Quick update : Poker has been kind of bland past few days, up a bit but haven't played as much as I like.

Saw 'Barney's Version' last night based on Mordecai Richler's famous novel. It's set in Montreal and Paul Giammati and Dustin Hoffman were pretty awesome. It was a few minutes too long and some of the music was way too schmaltzy but either than that it was good. One scene even had me getting a bit emo. It was the scene where Barney finds his dad's dead body (not much of a spoiler).

Anyway, I hopefully fixed my tax problems with the CRA and yesterday I had a consultation with a mortgage broker. She was surprisingly confident that I can get a mortgage pre-approval (I explained that I was a poker player - standard response of fascination and a bit of "you can make money doing that?"). Now I just need to get all my funds in one place, and wait three months. If I only knew this a while ago it would be no problem, but now it's gonna be tough because I have some RSPs that are stuck and there's some people that owe me money that are a bit tight on things so the next short while will be a huge grind to get my funds in one place and bink this mortgage. Right now it seems a bit optimistic to get a place for this summer but I will wait and see.

Note for other poker plays interested in buying real estate: It seems that for Canadians that don't have 'stable declarable income', you need a co-signer (preferably a co-buyer that will sign on the actual purchase not just mortgage) and 20% down. So I'm looking at having to put aside just over 50-55k.

Never heard back for my second job interview with a potentially awesome job, so that was too bad especially since it seemed like a sure thing to at least get another interview but on a more positive note I had my degree transfer accepted at Concordia so school prospects look good for the fall.

About to put in a session, I need a mini heater to finish february here we gooooooooooo