Moving Right Along

Well once again I am put in the position of making the, yeah I haven't posted in a while post but, post. So we'll dispense with the formalities of explaining to my loving and enthusiastic audience about how I've been so busy and how I've been rocking and rolling in poker. Probably all bullshit anyways, huh? We will dispense with that and we will focus more upon what really has been going on in my life.

First off, since April, I've been pursuing a job up in Mass. I've been doing this primarily because I am tired of living a life where I have the possibility to open up my own franchise and make millions but in fact the possibility is slim. I'm not saying that I don't believe in the Domino's system and I do not think that I do not have the ability to do these things, but I'm 38 years old. I have a good 20-30 years left before I'm broken and run down and in need of retirement. I figure at best I can be into my own store in 7 years. Then I have to build it up into something great. I feel that I must focus on the now and the future in 30 years.

What I really do not want is to be stuck managing a store for a true billionaire for 15 years. Then be too feeble to do that anymore and just deliver for him until I die. Just to get by. So, I have been pursuing a job in the cryogenics field as a service technician. Something I did while in the USMC. It has a starting salary of about 3.5 times what I am making today and it has unbelievably great benefits. Insurance, 100% matching 401k, retirement pension, profit sharing, and a very nice sign on bonus, basically, the whole nine yards. So I mean damn. I was stoked at the possibilities but as you can imagine the road was a long one. I've done I don't know 5 interviews perhaps, 1 in person where they flew me to hartford, ct while the others were on the phone. I've had to go through a crazy mad background check which I'm sure my USMC service helped out. I also had to go through a head to toe physical to include blood work and urinalysis. I wasn't worried bout any of this cept the physical as I had a heart attack last year. But don't fret! I got the job!

So next Sunday I will be beginning a new chapter in my life. I am driving my 1990 Acura Integra up to Carney's Point, New Jersey for safety training and to meet the whole team! I'll be up there for 3 days or so then its down to NH where I will ride around with a current service tech for a couple weeks while staying in a hotel for 2 weeks while I await my sign on bonus and first check so I can have the funds to move my wife up there. I mean I cannot convey to everyone how stoked I am about this all. I know the cost of living up there will be mad compared to eastern North Carolina, but me and the wife have nothing to worry bout except us. We're planning on living modestly until she gets a job and we realize how living will be up there.

And about poker! I've been doing well imo. I've been up and down, but I'm really becoming more and more a student of the game. I am realizing the holes in my cash game which is still at .01/.02 and fixing them. I am positive bout 7bb/100 in that. But I am still addicted to the MTT's and typically blow cash gains in them. I cash very frequently in them and I even put myself in the position to win them but I keep getting too aggressive with @ 50-150 players left. I'll be sitting on a huge stack or even just a comfortable stack and will find a need to cbet flop and turn to someone holding a7 when I have ak and he hits his 7 on the river and bets out. Then I call of course and blow half to more of my stack. But I do recognize this and am struggling to repair this leak in my game. It is hard though as I am always looking to build my stack and cant seem to slow down for fear of getting chipped away.

But thats that. Where I've been where I'm going. Hope to see ya round people! I'll be around thats for sure. I can't wait for the mass move as well because I'm going to have some GREAT opportunities for live play!!!! YES!! And perhaps meet some of you damn blogging fools =P

Take care!

T2T