I'll Take Stupid Answers for... No, wait...

So I was really tanking Jeopardy yesterday. No, seriously. I must have gotten like 8 of the first 15 questions wrong. The sad thing? Almost every wrong answer was because of a second guess. I also caught myself saying something I haven't said in a very long time. In response to a friend's Facebook post (because that's the only way people communicate nowadays), I said, "My life's pretty damn good right now." Correlation? Well, I only can say that about my life because I finally made a decision that was 3-4 years in the making. It would have been made earlier, but I kept considering other possibilities. Hindsight may be 20/20, and Barbara Walters...

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Ship it!

At some point I truly begin to question my sanity (i know none of you question my insanity). The point of the matter is that I have started to feel poker withdrawal. And not the fun kind of withdrawal you make at a bank. We're talking about the blood-chilling, 48 hours without heroin, baby crawling on the ceiling type of withdrawal (Go see Trainspotting). It's been almost 4 months since "Black Friday", i.e. the day that poker died, hit the US. Since then I have barely played a lick of poker. Thus, I'm rusty. Some of you may know that I am currently working the poker beat. I'm lucky enough to be a part of the team that is putting together the...

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