tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64799962712394413862009-10-12T20:14:15.038-07:00what amuses me poking through lifeProtohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104441086645289672noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479996271239441386.post-69161921038366859252009-06-25T21:00:00.000-07:002009-06-25T21:01:44.869-07:00

Moving to http://facebook.com/CalmProtocya

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After watching the national spelling bee on ABC, I'm leaning back amazed at the clues they can ask for to remember how to piece together the spelling of a word. Type of speech, origin, alternate pronunciations, correct pronunciation, definitions, etymology, use in a sentence. Even with all these clues, I do not think I would get half of the words presented. Double letters in scientific words

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The new Star Trek movie is an excellent movie. Science fiction is just the setting. The story matters. JJ Abrams did a great job with this one. Nice plot, good acting, great special effects that did not steal the show. I am going to see this one again, and again. When the Dodgers leave town, that is...

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It has been a weird week at the Stadium Club. Outside the glass as normal, is the ongoing game. But on the TVs above and behind the bar, half of them are on the basketball playoffs. I'm almost confused. Another round please!

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So I'm on a rooftop of a hotel on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood watching a fashion show. How the hell did this happen? Friends of friends invite you to amazing places. The wine was good too...

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Had a good weekend in Lost Wages. Played well in a couple of poker tournaments at the Monte Carlo. Floated for hours on a tube at the river pool. Splashed around in the wave pool. Watched dance and hula hoop contests, mentored another budding poker player. Fun, fun, fun.

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Eye halve a spelling checker;It came with my pea sea.It plainly marks four my revue,Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.Eye strike a key and type a word,And weight four it two say,Weather eye am wrong oar write;It shows me strait a weigh.As soon as a mist ache is maid,It nose bee fore two long.And eye can put the error rite;Its rare lea ever wrong.Eye have run this poem threw it;I am shore your pleased

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oh s'il vous plaît, my pronunciations are terrible. I can not even roll my r in très bien. How will I ever communicate in french? I know, I know, practice practice practice. Just like baseball. At least I can still play cards. Bought Harrington's two new books on cash games. Now all I need is time from the bike riding, the dining, the theater, and work. No, there is no more time, just

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You know I'm feeling well if the Dodger's are home and playing. Too many people know me there, though...I have my tickets for the season and my lunch reservation for opening day, I'm ready to go.

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So after that great fun Friday night, a few of us do it again Saturday night, then Sunday afternoon three of us decided to go for a bike ride. I'll let you guess who is who. After the bike ride from Venice up to the Santa Monica Pier and back, we ended up in skyloft above their home drinking espresso and warm lemon/ginger concoction. After an impromptu yoga lesson where they were either

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Lucky me. A friend invited me out for Tapas, I had know idea what she was talking about. Apparently she invited several other of her friends as well and it was me among five women, appetizing, drinking, dining, listening to fine music and some of them dancing. It was a very fun evening that I did not really expect. Two were attorneys from opposite sides of the fence, one was a red headed cop

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Yes, I took him up to what could be his new home this morning. The interview went well, he seemed to like the yard, the kids, and the other pets there. He barked with tilted head when I left the yard, but he did not see me leave the home. I still have one of his chew toys in my pocket. I got about about a block away before my throat tightened and my eyes welled up. Damn I wish I could keep

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If you did not see the sign above, you could not tell which freeway this onramp would be leading you to. The two signs at either side of the ramp have no numbers on them. They did just open the ramp a week or so ago, and construction is not yet finished in the area, so maybe the numbers are just on back-order. And a quick Charlie update. He has completely healed and I took him up to the pet

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Poor charlie, looks like a doggie flashlight. Thank you for the crating tips Jenn, he stays there until I get back and un-cone-head him and let him outside now.

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On the first of the month, My Aunt Yanni passed away. Not being able to say her name, my brothers and I at an early age started calling her Aunt Yanni. I turned on my phone after improv class that afternoon to see two voice mails and two text messages from my sister. After reading and listening to them, she called again. When I answered, she put my mom on the phone who gave me the news. I drove

Protohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104441086645289672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479996271239441386.post-1634154109587242362009-01-22T20:53:00.000-08:002009-01-22T21:02:47.049-08:00

Three weeks and two truck rental days later, I finally finished moving all of my stuff to the house. I haven't worked myself this sore in years. Now I have a house full of crates that I need to sort through. Also it is amazing what twelve years of squirming away boxes of stuff can collect. I now have nine computer monitors for six computers. Fortunately there is a county e-recycle event

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Been a very busy week loading six crates at a time in the mini and moving all the small stuff to the new place. Tomorrow I rent a truck for the big stuff. In the mean time, a cute little celebration dance by a toy my aunt gave me:

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Now that the gift has been given and used, I can talk a bit about aquiring it from the Apple Store.The experience was okay. Parking was terrible. I parked back on the bridge over the 110 freeway and walked the two blocks to the store. They were very busy. The first employee took me to a second who was helping someone else and directed a third to go in the back and get what I wanted and delivered

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Here is a story about Rosita and Pedro. Enjoy! It's a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita, let's do Weeweechu."Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged."But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Rosita.Please, corazoncito, just once, do Weeweechu with me

Protohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104441086645289672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479996271239441386.post-46723545074144834542008-12-18T20:37:00.000-08:002008-12-18T20:40:55.661-08:00

Thanks to the helpful support forums at Lavasoft [the makers of Ad-Aware] the silly ad-popping trojan I picked up last weekend has now been cleaned from my system. Just followed their rules, asked a question, posted log files of the utilities they asked me to run, and the system seem back to it's old self again. Happy, happy, joy joy.

Protohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104441086645289672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479996271239441386.post-43025176821659946202008-12-11T20:58:00.000-08:002008-12-11T21:00:27.852-08:00

I went to the new place and signed the lease. This is going to be a great move for me.Packing and moving is always the hard part.Can't wait to be living there though.Off I go collecting empty boxes...

Protohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08104441086645289672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479996271239441386.post-35837227698199925422008-12-09T18:25:00.001-08:002008-12-11T20:58:33.400-08:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.Registration code: 466693

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I was at my aunts the day after thanksgiving helping her with some computer issues in exchange for lunch. Also noticed she was packing for her move to New Mexico. She can not find a buyer for the place, and I could lease it out from her for almost double what I am paying now, but it would be two miles from the beach instead of twenty five miles like I am now. Two miles! for about the same square

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You know all those old poker books that said in a tournament you only need to win one big hand an hour. Well, turns out they were talking about tournaments where the blinds go up only every two hours! If you were in a tournament with fifteen minute levels, you would have to win a big hand ever seven and a half minutes to follow the same guidelines. Who can do that? You are on the button only

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