Withdrawal symptoms are starting to set in

I just got back from setting up a new bank account, and oh is it a big one, to handle poker only transactions. I got the bear minimum checking account with no fees plus I used my girlfriend as a referral which gets us both $25 each. My hope is in the next two to four weeks, I'll be able to cash-in my roll from PokerStars. There's about $10k in the account with another $3k of value in FPP's, although still waiting for word on what Stars is going to do about that. I really hope they give us all 62.5 FPP's per $1. Hopefully in the next 2 to 6 months, Full Tilt will have their act together and I can get my roughly $5k from there. I still have no idea what to do with the Full Tilt point I've amassed there and I have no confidence that Full Tilt will do the right thing and let us cash them in for fair value - whatever fair value for those might be.

I've been leaning towards depositing a small bankroll on Carbon Poker or possibly Cake. It is obviously a risk in this environment to deposit anywhere from the United States, but the way I look at it, poker has ALWAYS been a risk in this environment. And, I am putting myself at risk in the future by not playing and allowing my skills to diminish. I don't plan to put a large roll: probably $50 to $600. More if I can hear a confirmed cashout report in this climate and less if I can't.

I've decided to have my home game once every week instead of two weeks and I'm hopefully going to try to sneak off to the casino here and there when I can.

Adapt and survive I guess.