduate school (again). I was 2/3 done going through the extra expensive, satellite delivered classes of NTU. I loved those classes. They were very convienant, and generally for people just like me, working full time.
Now I'm back at the school I got my undergrad at, so at least I know many of the professors, although many are different as well. But I have to physically attend class, which is a huge pain. And I'm by far the oldest, lamest person in the class. It's fun feeling extremely out of place.
I could only transfer 15 credits, but I still only need 15 more, so only 2-3 more classes, with a thesis to finish out the hours. What this means is 2.5 years, and I'm done. And I'm not even sure why, other than I just want to. I'm fairly convinced it would not mean a large pay increase, although I will argue otherwise. I guess I hate to think I took all those other classes for no reason.

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I bought this new computer at a local shop last week. It was maybe $20 more then buying all the pieces separately online and having it all shipped. I figured it was worth it in case something didn't work. Well, it doesn't work. I installed XP, and it spontaneously reboots all the time. I haven't been able to install SP2 at all because it always reboots during it's install. It took 4 tries to install XP in the first place. I don't understand it, because knoppix seems to run fine on it, no reboots. The harddrive is only 1 year old, and seems to work fine.
In contrast, the harddrive I had been using for my 2nd mythbox, now that I plan to use the old desktop for that, seems to have died. I kept trying to format the root partition, and it kept puking, and then I go look at the dmesg, and it's full of I/O errors. Great. That drive is < 6 months old, but I know I threw out the receipt, plus I think it only had a 90 day warrenty.
So the short version is I had one older, working desktop, bought a new barebones system, and now I have no working systems at all.
Not exactly how I predicted things to go.

Big poker tournament at my place saturday nite, 8pm. I have 11 seats reserved so far, and somewhere between 7-10 guests people are bringing. So hopefully I will have full capacity, and then I win!
Then I'm off to Chicago again, this time just for some training, so it should only be for a couple days.

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We recently found out that our friend Robin,

is pregnant.
It's not like I live with them and pretend to know whether they wanted more kids or not, but their youngest is 8 years old, so I can only assume they weren't exactly planning for that amount of seperation. On the other hand, they were fond of stating that they used the "rhythm method" for contraception, which has got to rank right up there in effectiveness as Catholic birth control, which is normally called "pulling out", but I prefer to call it "porn style contraception". So let's be honest, if you're practicing something that effective, you can't be all that surprised.

Oh well. Congrats to them, it should make things much more entertaining!

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Chad and I went to the boats last nite. We didn't play the same table, he played NL hold'em, and I played omaha until it got busted, and then 4/8 Hold'em. I got slowly crushed. I literally didn't play anything but my blinds in omaha for the first 3 hours. Then I made a small comeback, and then no progress in hold'em, slowly getting eaten away by the rake. Painful.
Chad left up again though. He's funny because he thinks "you can't not win there". Even though I've seen him do it.

Looks like another trip to Chicago is in the works. I guess my time and plane tickets are quite cheap nowadays.

I bought a new pc to replace my 5 year old desktop, and it doesn't work. Reboots all the time. Going to look at it some more today.

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So I spent all weekend working on the poker table hoist. Only to get it all built, and discovered that I had a serious design flaw. I am cleraly not a master of statics and dynamics. But the whole thing wouldn't rise level, so anything on it, would fall off. This is clearly unacceptable.
Jeff came over and we debated a long time on what the right way to do it would be, and I'm still not sure. Only know that the way I have it isn't going to work.
Disappointing.
At the same time, I've been trying to bring up a new barebones pc I got to replace my 6 year old desktop. So far, I got xp up and running, but the machine reboots all the time. So I'm going to try again.
Not having a very productive weekend....

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I just talked to the dealer that had the GS I wanted, and now it's been sold already. Saves me a trip, but now I'm mad. I really wanted that bike....

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I'm a little jealous Chad, who's been going to the boats 2+ times a week for the last couple of weeks to play NL HoldEm. He came back last nite up $600, but was mad because he said it should have been $1200.

The big mistake hand
Chad starts with AK on the button, and everyone in the pot so far has limped, so he raises $30. Only a few callers.
Flop is: TJQ
So he flops the nuts. The player to his right, fruitcake, the table big stack, bets $100, and says something to the tune of "you should get out, I know I have you beat right now." Chad says "ok. Let's check through the rest of the cards, and I'll bet another $100 on the side that your hand isn't better than mine right now." The guy says "no, I'm not going to bet at the rest of the hand.
So what does that mean? straigth/flush draw or made straight with flush draw.
Turn: 3
Not good for Chad. Fruitcake bet another $100, which Chad calls with the hope that fruitcake needs another diamond to actually make the flush.
River: 4
Terrible card for Chad.
fruitcake bets another $100, and Chad folds in disgust, which is the mistake.
Fruitcake shows Chad 89
The pot is $400+ and $100 to call. You're getting 4:1, so you only have to win 1 in 4 times to make it the right call. Granted, you have to factor in the opponent, but nothing seems to say that he had the flush, in fact, his betting indicates he's just as worried about it. Even Chad sees that now.
Of course, it's like any other after the fact diagnosis, it's always clear what to do when you know the outcome = hindsight is 20/20

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My motor for my poker table hoist arrived yesterday, and I had already bought a switch. I took one of the many dc power supplies I save from various electroncs that I threw away (I knew being a patrack would pay off eventually) and wired the it all up. It's all perfect for what I want. Now I all have to do is buy the wood, mount all the pullys and put it all together. I think it should be straightforward, but we'll see. The critical thing here, as usual, is time. I don't have enough.
I also want to go check out a bike that's 2.5 hours away.

So I may go check this out saturday, which will surely be an all-day adventure. So maybe sunday will be the day I can start building the table hoist.

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While riding back from HuHot last Saturday, somehow the the kids all started giving each other new names. Ally hadn't got one yet, and so she kept asking "what's my new name?" so I said "Allison". And she instantly loved it. Then Abby said she wanted me to give her a new name too. So I said "Abigail", which she also loved. Aubrey didn't ask me for a new name, but I would have picked Avery. Or maybe Adin.
Anyway, it turns out, the girls like their new names better than the originals. They now say that those are there real names, and their nicknames are Abby and Ally.
Funny. But Ann doesn't think so.

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I downloaded the first season of rescue me. I've heard some good things about this show, and so far, so good. I like it.
It's making an argument for me to get cable.

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I forgot to mention that I took the kids to the Y monday nite for a climbing wall session. It was Abby's idea, but after I said yes, they all wanted to do it. So we went, and they all had a good time, although it was brief.

I expected them all to be fearless, as they only let yo climb on the belay ropes, so you should go nuts without worrying about falling. But they all did worry, and none of went too high.
But they all had fun, and want to do it again, so I'm sure they will all be climbing to the top soon enough.

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Have you seen this guy?

If you're from NE, you've seen his picture, and that's about it. This guy gets a huge thumbs down from me, and not for his policies, which I don't entirely disagree with.
Chuck is what I consider the absolute lowest form of life. I believe a political office is something that should be disliked. It should be like jury duty, and everyone has to take a turn, and no one wants to keep doing it. Instead, we have career politcains, because the job is cushy, and the perk are good. So what's the only thing worse than a career politician? An aspiring career politician. The guy who hasn't been elected to anything yet, but it's clear it's his goal to be "in politics" for the rest of his "career".

Losers. I'm sure there are the token few who do it truely to serve their fellow citizens, but I feel quite confident that most are doing it for the power and clout.
Hagel is a prime example of this. Although born in NE, he's worked mostly in DC, trying to suck up. He ran for the senate there, and lost. So he "moved" back to NE to run again for a NE seat, which he duped all the plebians into voting for him.
= Desparetly seeking senate seat.

Currently he's saying all the right things, running with all the right people to gear up for a presidential run.
This guy hasn't been back to NE since he was elected.
Yet, I predict that this whole retarded state is going to get behind him in 100% for his upcoming presidential bid. NE sees so little press that they love anything. The football got their guts stomped out all year, but when Texas was in the hunt for national championship, everyone here wanted to see them win because "it's good for the big 12"
Stupid. Ok, it's a little money, but nothing worth getting excited about, unless you're in the hunt.
"Yea! We're 10th in the conference that produced the national champions! So we must be good too!"

Anyway, the moral of the story is: career politicians = evil. String 'em up.

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Some friends from college who I see less frequently have been getting better about staying in contact with me recently.
This guy is actually from Columbus, so Ann knows him. So I thought I'd post this picture since she has mentioned that she hasn't seen him for many years.

His friend Steve (also from Columbus) is clearly into photoshop.

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Some rules that I want to steal from the guys whose idea for the local WSOP satellite I stole in the first place. They have an actual form that the winner agrees to that allows the others at the final table to have a 'stake' in that players earnings at the WSOP.
From their rules:
a.In the event that a satellite winner cashes in his chosen WSOP event, 1% of his winnings AFTER withholding 28%, THEN deducting $20,000, will be distributed to each of the final table participants. It is realized that if a satellite is not totally full, the number of recipients may not be 9, but a lesser number.

Example 1: The satellite winner goes to the WSOP and wins $25,000.
$25,000 28% = $18,000 - $20,000 = - $2,000 (Finalists receive $0)

I like this idea, and will do something similar with mine.
Start telling your friends. I still believe we're going to start in March!

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Today was more work than I'm used to. I had forwarned Ann that today was the day we were going to clean out the downstairs bathroom area so I could start to build it. It was full of boxes, many in the same state as the day we moved into the house. The same is true of many boxes in the downstairs computer area and storage area.
Today we changed all that. All areas have been pillaged, and are much cleaner. I nearly cried more times than I could count as I had to admit I was never going to use such treasures as the first PC I had bought, the first CD changer I bought, our first PS2, etc. So they all went to the garbage pile. My garage looks like it did when we first moved here, only now it's all going to the curb instead of inside.

Now I have to make good on my claims that I'm gonig to finish that bathroom...

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Chad took a first stab at qualifying for the WSOP main event this year, by playing in the Harrah's qualifier on friday.
He didn't do very well, but it's worth trying. I also would like to remind any potential other WSOP suitors that in a couple of weeks, I will be hosting my own qualifier. I posted some details before, and I'm still ironing out some details, but in short, $40-$50 buyin, no rebuys, for 3 weeks in a row. These qualify you for the final table, which will pay $1700 to the winner. That winner will represent us in the $1500 NL holdem no rebuy WSOP event in June.

Jeff and I are constantly talking about building more tables in general, and they do need to be done before these events start. I ordered the motor for the table hoist, can't to start building it.

Ann took off to omaha this afternoon to hang with some of her high school friends. So I changed the oil in every vehicle I have, including the Suzuki, which I'd been meaning to change the oil in it for several months. Then I tore it apart and put in a defeat for the kickstand safety, so I can start it with the kickstand down. (neutral switch still is broke, and this is the next best solution)

I bought this Friday.

I've been wanting one for a awhile. I still love my minidisc player, but it's getting old, and now flash-based players are cheap enough and hold enough that they're worth it, in my opinion. I almost fell for the new ipod, but they're too trendy, and they don't accept downloaded mp3s, so they're right out for me.

Since Ann was gone, and I'll admit straightaway that I'm too lazy to cook for everyone, and I'm always looking for an excuse to go to HuHot, we went to HuHot. I can't get enough of that food. But.....
there's a big butt in the equation, and it's mine. What they don't tell you is that HuHot is a Mongolian word that means 'maximum strength laxitive'. Every time I leave that place, I have to race home (20 minutes away!). It's always stressfull, because it's always going to be a photo finish. Once we made the mistake of stopping at a store on the way home after eating there. I had to run to the JoAnn fabics bathroom, and thankfully, it was empty. It would have been ugly if it hadn't been.
And I've heard similar stories from several other people. I know one guy who says he won't even eat there anymore even though he likes the food because the after effects are so bad.
Tonite I didn't even make it out of the restaurant. Twice. Then it was still a race home and some quality reading time.
It was 20 minutes of standing before I could sit down in a normal chair again.

HuHot. 3 plates of delicious food now, 3 hours of bathroom time to come.

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I have finally come up with a design solution for the poker table hoist in my garage. I've been wanting to build something even before actually building the table, but the table had to come first. Then I was going to build a hoisting storage solution quickly thereafter.
Is 6 months quickly? I guess like everything, it's all relative.
Anyway, the biggest hangup was the design of a system that could:
-hold multiple tables (gotta build more!)
-hoist above the garage door
-be motor driven, I'm too lazy to pull it up by hand

The last requirement has been the killer. I kept coming up complex series of pulleys and winches, but nothing that could be realistically be built by yours truly. But last nite I had a breakthru idea, and it's quite cheap, relative to buying a $750 ceiling winch, anyway. I've got the initial pieces, but hopefully next weekend I will start building it and of course, that will mean detailed pictures and drama spelled out here. Stay tuned!

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Well, I'm thoroughly confused now. I've been convinced for the last several months that I want this bike

But today stopped by the local/only non-harley bike dealership, and noticed this bike

Which was made explicitly to compete with BMW's 1200 GS. Not as off-road friendly, but realistically, I'm not going to be doing a lot of off-road riding. I sat on one, and liked it a lot. I still need to test ride it, but at least now I have some choices.
Then I thought, "I wonder if there are still others that I have missed?"
Yup.
The Triumph Tiger.

I love Triumphs.

I love love love the rocket III,

but I wouldn't need that much bike, even though it's the coolest bike on the planet.
I think the only solution is to get one of everything.

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Jeff and I went to the Ashland poker game last nite. I was really looking forward to it, but when we got there, it was clear it wasn't happening. I couldn't believe they wouldn't do it just for the sake of the rose bowl, so I went in to ask what was going on. Turns out, 2 weeks ago, (the last time Jeff and I were there!) the cops came in and busted the whole thing, apparently right after we left. Now I'm actually glad I got knocked out early that week. Although they took names of the players, none of them were ticketed, only the bar owner. They haven't even filed any further charges against her, but now they're all gun shy to have the tournament anymore.
Whew! I'll be sticking to my home game for awhile, where I only invite people I know. And maybe the occasional trip to the boats....

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I've been negligent in updating lately, because I've been way too busy.
I went to Chicago (again) on 12/30, to help solve a problem with a new board. It wasn't solved, but I told them I wasn't going to stay the weekend, so I came home and we hosted a new year's party. Now, I've been to a lot of new year's parties, and had a lot of fun at many of them, but this was the top.
We played some movie games, like scene it, but it was more fun because I rocked! I was terrible on the first round that we played, but then I spear-headed a rally that brought the whole game down to one question. It was all very exciting. We all brought various liquors, so there was so much variety, I don't think I had the same drink twice the whole nite.
Then, at midnite, Ann got out the unused fireworks from the fourth of July, and we all went outside and shot them. Everybody had a great time doing that. In all, I think we all had a great time.

At the end of the nite, Chad wanted to play cards, but we were all too tired. So we played the next nite, and settled up our long-running bar tabs. Everyone but Jake, that is. Russ and Alfred also came over to play cards that nite, and Russ had about as bad a nite as you can have. BJ started off bad, going -60 vey quickly, but stormed back to end up +60. Most of that came from Russ, who ended up being -120 for the nite. I had fun, but only made ~$10. Still not complaining.

Then monday, another flurry of emails, including this:

Steve,

Mike

Yeah, remember this?
Is there any way I can do it harder?

So I booked a ticket last nite, and was ready to go this morning, when he called and said "It's fixed"
Turns out, it was his problem, and his only the whole time. Three other guys had the same board, different code, and didn't see the problem. Even a new grad is supposed to be able to say to himself at that point "hmm. maybe I should compare my code to theirs, see what's different until I find the offending code"
Not this guy. Not his manager. 2 plane trips to chicago for Aaron are easier than that.

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