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With the upcoming release of Ironman in theaters, I decided to set myself a poker goal for the month of April.

That goal was to become at least 1 of the 3 forms of Ironman on Full Tilt Poker. Ironman at full tilt either means, playing a certain amount of money a lot of days a month, playing every single day a month, or playing above and beyond on fewer days (but still playing a lot of days).

Given that I work with a relatively small bank roll, I decided the best goal for myself was to shoot for playing every day. And what would you know… I made it:

So now I get to play in a freeroll which I don’t know when it starts (I’ll figure that out here shortly). In any case… It’s quite an accomplishment to know that I sat down to this computer every day for the last month… if only for a minute or two to play poker.

Another Great Poker Moment this month… I got to sit at a table with Scott Fischman (A Pro), while I actually had chips… Not to shabby. Better part was I was already in the money so I didn’t mind it when I got beat a few hands after break by another guy’s lucky river draw.

I have no idea if I will set any real poker goals in May, nor do I think I will have the time to try to achieve this again.. Now that the offer we put in yesterday was accepted, I’m sure I’m going to be finding and filling out tons and tons of paperwork… Not to mention all the arguments about where the TV should go. Here’s to May!

Today, was one of those days.

I like my job. I really do. I like my life. I like how things are moving. I don’t like it when my phone rings non stop all day. Lets use my phone log to talk about my day:

• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 7:00 AM 3 Minute - Call to MSA about a folder that needed to be picked up before school started to make sure students didn’t get there hands on it.
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 9:17 AM 94 Minutes - Phone call to start the day talking about policy and upcoming meeting.
• 4/28/08 BLAINE, MN 10:51 AM 2 Minutes - Call to Joe to let him know it was ok to Work
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 11:00 AM 53 Minutes - Phone Conference with Client
• 4/28/08 WASHINGTON, DC 11:59 PM 1 Minute - Left Message for Client about website
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 12:05 PM 30 Minutes - Phone call with client I left message for about there website.
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 12:46 PM 2 Minutes - Call with client about a bug (brief)
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 12:51 PM 2 Minutes - Call to Amber not sure about what… Most likely about housing stuff.
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 1:37 PM 1 Minute - Call to Amber (No Answer)
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 1:38 PM 2 Minutes - Call from Amber to make sure I talked to the Banker.
• 4/28/08 BLAINE, MN 1:52 PM 3 Minutes - Call to MSA to get my first question answered about tomorrows testing
• 4/28/08 BLAINE, MN 1:56 PM 3 Minutes - Call to MSA to get a question answered about tomorrows testing
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 2:04 PM 3 Minutes -Phone Call with banker to give him the OK to talk to our real estate agent.
• 4/28/08 BLAINE, MN 2:07 PM 2 Minutes - Returning MSA’s call about email.
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 2:08 PM 3 Minutes - returning Ambers call about the banker
• 4/28/08 VM Retrieval 2:11 PM 2 Minutes - Voicemail Check… Blah
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 2:12 PM 17 Minutes - Phone call with WLC to help setup email
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 2:35 PM 1 Minute - Stupid solicator I told 6 months ago never to call me back.
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 2:46 PM 9 Minutes - Real Estate Agent
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 2:59 PM 33 Minutes - Client Phone Conference
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 3:42 PM 2 Minutes - Me Calling Real Estate Agent to find out if house was in fact still for sale (left a message)
• 4/28/08 ST PAUL, MN 4:30 PM 3 Minutes - Client call about opening a Google Checkout Account (which I was doing at the time)
• 4/28/08 INCOMING 4:39 PM 4 Minutes - Last call of the day of sorts from Amber… Just letting me know when I had to go look at the house we put an offer in on.

So yeah… my phone did not stop ringing… Over 2 hours (probably pushing 3 or 4 of talk time, with over 20 phone calls). The evening was much better though… In fact, if you caught on to the gist of what some of the phone calls were about… You might have guess what happened…

Amber and I put in an offer on a home!

It’s a townhome in Woodbury, very close to MSA, Church, City Center, etc. I would give you more details, but I have decided not to get my hopes up until the offer is accepted. More on it to come in the coming days.

As I work on the bylaws for my own country… I have decided that although I will be the figurehead monarch with ultimate veto power… That I would like to have a legislature elected by the people that decided what actually is brought before me… Although this may ultimately result in my untimely demise when I veto something the people really want, I figure, it’s probably best that way for everyone.

But in any case I have also decided after reading an article on Engadget, that my election process would be as close to American Idol as possible. Here’s how it would work:

• Candidates would serve 4 year terms, with 1/4th getting elected every year. No one gets re-elected (bad for tv), but may be appointed to 1 of 4 lifetime positions by me if they look good on TV.
• The election process would be in the form of reality TV, with events like those seen on the apprentice as well as some good ol’ fashioned debates.
• I, as the king, would decide the judges… Of whom, most likely, would include me.
• Voting would be the same… Everyone would have unlimited votes… A single candidate would be eliminated after each week. But you only have an hour to call in or text message… Normal text messaging rates apply, and since we would have government-run telecom, I figure this would help to lower taxes. I figure that if someone wanted to “buy” the election, they could, but I don’t really care.

In case my own country doesn’t work out, I’m planning a 2011 television series that will work the same way, except at the end of it, the candidate get’s the parties nomination…  I think the party party will support me in this.

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Spring must be here… And I would like to document this historic moment.

It’s raining.

It’s pouring.

The old man is snoring.

haha

That is all for my weather report.