My legs are tired. I just got back from a five day mountaineering trip. Thing is, i haven't really done much on that front the last five years or so... but a friend called and suggested an objective and i thought 'why not?' - forgetting my rule of actually considering the answer to this question when it's my immediate response. As context, the trip we planned vs what i used to do vs what i've done lately is roughly similar to a poker player who used to beat 200nl for 1ptBB/100 on party pre-legislation (but hadn't played since) deciding in feb 2011 to go and start grinding 200nl on stars... short story = I got pretty scared after downclimbing a scary pitch from one ridge onto another at around 5:30am (dark obviously, it's May = late autumn here) without having taken the rope out of the pack. And it messed with my head. To the extent that we turned around on an exposed section a while later without having reached the summit. Was a good trip nonetheless, we didn't die, we had a good time, we both destroyed ourselves fitness-wise, a couple of nights sleeping out pretty high, getting back out we managed to find a reasonably simple descent route down some not too sketchy access slabs in misty and wet conditions (only 3 pitches of abseiling, the rest we managed to downclimb), and we got out before the panic-time we had given our respective partners (with 4hrs left up our sleeves!)
I haven't played poker for almost a week. Before i went on this trip i'd been grinding pretty seriously for a few days and managed to get my roll up to ok levels again, well, ok for 50nl with the occasional 100nl table thrown in anyway... And now it's three weeks until I head to Europe. And between earlier bought bonus and recent free bonus I have about $2k left to clear. That is going to take quite a few hands. So it's time to get on the grind.
also - cheers for the look-in robb - professorial gig sounds better than poker gig for you anyways!
