Today

So I've been lax and lazy lately in updating this but I'll do one today.

Business has been picking up a bit in April so it's beginning to feel like I'm making money again. When you're self employed there is no one to blame other than yourself if it's not working. Even though the business has been going since 1853 nothing is guaranteed.

I watched V for Vendetta which I thought was a really good movie. After just finishing 1984 the movie went along with the theme of gov't control. I found the movie captivating for the entire 2+ hours.

Rock of Love bus finished and the girl who I said would win in the beginning actually one. She was easily the best looking girl and the girl with the best personality so it's not a real shocker. They need to get a new bro to do the show because Bret Michaels is too old. They have another show called Daisy of Love which features the head case from the last rock of love and should be entertaining.

I went to Philadelphia Park on saturday afternoon to bet on some horses. I ended up losing 115 on my horse bets then accidentally betting 50 on video blackjack which won me 75 so it didn't end up costing me that much. I find the track to be entertaining and I'm thinking about going next week.

On Saturday before the track I was in a stars poker tournament that was a 27 dollar buy in, 45 person tourney. I had to leave to go to the track and handed the reigns over to ellen degenerate and his brother helen. They ended up winning the tournament for $340 dollars or so and now I have to decide how much cut they deserve. On Sunday after Easter brunch I played a 12 dollar 180 tournament which I also took down for $594. So now I have some poker bankroll once again and will be spending a lot of time playing in these next couple days.

Playoff bball game against some bros who we beat in the first game and then they ran off 8 or 9 straight wins. It should be interesting but if we win we will go the finals for the 2nd straight year.

That's pretty much it. I got a nice rebate check and will probably be upgrading my phone and computer so any suggestions are appreciated.

Nothing New

No rants, no complaints, nothing doing. If I was going to write about what I did in the last couple days; our bball team won it's playoff game, I finished 1984, I lost 214 dollars on Villanova, I quit watching 24 last week, rock of love bus is down to 2 people and the last 2 episodes were awful, there is nothing good on Tv, and I signed up for the broad street run on May 3rd.

Ellen Degenerate is moving back to philly so that gives us 3 regulars in our card games which include a rotation of about 30 games varying from stud to holdem to omaha and everything in between. If you read this post and want to play let me know because I am looking for fishes money to take.

I'm going to read slaughter house 5 by vonnegut and start golfing. That's it.

Phone Conversation

I'm either terrible on the phone or every single person I talk to is just as bad. It's hard to explain the difficulty of talking to people on the phone but I want to throw out a few issues.

First off, i'm not a girl and I don't call people just to talk. If I'm calling you there is a reason for the call and once I find the answer to the purpose of the call then i'm ready to move on. For example, I call someone to find out what they are doing for the night, I establish if they want to hang out, then I confirm a meeting place and hang up. I don't ask how's their day or did you watch that show last night. It's straight to business and I'll save the small talk when I see the person.

When I'm talking it means that you aren't talking. Conversations have 2 key ingredients, a talker and a listener. This is where my main problems lie. What always seems to happen is I start talking, i'll finish a sentence and then I'll want to say something else but the other person is responding to what I just said and then we both start talking at the same time. Then we both stop talking and sit in silence for a couple of seconds. Then we both find the silence weird and then both start talking again only to stop again because we are both talking at the same time. Then I get annoyed and just decide I'm going to talk no matter what. This is no joke, this happens to me with more than just one person. I answer the phone at work all the time so I have conversations with people all day. I really don't think I'm doing anything wrong so I obviously blame the other side of the conversation.

Here's another strange thing about the phone. Say you have plans for the evening with one group of friends. Someone from another group of your friends calls and you know they are going to ask you to do something that you don't want to do. I'm sitting at my desk and my phone starts vibrating and I look who it is. Now I know that I have no good news for this person. They are going to ask me if I want to do this, the answer is no, but I have to tell this person without sounding like what I have going on is a better option. So do I pick up and be the bearer of bad news or do I just puss out and not answer it hoping it goes away. These thoughts actually run through my head and pretty much explains why I'm a social retard.

People who have dealt with me on the phone know that it's not one of my strong points and hopefully this clears up my ineptitude with the phone. I sometimes like to text because it's short and too the point, then I don't have to get caught up in a conversation with someone when I really only care about one agenda item. I read this back to myself and think I'm a complete sped but what I wrote is the truth.