It's been a while.

I closed shop on my personal blog about a year ago, letting the domain name fall into world wide ether. I've missed it at times but could not bring myself to bring it back from the dead. But one day, about 2 months ago, an email came about a comment posted on my blog. "What blog?" I thought. I had forgotten all about the one I created when I went to Iraq.

So here I am knocking the sand out of its boots and knocking the dust out of the corners.

There are a couple of adventures I am currently on. One is I finally got back into the gym and am loving it. I have a couple of goals I posted over on Facebook. 1. Be able to bench press my weight by my birthday (2 weeks from now.) 2. Participate in the Great Greenbrier River Race Triathalon on April 24th in Marlington,WV.

Playing in a WSOP Satellite event at Wheeling Island Casino on MLK day is the other. Poker to me, is like professional football to others. I'm a huge fan. I'm an above amateur player, though some of my friends would argue. I follow it almost religiously. The number of outs for a given hand on a given flop pop into my head with out the need for a summons. Last year Darvin Moon won this same tournament, turning his $130 entry into $5.2 million for his second place finish. Not saying I will, but I am going to make the attempt.
Wheeling Island is running it as a deep stack tournament with no re-buys. So $130 get you 10,000 in chips with the blinds starting at 25 & 50. Rumor and the marketing people have Moon as playing once again. How great would it be to have him at the starting table sitting directly to my right. One can imagine the stories (a.k.a. lies) that would invoke.

I have other passions and vices I will ramble about here. You might here about my 1969 VW Beetle, Custom not Classic, or about my job. I apolzgize to my friends ahead of time for embrassing moments, but console yourself, people reading this will already know. They were either there witnessing the event in all it's glory or was told by Big Red, we all know how she is.

Later and God Bless...