Anything and Everything

Thank you very much ladies! I am very encouraged that you are in fact interested in reading about the things that drive my daily existence, as mundane and repetitive and as self absorbing as they are. I think RG's division of work heading is brilliant as it allows you to skip right over those boring parts.

Personal: Since yesterday..let's see. Yes, I have one! Mike and I went to Swing Thai today for the first time. They just opened up here in the Highlands. It was yummy, sooo yummy. I loved it very much and I will be sad to see the scale tomorrow. I had intended to workout this morning but you can read all about that in the work paragraph if you care to. I keep trying to convince myself that I am developing excellent tummy muscles but the sad truth of the matter is that a fat roll is a fat roll no matter how hard you try to make it look like something else. Sigh. I did watch the Apprentice last night and it was very good. The people this year are definitely interesting and very snide. Excellent.

Work: My morning workout died last night when a client wanted to see a property this morning at 7AM. It's hard once you start the day to backtrack and then fit the workout in as it all seems to snowball. The good news is that the property we looked at is under priced. The bad news is that there are already 7 offer, 2 of which are cash, on the table and it was only listed yesterday. At this point we are a lame duck and I know it. Once I got back home at around 8AM things just got even nuttier. A property I have had on the market for 4 months gets 2 offers within 24 hours. It is a very strange situation because both agents work in the same office. Stranger still because one of the offers we rejected last week, Offer 1. Offer 1 told Offer 2 about the house and Offer 2 loved it and submitted. Offer 1 then decided they still love the house and re-submitted. Offer 1 should kick themselves because they have shot themselves in the foot. The 2 agents are friends and seem to constantly get head to head on these types of things. Very interesting. Oh well, what can you do? Oh, here is the other odd thing. Offer 2's buyers, both the husband and wife, work the same job as what the sellers did when they worked in Denver. Each wife has the same title and the husbands even worked at the same company! Talk about a coincidink. Hard to ignore that knock on the door. In other news my buyer seminar went okay last night. I was late, our room was double booked so we had to move to the basement, but we had 4 groups turn up which was dandy. I think it went better than last month and next month will hopefully be smashing.

Poker: Okay, so you know who has encouraged me to chronicle my, probably very short, journey in an attempt to win some satellites to play in the Women's World Poker Open which will be next spring in England. We met a gentleman in Vegas who encouraged us to work our way over there. The trick is I have to learn to be a tournament player which is very very difficult. The goal is to start playing "sit and go" tournaments. These are one table tournaments and only last a short time. I'm supposed to start off by playing the lowest level. The goal, as I understand it (RG please correct if I'm wrong) is to play at least 10 of these a week. On any given week if I am in the money 50% or more of the time then I can move up to the next level. This confuses me because if it takes 9 weeks to get to that point then you can move up to the next level and still have a net loss. The good news is that I can play these tourneys in the background while doing other administrative work during the day. Here is the update for this week which is the first week of the endeavor. I'm on level 1 ($6 tournaments). I have played 5 tournaments so far this week. My placements: 2,6,1,1,2. I'm not too excited yet as there are at least 5 more to go and it seems that luck plays a huge part in this. I'll keep ya posted.