rob was here.

After a run of good poker games over the past year, I broke the streak tonight and was the 2nd person out.

During the game someone made the comment of updating blogs with poker results, as a joke I think, but here's my run-down anyways!

My first mistake was a mis-read on phil's face about 2 hours into the game. Up to this point I was doing well and acquiring chips. I felt I could read his face for some time now (and have been pretty successful at it during hands in the past).. I noticed what seemed to be a forced phil-smile of bluffdom, that's usually different from the forced phil-smile of awesome-handedness. Moreover, I had a pretty good hand. An ace in my pocket and an ace on the board. I had him, or so I thought.

We bounce back with rasies and raises, until I have a large percentage of my money in the pot. Lets see em'.

He flips two pocket-aces. Three of a kind. Zing!

I never did recover any substantial amount. It was closing near midnight and I wanted something greasy and terrible to eat, as all I had to eat for supper earlier was some cheese on some bread and an assortment of raisins. I realized all of the fast food places would be closing soon. Hence, the frequency of my "all-ins" began creeping upwards.

My final all-in, I went in with a pair of queens against phil's friend D.K. (donkey kong?)..

Pair of Kings. I was outta there, and on the streets looking for some heart clutching action. I had to make an executive decision between McDonalds on Torbay Road (which is open 24 hours) or the one in CBS (next to my house).. I decided to try to make the CBS one before it closed. That way, I could eat at home and it would still be warm.

I drove about 120-140 km/hr through the night and arrived at my destination at around 11:45. It was closed!!?! Yep: Sunday night.

So here I sit, eating some sort of whole grain almond crunch cereal with skim milk.

Whata world. Whata world.

I get a chance to recapture the glory at another game next week (tonight was the warmup for that one). At the very least, I'll be sure to get some McDonalds that night.

My neon is pretty good on gas.. It's getting upwards of 6 years old, and it gets around 11-12 kilometers per litre from my observations/calculations over the last few months.

I've always wondered how much savings I would have using a hybrid instead of my regular ol' fashioned compact car. Well, today on digg I noticed this article which provides some simple formula's to calculate your gas savings per month.

I introduced these values into the formula:

Current price of gas: $CDN1.16/Litre (or $4.39CDN/US gallon)
Distance I drive per month: approx 1250km (777 miles)
MPG (dodge neon): ~12 km/liter (28.225 mpg)
MPG (toyota prius): 60 city, 51 highway, so i'll say ~55.5.

4.39 * 777 * ((1 / 28.22500) - (1 / 55.5)) = 59.39

So.. there you have it.. i'd save about 60 canadian dollars a month (720 dollars a year) if I bumped up to a hybrid. Worth it? Not right now for me, but maybe in a few years :)

Recently at work, everyone filled out questionaires which basically amounted to personality tests.. The purpose of this is to find out what sort of people you'd be working with. The results of said tests categorized people into one of two major groups. Extroverts and Introverts. I was one of the few Introverts in the lot.

An Introvert, by definition is:

a person whose motives and actions are directed inward. Introverts tend to be preoccupied with their own thoughts and feelings and minimize their contact with other people.

Definitions go on to describe an Introvert as a person who values time spent alone rather than in group settings. This is opposed to an Extrovert which, of course, is the opposite: a talkative, assertive, people-person.

After just reading a bit more about this type of profiling on wikipedia, I've come to question my classification, after the discovery of a 3rd term: ambivert.

An ambivert is a personality which falls more-or-less in between the the extremes. From wikipedia:

An ambivert is normally comfortable with groups and enjoys social interaction, but also relishes time alone and away from the crowd

I think this is a more apt description of me. I am by no means a full pledged Extrovert, but I do enjoy group settings (especially those comprised of close friends) just as much as time spent doing my own things, and I don't really value one more than the other.

Three cheers for being middle-of-the-road.

sad news to come home to today.

shine on, syd.

I go through a lot of burned-off music mix's in my car. So many that I won't even make a wild guess at how many stacks have come and gone in the everlasting battle of my attention span. I don't even bother taking care of them, they usually end up on the floor or on the backseat and die from being scratched up or from being bleached by the sun.

I used to write all of the band names on the disk with a sharpie marker, but for the last few years I have just written the month and year. That way I can dig out some old surviving CD and see what I listened to in say, may of 2003. Ahhh nostalgia. The mixes, at the time of their creation, are usually a good indication of what I'm listening to a lot on iTunes or my iPod at the time. A snapshot in time.

Anyways. I just burned off a July 2006 disk and decided I would post it here for boredom's sake. Should be a good listen tomorrow on the way to/from work.

1. Man or Animal (Audioslave)
2. Yellow Submarine (Beatles)
3. Alone Down There (Modest Mouse)
4. El Manana (Gorillaz)
5. Victoria (The Kinks)
6. Even in his Youth (demo) (Nirvana)
7. Tell her Tonight (Franz Ferdinand)
8. Thank God it's Monday (NOFX)
9. A Life of Artic Sounds (Modest Mouse)
10. Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)
11. One Toke Over the Line (Brewer and Shipley)
12. Sittin' on my Sofa (The Kinks)
13. Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath)
14. Whenever You Breath Out, I Breath in (Modest Mouse)
15. Dirty Harry (Gorillaz)
16. Till the End of the Day (The Kinks)
17. Dukes Up (Modest Mouse)
18. Supersonic (Oasis)
19. Dominoes (Syd Barrett)

A coffee at Tim Hortons cost me $1.48 today instead of $1.50. I think I actually rathered it before the tax cut. Who wants pennies back anyways? I end trade negotiations when pennies come my way.

The tax cut should only be there when it matters. Like when you buy houses or expensive pants.