Oh HAI !

Hey guys, no I'm not dead. Sorry about the lack of blogging, but I haven't really been thinking about poker.

Okay, so for starters I won't be talking any poker in this post...so if that's what you're looking for, don't bother reading this. I won't be talking about poker because I haven't played in nearly two months. This has been for several reasons, one being that I was upset with a few things going on with online poker, but really the main reason was that I simply had no desire to play. But on the plus side of things I do plan on getting back into the swing of things very soon and I will be updating with poker content as soon as I have something to talk about.

So everything went well with school, I had a 2.8 GPA last semester, which was better than my last couple of semesters. Also we received a grade of A- on our 4th year project, so we were all pretty happy about that. I now have 3 courses left to complete in order to get my degree, and none of which are all that hard. I am planning on splitting this up into one course during the summer and two in the fall. I have been putting in a lot of hours at work and am working on paying off some of my student loan and all the money I spent in Mexico.

Speaking of Mexico, for those of you who don't know I went to an all-inclusive resort there for 8 days and the start of may and from what I can remember it was good times :). That's the problem when you go somewhere with free drinks, you can't remember half of the things you did. For those of you who are interested there's a bunch of pics floating around my facebook from the trip. I don't feel like writing a novel, so I will just recount the 1st day of my trip to Mexico as I remember it.


Mexico Trip - Part 1

The date was may 3rd, and the time was 4 am. It was at this time when I was contemplating whether or not it had really been a good idea to go drinking at the bar and not sleep before our 6am flight. By this time my friends had all passed out in the airport and I was forcing myself to stay awake in fear of missing our flight if I did fall asleep.

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Finally 4:30 came around and the check-in line for the airport opened. We must have been one of the first flights out of the airport, as there was barely anyone in the line-up for customs. As my friend Kogan, who will be referred to as 'Sake-Bomb' from here on, out went through customs, the lady asked him what the purpose of his trip was. "To get drunk" he responded. This provoked a game of 20 questions between him and the custom's lady, as she was not impressed. Saki-bomb is not of Caucasian decent in the first place and was probably already a prime pick for a 'random search' at the airport. Thus answering in a smart ass fashion as he did may not have been in his best interests. Alas, finally he made his way through customs and we were on the plane....I was asleep before we took off.

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When I awoke we had already landed in Las Vegas. We had a 4 hour delay before our next flight...so what else to do in Vegas except gamble? After losing all my money at the slot machines we made our way over to the sky box. They weren't serving food yet because it was too early, but drinks were available, so I ordered a beer. The waitress informed me that I could upsize my drink to a liter of beer for just 2$ more... WHAT A DEAL!!!

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3:30 came around and I stumbled my way onto the plane. We noticed that we had all received window and aisle seats on this plane...how peculiar. On boarding the plane, we realized why this was. It was the TINIEST plane that I have ever been on, it was 2 seats on the left side and one seat on the right. I had to duck as I walked to the back of the plane so that I wouldn't hit my head. Ah no matter, as long as we get to mexico smoothly then this thing was fine.

It was at this point that the airline stewardess informed us that the plane was overweight and that the last 7 people to enter the aircraft would have to get off the plane. This caused great concern to sake-bomb as he had boarded after us and he thought he was one of the last ones on the plane. Luckily he was not, and after about 45 minutes of commotion our plane took off.

After take-off me and sake-bomb were bored so we broke out some cards for a game of blackjack. While this was taking place my other two friends began chit-chatting with the stewardess. After a few minutes of small-talk my friend Jason informed me and sake-bomb that she had offered to bring us a drink 'on the house'...SCORE! In drinking our free beers we began to razz our one friend, 'Dre' because he is general considered a light weight to drinking and already appeared drunk after only 2 beers. Dre took offense to this and claimed to be able to drink as much as he wanted and had never once pucked nor blacked-out as a result of alcohol consumption. Famous last words....


Part 2 coming soon :)