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Old 10-06-2011, 07:45 PM #151 (permalink)  
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Old 10-13-2011, 09:53 PM #152 (permalink)  
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pics of my first trout of the season are on my girlfriend's camera, not mine. I'll post soon. A nice rainbow, close to 4lb, fed four of us comfortably.

House is interesting. Bank has been struggling with recognising poker as a secure form of income. Hell, i struggle with that sometimes. Seems promising though, the mortgage manager i am dealing with suggested i put an offer in today conditional on finance etc. Pretty sure he wouldn't be suggesting this if he didn't think finance would come through.

oh, and poker. Life has been crazy. I've played less than 15hrs this month for a meh hourly. I need to get this house deal sewn up and then get some fucking grind on. Settlement date would be December 14th, the more cash i have to hand by then, the more relaxed summer will be.
 
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Old 10-18-2011, 03:34 AM #153 (permalink)  
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In interesting 'life-outside-poker' news, I went and spoke to my bank about house mortgage finance yesterday,
buying houses is more complicated than i thought.
Getting closer though. There is a signed sale and purchase agreement conditional on a few things i want to get before committing = building inspection and electrical report, etc. Should be all good though, I walked through the place (and got under it to check piles, and climbed over it, etc) with a friend of mine who is a carpenter on Sunday - he couldn't see anything wrong but suggested i get a formal building inspection done anyway. Suits me, suits the bank, suits the insurance company.

So, what does this mean for poker? well, assuming all goes ahead, it means that i'll have to grind more than i have been... it means that i'll have a mortgage to pay. Actually, it doesn't really mean much for poker - i'll still keep a few months of living expenses in reserve. Now those living expenses will include mortgage payments, but it's not that much different really. It has more impact on life i guess, i won't be able to take three month trips overseas on a whim anymore. Or maybe i will, guess i'll find out! Exciting times. Pics of house once everything goes unconditional. I need to track down the 'cool things you've bought with poker $$' thread in the commune and get m2m to post car and house pics, dustin to post a pic of a big bag of weed, and then post some house pics myself.
 
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Old 10-19-2011, 11:26 PM #154 (permalink)  
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Old 10-26-2011, 04:36 AM #155 (permalink)  
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buying houses is more complicated than i thought. Getting closer though. There is a signed sale and purchase agreement conditional on a few things i want to get before committing = building inspection and electrical report, etc. Should be all good though,
wrong. Finance was all sorted, but i got into doing decent dilligence. Spent about $1k to save myself buying a nightmare - basically all alterations to the house had been done without appropriate consents and permits = a legal minefield. Walked away. Guess it's time to look for another place...


poker is blah right now. I need to get things sorted. I played (averaging) 21-tables across 3 stakes mixing in plo, plo-8, and nlhe for a four hour carnage session which was probably a good way to start getting my head straight again.
climbing is great right now. Getting out heaps. Getting stronger. I had a bouldering project for the summer. Dispatched. Heading north for some limestone crankage again tomorrow morning. Some psyche climbing vids that some friends made: Welcome to Rocklands on Vimeo, 2011 Flock Hill - The Season Begins on Vimeo
fishing is fun right now. A friend and I are trying to become competent fly-fishers. And we are somewhat competitive. And we both like eating fish.
bike-riding is deadly right now. Two truck vs cyclists in this small town during the last two weeks. I'm getting involved in some work with land transport and the council - it's pretty cool. I'm pretty anti-truck driver right now though. Mostly the ones who say things like 'well they (cyclists) shouldn't be on the road anyway' after running a stop sign and parking on top of a rider (dead now obv) who had right of way AND was in a bike lane. Careless driving causing death, bullshit. Manslaughter.
gardening is neat right now. Ya know, i always wanted to be a hipster. So I planted some vegetables. I had to do a lot of digging first though. Now that's where my salads come from.
politics is interesting right now. New Zealand's general election is tomorrow. Outcome is uncertain, we have a proportional representation system modeled on germany's. Ima gonna vote.

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kiwi music and pretending it's the early 90s
Railway Surfing - Headless Chickens, NZ music - YouTube

and cos, ya know, it was cool twenty years ago - and cool don't fadeaway
DLT and Che Fu - Chains - YouTube

and cos, ya know, i used to get messy drunk in 1990...
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Old 11-25-2011, 09:01 AM #157 (permalink)  
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also, FTR seems pretty dead right now.
It kinda seemed to be heading that way when regs started posting then deleting honest comments on hand histories - seeming to think that providing legitimate advice was counter to the spirit of this community
e.g. bikes in this thread
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Old 11-25-2011, 09:20 AM #158 (permalink)  
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Old 11-25-2011, 11:44 PM #159 (permalink)  
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Old 12-07-2011, 08:19 AM #160 (permalink)  
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Old 12-08-2011, 08:19 AM #161 (permalink)  
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Yea, I saw the original post. I was hopin' for a follow-up, but didn't really expect one. Good luck and shit.
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Old 12-22-2011, 08:58 AM #162 (permalink)  
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more trout
garden is growing crazy
xmas is looming
training is heating up on two fronts - 1 = to cut some solid time off the next half-marathon, first was fun and slow, second should be fun and faster, 2 = to haul my arse up some more difficult pieces of rock. Would be nice to climb 27 this summer (about 5.13a in us terms).

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Yea, I saw the original post. I was hopin' for a follow-up, but didn't really expect one. Good luck and shit.
wasn't really how it may have sounded. People i know seem to have died this time of year a bunch of times in the past. It's summer. People i know do shit. Some of that shit isn't always 100% sanitised and safe, but that's at least some of the attraction.

It's also the time of year i once turned up when a relative unknown had just been shot = the police stuff. Obviously wasn't charged with anything, but they had to do their job.
 
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Old 12-23-2011, 12:01 AM #163 (permalink)  
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my current fly selection to hunt fish, kinda like a 19% range from UTG...

edit: fuck, seems that another earthquake has mashed new zealand as i typed this. Fingers crossed all are fine. Don't need to break any records (182 people died in the biggish one earlier this year)
 
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Old 12-31-2011, 11:21 PM #164 (permalink)  
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2011 was interesting
2012 is underway
no poker yet this year, maybe in a couple of weeks from now
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Old 01-01-2012, 01:54 AM #165 (permalink)  
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Old 01-01-2012, 03:13 AM #166 (permalink)  
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Old 01-11-2012, 10:06 PM #167 (permalink)  
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still on holiday
climbing is good
summer is warm
river swimming is crystal clear
haven't played cards yet in 2012
back home in a few days. Then it's time to buy a new computer and get on the grind. Life is cool.
 
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Old 01-15-2012, 08:56 PM #168 (permalink)  
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I have played my first sessions of 2012. I played at 10nl. Rake is a killer. VPPs are few. Games are very good at this level, but the hourly isn't great (*nor sustainable?). $20/hr or something, hell, i could probably get that coaching

 
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Old 01-16-2012, 09:36 PM #169 (permalink)  
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maybe that winrate is sustainable.
10k hands at just over 10ptBB/100 and i think i'm back into remembering that a flush beats a straight. So it's probably safe to start moving back up.
I spent a few minutes talking poker maths in irc this morning, sometimes it's good to get back to basics. I'm looking at the role of fold equity again.
 
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Old 01-19-2012, 05:30 PM #170 (permalink)  
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went climbing yesterday. Fell off some. Poker has been more or less like that the last couple of days. Tonight I party, tomorrow morning i get picked up early, sleep in the car, arrive at a climbing area, climb, eat, sleep, climb again on Sunday then back to work on monday. If I feel like playing poker that is.
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Old 01-19-2012, 06:53 PM #171 (permalink)  
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Old 01-22-2012, 11:24 PM #172 (permalink)  
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i had a great weekend of climbing. Fell off at the last hard move trying to onsight something at my absolute limit. Big air. Frustrating, but i was absolutely stoked at the same time.

poker. I didn't play the first couple of weeks of 2012. Then i decided to play either 10k hands or + 10buyins (whichever happened last) at 10nl then 25nl before getting back into things. I ran pretty good at 10nl, and ran pretty awful at 25nl. Time for a few hands at 50nl I guess.

 
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Old 01-24-2012, 02:07 AM #173 (permalink)  
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the internet is pretty funny. This security of information? = case in point, i asked a question, it was politely answered, i said thanks (well, 'cheers', but close enough), then everything turned to shit.
 
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Old 01-27-2012, 10:26 PM #174 (permalink)  
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For better or worse, I'm going to play one of the $109 buyin TCOOP tournies.
Torn between the plo-8 hyper and the nlhe - both 100k guarantees. I mean, surely there aren't 1000 people who know the rules of plo-8?! but i'm better at holdem. hmmm. I think i'll decide based on weather - weather good tomorrow and i'll climb instead of plololol
 
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Old 01-30-2012, 12:05 AM #176 (permalink)  
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the last two weeks i went cold turkey from things I had been consuming too much of:
alcohol
coffee
carbonated drinks
pies
chips (both fries and crisps)
confectionery
cheese.

Two weeks is over. I feel much the same as i did before = i still feel pretty damn good.
Anyone interested in talking poker hand lines etc:
regular study sessions via irc or whatever

last night i ate freshly caught trout again, well complemented by stirfried vegetables from my garden and some roast veg. It would have gone great with beer. It was tasty regardless.
poker is. just fine.
 
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Old 01-30-2012, 07:54 AM #177 (permalink)  
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it seems that i have been banned from ftr
and nobody has deemed it appropriate to tell me why
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good luck to everyone here with whatever it is they plan to do
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edit, i note that the thread i linked in my previous post has been deleted. I guess that discussing poker strategy is frowned upon by FTR if nobody is getting paid for it?

edit 2 - i was planning on posting in a few other op threads to say 'best of luck' and sometimes something a little more relevant. It seems that this account is limited to 10 posts only, someone obviously ain't happy with something.
So, @ all of you, best of luck with everything you pursue. Don't dare offend the wrong people. They may get upset.

someone smart said this once:
"No llores porque ya se terminó... sonríe, porque sucedió."
my time on FTR has been interesting, i've gained heaps. The last month or so, well, who knows what's happening here at FTR...

a pm i sent to bikes, maybe why i've been banned? who knows. Judge for yourself. And stay here and contribute here if you think this place is a good place to be.

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I get it that you dislike me for whatever reason - fwiw I'm pretty much neutral about you right now. d0zer pointed out some reasons for the strat deletion in a way back when full ring thread and they make sense. You're good at thinking/understanding poker, and other than that you're pretty much just another internet identity that I haven't met. Well, slightly more than that. You're someone who has poker insight that I respect, and someone I have played against for $$ on two poker sites.

It's pretty toxic for ftr that any historic dislike spreads into threads/posts in the forum = I have been guilty of this and am going to think twice before posting anything that could be construed as a personal attack on you. As d0zer suggested, I'll raise any perceived issues via pm rather than via threads (e.g. that whole questionnaire blowup. It's a shame that the feedback thread didn't just end at the 4th or 5th post).

re kicking me from redshouse and now banning me - well, I guess you can do what you can do. I'm not sure exactly why you choose to do this, obviously red invited me in there ages back. I'm curious as to your reasons, and would appreciate hearing them.
fwiw stars does appear to be down straight after my question in there - Two Plus Two Poker Forums - View Single Post - Is PokerStars down / lagging?
this also seems to be affecting why ftr loading is slow at the moment (cos linked stars advertising etc).

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Old 01-30-2012, 11:01 PM #178 (permalink)  
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Old 01-31-2012, 08:33 AM #182 (permalink)  
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It doesn't say "BANNED" next to Davens name like usual in these cases. Hope it's a level. Daven was/is an excellent poster and contributor.
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Old 02-06-2012, 04:32 AM #183 (permalink)  
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Thanks to all those who wondered about why i would be banned from FTR. I'm still wondering, not holding my breath too much for answers in the short-term, but definitely hoping for information at some stage. I think I'm formally unbanned now, after being informally unbanned apparently...

I thought about taking a break from FTR for a while = I mean, that's what some people are after. Or not.

I went away for three days in wanaka - it was stunning sunning climbing. Good places, good people. Last week there was some madness on poker stars - games were good, I think server restarts meant that there were no MTTs or SNGs running so fish migrated to cash games. Wouldn't mind that happening a couple of times a week.
 
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Old 02-08-2012, 10:49 PM #184 (permalink)  
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so far this month i suck at volume
I've been out of town climbing 3 days so far, and probably another 3 from tomorrow => I need to commit to more hours playing when i'm around internet.

In other news, i bought a house today. Well, the offer went unconditional, the deposit is paid, and there is a 'SOLD' sign on the house. Settlement is 8 days from now = the date when I get the keys and start moving in (plus start making regular mortgage payments).
Absolutely stoked. Things are good.

 
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Old 02-12-2012, 09:36 PM #187 (permalink)  
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I'm not in banned-land anymore toto

kudos to all those behind-the-scenes-in-mod-land at FTR for addressing my questions re the ban. The reasoning for my original ban, and the reasons for its reversal (plus answers to some other questions) have been posted in the commune thread here: daven banned

thanks to everyone who wtf-ed at my ban. To those who feel i should remain banned, well, everyone is entitled to their opinion so fair enough.

change of subject.
I got back Sunday evening from another great weekend of climbing and camping. My fingertips are raw after completing over 50 climbs during a boulder comp on saturday, and then backing it up by climbing a few routes on sunday. My body is tired. On Friday I will get the keys to my new house and start moving in. I'll post some house pics in this thread once I've taken some photos. Poker is going well. Still mixing up stakes. Up about 30bi for the month so far over 20k hands. Things still good.
 
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Old 02-13-2012, 06:28 PM #188 (permalink)  
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still a long way from a 100bi month
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decent volume for someone so busy. What's your setup?
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decent volume for someone so busy. What's your setup?
swiss ball, laptop plugged into 2nd monitor on a spacious desk, pen and paper to hand, cheap logitech mouse, 8-15 tables tiled, hem, stars hyper-simple, 4-colour deck, no mods, no TN, no AHKs, pretty basic.

similar to my setup in bonn i guess
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I'm finally studying 1-2hrs per day again. I was planning to do this with anyone who wanted to join in, but the BC thread (linked a few posts up) where i suggested this was deleted and still hasn't reappeared. Guess that's probably in my best interest, but that's hard to say for sure. If the thread re-appears I'll probably still be up for the study sessions as originally planned.

edit: the vast majority of hands in the last two graphs were logged at 25nl, a few at 16nl and 50nl.
 
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poker: up 43bi so far this month. After playing about 30k hands of almost entirely 25nl. I was aiming for 100bi at that stake for the month (I have a bunch of reasons for this) but it's going to be really tough to get in the volume, plus staying at 25nl probably isn't max EV.

house: I did the pre-settlement house inspection this afternoon, settlement is tomorrow and I'll start moving in on Monday. I'm absolutely stoked about it, hell, i can check the surf from bed!!!

poker world: Daniel Negreanu has been slamming Full Tilt owners lately (see bikes' article here for a great summary), and it's hard to feel any sympathy for them.

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...my comments about Ray Bitar, Howard Lederer, and Chris Ferguson, but they definitely got the gist of my vitriol towards them. I'm disgusted by them and what they've done to smear the game with putrid decision making. Ray is a buffoon, Howard is arrogant, condescending, and incompetent, and Chris is a liar and has the warmth of a snow pea....
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...I hope you live with the shame you deserve for the rest of your lives. Your own personal, private hell. You deserve all the wrath you've received from the poker world, and much more. You are scum and each of you absolutely deserves a few swift baseball bat swings to the groin area, old school Vegas style.
 
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Old 02-21-2012, 11:10 PM #193 (permalink)  
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hand of the year, chat cos i like to understand wtf is going on sometimes - and who am i to argue with fish logic

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
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Stacks:
UTG ($9.90)
UTG+1 ($9.75)
CO ($25)
BTN ($18.56)
SB ($25)
daven (BB) ($46.90)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 6 players) daven is BB
3 folds, BTN calls $0.25, SB calls $0.15, daven checks

Flop: ($0.75, 3 players)
SB checks, daven bets $0.50, BTN calls $0.50, SB folds

Turn: ($1.75, 2 players)
daven bets $1.30, BTN calls $1.30

River: ($4.35, 2 players)
daven bets $2.50, BTN calls $2.50

Final Pot: $9.35
daven shows two pair, Tens and Sixes

BTN shows a straight flush, Six to Ten


BTN wins $8.93 (net +$4.38)

daven lost $4.55
SB lost $0.25


daven: why no raise on river?
lolwatfish?!: would you pay it? I don think so
daven: fair enough
 
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Old 02-22-2012, 07:41 PM #194 (permalink)  
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Old 02-22-2012, 08:24 PM #195 (permalink)  
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Old 02-22-2012, 10:27 PM #196 (permalink)  
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mega!
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i thought i was ahead on the flop, but had outs if i was wrong....
in his defence, my image was pretty dirty and i was about 30-25-8 since he'd sat down

$0.10/$0.25 No Limit Holdem
8 Players
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Stacks:
UTG ($19.44)
UTG+1 ($28.08)
MP1 ($26.32)
MP2 ($33.01)
CO ($9.40)
BTN ($25)
SB ($24.64)
daven (BB) ($38)

Pre-Flop: ($0.35, 8 players) daven is BB
UTG raises to $0.50, 6 folds, daven calls $0.25

Flop: ($1.10, 2 players)
daven checks, UTG bets $0.75, daven calls $0.75

Turn: ($2.60, 2 players)
daven checks, UTG bets $1.50, daven calls $1.50

River: ($5.60, 2 players)
daven bets $4, UTG raises to $11.75, daven raises to $19.50, UTG goes all-in $4.94

Final Pot: $38.98
daven shows a flush, King high

UTG shows a pair of Queens


daven wins $40.04 (net +$17.79)

UTG lost $19.44
 
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Old 03-01-2012, 02:54 AM #197 (permalink)  
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february in a nutshell:
1 - withdrew a couple of thousand $US = about my month's profits?
2 - got unbanned from FTR
3 - went climbing heaps
4 - didn't run much
5 - bought a house
6 - moved into my new house, made first mortgage payments
7 - played some poker, not as much volume as hoped

march plans
1 - grind hard for two weeks
2 - take ten days off, fly north, go to a nice festival (WOMAD New Zealand 2012 » Festivals » WOMAD), chill with nice people
3 - grind some more
4 - get some climbing done
5 - ramp up the running training, ride my bike some, get in the water more - just in case i have to do a half ironman soon (fucking irl prop bets make the world go around)
6 - get a garden going at my new place, grow the community garden project that i've set up this summer so that it's producing enough for 20+ people next spring/summer

that list is quite long enough for now
 
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Old 03-01-2012, 06:14 AM #198 (permalink)  
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sweet man, sounds like you're keepin' busy and productive. i'm interested in the community garden project. care to elaborate on what this means?
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sweet man, sounds like you're keepin' busy and productive. i'm interested in the community garden project. care to elaborate on what this means?
sure. The building containing the loft i've lived in since July 2010 (see photos here with winning in mind - poker 2010) has a whole bunch of stuff going on. There is only one residential tenancy (mine, to be taken over by a friend of mine from next week), but also a plethora of community oriented things. Music teachers, band rehearsal rooms (e.g. these guys Knives At Noon // ThunderVeins (2011) - YouTube, Knives At Noon - Violins and Violence - YouTube, and these guys sometimes The Chills - Pink Frost - YouTube), two dance studios, a wind energy design company, other small businesses, artist studios, etc, plus a community learning centre. I wanted a vegetable garden, so converted a small patch of lawn when i got back from europe september last year. It's been producing heaps, a few zucchini every day, as much lettuce as i want, spinach to spare, tomatoes starting to fruit properly, radishes, etc. Simple stuff. Anyway, there had been talk about building a garden for the community learning centre to eventually maintain/take over for a while. Utilising some terraced asphalt area and a small patch of weed filled land. I volunteered to get it up and running, cos it's the sort of thing that i think is really cool. Someone else built a few planter boxes, i did some landscaping (getting on the sweaty end of a shovel is a good tilt release) and some planting. It's about 70% finished, the boxes are cropping well and I'm about to plant green compost crops (peas and oats) on the not quite finished area so that it will be ready to fire come spring.

Long story. Anyway, my vegetable garden takes up a small corner of a big section of what is currently lawn. I've been talking to the local organic shop people (shout out to Taste Nature if you're ever in dunedin!), some wannabe hipsters, and some gardening types + the manager of the building and we're (hopefully, fingers crossed, etc) looking at getting about 45 square metres of lawn turned into productive vegetable garden to start cropping next spring/summer. Not sure what we'll do with the food, probably donate to a couple of local organisations that do really nice work with poverty, or to women's refuge, or similar. I like that poker leaves me time to get this sort of thing underway, that i can afford to pour a few of my $$ into this sort of project, and that i don't mind volunteering in things that i believe in cos i have enough spare hours to not have to ration my time too much. I used to talk a lot and do less, now I'm trying to do the 'actions speak louder' thing, and i find it really satisfying.

plus i like to write about things i'm excited about. Long read/rant. Oh well, it's my op...
 
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sounds awesome. good luck getting it up and running.
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